Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.