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Pol O'Muiri
My role in Pope’s plot to conquer the world
I had no sooner read Jeffrey Donaldson’s views on why Catholics can’t be kings
... when the telephone rang — it was Pope Benedict on the line for me.
Comments: 17
Inside Pol O'Muiri
Let bankers pay dues by cleaning up
Monday, 30 March 2009
Is there anything more soul-destroying than housework? I doubt it. The vacuum
cleaner is no sooner run over the floor than, mysteriously, the floor is
covered in biscuits crumbs again. The table is no sooner cleaned than spots
of juice appear apparently without cause.
Comments: 4
This Gael will go anywhere for a fry-up
Monday, 16 March 2009
Just because Here is small does not mean that you can’t get lost.
Comments: 2
Why it’s time to throw the book at the on-line critics
Monday, 9 March 2009
Shopping on the Internet used to be just a question of clicking and ordering.
Comments: 5
In denial? It’s a fast way to a good Lent
Monday, 2 March 2009
The odd thing about Lent is how often you realise that people do make the
effort to give something up.
Comment: 1
How GAA’s Ryan proved he was not a soft touch
Monday, 23 February 2009
So to Omagh and the Nutcracker Suite — and I am not talking about the ballet.
Comments: 5
Sinn Fein Irish is enough to make you sic
Monday, 16 February 2009
Another European poll looms and a very glossy brochure arrives from Sinn Féin.
Comments: 34
So, eggsactly how does all our food get to the table?
Monday, 9 February 2009
I do not need a television chef to tell me about how estranged I am from my
food sources — and how seriously we take food when we use existential
philosophical terms (estranged) to write about food. I know that I know
nothing about food.
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Why we don’t get it right on Middle East
Monday, 2 February 2009
Do you know many Israeli or Arab writers? Not ‘know’ in the sense that you run
into them as you are walking down Royal Avenue but ‘know’ in the sense of
having a couple of their books on your shelf?
Comments: 5
Why we must be Christian to these Brothers
Monday, 26 January 2009
So farewell then Christian Brothers. After 150 years, the Brothers have given
control of their schools in the North over to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust
Northern Ireland and have ended their day-to-day involvement.
Comments: 9
Rev Paisley has left me lost for words
Monday, 19 January 2009
Reverend Ian Paisley launches Irish-language exhibition. Yes, it's Monday and
you are tired so I will repeat that:
Comments: 6
Atheists' God does not exist campaign - Why we’re all set to go to hell in a bus
Monday, 12 January 2009
Spending money to disprove something never makes much sense to me, hence my
confusion with the latest campaign by atheists in the UK to convince people
that God does not exist.
Comments: 18
One drink for drivers is one too many
Monday, 5 January 2009
Few drivers could fail to have noticed the adverts and motorway signs that
urged us all not to drink and drive — which is not to say that everyone was
paying attention.
Comments: 3
Pól Ó Muiri: Flights of fancy as old year wings off
Monday, 29 December 2008
It was that great scholastic philosopher, Saint Augustine, who asked “what is
time?” However, most of us are probably more familiar with Johnny Logan’s
philosophic, and much more melodic, interpretation of Augustinian inquiry
when he sang “What’s another year?”
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Will reporters put the boot into our MLAs at Stormont?
Monday, 22 December 2008
US President George W Bush takes cover from a pair of shoesIraqi journalist,
Muntazer al-Zaidi, has become famous throughout the world after he threw his
shoes at US president, George Bush, while also, for good measure, calling
Bush a “dog”.
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I’ll raise a glass to my life of total abstinence
Monday, 15 December 2008
I don’t drink — though it is impossible to escape drinking during the festive
season.
Comments: 5
My daughter is trying to wear me out
Monday, 8 December 2008
According to my three-year-old daughter, as she again refuses to put on her
jumper for nursery, “blue is a boy’s colour”.
Comments: 2
Why we must fly the flag for shopping in the north
Monday, 1 December 2008
Ah, partition. Don't you just love the confusion it causes?
Comments: 7
Pól Ó Murirí: What a thought, Zulu Provos in leather thongs
Monday, 24 November 2008
You would need a degree in international affairs to keep up with cultural
developments here. Gerry Adams has added another dimension to the whole
business when he said in a recent speech in the US that he considered
unionism had an ‘Afrikaner’ wing with which it was hard to do business.
Comment: 1
Now parties need to wake up to reality
Monday, 17 November 2008
You know things are bad in the economy when you give money to businessmen and
it still does not cheer them up.
Comment: 1
The selfish oafs driving me car-azy
Monday, 10 November 2008
When is a zebra crossing not a zebra crossing?
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