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We were turning the hay last Thursday at high noon, no panic and no rain, until Friday at least - it never came Friday, nor Saturday either, just a...
Our sheepdog Murph never liked cats. I suppose ’twouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he actually hated cats - all cats! We got Murph as a pup...
While I’d be a hurling man myself, as a life-long GAA member I have a great grá for Gaelic football too. Back in the 1880s, when there was a bit of...
I’m not sure if Pavarotti, Mario Lanza or Enrico Caruso ever sang solo in the amphitheatre in Pompeii. But only last week I got my chance in the...
I was asked just this week by a person from the northern part of the county: “Did you ever hear of the Bartlemy Thrasher?” The strange thing was, I...
The gift of bilocation - the ability to be in two places at once - would be great, but I’ve not yet acquired it! Usually, I get a diary around...
’Twas Karl Marx that said ‘religion is the opium of the people’, and on first glance it seemed as though the German thinker was just plain anti-...
Is maith liom an Gaeilge, and I speak it any chance I get. Yes, I have a great grá for our native tongue, though I could never get the hang of...
I dreamt all last night Oh, bad ’cess to my dreaming I’d die if I thought would come surely to pass I dreamt while the tears down my pillow were...
Cliff Richard had a huge hit one time with a song entitled The Young Ones. It contains a beautiful line ‘Once in every lifetime, comes a love like...
Is there really such a thing as a just war? Can violence be sometimes or never justified? Was it the bould Daniel O’Connell that said, ‘No...
The Munich Olympic Games of 1972 are unfortunately remembered by many because of terrorism and killing rather than any athletic prowess. What is...
We never went on family holidays back in the days of my youth. I’m not saying that in any ‘poor mouth’ manner - no, back in the 1960s and early...
I DO wonder sometimes do people take life too seriously? Don’t get me wrong now, I know this world can well and truly be described as a ‘vale of...