Media

American politicians that are a bit too good to be true; Liam Clancy living the high life and a very strange train ride.
By Dermot Bolger

Fantasy football...what about fantasy journalism.

These are the moments I like the most. It has snowed in New York. Two feet of it over the course of the night. A path has been cleared on 82nd Street between Lexington and Third. The path is just wide enough for two able-bodied people to squeeze through. It's a canyon really, a small canyon along the footpath, snow piled high on either side. On the street – a quiet street at the best of times, if anything can be quiet in New York – the cars are buried under snow. The telegraph wires sag. The underside of the tree branches appear like brushstrokes on the air. Nothing moves.

‘51 per cent in favour of gay marriage”, declared a headline on the front of the Irish Examiner last week. But the detail of the survey so announced told a different story, writes John Waters.

Channel 4 churned out yet another top 100: this time it was funny moments. Neither those, nor Des Bishop's final Joy in the Hood, were particularly funny, to the disappointment of Dermot Bolger

Having Marty Whelan presenting the breakfast show on 2fm signalled "the death knell for youth radio on a national basis in this country... For the flagship programme on a station aimed at 15- to 34-year-olds to be fronted by the former presenter of Open House defies belief. Marty is an excellent presenter and I have no doubt he will pull in a large audience, but they won't be in the station's target market." So said one of the station's rivals.

The Sunday Independent

Republicans are to blame for highly-coordinated violence
“Hardcore repub...

Michael McDowell loves representative democracy so much that he delights when a party showing at four per cent in the polls determines the policy direction of our Government.

Last Saturday's ugly scenes in Dublin could, and should have been avoided. I am no fan of the Loyalists “Lov...

Sinn Féin moved decisively at its ard-fheis last weekend to intensify the party's appeal in the South, as a means of breaking the logjam on political development in the North brought about by the DUP's refusal to engage.