If you could bottle the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP'S) chutzpah, you could solve the North's economic problems overnight Just call it Brass Neck and watch it fly off the shelves.
Drunk babies, crude sex acts, drugs and booze. Most Irish people decide to just grin and bear it when the terrible St Patrick's Day t-shirts come around.
Big tech has one goal, to consolidate its own dominance. It will continue to do so regardless of the growing damage to the United States and our journalism.
Liam Neeson has had an unexpected third act as a later in life action movie star and this week he's back in "Cold Pursuit", his latest shoot them up revenge caper.
Why should the Irish support immigration? Any Irish person who is still seriously asking that question today would want to take a serious look at themselves, and perhaps especially if you're reading this in the United States now.
Before we get too carried away with bashing Brexit, we'd do well to remember we're facing the same thorny social questions that gave a fateful opening to the far right demagogues, fantasists and racists who set the stage for the ongoing and lamentable civil war between British Europhiles and Euroskeptics.
The British Empire is no more. The unquestioned supremacy of Ulster Unionism is no more. The living stream of history left all that behind over half a century ago.
How you feel about yourself can have a real impact on your country. No, hear me out, it really can. Everything connects. Your personal psychology affects your group psychology after all. Some psychologists call it the Starbucks factor.
This month The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan are staging two Brian Friel one-act plays that explore love and the tales people tell themselves to make sense of their lives. It's the hottest new ticket off-Broadway.
In Northern Ireland a woman who has been raped or abused can still receive a longer prison sentence than her rapist or abuser if she seeks to end the resulting unwanted pregnancy.
In "A Private War" Irish actor Jamie Dornan plays a journalist who risks his own life to bring us the truth about the war in Syria, in a triumphant new film that is a timely reminder of the enduring value of the free press.
