Ireland Calling
by John SpainRSS 
Recent Posts
- Pro-Life campaigners need to get a grip - Irish women still have no choice over abortion
- Abortion reform Irish style - Women still have no rights over their own bodies, continue to travel to the UK for procedure
- We’re total abortion hypocrites - proposals for new legislation were laughable
- Catch 22 for Irish abortion law - navigating Ireland’s rigid, Catholic influence legal framework and Savita Halappanavar’s case
- The late Baroness Margaret Thatcher had her good points
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We got the perfect example of what's wrong with the Irish economy last week when our air traffic controllers went on strike.
The four-hour stoppage last Wednesday shut down our three main airports, grounding 150 flights. Over 20,000 passengers were affected, with missed connections, screwed up holidays, appointments abroad that could not be kept and so on.
Time was in Ireland when we used to bring tourists to stay in haunted castles. These days we have haunted houses of a different kind, so-called ghost estates on the outskirts of many towns around Ireland. And they're not the kind of places that tourists would want to stay in.
The new ghost estates don't actually have ghosts. They're called ghost estates because they're empty.
Greetings from the North Pole. Well, not exactly, but that's what it feels like.
