Jim Carroll

• Media Politics
• February 7, 2008, 09:23

From today’s Letters to the Editor: TEXTING IN THE DAIL Madam, – Would someone tell Olwyn Enright of Fine Gael to stop texting while on the front bench in the Dáil? It looks very bad – and I have never …

• Media Politics
• January 7, 2008, 08:37

It’s the story which never fails to pop up every four years: the attempt by some hamlet in Ireland to piggyback on the US presidential election. The yarn about Barack Obama’s connections with Moneygall in Co Offaly first surfaced last …

• Media Politics
• November 14, 2007, 09:59

(1) It seems that Cathal Mac Coille believes the Socialist Workers Party is responsible for yanking the bus service in north Dublin and leaving 60,000 people walking and fuming in the rain. Here, how will those strikers from Harristown get …

• Politics
• October 29, 2007, 16:47

Twenty Major! Naomi Klein! David McWilliams! A Sinn Fein councillor who used to be indie rock’s answer to Louis Walsh but he’s OK now! Clint Velour! IN THE SAME ROOM! I mean, what more do you want on a Friday …

• Media Politics
• September 19, 2007, 08:23

A couple of years ago, an old mucker of mine Katie Hannon wrote a great book about the Irish political process. The Naked Politician looked at just why hundreds and hundreds of seemingly sane men and women would go through …

• Politics
• September 17, 2007, 09:34

The fuming has already begun. There was some fuming on Morning Ireland earlier and I reckon we’re in for a whole week of fuming. All thanks to the German ambassador to Ireland, Christian Pauls, who made a couple of observations …

• Politics
• September 17, 2007, 09:11

From That’s Ireland via The New-ish Journalism and The Warholiser

• Politics
• August 3, 2007, 19:03

Say hello to Senator Ivor. It does, you have to admit, have a certain ring to it. I wonder does this mean the return of the caravan? Hopefully, he’ll be able to take some time from his hectic schedule as …