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A Different View with Dave O’Connell Talking about social media as though it was just one entity is like thinking the property market is all about...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Even in a week when the Western World’s autocratic dictator was given a free run to invade a neighbouring...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The ironic timing of singer Chris Rea’s death last week didn’t escape anyone’s attention, given that...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell These days the Christmas ads haven’t even the decency to wait for Halloween before hitting the screens with...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A dog, they say, is for life and not just for Christmas. But two things that meet their Waterloo every festive...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Sometimes you’ll see them in a pub sitting side by side; Darby and Joan, a pint and a glass in front of...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell They used to call it multi-tasking, which was seen as a positive thing; now it’s known as continuous partial...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell At last count, I had 11,296 photographs on my phone; if I printed them out as standard ten-by-eight pix and...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Fully prepared to let the train take the strain on a recent day-out to Dublin, I’d made allowances for the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell We’re in November, traditionally seen by Catholics as the Month of the Holy Souls; the time of year when the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was the morning after the night before, and the streets looked like they were picking up the pieces after...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell We’ve just come through another Bank Holiday Weekend – a strange phenomenon when you think of it, given...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell For sheer audacity, you’d have to hand it to those boyos who made it into the Louvre this week and headed...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell You’d wonder how far any of us would get if every tiny detail of our lives to date was dragged up at a job...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Those who spend a huge slice of their wages and their everyday lives watching ‘live’ sport on Sky don’t...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Barack Obama flew into Dublin last week to accept the Freedom of the City – something that was so important...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There are overflowing racks outside the actual door of Charlie Byrne’s fantastic emporium in the Cornstore...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Television fans of a certain vintage will remember a nineties sitcom on Channel 4 called Drop the Dead Donkey;...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s well over a decade ago that what is now the University of Galway decided to take time and look at...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell for meteorologists, naming storms is probably the equivalent of lads in the office discussing changes they...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back when the great Charlie Bird was first diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease in 2021, one of his greatest...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I should have anticipated the smell of disappointment off it from the very start. Having missed out on the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Coming up to Galway’s Russian Roulette of the road – otherwise known as the Browne Roundabout on the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It clearly won’t solve all problems when it comes to buying a house, but a housing association in the North...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was while watching the world Premier of MARS, the Irish National Opera’s wackily brilliant contribution...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Revelling in the recent blanket coverage of the 40th anniversary of Live Aid was like being transported back...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was a time when most towns, village and parishes in Ireland had one of their own on the missions – a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A first ever visit to Amsterdam is a salve for the soul; meandering along its beautiful, cobbled streets,...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Galway County Councillors subliminally entered the world of Artificial Intelligence recently with a suggestion...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Three times in the one week, I found myself in buildings once synonymous with thriving newspapers but now...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was late into the evening in Supermacs and the guy was absolutely convinced he knew me – or at the very...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell If we’re being honest, we’ve all done it — received an anxious or passive aggressive phone call before...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It wasn’t enough for Oasis to charge the price of a small car to see them in concert — i.e. standing on a...
A DIFFERENT VIEW IT may have escaped your notice – but Galway is, in fact, the best place in Ireland to survive a Zombie Apocalypse, which may...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a price to be paid for everything – even success. Ask the great Kerry footballers of the seventies...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Maybe it was the nostalgia – all the references to Italia ’90, the Trip to Tipp, the West’s Awake – or...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was a banking relationship incentivised by the offer of a what we used to call a free boogie box – or a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The boss of a big Irish media company had a badge of pride that he wore when it came to getting rid of staff;...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell RTÉ lost one of its absolute legends during the last week although few outside of the station will be...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell As gigs go, they couldn’t have been much further apart in scale or atmosphere – 8,000 crammed into the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Those familiar with the memory of Mick Wallace’s sartorial style on the floor of the Dáil or the European...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The two astronauts who went to space for eight days and came back nine months later might have struck the rest...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Nobody at all considered it ironic that, in rural Ireland of the late seventies, the two most popular dramas...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s the moment in life that you never saw coming – and if you did, you’d vowed it wouldn’t be allowed...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Even the phrase itself belongs to a different era, but half of us are still in thrall to Old Wives’ Tales,...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell We’d already been aware of an upsurge in some highly contagious virus emanating from China and making its...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell We all lost our phones when we went to see Tommy Tiernan in Leisureland recently. Actually – and technically...
It was the first time in my life that someone broke the news to me of their impending death – and in such a stoic way. But Sr Loreto McLoughlin was...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It might have been a Bank Holiday Monday, but the scammers were still working flat-out – and thankfully so...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a well-worn story about former Liverpool and Ireland footballer Jason McAteer when he was out one...
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