http://www.milonic.com/ test
 
 

The Irish in Britain, including those of Irish descent, make up a significant part of the UK population. Here, you will find news, entertainment, events, sports and features from the local Irish Post newspaper.

 
Irish in Britain
 
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
Enter your e-mail address to receive our weekly e-Newsletter:
 
  
Features/Opinion
Join IrishCircle for full access to content below

Archives 2004/2005
Joe Giltrap : Don’t be fooled by loveable rogue tag
I CAN’T remember who first coined the phrase crime does not pay — and it doesn’t really matter very much but they were way off beam. more...
(Irish Post) 29 March 08
Poet’s actions are not the stuff of fairytales
I DON’T understand how anybody can defend the actions of Donegal poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh. more...
(Irish Post) 29 March 08
Mums — you can’t live without them!
Herself decided to go to Dublin for the weekend with the sister to visit the brother. more...
(Irish Post) 29 March 08
Joe Horgan : Blinded by Bertie’s double-dealing ironies
THERE is no more satirising this anymore. There is no more irony. These are just two of the latest things to emerge about Bertie Ahern’s financial dealings in a story that grows increasingly complicated as if this was almost the intention. more...
(Irish Post) 29 March 08
Joe Giltrap : Time banks stopped fleecing customers
THE BANKS do not seem to be able to work out the difference between fair profit and monstrous rip-off. They have elevated arrogance to an art form. more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 08
Anonymity law needs to be changed
A CAMBRIDGE graduate was charged with rape and spent nine anxious months under suspicion before a jury threw out the case after just two-and-a-half hours’ deliberation. more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 08
The importance of being Irish
I’ve never really liked the month of March. I’m not sure why that is. more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 08
Joe Horgan : Paisley did nothing for peace in North
STRANGE as it may seem Ian Paisley, stepping down now as the North’s First Minister, has become a typical example of modern media and political culture. more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 08
Joe Giltrap : Dublin’s fair city is changing for worst
DUBLIN city centre is turning into a horrible, dirty dump. more...
(Irish Post) 15 March 08
Murders show up lack of parental control
IF ever any single incident should act as a wake-up call as to just how low Irish society has sunk then it must be the shocking murders of two Polish nationals — a 26 year-old and a 27-year-old in Dublin. more...
(Irish Post) 15 March 08
Summer’s here so it must be wedding season... again
I’ve finally reached that stage of my life (the dreaded late 20s) and it’s that time of the year again (springtime), where it seems like everyone has decided to get hitched. more...
(Irish Post) 15 March 08
The Irish are sounding less and less Irish
SOMETHING my mother said recently really stuck in my mind. After returning to Ireland some 10 years ago after many, many years in England she casually remarked the other day that one thing she noticed was how the old accents were disappearing. more...
(Irish Post) 15 March 08
Joe Giltrap : Jail sentences just don’t fit the crime
THE SPIN-DOCTORS claim crime is falling yet the prisons are full to breaking-point for the first time ever. more...
(Irish Post) 08 March 08
A high price to pay for drinking culture
A VERY disturbing statistic has emerged showing the increase in alcohol-related crimes linked to the change in licensing laws. more...
(Irish Post) 08 March 08
A genuine argument for using models
I like to think that I know a lot about life but I am still occasionally amazed by my naivety. more...
(Irish Post) 08 March 08
Joe Horgan : Missing millions a cause for concern
IT is hard not to knock the FAI. Even when they get it right they get it wrong. Giovanni Trapattoni may well be the most illustrious manager we have had in a long time but only the FAI could turn his appointment into a farce surrounding his wages. more...
(Irish Post) 08 March 08
Joe Giltrap : Call time on binge drinking epidemic
BINGE drinking and the problems that go with it have been filling the newspapers in recent weeks. more...
(Irish Post) 01 March 08
Ready, steady, cook
I suppose I’d always known deep down that I was never going to be any good in the kitchen — and that was even before the time when I forgot about the pizza in the oven and nearly set the house on fire. more...
(Irish Post) 01 March 08
Ken’s achievements outweigh his flaws
Ken Livingstone has been a friend of the Irish in London as the city’s Mayor. But will he be returned to power in the forthcoming elections? PAUL DONOVAN sums up the battle. more...
(Irish Post) 01 March 08
Joe Horgan : Human cost holds no value anymore
THERE is one guiding principle about the market economics that Ireland has embraced so completely and that is that money does what it wants. more...
(Irish Post) 01 March 08
Joe Giltrap : Archbishop’s blunder leads the field in stupidity stakes
IT must have been magic mushroom and full moon time all rolled into one. It is the only logical explanation for a few off-the-wall, headline-grabbing proposals and decisions from people and organisations that quite frankly have been around long enough to know better. more...
(Irish Post) 23 February 08
Cupid’s arrow lands wide of the mark
Anyone who has ever made the move to a new place will know it can often be a rollercoaster of emotions. more...
(Irish Post) 26 February 08
Tara destruction puts Government on road to ruin
THE CONTROVERSY over the Hill of Tara and the construction of the nearby M3 motorway refuses to go away. more...
(Irish Post) 23 February 08
Ireland is losing its national identity
IT USED to be the case that we could all safely make the assumption that one day something would have to give in the truncated statelet of Northern Ireland because it was clearly a failed political entity. more...
(Irish Post) 23 February 08
Feeling the pinch as Celtic Tiger stutters
