FRENZIED brainwashed loyalists ready to die for their Emperor, they were manic in their patriotic determination to destroy American shipping.

THE cynicism with which the Pope’s venture onto YouTube was greeted is ill-informed.

NOBODY’S sure just how many people are going to form the crush in the Mall and line the streets of Washington for tomorrow’s inauguration.

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.