News Commentary from Ireland. By Jon Ihle, Dick O'Brien, Paul Butler, Diana Pérez García, Ben Good and Patrick Freyne.
Dick O'Brien
is a journalist
based in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently the editor of Signal magazine.
He has also written for the Sunday Business Post, the
Irish
Independent, the Sunday Independent, the Evening Herald,
the Sunday Tribune,and Business Plus. Before embarking on his career as a
journalist he briefly worked for both Dublin
City Council and the Department of Agriculture. A native of the city,
he holds a degree in English and
Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin. When he isn't writing Dick
enjoys reading fiction, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes,
preferably
simultaneously.
Jon Ihle is a freelance journalist
based in Greystones, Co, Wicklow, Ireland. His work
has appeared in Business and Finance,
Business Ireland, Dublin
Review, The Irish Independent, Irish
Runner, Badaboom Gramaphone
and FastForward.
Hilariously, he has also worked as a social research consultant, a
bagel baker,
a mapmaker and a chemistry lab assistant. Originally from Long Island,
NY, Jon
is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, and holds an MA in
English
from Temple University in Philadelphia.
Patrick Freyne is a bard and man of
letters. He lives with his woman, his
demented brother and a great white she-cat.
Paul
Butler is a social
researcher. He lives in Dublin.
Diana
Pérez García: is a native of Madrid, although she has lived in Ireland
for many years. She
holds a B.A. in English and Linguistics and an M.A. in Anglo-Irish
Literature.
She works as a translator and teacher. She likes the movies, books, and
books
about the movies. She believes that anger is a great political
motivator.
Ben Good
grew up in Bray and Dublin and
is now living in London. For reasons too boring to go into here, "Ben
Good" is a pseudonym. It's been alleged that Ben practices both
medicine
and Judaism without a licence.