WHEN it comes to the economy there is only one certainty. more...
(Irish Post) 16 February 08
Priests who turn blind eye are just as guilty
THERE is good and bad in every profession. The priesthood is no different. more...
(Irish Post) 16 February 08
Stop and search won’t halt street gang culture
Police could soon get greater powers to try to stop increasing violence on the streets. But community, not increased judicial powers is the only way to stop gang culture argues PAUL DONOVAN. more...
(Irish Post) 16 February 08
Not all Irish have been on the one road
COLD at last for the first time this winter and the kids run around in a small flurry of snow. more...
(Irish Post) 16 February 08
Joe Giltrap : School closures are not a smart decision
WHEN Tony Blair came to power he promised Education, Education, Education. So what on earth happened Tony? more...
(Irish Post) 09 February 08
Aer Lingus may regret Shannon decision
TWO different pieces on two different days in an Irish newspaper caught my attention recently. more...
(Irish Post) 09 February 08
Ahern hanging on by his fingernails but for how long?
HE’S been a fine leader, a great ambassador for the country and has many good qualities. But how much longer can Bertie Ahern cling on as Taoiseach? more...
(Irish Post) 09 February 08
Joe Horgan : The English invade Ireland... again
LOUTH, Meath, Kildare and Dublin. At the time of the Elizabethan plantations these were the main areas of English settlement in Ireland. more...
(Irish Post) 09 February 08
Joe Giltrap : Flippant approach to childbirth a disgrace
IMAGINE finding out that the person you are married to is in fact your sister. more...
(Irish Post) 02 February 08
Most vulnerable are neglected by State
As many Irish emigrants enter old age an increasing number are turning to care homes to look after them. more...
(Irish Post) 02 February 08
Galling sight as Hain refuses to accept blame for his mistakes
BEING a politician these days must be a funny business. more...
(Irish Post) 02 February 08
Dedicated followers, but not of fashion
HERE’S a question you don’t hear very often: Just what are the Polish playing at? more...
(Irish Post) 02 February 08
Joe Horgan : Rugby a paradigm of modern Ireland
I SHOULD come clean in the interests of fairness and admit that it is a sport that holds no appeal for me at all — but on writing about rugby I’m not writing about that. more...
(Irish Post) 02 February 08
English Primate glad of Irish upbringing
With parents from Co. Cork the Archbishop of Westminster CARDINAL CORMAC MURPHY-O’CONNOR looks back on his ultra-Irish upbringing with great pride. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
Joe Giltrap : RSPCA’s failure to live up to its name
THE RSPCA is supposed to do what it stands for — namely the prevention of cruelty to animals. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
Big brother threat to our way of life
Smokers, drinkers — the present Government seems intent on regulating more and more people’s lives. PAUL DONOVAN says it’s time a balance was struck. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
Shannon route closure brings shame on the Irish Government
SO the last flight has departed Shannon Airport to London Heathrow. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
After the boom comes the belt tightening
BELTS are being tightened across Britain and Ireland. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
Joe Horgan : What happened to turning a blind eye?
ALTHOUGH the phenomenon of the Irish theme pub is said to have reached its peak and is now said to be slowly in decline it still seems that they are opening around the world at a fair pace. more...
(Irish Post) 26 January 08
Joe Giltrap : Freedom of speech or fanning the flames?
A CHURCH of England Bishop has claimed that parts of Britain have in effect been turned into no-go areas by Islamic extremists. more...
(Irish Post) 16 January 08
The only way is up... for petrol prices that is
DON’T you think it is amazing how prices only ever seem to go one way? more...
(Irish Post) 16 January 08
Irish influence in US presidential election
The race is on to become the next US President. But what will it all mean for the Irish asks paul donovan? more...
(Irish Post) 16 January 08
It’s one rule for Hain, another for the rest of us
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding former Northern Ireland Minister Peter Hain and the funding of his failed bid to become deputy leader of the Labour Party lays bare the canker at the heart of Government in Britain. more...
(Irish Post) 16 January 08
Joe Horgan : Singers shone as an Irish way of life
TWO quintessentially Irish singers died recently. Christie Hennessy and Joe Dolan both left a host of admirers behind and whilst they were from completely different branches of the musical tree there was something about them that was unavoidably about us as well. more...
(Irish Post) 16 January 08
Joe Giltrap : 2007 claimed the lives of Irish music giants
I have spoken to a lot of people about the passing of 2007 and to be fair not too many bemoaned the end of it. more...
(Irish Post) 12 January 08
Madness of the double standards in our courts
The inconsistencies of courts remain one of the most baffling aspects of the justice system. more...
(Irish Post) 12 January 08
Is Blair’s conversion a sign of hypocrisy?
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally converted to Catholicism. But will it be a good move asks paul donovan? more...
(Irish Post) 12 January 08
Sluggish FAI need to get on the ball over new boss
THREE weeks into the New Year and Ireland’s international soccer players still have no idea who their new boss will be. more...
(Irish Post) 12 January 08
Joe Horgan : Who does Bertie think he’s kidding?
Slowly but surely the drip, drip, drip of complicated detail after complicated detail seems to be eroding the position of Bertie Ahern. more...
(Irish Post) 12 January 08
Joe Giltrap : It’s no laughing matter for grumpy Gordon Brown
THERE is an old saying along the lines of: Beware of wanting something too much because you might just get it. more...
(Irish Post) 05 January 2008
No excuse for a late school run
