TS Eliot wrote the poem Journey of the Magi in 1927, the year he converted to Anglicanism from…
On 1 November, a group initiated and co-ordinated by Belfast solicitor Niall Murphy under the banner, Ireland’s Future, published…
On 21 November, on Conservative Home, the unofficial digital heart monitor of the Tory party, Andrew Gimson…
We were hooked up to domestic broadband in 2006. Before that, I had mobile email connectivity through a Blackberry…
Section 31 is a fictional organisation in Star Trek.
At the beginning of 2018, Paddy Power was offering the same odds, 4/1, against a general election…
I studied French and Politics for my BA degree at UCD which I completed in 1980. My second year French language exam in 1979 invited me to write a profile of a prominent public figure. After a few moments reflection, I plumped for Gay Byrne. In the post-mortems afterwards, I discovered…
On holiday in France in June, I embarked on a relationship with Twitter. It’s not love or addiction. But we have become a settled “item” within months.
I dabbled a bit with Facebook for a couple of years but my enthusiasm, never more than lukewarm, gradually drained away…
