Aye. I certainly don't consider myself Irish for all that I have a great liking for the place and the people. I find ancestry interesting but find it odd to make any sort of claim beyond that. (View Post)

Both sides of my family have strong Irish connections. My Dad's paternal line was Irish Protestant from Carlow and my Mum's paternal line was Irish Catholic from Cork. In both cases they mo… (View Post)

The one that could really sink the police is if those three volunteers who they arrested for handing out rape alarms really were part of the women's safety charity group as claimed. I have no id… (View Post)

I thought it was Sir John Betjemen who first made that very sensible suggestion (though he was talking about a non-nuke option). (View Post)

One of the problems it seems to me in Britain is that we don't often enough hold the people at the top in business properly responsible for the actions of their companies. Although there was a t… (View Post)