HERSELF explained that she is fed up with my excuses. If the boys are late for school again this term I will have to clean the oven! more...
(Irish Post) 05 January 2008
P.S. I Love You opens in Britain this week
Fans in Britain are bracing themselves for the release of the hit film P.S I Love You, which hits our cinema screens on Friday, January 4. more...
(Irish Post) 05 January 2008
Joe Giltrap : Boxers set standard for fans to respect
IT is a long time since I have seen anything like the hype generated by the Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather fight. more...
(Irish Post) 22 December 2007
New approach needed in the ongoing battle against drugs
THE DEATH of the model Katy French has put the subject of drugs top of the news agenda in both Britain and Ireland. more...
(Irish Post) 22 December 2007
Community ethos is slowly being eroded
The closure of Irish clubs across the country has caused much controversy over the past few years. paul donovan argues it reflects a more general attack on the community as a whole. more...
(Irish Post) 22 December 2007
Joe Horgan : Media distorting reality of Ireland
EVERYTHING is being made at present of the tragic death of a high-profile Irish model at the age of only 24 from what is believed to be a drug-related incident. more...
(Irish Post) 22 December 2007
Joe Giltrap : Welcome end to Sudan bear farce
IT is certainly good news that Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who caused the outrage in Sudan by allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed, has been released from prison. more...
(Irish Post) 15 December 2007
Scant support for 42-day detention proposals
THERE is a common thread linking many of the miscarriages of justice that have besmirched British justice down the years. more...
(Irish Post) 15 December 2007
Joe Horgan : The lie of Sunderland’s Irish union
IT is perhaps only fitting that the new manifestation of Irishness to be found in Britain is of the corporate kind. more...
(Irish Post) 15 December 2007
Joe Giltrap : Managers suffer from qualification burden
SO now we know no football team from these islands will be playing in the European Championships. more...
(Irish Post) 8 December 2007
Joe Giltrap : McCanns media madness
THERE seems to be no end to the stupidity and bungling of the Portuguese police when it comes to the McCanns. more...
(Irish Post) 8 December 2007
Nobody will stand up and be counted
RESIGNATIONS. Remember them? They used to be quite popular — especially among the political elite. more...
(Irish Post) 8 December 2007
Joe Horgan : Bono’s pontificating is just hypocrisy
I WROTE a while ago here that in the light of the continuing revelations about Bertie Ahern’s financial affairs it might be best if those of us questioning him were also ready to allow our own affairs to be held up to scrutiny — even though our financial dealings were of intrinsically less interest to the Irish nation than that of the serving Taoiseach. more...
(Irish Post) 8 December 2007
Joe Giltrap : Airport security is often over the top
I CAN’T help but wonder what excuse the Government would have come up with to enable them to gather information on us all if the threat of terrorism was not a handy hook to hang it on. more...
(Irish Post) 01 December 2007
Joe Giltrap : Shocking that hospitals lack basic cleaning
THE RESULTS of an opinion poll carried out by an Irish newspaper in relation to how people feel about hygiene standards in Irish hospitals produced disturbing results. more...
(Irish Post) 01 December 2007
Common sense prevails for Radmila
ONE of the most heart-warming stories of the past few weeks has been that of Radmila Vujnovic. more...
(Irish Post) 01 December 2007
Joe Horgan : So is this how we define progress?
PERHAPS it was the sudden snap of cold weather, the days and evenings sitting by the fire, the drawing in towards the turn of the year, maybe even my own age but I was hit by a lot of nostalgia recently. more...
(Irish Post) 01 December 2007
Beware your flatmates
As the saying goes you can’t choose your family but you can chose your friends — so choose wisely. more...
(Irish Post) 21 November 2007
Let’s avoid history repeating itself
Efforts to bring in draconian police powers to combat a perceived terrorist threat bear disturbing hallmarks of the breaches of human rights imposed in the North of Ireland during the Troubles. paul donovan says they must be resisted. more...
(Irish Post) 21 November 2007
A one-off gain but a long-time loss
THE CONTROVERSY over the planned closure of St. Joseph’s Community Centre in Highgate refuses to go away — and neither should it. more...
(Irish Post) 21 November 2007
Joe Horgan : What will Irishness mean in the future?
IT has become one of those dismissive clichés about the Irish abroad that they are more Irish than the Irish. But it is also the case that it may well be true. more...
(Irish Post) 21 November 2007
Joe Giltrap : Stop the exploitation of migrant workers
THE EXPLOITATION of migrant workers is a disgrace and has to be stopped. It is nothing new of course — as we Irish know well enough. more...
(Irish Post) 14 November 2007
Joe Giltrap : Editor must defy courts and protect sources
A NEWSPAPER editor in Ireland has been ordered by the High Court to reveal her sources of information after an article appeared about cash payments made to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern back in the early 1990s when he was Minister for Finance. more...
(Irish Post) 14 November 2007
Bertie’s doublethink beggars belief
GEORGE Orwell coined the term doublethink for his novel 1984 to describe the act of simultaneously and fervently holding two mutually contradictory beliefs and accepting both of them. more...
(Irish Post) 14 November 2007
Joe Horgan : Emigrants are still a part of Ireland
ONCE again the Irish Government is coming under pressure to sort out the situation of those Irish immigrants living in the USA illegally. more...
(Irish Post) 14 November 2007
Joe Giltrap : Farce over driving licences must end
The driving licence fiasco in Ireland has been coming to a head for a long time. The Government and the insurance companies must take full blame. more...
(Irish Post) 7 November 2007

