Some Suggestions

For those of you with anything more than a passing interest in media analysis, check out Dav's Blog. The boy dun gud.

And if you're interested in Irish society, you'll be interested in The Pope's Children by David McWilliams, which i read over Christmas and meant to tell you all about. For the record, I hate McWilliams. I hate the way he talks, walks, chews and sneers. Essentially he is passable as a slightly less repulsive Kevin Myers. But his book is a useful indicator of where we've come from, what we're at, and who we're going to be. If you can manage to bear his incessant social labelling - from the faintly amusing 'Kells Angels' to the plain-shite 'Breakfast Roll Man' his book will provide the reader with a landscape of modern Ireland within which one can frolic, ponder, worry, and question at will. Available on all good liberal coffee tables in Ranelagh and environs.