Alex Ferguson: a winner, a great manager and the biggest bully of his generationI’m not an ABU bigot, but the retiring Manchester United boss personified everything that was wrong with footballSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Hermits, herbs, and HobbitsAn Irishman’s Diary: On a Clare day, you can see a lotFri May 10 2013 - 01:01
Great run, and the support was pretty good tooAn Irishman’s Diary: Limerick proves a lady for 10,000 race participantsWed May 08 2013 - 06:00
Suffering for artAn Irishman’s Diary: Painful reflections from a night at the concert hallSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Aspiration once againAn Irishman’s Diary: Why Northern Ireland needs a H-shaped museumFri Apr 26 2013 - 06:00
Reuse, reboot, recycle: how old Irish computers are starting new lives abroadAn Irishman’s Diary: About 100,000 computers are decommissioned in Ireland every year. One orgnasisation is putting them to good useThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
A no-wind situationAn Irishman’s Diary: The politics of Irish weather forecastingWed Apr 24 2013 - 06:00
Dancing for GodotAn Irishman’s Diary: The unlikely friendship of Gene Kelly and Samuel BeckettSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Meanwhile, in other newsAn Irishman’s Diary: On the lesser-known journalists who died with Francis Sheehy-SkeffingtonFri Apr 19 2013 - 06:00
Race for AfricaAn Irishman’s Diary: How Wesley Korir hopes to benefit Kenya in the long runWed Apr 17 2013 - 06:00
In the court of the Sun King’s sonAn Irishman’s Diary: The fall and rise of a Franco-Irish beautySat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
Little hills, big hunksThe ups and downs of marketing Monaghan as a tourist destinationFri Apr 12 2013 - 06:00
Fukushima rules and fast-track planningAn Irishman’s Diary: What we could learn from JapanThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
A small church on a big missionAn Irishman’s Diary: St Ethelburga’s rose again from the debris of an IRA bombWed Apr 10 2013 - 06:00
The out-skirts of historyAn Irishman’s Diary: On a forgotten milestone in the liberation of womenSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
Raglan Road turn-offCrossing the street to avoid the end of Patrick Kavanagh’s famous love-songThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
Running late with the KenyansAn Irishman’s Diary: A stop-over in Nairobi offers an insight into what makes Kenyan athletes tickSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
An Irishman’s Diary: How an Offaly priest made himself at home in AfricaUnlikely as it might seem, on the surface, Lusaka is a home from home for Fr Prof Michael KellyThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Austria strike the final chord in chilly thrillerQuestions raised over Trapattoni’s tactics after concession of last-minute equaliserWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:05
In the Name of the (Holy) FatherWhat the new Pope means for the Franks of this worldWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
‘Father’ of Zambia sings as Irish wild geese beat African nation to 50-year milestoneExpat group marked its half century recently at an event attended by Kenneth Kaunda, who led country to independence in 1964 and whose first justice minister hailed from ClonmelWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
Amazing Grace, astounding connectionsAn Irishman’s Diary: How Donegal is laying claim to a famous English hymnSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
The politics of potatoesHow Marks & Spencer’s vegetable department is digging up the pastThu Mar 14 2013 - 06:00
Why le ‘Fair-Play’ will never get us anywhere against FranceAn Irishman’s Diary : Aviva Stadium quiet enough already without demanding silence for kickersWed Mar 13 2013 - 06:00
An Irishman's DiaryAt long last, next week will see the nationwide roll-out of something that, unlike most of the things so described, really can…Sat Mar 09 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe case of the Kia Provo reminds me of another unfortunately-named car that never made it to these shores: the Pontiac Banshee…Fri Mar 08 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’m not sure if it was the sort of the thing the promoters of the Gathering had in mindThu Mar 07 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI spent an enchanted hour last Sunday exploring the bucolic delights of east Cork, with its rambling roads and pleasant pastureland…Wed Mar 06 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhen an e-mail arrived from a group called “Dodder Action”, I first thought this was a contradiction in termsSat Mar 02 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt’s that time of year when, all around Ireland, halls are being filled by Cheltenham preview nights, those extraordinarily popular…Fri Mar 01 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe opening of a new Dublin bookstore is a remarkable event these daysThu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryDoes Ireland need a museum dedicated to women? Well, a group of twentysomething females who recently graduated from Dublin universities…Sat Feb 23 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘A Winged Victory for the Sullen” sounds a bit like the headline over an op-ed piece lamenting the negative influences of sponsorship…Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI saw Quentin Tarantino’s new film the same day that Warren Buffett announced his $23 billion purchase of HeinzThu Feb 21 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe spatial pleasures of Dublin’s Phoenix Park are well known, including as they do 1,760 acres of greenery, with playing pitches…Wed Feb 20 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryImpressive as their achievements to date have been, I’ll be disappointed if the people behind “the largest St Patrick’s Day promotional…Fri Feb 15 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAmong all the published works of Brian O’Nolan, there is perhaps only one completely without humourThu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI went into a cafe recently, in a suburban part of Dublin, at 6.25pmWed Feb 13 2013 - 00:00
Life of Brian has a day of ups and downsFor Irish rugby fans, it was a day of podiatrically contrasting fortunesMon Feb 11 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhen I last wrote about Gustave Courbet’s notorious painting, The Origin of the World, suggesting it was a depiction of his Irish…Sat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTwo lost decades or not, Japan still keeps coming up with wacky new ideas that, eventually, the rest of the world is bound to…Thu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe Dublin fiddle player Tommie Potts was a man of many influencesWed Feb 06 2013 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI haven’t been in “outlying Kerry” – as the Jerusalem Post columnist called it – recently, so I can’t comment on whether it’s…Sat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