Joe Giltrap : One rule for the banks and another for us
It is hard to feel any sympathy for the Irish banks that find themselves caught up in property scams. more...

(Irish Post) 7 November 2007
Time RTÉ was on our screens
The facts are simple. Six months ago RTÉ was mandated by the Irish Government to provide a television service for the Irish in Britain. more...
(Irish Post) 7 November 2007
Someone must accept blame
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair seems determined to hang onto his job however he can. more...
(Irish Post) 7 November 2007
Joe Horgan : Local Irishness is a part of Britain
One time myself and Fergus walked in to Digbeth through the snow. The roads were covered and the wait for a bus or a taxi would have eaten up most of the night. more...

(Irish Post) 7 November 2007
Home-hunting horrors
Flat-hunting in London is not for the faint-hearted. Underestimating the competitivness and total ruthlessness of fellow house-hunters can be fatal.. more...
(Irish Post) 03 November 2007
Still they pass the buck over Staunton’s appointment
THERE’S competence, there’s incompetence and then there’s sheer bloody-mindedness.more...
(Irish Post) 03 November 2007
Racism is still here —just in another guise
Discrimination against the Irish may have dropped in recent years but PAUL DONOVAN warns racism has still not gone away as recent events prove.. more...
(Irish Post) 03 November 2007
Irish team spirit? We’re all too mean
CYPRUS, San Marino… No-one is really left defending Steve Staunton’s tenure as Irish football manager any longer. .more...
(Irish Post) 03 November 2007
Was Dr Kelly death suicide or cover-up?
WAS the Ministry of Defence weapons expert Dr David Kelly murdered? The Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker a man not afraid to speak his mind certainly seems to think so and he has support in this.. more...
(Irish Post) 23 October 2007
TV company’s dishonesty is nothing less than fraud
NOT so long ago this newspaper ran a triumphant article on the repeated success of Irish performers on TV talent shows. The likes of Shayne Ward have benefited greatly from the votes of Irish people in Britain in their quest to find fame and fortune.more...
(Irish Post) 23 October 2007
Howdisgracefulelderlyclubgoersareignored231007.asp
I WAS delighted to read (The Irish Post, October 6) that the people who support and attend St. Joseph’s Club in Highgate are not giving-in without a fight.. more...
(Irish Post) 23 October 2007
Second-generation identity is still an issue
WHEN I first heard the report on the radio I thought it one more tragic story that was a microcosm of the ills of this country — one more story that seems to suggest the dark underbelly of modern life is perhaps not as rare or as underneath as we might wish..more...
(Irish Post) 23 October 2007
Delayed reaction is politically motivated
JACK Straw was talking on the radio one day about the several occasions on which he himself had physically tackled criminals and that he wanted to change the law in favour of the public.. more...
(Irish Post) 19 October 2007
Aer Lingus needs worker support
ANOTHER week, another crisis at Aer Lingus.more...
(Irish Post) 19 October 2007
London bombings leave unanswered questions
Two years on from the tragedy of the London bombings there are still many questions as to what exactly happened on the day. PAUL DONOVAN says it’s time the families of the victims were given some answers.. more...
(Irish Post) 19 October 2007
Health service is no place to be sick
It is hard to get away from Bertie Ahern. His latest appearance was on an evening chat show where he again acted up his ordinary-Dub-few-pints-and-the-match persona. .more...
(Irish Post) 19 October 2007
Now big brother is to tap our phones
WHEN is the intrusion into our daily lives going to stop? I do not subscribe for one split second to the bleating about nothing to fear if nothing to hide. . more...
(Irish Post) 13 October 2007
Bush should have paid Saddam to go
I READ a report recently which said that Saddam Hussein offered to step-down if he was paid $1billion. more...
(Irish Post) 13 October 2007
Government must act on Aer Lingus
ELSEWHERE in this edition Paul Cassidy gives a powerful argument on why the Irish Government has no choice but to intervene in the on-going row over Aer Lingus’s decision to axe its service between Shannon and London’s Heathrow Airport.more...
(Irish Post) 13 October 2007
Asylum seekers face being made destitute
The case of asylum seeker Radmila Vujnovic highlighted in last week’s Irish Post is far from an isolated incident. PAUL DONOVAN says something must be done to change the system..more...
(Irish Post) 13 October 2007
Motorway madness will define an era
It could be that it will come to be the symbol of the much vaunted and now possibly ailing, Celtic Tiger. Forget the Bertie Bowl, Bertie’s plan to build a sports stadium, that even his ally Michael McDowell dismissed as something worthy of a dictator. .more...
(Irish Post) 13 October 2007
Ban these obscene television phone-ins
WHAT’S in a name? Well quite a lot it seems when it comes to naming a cat.more...
(Irish Post) 03 October 2007
Rugby fans have been let down
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times.more...
(Irish Post) 03 October 2007
No joke being Irish
I WAS discussing the story about Denis Lusby and his Irish jokes (The Irish Post, September 22) with an Asian friend when he said the Irish think in a peculiar way.more...
(Irish Post) 03 October 2007
Language is a fast disappearing heritage
I WAS watching the Irish language channel TG4 the other night probably the only station worth watching consistently. There was a documentary on about the second-generation Irish which dealt with one man’s return to the Connemara birthplace of his mother and his learning of the Irish language which he had mastered to a truly remarkable degree. .more...
(Irish Post) 03 October 2007
McCanns treatment deflects real issue
I HAVE been reluctant to comment very much on the Madeleine McCann case up to now because I kept hoping and still hope that the little girl will be found alive and reunited with her distraught parents.. more...
(Irish Post) 25 September 2007
John’s hurt to find he has no Irish roots
I RECENTLY watched the excellent BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are? which featured the wonderful actor John Hurt seeking to prove a connection to the Marquis of Sligo.more...
(Irish Post) 25 September 2007
Keeping faith in the classroom
THE DEBATE over faith schools has hit the headlines again with the various groups, either for or against, trotting out their arguments.. more...
(Irish Post) 25 September 2007
A question of Faith
Liverpool actress FAITH BROWN is known as much for her voluptuous figure as she is for her versatility as a comedienne and impressionist. She sparked fears about her health after collapsing on stage during a string of shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Fully recovered she speaks to Richard Purden about what went wrong, her staunch Catholic background and why posing for Playboy is a no-go. . more...
(Irish Post) 22 September 2007
Pull together to ensure our Irish clubs prosper
The future of Britain’s Irish clubs has sparked much debate in these pages over the past few months. Here reader SÉAN COLLINS gives his own view. more...
(Irish Post) 22 September 2007
No reason yet for Bertie Ahern to stand down
IT’S been a tough week for Bertie Ahern and it doesn’t look as though it’s going to get any easier.. more...
(Irish Post) 22 September 2007
Speaking Irish — it’s a whole different language
A CURIOUS aspect of Irish society is that there are four main strands of attitude to the Irish language. There are those who for any number of reasons love the beauty of it, those who were scarred by the teaching of it, those who are completely indifferent to it and those who for reasons I have never quite figured out actively despise it. .more...
(Irish Post) 22 September 2007
Nothing keeps Patrick Leyden down
Fifty years ago Manchester-Irish businessman PATRICK LEYDEN arrived in Britain with £10 in his pocket and a burning ambition to succeed in a country that was a far cry from his beloved Co. Clare. . more...
(Irish Post) 12 September 2007
Still a long way to go
Irish singer TOMMY FLEMING is this week preparing for a nationwide tour that will see him woo British audiences with his powerful and unique mix of traditional yet contemporary ballads. more...
