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First impressions

Last night, someone (I can’t tell you who), asked me to go somewhere (I can’t tell you where), to do something (I can’t tell you

Grateful 43

It was February 2002. I had just returned from the States and was living in Ireland. It was Six Nations time and Scotland was travelling

Thoughts from a mad house

It was 2003. It was London. It was an average theatre night for me. I had booked my tickets for Stones in his Pockets at

Tears for the Irish

March is one of my favourite months of the year. It has everything I could hope for by way of entertainment: great rugby as the

Ethnic cleansing in Ireland?

Driving down to Wexford some time ago, I came across this memorial stone on the outskirts of The Rower, a small village in Co. Kilkenny.

What I didn’t know about Ireland

As Ireland’s national day – St Patrick’s Day – draws near, and people around the world get ready for the ‘wearin’ of the green’, the

Age belongs… on tombstones?

It’s a little ironic really to think that we spend the first, say, third of our lives trying to be older than our years and

Grateful 44

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some

Where’s my passion?

Or should it be what’s my passion? Finding your passion in life seems to be the key to eternal happiness. But then isn’t my goal

Grateful 45

I find myself looking a lot at reflections lately. I know I am prone to minor obsessions but they ususally work themselves out after a

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