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Roghnaigh na Francaigh Sarkozy ach céard a chiallaíonn sé sin i dtaobh na ‘Europapolitik’?

Last update: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Le roinnt blianta anuas cloistear alán dioscúrsa sa bhFrainc faoina ngearchéim pholaitiúil. Deirtear go bhfuil an tír báite ‘dans le crise’. Dealraíonn sé go bhfuil teacht leanúnach na n-inimirceach bainteach le sin murab cúis leis. Is íoróin shuimúil í, mar sin, gur roghníodh Nicolas Sarkozy mar uachtarán, fear de thuismitheoirí ó Hungáir, a rinne gealúintí gur ndéanadh sé fíoriarracht dul i ngleic leis an bhfadhb sin!

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The New Irish

Last update: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Last week’s events in the North finally put an end to the long Anglo-Irish saga. Now the question on everyone’s lips is: what are the parties going to do with their newly acquired powers? I don’t know if there is any other part of Europe where the ‘bread-and-butter issues’ metaphor has been so exhausted in such a short space of time. This has had serious consequences for my diet, and I conjecture that if the politicians insist on flagrant overuse of this hackneyed cliché, the wheat and dairy industries of the North could be in for unmitigated recession! But real politics has little to do with flags and national anthems, and it is refreshing to see the ascendancy of reason as opposed to the age-old emotionalism of tribal conflict. Now the big question is: how are the Sinn Féin socialists going to govern with the ultra-conservative DUP? 

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An troid dhaonlathach na Tuirce

Last update: Thursday, May 10, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Tháinig na sluaite daoine amach ar na sráideanna san Ankara cúpla seachtain ó shin chun a míshásacht a chur in iúl faoi iarrthóir uachtarántachta den pháirtí AK, Abdullah Gul. Cé go bhfuil a pháirtí á mhaíomh gur fear nua-aimseartha é, tá cuid mhór den daonra sa Tuirc den tuairm go bhuil sé ro-chlaonta i dtreo luachanna moslamacha seachas polaitaíocht thuata, nua-aimseartha agus go bhfuil a hiarrthóireacht baolach don phoblacht. Tháinig níos mó na 200,000 daoine amach ar na sráideanna san Ankara chun léirsiú a dhéanamh ar son luachanna na bPoblacht. D’éirigh an t-atmasféar níos broidearnaí fós nuair a foilsíodh ráiteas óna trúpaí go raibh siad sásta seasamh a dhéanamh ar son na bPoblacht más gá. 

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The New Irish

Last update: Thursday, May 10, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin considers the history that lies beneath the earth at Tara 

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The New Irish

Last update: Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin takes a look at some of the aspects of the word ‘culture’ 

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Ag dul i ngleic le Alzheimers nó galar beatha

Last update: Thursday, May 3, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Ognuno sta solo nel cuor della terra Trafitto da un ragio di sole: Ed e subito sera. (Every one is alone in the heart of the earth Pierced by a ray of the sun: And it is soon evening.)– Salvatore Quasimodo 

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The New Irish

Last update: Thursday, April 26, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin on the strange allure of the oak tree throughout history... 

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Teas domhanda agus comhchruinneán beatha traochta: todhcaí gan daoine?

Last update: Thursday, February 8, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic organism or like the cells of a tumor or neoplasm. We have grown in numbers and disturbance to Gaia, to the point where our presence is perceptibly disturbing….the human species is now so numerous as to constitute a serious planetary malady. Gaia is suffering from Disseminated Primatemaia, a plague of people. – James Lovelock 

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The New Irish

Last update: Thursday, February 8, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin on the fate of St Brigid, the docile nun who was a warrior goddess Upon its arrival in Ireland, Christianity had to reckon, not only with the warriors, but also with the most powerful female religious figure in all of Irish history: Brigit, a figure who achieved the distinction of becoming a Triple Goddess, a Virgin Mother, a Lawmaker, a Virgin Saint, and finally, a folk image whose shadows still move over Ireland. – Mary Condren, The Serpent and the Goddess, p55 

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The New Irish

Last update: Sunday, January 7, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin muses on the importance of recogsnising Irish as a working language

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Idir dhá bhliain

Last update: Sunday, January 7, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

CÓISIR NA HATHBHLIAINA AGUS MO SMAOINTE FAOI BHEITH IS AM. LE GEARÓID Ó COLMÁIN “Quid est enim tempus? Si nemo me quaerat, scio, is quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.” – Aguisín, Confessiones

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