Author: Frank Schnittger

(Cross posted from the European Tribune – where a previous diary – on the results themselves reached 340 comments!) We’re starting to get some slightly harder data on why Ireland voted no in the referendum on...

An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, became only the fifth person to address both the joint Houses of the British and US Parliaments when he gave his valedictory address to a joint Senate and Congressional session yesterday in one of the...

In doing some background reading on Restorative Justice, I cam across a chapter in a book by Jim Considine “Restorative Justice: Healing the Effects of Crime.”  Written in 1999, the chapter is entitled...

In doing some research on Bertie Ahern I came across an Op ED piece written by Jim Duffy and published in the Irish Times on August 11, 1998.  Jim is chiefly known in Ireland as the researcher whose interview with Brian...

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (the Irish Prime Minister – 1997-2008)) is to resign on 6th. May after a long running scandal concerning his private finances.  He is the most successful Taoiseach in Ireland’s history...