Bock The Robber

The Cleveland kidnapping case is one of those stories that leave you blinking and shaking your head.  What was that about?  Were the girls abducted for the enjoyment of the [...]

There’s a hierarchy or revulsion in the story of how Mick Philpott and his wife, Mairéad Duffy, killed their six children last year. Let’s take it as a given that [...]

Tanya Doyle slashed Paul Byrne to shreds with a knife, inflicting over sixty wounds on his body. It wasn’t the first time Tanya Doyle had stabbed her estranged husband, but [...]

It’s good that Enda Kenny has apologised to the Magdalene slaves on behalf of the State, but isn’t something missing? Where is the apology from the nuns who ran these [...]

UPDATE: Full report here. _______________________________________   The report on the Magdalene Laundries is due to be published tomorrow and its terms of reference are extremely narrow: establish the extent of State [...]

You’ll have a drink there, Denzel, I said to the pilot as we took off for Kerry airport. No thanks, he said.  I have to drive when we get down. [...]

For nearly seven years, the demented features of Fitzcarraldo adorned the masthead here, but not any more. To me, it was never Klaus Kinski, but he was, after all, the [...]

I’m not going to say that all Americans are insane because that would be a silly thing to suggest.  I’m not even going to say that America as a country [...]

Pat Finucane was 39 years old when two loyalist killers broke down his door with a sledgehammer in February 1989 and shot him twice in front of his children before [...]

PR eats itself. Back in 1986, Max Clifford wrote one of the most infamous headlines in tabloid history — Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster. Little did he realise that Starr [...]