This weekend saw a tragic statement from a pathetic French president, seeking to hold on to what litttle popularity he has left at home and distract attention away from his own country's shameful selfishness by launching a nationalistic attack at his Eu… more »

Almost as if they heard me talking about it yesterday, the other EU's Council of Ministers, in a blatant act of self-indulgant waste, yesterday endorsed Irish calls for Gaelige to be made an official language of the union. What this means is that legisl… more »

The Times reports yesterday that the "first official language" of the Irish Republic is disappearing, even from the gaeltacht (the area of the Republic where supposedly Irish is the majority language). Gaeltacht teachers get an annual bonus of €1… more »

It looks like my good friend Tony has finally grown a pair. Following calls from France and other countries to scrap it, Tony Blair has pointed out that the UK annual rebate from the EU is fully justified. French president Jacques Chirac is deeply unp… more »

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's government have been involved in a series of talks with Sinn Fein recently and apparently expects an IRA response to Gerry Adams's pre-election statement in the next few weeks. Bertie Ahern today said "there must be no… more »

There has been speculation recently that some of the eurozone countries, those who have replaced their national currencies with the European currency or '€uro', may contemplate reverting back to their former national currencies. An Italian minister… more »

The Netherlands have added their voice to the small but growing list of countries who don't want to be dictated to from Brussels (or Strasbourg) as 62% of their voters rejected the EU Constitution yesterday. To me this is much more significant than the F… more »

Damn it seems like so much has happened over the weekend while I've been offline! I really wanted to post on the shooting dead of 2 post-office robbers at the weekend in Dublin and the response, but haven't had a chance until now. Dublin Robbers Shot… more »

No, not Everything Ulster, the other EU, the European Union. The French, German and Polish leaders today called for an end to the UK's rebate, negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984 because Britain was paying an unfairly high contribution to the then EE… more »

This is probably old news to most of you by now, being reported on the BBC last night, but yesterday MoD computers were brought down by the mass circulation of a 52MB video clip of soldiers in Iraq performing a spoof of Tony Christie's "Amarillo" around… more »