"Is there really anything we can take from the history of the famine that will help us get through to a more peaceful future?"

Losing the collective arrogance would help no end, weelittledrummer, whether it be from the soccer terraces or from the armchair.

The Irish are so well liked around the World precisely because we do not exude such qualities in our natural way of being.

If the British were like the Irish (oxymoron though it may be), people might be actually happy to see them when they go travelling,