It's ironic that so soon after writing a nostalgic piece about Irish pubs and their place in society, that I should now be penning the following. Perhaps the threads of these ideas were just floating around un-connected for a while. … Continue reading →
An old friend and I were reminiscing about our youthful adventures and discoveries we'd made back then. He remembered things I had forgotten and vice versa. The time covered was from 1970 to 1980 when we went from our teens … Continue reading →
The UK used to be described as the unity of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Then a nasty thirty-year civil war broke out in Northern Ireland before common sense prevailed and the warring factions turned to democratic politics to … Continue reading →
There is no doubt that fine Gael and Labour were decimated in the last election because they ran on the headline of, "Keep the recovery going." The majority of voters felt they were still deep in the do-do so they … Continue reading →