Greatest show on turf opens gates

Agriculture is the most prominent source available for making our world a green. This story all about a largest exhibition on Agriculture.Time to think about Nature and green.Ans also, this is will be the first time the Queen has attended the three-day event since 1977, her...

IRELAND: Chickens came home to roost yesterday . . . with a vengeance

This is my favourite report on the Lisbon Treaty outcome. ...but I think you'd have to know the 'players' to get the 'in' jokes and the 'craic' - the sense of delight and cheeky mischief making too. A terrific read!"So now it's plan C and that leaves Brian another 23 letters...

Papa Smurf's Got a Brand New Bag

Gargamel, it's time to put your big-boy pants on." The Smurfs, those blue-skinned cartoon gnomes with short tails and white hats, are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a Hollywood movie deal announced on...

Ireland's black community was embraced at the Africa Day festival in the grou...

UPDATE:Ireland's black community was embraced at the Africa Day festival in the grounds of Dublin Castle. Sinead O'Connor, Kila, Mundy, and Republic of Loose performed at the free family event alongside Ugandan...

Cannes Less About Films and More About the Glamour

"Partying and celeb-spotting have elbowed aside the movie business at the Cannes Film Festival. Celia Walden reports 'What's 'Le Festival', Mummy?" asked the neat little French boy seated opposite me, as our TGV...

Bush Celebrates Israel's Birthday Amid Rocket Fire

President George Bush was doing his best to put a happy face on an unhappy situation in Palestine.  I'm not sure how he can do any good with everyone knowing he's soon on his way out." JERUSALEM (AP) --...

Celebrating 10 years of the euro?

"When the euro was launched there were plenty of people who thought it would crash and burn.Ten years on, its role as a global currency is secure, even if it hasn't achieved everything its founders hoped.Wednesday is...

We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary

The 'authentic' semitic peoples, descended directly from Abraham, are still living in the Middle East– they are the Palestinian Arabs! They are being destroyed (genocide) by usurping "foreigners", whose traditional right to occupy this region has been diluted over two...

Labour takes a local election hammering in the UK

Labour is looking to face their worst election results in a generation as the results from yesterday's elections start to trickle in.That doesn't look good for Gordon Brown."With just over half of results from...

Fans riot, vandalize downtown Montreal

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell Europe have their Soccer Hooligans, Montreal has their Hab (Montreal Canadiens) Hockey Hooligans.Watching the news last night, it looked more like a War Zone than a...

The Death of the Red Baron

Until recently, it would have been impossible to use the words 'hero' and 'german officer' in the same sentence, especially in Germany.However, with the passage of time and a better perspective (90 years will do...

Celebrating Leap Year Day? Are you popping the question?

Are any of you doing something special on Friday, February 29 for Leap Year Day?Have you noticed greeting cards dedicated to this special occasion/Are songs, poems and short films written about it.It would have slipped by me if I had not been put on hold during one of these...

Slow Down: Use Semicolon

In a world gone mad one man is trying to bring the semicolon, a reminder to slow down and take stock, back into the public eye.  It's nice to see some discussion around getting back to basics when it comes to...

China’s Genocide Olympics

"The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation.Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their own...

WGA Strike: A Grammy Opportunity

In this LA Times piece, Todd Marten suggests that an ongoing WGA strike won't likely force the cancellation of the Grammys and may, in fact, have the positive net effect of giving "more airtime to musicians". More...

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