Half of Americans say they need at least $100,000 per annum just to live ‘comfortably’, according to a recent Bankrate survey, while some 54% of those already earning $100,000 believe they need an additional $50,000 to feel secure.

The nightly protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers staying at the Hilton Hotel in Glendale, Los Angeles are still going on - starting regressively later than the original 7pm sharp but now rumbling into the small hours.

Before any blood is spilled in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, his razor-sharp dialogue delivers a masterclass in character and cultural commentary - all over breakfast.

Recently, my wife took an Uber home from what she claimed was a vitally important meeting (the truth of her nail appointment emerged later, under mild interrogation).

We were led through the long, echoing halls of Kilteegan Seminary by a tall, bearded priest with a booming voice and a fondness for one particular word: Mighty. Everything was mighty - the weather, the breakfast, the rosary beads.

Beep. Beep… Beep. I passed the undersized granola, a tin of tuna and something vaguely healthy in a green translucent tub (which my wife swears she loves) over the scanner at my local grocery store.

The eponymous host of All In with Chris Hayes has long lost his incredulity for what passes as politics in the United States.

“We have not much time left!” The Greek MEP was on her feet, waving her arms with the kind of fervour usually reserved for Eurovision voting scandals.

Somewhere on my first travels to the United States during Obama’s inaugural election campaign, I must have slipped into a parallel Batman universe - a weird combination of the original campy and bumbling Adam West version which aired on TV in the ...

Top of the morning to y’all! It’s me, the United States Healthcare System, and I thought I’d hijack Liam’s column to tell a story to you Irish, with your much maligned universal healthcare of public hospitals, GPs and medical cards.

Nobody knows anything. William Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer of screenplays for All the President’s Men, Marathon Man and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, coined this phrase when speaking of the Hollywood industry.

“We have your phone. . . we know you intend to work in your brother’s restaurant. . . you have no money otherwise. . .

He is one of the few people that regularly makes me laugh out loud.

The Matrix is one of the most iconic sci-fi action films of all time, where a hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that reality is a simulated illusion controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Politico and rehashed by many in the media on both sides of the Atlantic, the world watched as Taoiseach Micheál Martin, ‘the veteran diplomat’, endured ‘an excruciating 45 minutes’ meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House ...

In his article ‘The choices we make trigger rural decline’ (Western People, February 14), Mark Godfrey responded to my end-of-year column documenting the calamitous loss of western rural communities.

“Larry, we have to close the beaches," Police Chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) along with marine biologist and shark expert Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) is desperately trying to convince stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) of ...

It was Brendan Gleeson’s breakthrough moment as a screen actor. While ‘only’ having a supporting role, Gleeson lit up the screen whenever he appeared in Paddy Breathnach’s classic I Went Down and featured in the film’s most memorable scenes.

“The standard of name-calling in this club is appalling!”The hurling trainer stood shocked on the stage, his outsized hands flapping in the air and sweat beads falling down his face.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about tinnitus - that maddening condition of hearing phantom ringing, hissing, or pulsating sounds that aren’t there. To my surprise, the reaction from readers was overwhelming.

It was 2020, during the height of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, when TV host, Trevor Noah, finished his Daily Show comedy programme with a clip from a city whose name I forget.

The noise was sudden and loud, a metallic thud, followed by the screech of breaks and a second dull thump, then silence followed by shouts and excited cries.

During an episode of the Blackadder the Third comedy series, set in eighteenth-century England, Hugh Laurie as the British Prince Regent remarks to Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson): "I say Blackadder, I hear the peasants are revolting in ...

As I crossed the pedestrian walkway, a flatbed truck driver leaned out his window and unleashed a barrage of angry words at me.

It is one of the most memorable moments in movie history.

We'll call him Paul because that’s not his real name - at least according to his Lyft profile. He picked me up on Main Street and 5th in downtown Los Angeles, just a few blocks from Skid Row.

Making Irish boring was a feature of the Irish educational system, rather than a bug.

Donald Trump is exceptional.

"This isn't a Christian thing to do!" he shouted, eyes wide in anger, his dark skin blending into the room's gloom.

Since January 2019, Kristi Noem has been the formidable Governor of South Dakota and her uncompromising conservative positions on taxation, healthcare and gun rights would have in any case made her a leading candidate for Donald Trump’s running mate ...