(Irish Post) 12 September 2007
Finding Maddy alive is only way to end suspicion
It seems the tragedy that is the case of poor Madeleine McCann becomes ever darker by the day. . more...
(Irish Post) 12 September 2007
Immigrant protests stem from ignorance
WHAT makes these people tick? I am coming across one of the main bridges in Cork city after seeing my uncle off at Shannon on his way back to New York. .more...
(Irish Post) 12 September 2007
I may join the mass exodus to Australia
THE DAILY Mail headlines screamed 574,000 in and 196,000 out. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
No hitch with dating now
The Hitch Academy is a new dating school that gives people more options to find love and happiness. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
Instructor Adam proves that charm lies deep in Irish genes
His Irish roots may go back three generations but Adam Lyons clearly believes he can put the Irish charm to good use offering dating advice to men through his latest venture The Hitch Academy. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
Church must change its views on abortion
Amnesty International and the Catholic Church have clashed over the issue of abortion. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
You couldn’t make it up
You might think it’s difficult getting information out of Network South-East officials, but spare a thought for a Canadian tourist who wanted to travel from Belfast to Derry by bus. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
Ireland bridging European gap
Never mind Belfast International taking over from Shannon as the main hub of the Heathrow services, it now seems possible that some day in the not-too-distant future you’ll be able to board a train in Belfast at tea-time, sip champagne as the Co. Antrim countryside slips by and be in Paris before midnight. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
Stepping forward with one eye on the past
IT is like living in an open air art gallery. The big field that adjoins the house has been harvested and now the huge rolls of hay dot the hill like an artist’s installation. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
Time Aer Lingus listened to public opinion
The depth of feeling over Aer Lingus’ decision to axe its London Heathrow to Shannon service is amply demonstrated this week by the 12,000 people who have added their names to two on-line petitions. more...
(Irish Post) 01 September 2007
Readers united against Aer Lingus
Letters have been pouring in to The Irish Post over Aer Lingus’s decision to axe its London Heathrow to Shannon service. Here’s a selection of your views. more...
(Irish Post) 01 September 2007
What have the Greens got themselves in to?
You can’t help but wonder what do the Greens think of it so far? more...
(Irish Post) 01 September 2007
Artane bullies hid behind the Church
Over the years I have met and spoken with a number of people who suffered abuse at the hands of the Christian Brothers boys school at Artane in North Dublin. more...
(Irish Post) 01 September 2007
No right to be judge, jury and executioner
The controversy over the future of the killer of London headmaster Philip Lawrence signals what could be another disturbing erosion of civil liberties. more...
(Irish Post) 01 September 2007
Victims guilty until proven innocent
Imagine that it is the early hours of the morning and you wake up to find an intruder going through your possessions. more...
(Irish Post) 21 August 2007
Freedom of the press is a question of belief
DON’T believe everything you read in the newspapers seems to be an old maxim that we are in need of now as much as ever. more...
(Irish Post) 21 August 2007
And I will walk 500 miles for you mum...
A Birmingham Irishman is set to undertake a gruelling charity trek across remote countryside in memory of his dead mother. more...
(Irish Post) 16August 2007
GAA must stamp out sectarianism
Darren Graham is a young man who loves playing Gaelic football and hurling for his club Lisnaskea Emmets in Co. Fermanagh. more...
(Irish Post) 16August 2007
Stone the crows
We have many heroes on the Cooley Peninsula including Finn MacCumhaill (pronounced MacCool as a general rumhaill), the Great Brown Bull of Cooley and of course the greatest of them all Cu Chullainn. more...
(Irish Post) 16August 2007
Recognising your identity isn’t always easy
Identity is always changing isn’t it? Our own surnames will tell us that. At one stage they would have been the only hallmark of who we were, denoting our extended family, our tribe, our clan. more...
(Irish Post) 16August 2007
The tractor of Drumore
Normally at this time of the year I’m on my holiday home on Mustique but this summer I decided to delay my departure because of the Cooley Tractor Festival. more...
(Irish Post) 16August 2007
Bertie and Blair: Presentation over principle
I’M not sure how much of a legacy it is, knowing anyway that any discussion of Tony Blair’s time in power will always be overshadowed by Iraq, but at least he was better than his Tory predecessors. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
What’s in a name?
Shakira, Kylie Setanta not the most usual names for a child. But they’re among the ones chosen by Irish parents for their off-spring. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Smoking ban will profit government
There is big money in rubbish. Ireland has increased on-the-spot fines for the careless and uncaring who drop their litter on the streets by €25 to €150. For example Dublin City Council alone issued nearly 4,000 such fines last year. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Pull a sickie? You must be joking!
Getting children up for school can be one of a parent’s most exasperating experiences, with the usual cries of ‘five extra minutes’ or ‘I’m still tired’. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Does art hold the secret of life?
Now I have to tell you (if I haven’t already done so) my interest in art is largely confined to portraits of myself. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Madeleine’s parents have suffered enough
I have never commented on the terrible abduction of little Madeleine McCann up to now. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Loving dad says he was born in the wrong body
Leading feminist campaigner and transsexual Claudia MacLean has claimed that sex reassignment surgery is based on unscientific ideas and could be doing more harm than good. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Irish Ways and byways
A new history of Ireland tells the tale in old music and verse. But does it stand up to scrutinity? Most definitely says MALCOLM ROGERS. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Irish tourism gambles on the British to punt
This year’s Irish racing season looks set to bring in British punters by the thousands, with the sport being showcased in September in an effort to attract more Britons to Ireland for a day at the races. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
Inaccurate Snow report
It’s the name the British army have given their ‘military normalisation’ programme in the North of Ireland. more...
(Irish Post) 09 August 2007
There is never any honour in killing
The term honour killing makes my blood boil. Where in God’s name is the honour in killing your own flesh and blood? This is just murder plain and simple and murder of the most barbaric kind at that. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
Key to a good story
The Royal and Ancient golf club was forced to apologise during the recent Open after an audience of golfing professionals and senior administrators was treated to a speech that included racist jokes and references to the disabled. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
Bertie’s new berth
As well as its many other vital contributions to the national pageant, this column maintains a watch on the governments of both Ireland and Britain. And this week we aim our snoopery in the direction of one Bartholomew Ahern. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
Co. Laois vet brings hope to amputees
An Irishman who grew up on a small farm in rural Ireland has become the talk of the medical world thanks to a revolutionary veterinary procedure. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
Exercising the mind is professor’s brainchild
