If you’re about on Monday evening from about 6pm on, we’re planning a get together at McHughs near the Albert Clock… You can sign up at the Readers of Slugger O’Toole page on Facebook… or, well,  you could just turn up on the night if the fancy takes...

Same as last week but backwards - Huge game for the Dragons tonight. After Ulster’s victory last week tomorrow will be interesting in France (Belgium???). ..I worry for the Scarlets

I first heard the word optics in the run up to the Belfast Agreement. It means stuff that/s not real but looks good to the punters. Blair was a past master at it. Putting a banner up above the smiling faces at St Andrews which read “St Andrews...

Mark Coughlan (one of the sharpest writers in the Irish blogosphere) has this extraordinary precedent to the story from Listowel yesterdayonly this time rather just express sympathy with the perpetrator local people actually appeared to turn on a rape...

Nicely jaundiced quote from Bill Clinton in Bill Runciman’s profile in the most excellent London Review of Books: “Peacemaking quests came in two kinds: scabs and abscesses. A scab is a sore with a protective crust, which may heal with time and simple...