What’s the difference between Maynooth and Templemore? What’s the difference in structure between an Garda Síochána and the Roman Catholic church? The answer is – surprisingly little. The training of Irish [...]
Irish Catholic Priests Refuse To Obey The Law
What’s the difference between a Catholic priest and a doctor or a lawyer? Well, apart from the fact that a priest has no practical training in anything, the main difference [...]
Getting Paid. Advice For Freelancers
Are you self-employed? Did you ever take on a job, do the work as agreed and then find that your customer either went missing or came up with some [...]
Mahon Tribunal Report
The Mahon Tribunal report is due out shortly, so this is going to be a dynamically changing post as information emerges. This is the day we find out what Mahon [...]
Is Garlic-Smuggling Worse Than Killing a Man?
I wrote last week about Claire Nolan, a convicted drug dealer, who was found guilty of deliberately crushing a man to death with her car. Today, Claire Nolan was [...]
High Court Strikes Down Fee Claim For Suicide Abatement by Galway Solicitor, Patrick M Keane
I don’t know if Galway solicitor Patrick M Keane is the same Paddy Keane I used to know years ago, but if he is, he hasn’t lost his black sense [...]
E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped
Is there anything that shows up the stupidity of the Ahern years better than the e-voting debacle? Back in 2002, they paid €50 million for 7,000 e-voting machines, which works [...]
Revenue Letter to Pensioners Presents Opportunity For Better Communication Between Government and People
Time for civil service to use plain words
Buying From A Shop — Your Rights
A few useful facts about your legal protection as a consumer
Limerick City Council Prays to Marks & Spencer
It doesn’t matter, apparently, how many talented, creative, committed citizens come together to produce ideas for the rejuvenation of the planning-blighted Patrick Street area of Limerick. The City Council has [...]