In the 1980s the exercise craze was purely based on the Olivia Newton-John model of Let’s Get Physical. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
The Irishman revolutionising a British institution
It is one of Britain’s biggest success stories but it took a man from Mayo to put it in place. Patrick Waldron tells how he helped transform the Post Office’s financial services. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
“Richard you are my hero”
At the age of 10 richard moore was robbed of his eyesight when struck by a rubber bullet as he walked home from school. more...
(Irish Post) 02 August 2007
Honours sham is best left alone by Ireland
THE BRITISH honours system has always been the cause of much controversy for the Irish community in Britain.. more...
(Irish Post) 28 july 2007
Are we changing the face of our nationality?
I HAVE no real right to and it is probably very condescending but I can’t help feeling sorry for these new Irish. By that I don’t mean the immigrants to Irish society who are at long last being called something positive the new Irish instead of the insulting and demeaning term non-nationals.more...
(Irish Post) 28 july 2007
The price of patriotic shopping
A RECENT consumer survey shows that Irish grocery shoppers pay on average with the exception of Denmark 25 per cent more than their fellow EU counterparts.. more...
(Irish Post) 28 july 2007
Armed services are a dwindling force
A HOUSE of Commons committee says that people are leaving the armed forces because they are fed-up and disillusioned. .more...
(Irish Post) 28 july 2007
The reasons for immigration are many
The second-generation Irish made a brief and fleeting appearance in the consciousness of the Irish press recently when a drug smuggling venture went wrong just off the south-west coast.. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
British are the new immigrant force in Ireland
Many Irish emigrants must still find it a little strange that after years of population loss the land they call home is now a net importer of people. more...
(Irish Post) 06 September 2007
The changing face of the Irish in Britain
It is hard to judge just how much countries really change. I haven’t lived in Britain since the start of 1999 and I am now an infrequent visitor to the place. more...
(Irish Post) 14 july 2007
Shooting itself in its carbon footprint
IT’S all Bob Geldof’s fault. He started it with Live Aid. Now it seems anyone with a cause to champion and a bit (well, a lot) of influence immediately reaches for the telephone and stages a star-studded concert or three. more...
(Irish Post) 14 july 2007
Irish clubs need our support
Regarding your recent Comment piece on Irish clubs. Over the last decade or so Irish theme pubs have sprung up all over the country be it an O’Neill’s pub (which at the best of time isn’t very Irish!) or a Wishing Well (we have three in North London!) or some other corny-sounding establishment. more...
(Irish Post) 14 july 2007
Suicide figures on Irish men make grim reading
The number one killer of young men in Ireland is suicide. That is a truly horrific statistic that cannot be ignored. more...
(Irish Post) 14 july 2007
Traveller community’s life issues
While on the subject of sad statistics I saw another report that dealt with the issue of life expectancy amongst members of the Travelling community. more...
(Irish Post) 14 july 2007
It’s all about money in the new Ireland
It is hard to get away from Bertie Ahern. His latest appearance was on an evening chat show where he again acted up his ordinary Dub few-pints-and-the-match persona. He leant forward, grinning constantly, with an accent getting more and more Dublin by the minute. It was cringe-worthy stuff. more...
(Irish Post) 03 July 2007
Politicians pile on more misery after terrorists’ bombs
It is a frequently repeated mantra that one of the main aims of terrorism is not merely to cause death and injury but to spread fear. more...
(Irish Post) 03 July 2007
We should be proud of Wogan who is a fine ambassador
It never ceases to amaze me just how much criticism from within the Irish community is directed at this man.. more...
(Irish Post) 03 July 2007
Is the press treating its readers with contempt?
Which story is more important a missing cat or 78 people killed in Baghdad? No contest I hear you say. It’s obviously the tragic and pointless deaths of 78 innocent people. more...
(Irish Post) 03 July 2007
Precious little love at Ulster rally
The Leaders of the disastrous Love Ulster rally last year in Dublin are now planning another one for this autumn. more...
(Irish Post) 03 July 2007
The Greens sacrificed their principles
An extremely daft question. You come home one day and someone has knocked down your house. You turn to them and say: “You’ve destroyed my home.” more...
(Irish Post) 27 june 2007
Farming lobby are not so conservation-conscious
The farmer-led opposition to the reintroduction of the white-tailed sea eagle to the Irish countryside exposes the farming lobby to the claim that they are anti-conservation. more...
(Irish Post) 27 june 2007
The community is more important than money
WHY should money rule everything? St. Joseph’s Parish Centre in Highgate in North London which has been in existence since 1975 now finds itself under threat from the usual relentless march of land-hungry developers in collusion this time with the Passionist Order who own the land. more...
(Irish Post) 27 june 2007
Green green grass of coalition Bertie
WHEN the coalition government was formed in Ireland in the wake of the General Election I immediately had this vision of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern singing his version of The Green Green Grass Of Home in front of a karaoke machine in his local boozer in Dublin. more...
(Irish Post) 27 june 2007
Ireland is now more violent than ever
JUST about 10 years ago we travelled across Ireland in a camper van and journeyed from Donegal down to Cork along the west coast.  more...
(Irish Post) 23 June 2007
Irish clubs need to make the effort
THERE was an interesting response to our latest poll on The Irish Post’s website.more...
(Irish Post) 23 June 2007
Respect the rights of emigrant workers
POLAND now wants its builders to come home because they say that their country needs them. Apparently over 2million workers have left their homeland to work abroad since 2004 when Poland joined the European Union. more...
(Irish Post) 23 June 2007
What’s the next step for the Irish dancing phenomenon?
Night after night in Scout huts, church halls and a collection of other assorted buildings up and down the country, groups of parents drop off their children for lessons in a cultural art form that quickly expanded to become a global brand. .more...
(Irish Post) 23 June 2007
Politics — it’s all about management
THE OLD Peadar O’Donnell adage about the Irish War of Independence being nothing about revolution but all about a mere change of management is even more apt in terms of modern Irish democracy. . more...
(Irish Post) 16 June 2007
Difficulties need to be overcome
BERTIE Ahern will in all likelihood commence his third term as Taoiseach this week after a General Election campaign fought on the basis of his party’s successful stewardship of the economy.more...
(Irish Post) 16 June 2007
‘Caring’ council isn’t particularly bright
You really could not make up this nonsense and stupidity if you sat down and tried your hardest. . more...
(Irish Post) 16 June 2007
America’s terrifying fascination with guns
A boy aged just 11, armed with a powerful handgun, shot a huge wild boar weighing over 1,000lbs. .more...
(Irish Post) 16 June 2007
The Irish follow political parties blindly
WRITING just as the election results have finally been announced I can’t help but be amazed. . more...
(Irish Post) 6 June 2007
Remember all who suffer loss
THE HEARTBROKEN parents of Madeleine McCann have been travelling the world to keep the news of her abduction in the spotlight.more...
(Irish Post) 6 June 2007
Rendition a dirty word for dirty tricks
I RECENTLY watched a disturbing programme on BBC2 called Mystery Flights. more...
(Irish Post) 6 June 2007
Hail the success in Bradford
IT’S a sad fact that many Irish centres up and down Britain have faced a struggle to survive in recent years.. more...
(Irish Post) 02 June 2007
More time to shine
WELL, he did it again .more...
(Irish Post) 02 June 2007

