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Malcolm Rogers | Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Slinging salutes in the Dáil

SOMETIMES I think you could send Ireland on tour and sell tickets for people to come and watch its goings on.  more »

It’s the economy, stupid

THE WORLD economy continues to teeter. Apparently you can pick up a house in the USA for a couple of dollars, and today I hear that even the Afghan opium growers are cutting back.  more »

Spread the good word, but was it in English?

“HERE’S the church, here’s the steeple, look inside... yeah, not so popular as it used to be, is it?”  more »

Swiss tunnel vision

“SWITZERLAND is one bloody postcard after another. Nothing but views.”  more »

My take on the crisis

I HAVE refrained from making any comment in this column about the worsening financial crisis in the world economy for fear of making the situation worse.  more »

Now Britain and Ireland are equally corrupt

TRANSPARENCY International, a non-profit-making independent body which monitors government corruption throughout the world, has just issued its Corruption Perception Index figures for 2008.  more »

On a Swiss roll

THE SKY was full of dispersed contrails above Heathrow, and I realised it wouldn’t be a bad name for a band — Jet Liner & The Dispersed Contrails. But I digress, for the first time in 14 months.  more »

Age shall not wither them

I’ve just been reading a compilation of great moments in precocity, endurance, and procrastination, organised by age. The feature, by Eric Hanson, appeared in The Atlantic (the publication, not the ocean).  more »

Playing the numbers game doesn’t add up

ACCORDING to a lady on BBC Radio Ulster, every year since 1960 the number of people going to the cinema in Ireland has doubled. Oh really?  more »

Heavens above! Will they cut the fares?

NOT only do we have Willie Walsh directing operations at British Airways but also an Irishman, Alan Joyce, set to take over at Qantas in November.  more »




 



 

 



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