On the blogs
This list is non-exhaustive and sporadic. I don’t have a lot of time to do it, it’s tedious and there are a lot of spam sites to trawl through. A link is not an endorsement.
2012
— September 6: Some brief mention of my piece ‘Rioting for more cultural recognition‘ in Politics.ie, as well as on US conservative-turned-liberal site Little Green Footballs.
— September 5: All sorts of grousing by commentors at Slugger O’Toole about my piece, written with Stephen Rainey, in the Irish Examiner, headlined: The North: A cautionary tale of reconciliation
— August 12: Sacha Lamont at Subwhite Cube describes my obit of Robert Hughes as “one of the most candid farewell articles I read among quite a few tasteless, pointless and heartless ones”.
— August 11: Weekend Libertarian notes my obit of Robert Hughes.
— July 13: Boston College Subpoena notes my CSM story on the… Boston College Subpoena.
— May 26: E-Cigarette Forum discuss my Spiked piece, How smokers’ rights are being vapourised.
— February 28: Bulldog Edition notes my CSM story on Piano Media’s Slovak paywall.
2011
— December 9: Wall Street Journal Business Blog picks up on my CSM story Why Germany raises ire in a struggling Europe.
— November 14 Big Think picks up on my PressEurop piece, A how many speeds Europe?
— October 2: Politics.ie poster notes my review of Tommy McKearney’s book, ‘The Provisional IRA’.
— October 2: An Sionnach Fionn notes my review of Tommy McKearney’s book, ‘The Provisional IRA’.
— September 19: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies links to my WT story on German nuclear pullout a day before it was in the paper (had already gone up on the web site, no time travelling was required).
— September 17: Voices from the Desert picks up Irish Times piece on clerical abuse.
— June 25: Anatoly Karlin notes my interviewing him for my WT Arctic resources story.
— June 23: Tom Gallagher of the National Catholic Reporter quotes my CSM story on Belfast riots.
— June 23: The Westerner picked-up my WT report on Arctic resource disputes.
— June 22: Pew Forum on Religion in Public life picked-up my CSM story on Belfast riots.
— June 22: Canada Free press picked-up my Arctic resource story in the WT.
— June 21: A user on Lucianne,com picks a bone with my CSM article on the cause of riots in Belfast, citing a Belfast Telegraph article to (incorrectly) claim that in this case “both sides” were to blame. He also says Catholics support the UVF and Protestants the IRA. Go figure.
— June 21: Free Republic picked-up my story on Arctic resource disputes.
— June 4: Richard Dawkins gives a brief mention of my CSM report on World Atheist Conference.
— June 4: PZ Myers notes my interview with him for my CSM report on the World Atheist Conference. Also twittered here.
—May 31: Democratic Underground enjoys the story of the severed head of St Vitalis (it’s not his head, but it was someone’s) being sold. Published by the Independent of London.
— May 24: TheBeerBarrel.net picks-up my CSM report on Obama in Ireland, as does ThePhora.net
2010
— November 3, 2010: Citation of my Irish Times story ‘Uncertain future for Belfast’s Jews’ at the Impala Publishers blog.
2009
— November 5, 2009: Daily Kos notes my story “No, I’m the real Irish republican” in Spiked.