Irish woman gives the bare facts in new ad
GIVING new meaning to the concept of ‘going natural’ Irish woman Joanna Gardiner has shed her clothes in a bid to convey the organic nature of her company’s new product.. more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
Man’s best friend – but not if you’re a priest
IT seems like a perfect match. Man’s best friend and man of the cloth. more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
Bertie’s cash explanations don’t add up
IIT would be hard to convey to you, some two weeks into the election campaign as I write, just how much politics here has once more been caught up in the finances of the Taoiseach.. more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
Online frenzy as Ryanair launches free flights
RYANAIR has launched what it claims to be the world’s first-ever free seat sale, causing a frenzy in doing so. .more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
Catholicism and Tony Blair
IS Tony Blair a Catholic? .more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
The toil of Irish ancestors has helped make Manchester a home from home
AISLING BURKE left Ireland for Manchester almost a year ago — and found a home from home. But just what is it that makes the Manchester-Irish connection so strong? Aisling has the answer. .more...
(Irish Post) 26 May 2007
There’s still time to save the Hill of Tara
AS sure as night follows day the planned motorway through the site of the Hill of Tara was going to come across some precious part of our past. more...
(Irish Post) 17 May 2007
How Irish emigrants helped shape the face of Britain’s towns and cities
The Irish in Britain are a conspicuous success story — but why? PROFESSOR GRAHAM DAVIS is looking for the answers. He tells Peter Foley how Irish emigration changed the face of many British towns and cities. more...
(Irish Post) 17 May 2007
Historic handshake can’t hide the real Bertie
IT is often the little things that speak loudest. Ian Paisley as the elected leader of Unionism shaking hands with Bertie Ahern was rightly proclaimed for the historic moment it was.   more...
(Irish Post) 18 April 2007
Bird of a different feather
Big Issue founder john bird has set his sights on becoming Mayor of London. Here the second-generation Irishman tells Elaine Sheridan about his hopes and ideals for producing a more community-based capital city.  more...
(Irish Post) 18 April 2007
Iran hostage crisis is all smoke and mirrors
SO Iran finally released the 15 British service personnel they were holding as hostages. Did anybody for one moment really think they would not?   more...
(Irish Post) 18 April 2007
Keane, Dunphy and the New Irish Brat-Pack
STRANGELY enough I feel nothing but relief that the Irish soccer team are not playing again now until summer is on the wane.   more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
Kathleen’s Long Search to Discover Who She is
We take it for granted that we know who we are and where we come from, but for kathleen ferguson these simple questions have no answers.
Elaine Sheridan meets the mother-of-four who has spent the last 10 years engaged in a search which has spanned both Britain and Ireland trying to find her true identity.  more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
High-flying Irish Boxer Prefers the Simple Life
HE IS a boxer with the world at his feet but Irishman John O’Donnell still shuns the high life and prefers to live in a caravan.  more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
Brave Louise will be the Face of Meningitis Campaign
THE PLIGHT of brave youngster Louise Greer is the stuff of every parent’s nightmares.  more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
Enjoy the Bonhomie
IT seems there’s no end of historic meetings in Ireland these days.  more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
Where in the World is Dingle ask Tourists
EIGHT out of 10 tourists failed to find their way to Dingle over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend.   more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
Argentina has Eyes for Falkland Islands Again
ACCORDING to reports it seems that Argentina is casting eyes at the Falklands again and it should come as no surprise.   more...
(Irish Post) 10 April 2007
This is a Victory for all of the People in the North of Ireland
In the wake of the historic developments that saw Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley sit side-by-side to agree a power-sharing executive in the North of Ireland, the Secretary of State for the region Peter Hain writes exclusively for The Irish Post about how it all came to pass.   more...
(Irish Post) 04 April 2007
At Long Last Peace in the North is Delivered
SO finally it happened. They sat down together and nothing it seems will now stop there being some kind of resolution in the North of Ireland.  more...
(Irish Post) 04 April 2007
Power-sharing gives Business Leaders in the North a Chance
BRITAIN’S Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain writes eloquently elsewhere in this paper on the historic agreement between Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and DUP leader Ian Paisley.  more...
(Irish Post) 04 April 2007
Water Way for North to Initiate Power-sharing
WHEN I read the full statements from the DUP’s Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams at their truly historic agreement to share power in the North of Ireland I was surprised at the piece where they both mentioned water bills..  more...
(Irish Post) 04 April 2007

