The Inside Back

Greece is on the brink – so they say – of bypassing the EU for a bailout and going directly to the IMF.

Last week, there were two big stories involving marine wildlife in captivity, one that ended in the loss of human life and one near-miss catastrophe.

Michael O’Leary has really lost it this time.

I’ve started writing book reviews for the Irish Times, and in a few weeks I’ll be on a panel at the Dublin Book Festival talking, from what I know so far, about the art of literary reviewing.

Around the office, dozens of little restaurants and cafes have been shutting their doors over the last few weeks.

I didn’t even know JD Salinger was still alive until recently, when his lawyers stopped publication of a book, written by a bit of a self-professed jokester hack, about Holden Caulfield as a grown-up.

A big decision by the US Supreme Court has put the future of democracy in a bit of a pickle, and the fallout is likely to be felt around the world in just a few generations of elections.

I recently had a conversation with a friend regarding the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.

My eight-month-old son got a bath in slightly warmed Evian bottled water over the weekend, while our water was off.

In Uganda, where, according to The New York Times, mobs beat people to death for crimes as small as stealing shoes, the authorities recently attempted to enact the death penalty for homosexuals.