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A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a very popular pub in Salthill called the Office and there’s also at least one other – that I...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Outside of parents, nobody can influence the path your life takes as much as an inspiring teacher, whether...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell By any yardstick, the owner of Spotify, Daniel Ek, enjoyed a fairly good year in 2024 as his personal wealth...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was the Christmas Day phone call that brought it home; a simple WhatsApp call to the aunt spending the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back when RTÉ television was just coming of age – celebrating its 21st year on air in 1982 – two young...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell For as long as I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers; even back in boarding school, I used to breach...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The sportswear manufacturers, O’Neill’s, reported a fifteen per cent drop in revenue for the year just...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s a privilege to live in a country where democracy can be seen at work – and an election count is the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell In the way that you should never meet your heroes, you should also never look behind the curtain if you...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back in the early 1980’s, in Rathmines’ College of Commerce supposedly training to be a journalist, a few...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s been a week for political departures – and Galway for sure has lost a couple of people who made a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The best education isn’t always consumed in the classroom – and, as with everything, sometimes the best...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The death of former Galway Rovers player/manager Tommy Callaghan on the morning of the club’s last home game...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Wistfully wishing that you could turn back the clock to a time before social media, gaming, and instant access...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was a time when the essence of a children’s birthday party was twenty rugrats belting each other...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell To all who knew him, he was just Viggy – no need for formalities because Viggy suited him to a tee…the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell At first glance, it should be like trying to mix oil and water – an evening with the RTÉ Concert...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was no good reason that Subbuteo should ever have been a success; little one-inch footballers mounted on...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The reason we love sport is because of the extremes it throws up; the chasm between winning and losing –...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you were a small fella tuning into Radio Luxembourg or the fledgling 2FM on your plastic earpiece, it...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell he irony of youngsters looking for expensive mobiles almost as soon as they can walk and talk is that the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s funny how – even more than 40 years after exiting the gates for the final time – the return to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s the time of year when hope springs eternal, when the old slate is wiped clean, the failings and...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell For all of those giving out about the price of All-Ireland Final tickets, the truth is that we’d probably...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell In terms of the weirdest experiences you could image, few would rival a jam-packed musical arena where fans...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Maybe it was a subliminal ambition triggered by some version of Murder on the Orient Express or perhaps...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I never knew any of my four grandparents because they were all gone to their reward before I was born, and...