THE picture was on the right of the front door of my grandmother’s house in Dublin’s Liberties.

Caroline Kennedy identified Barack Obama as a quantum shift in political potential.

YOU’RE not supposed to like The Sound of Music.

ALL I want for Christmas is a prescription for Viagra. I figure my chances of getting one are small, since Irish doctors tend to be a bit limited when it comes to creative prescribing, and also because nothing’s gone right for me with the Christmas preparations thus far.

Throughout the American presidential election ran the constant reference — optimistic, on the part of African Americans — to the possibility of America gaining its “first black president”.

SHE told them to put him in the bath and melted all the jelly she had, poured it into the hot water with which she had surrounded his comatose form, and left it to solidify around him with a spoon on the ledge, together with a note reading ‘Eat your way out’My phone made its text noise when I was starting to cook. I ignored it.

A new defensiveness about employment is changing the way America looks at jobs, illegals, and outsourcing overseas.

He regaled me with his miseries for half the journey, did the taxi man.

MAKING a will is a socially approved of activity like taking exercise. I’m all for it. For other people. It may be irrational to believe that taking exercise or writing a will would kill you, but what about Jim Fixx, I ask you?

Because of the times we’re in, when we heard the company next door was moving, we assumed the worst. In fact, the reason is the best: they’re moving to bigger premises because they’re doing fine, thank you very much.