Shortly before April Fool’s Day, somewhere between Marbella and Pamplona rumours surfaced of a fresh sighting of another one of Mother Erin’s formerly fattest and fastest of money-throwing cats trying the disappearing act, tail between his now skin-skin-skinny legs, dragging a tiny travois of frittering gold dust like some Shah on the run. A...Read more »
The news lately has remained so bad you could laugh for crying. As tax revenues have dried up, the country’s most ambitious schemes for the future have shut down one-by-one. Manufacturing plants keep closing; urban redevelopment schemes and support for the arts, road works, and soaring bridges all dematerializing. The six public libraries in...Read more »
