The Professor talks rubbish

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 [...]

How do you get a bank to write off your enormous mortgage? Simple.  Pray to God, and he'll step right in.  That's the message from Laura White who came on [...]

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 [...]

What do a millionaire Killiney couple and an unemployed Moyross mother of four have in common?  Not much, you might imagine, until you compare the demands they make and their [...]

There is an awful lot of debate still ongoing about the running of the F1 in Bahrain. The pretty odious Bernie Ecclestone , whose hobbies include comparing women to domestic appliances and praising Hitler [...]

It's Back to the Future for Ireland.  The whole country has climbed into a gigantic DeLorean and zapped itself back to the Eighties, where economic depression stalks the land and [...]

Wait a minute now.  Let me just process this Killiney eviction story that RTÉ is getting in such a lather about. On the face of it, the facts are truly [...]

It's hard to know where to begin with a character like Anders Behring Breivik. Is he mad?  Maybe. Is he evil?  Perhaps he is, if we could find a working [...]

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 [...]