About The Mire

The Mire is the online journal of Mireland a small damp island on the edge of Europe. If a mire is a bog or a difficult situation, Mireland is a bog in a difficult situation.

Brutally battered by the Atlantic and economic reality Mireland is struggling to cope.

Mireland is surrounded by sea but it has no fish.

Its land is fertile but it grows no food.

Its politicians are the best paid – but sadly not the best – in the world.

Like Baltimore in the TV series The Wire, Mireland is where corruption meets incompetence, where ambition outranks  ability and where ideas go to die.

To add insult to injury; it rains.

But there is no water.

The Mire is written by Donal Conaty, a freelance journalist.

Contact The Mire: donalconaty@themire.net