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WE ARE in a time where we are told that what concerns most people is migration. Not just here in...
ONE of the things about Ireland, or at least rural Ireland, and we still have one of the highest ...
WHAT’S happening to the pub? Over the last twenty years more than 2,000 pubs have closed. Here in...
IF WE had the summers they have elsewhere, the consistent, reliable sun and heat, what would our ...
I’M NOT a journalist. I think I could say I’m a columnist and I think I could say I’m a writer o...
SHE was originally from a country in Africa but the pride with which she spoke when talking about...
I SPENT a couple of lovely days in the city of Galway recently and while I was there I read a boo...
THERE’S an awful lot of rhetoric about immigration these days, isn’t there? There’s a host of po...
DO you have the cúpla focal? To be honest isn’t that just what the vast majority of us have? Jus...
Straddling two cultures — an Irish childhood lived in the shadow of English floodlights and Irish...
I WAS in the lovely city of Galway recently. For a while I sat in a car park outside a Lidl and t...
IT was not unusual for my father to work over Christmas. There were six of us and it was extra m...
ONE of the peculiarities of the Irish electoral system is that you can see exactly how many peopl...
I SOMETIMES find it bizarre that even when I’m talking to my own kids about my Irish upbringing t...
I MUST be missing something. I was listening recently to an interview with Lynn Boylan, the Sinn ...
ACCORDING to the publicists every year since I’ve been here, and presumably well before that too,...
WHEN a candidate for possibly the most powerful position in the world, said person having once he...
ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...
IT IS one of those unavoidable things but quite often as Irish people we end up talking about Eng...
ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...
MY FATHER never drove a car. He never sent an email. He never sent a text message. He certainly n...
POLITICS is important. Those who dismiss it all with a ‘they’re all the same’ are doing one of tw...