London Irish Centre is banking on Peter to build for the future
Moving from a job in the City with the Bank of Ireland to running the London Irish Centre seemed a strange career move for PETER HAMMOND but as Niamh Hennessy found out the Dublin man has thrown himself into his new role.   more...

(Irish Post) 28 March 2007
Irish abroad have earned their right to celebrate
IT SEEMS as if modern Ireland really doesn’t know what to do with St. Patrick’s Day anymore.   more...
(Irish Post) 28 March 2007
Historic image signals the start of a new era in the North
COULD there ever have been a more dramatic and momentous image to come out of the North of Ireland?.  more...
(Irish Post) 28 March 2007
Government guilt trip punishing honest folk
I WONDER how long it will be before our politicians will be appearing in public with their faces and hair green, their children green, their clothes green, their cars green?   more...
(Irish Post)28 March 2007

What will replace the Church as our social keeper?
ALTHOUGH our Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is a regular Mass-goer we live now in an Ireland where the Catholic Church is a shadow of its former self.  more...

(Irish Post) 22 March 2007
Exiles help beef up No Smoking Day campaign
WHEN three dashing rugby players approach you in the street and tell you to quit smoking chances are you’re going to stop and listen.  more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 2007
New air routes from Sligo
IF YOU are from the West Coast of Ireland you will no doubt be delighted to hear that you can now fly direct from Britain to Sligo.   more...
(Irish Post) 22 March 2007

ASBOs will not solve the problems facing Ireland
JUST when of all things a rugby match was supposed to denote just how mature this cou