The Americans do things differently from us. They have pancakes for breakfast, they ask God to bless America when they’re doing something they know they shouldn’t be doing, and they elect their president differently.
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Southern voters ignored dire warnings last time round
I used to interview graduate students who wanted to become teachers. Since there were four applicants for every place on the course, the room tended to have more than its share of tight smiles and leaky armpits. We were looking for several things, principally a personality suited to teaching and recent experience that matched the job.
Southerners should think onion before voting
When my ex-children want – no, when my ex-children hope – to embarrass me they haul out the photo albums and show our wedding pictures.
Some great leaders and their, ah, colourful pasts
I was in the Waterfront Hall on Saturday afternoon and do you know what? It was kind of dull. The speakers were lined up and in five-minute bursts they said things which everyone in the hall agreed with, and that’s what made it kind of dull.
Gerry seems to be the hardest word
POOR Bertie Ahern. Once he was everybody’s favourite. He liked a pint, he liked going to Croke Park, he liked Man United
One sided version of Gaddafi’s downfall
Have you ever been to Libya? No, me neither. But there are a lot of people in print, on radio and TV these days who have been. Or certainly from the way they report the fall of Tripoli
