Nation divided as American dream becomes a nightmare

Despite the outrage and theatrics in the partisan TV studios, last night the average New Yorker seemed more concerned about how ‘Breaking Bad’ ended than what was happening down on Capitol Hill. And yet it is a strange vista in America when a few...

Ireland needs new game plan just like Trap’s Boys in Green

When we were kids playing football, one manager always insisted on the pass. The pass was everything and it was not played to the players’ feet but a yard ahead of him to keep the tempo of the game. The pass was the game, nothing else mattered. Sure it was great...

What Germany’s football success tells us about the eurozone crisis

Last night we saw not just a football match between two great teams, but two very different cultural, social and economic models battling for supremacy. On one hand we had the frugal but brilliant Germans of Borussia Dortmund, on the other was the free-spending (and...