Ireland

Atilla the Hun’s descendants making good in Ireland

If you’re looking for a posh weekend away in Ireland, you’ll be spoiled for choice. There are any number of castles and country manors to

2016 Grateful 50

I’m quite partial to a bit of posh. I’m convinced that in a previous life (or indeed, lives), I was loaded. To the manor born

Being walked by a dog

I’ve never professed to being an animal lover. Perhaps it has something to do with losing a succession of pets as child to poison and

Fishin’ wars and being 50

I suffer from occasional bouts of homesickness – that longing for people, places, and things that are uniquely Irish. It doesn’t happen very often though

Dysfunctional families and craft beer

Meet the Cosmos – a marketing segment in Eastern Europe that skews towards women. Women who defy convention and have forsworn vodka, wine, and cocktails

2015 Grateful 22

It’s been years since I last lived in Clontarf. I did my time in Dublin 3 many lifetimes ago. And I loved it. Being able

Belated Bloomsday

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always