by Barbara | Aug 31, 2018 | Political
The summer of 1979 will forever live in my memory as that special gap summer that occurs after you leave school and before you embark on the next phase – be it college or work. It was a summer of delicious discovery, of excitement and of freedom. I was 17 and by...
by Barbara | Aug 22, 2018 | Feminism
If you’re a feminist it’s very, very easy to hate the Rose of Tralee. A parade of young women (who up until recently had to be unmarried and not mothers) marched out one by one to have inane conversations with the male host, cheered on by their male ‘escorts’ and...
by Barbara | May 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
When Charles and Diana married in July 1981, I was working, in a travel shop on Grafton Street. However, my wonderful boss, saved the day by managing to charm the loan of TV from a local TV Rental shop (as your Ma – people used to rent TVs) so that we could tune into...
by Barbara | May 10, 2018 | Abortion
It’s been a funny few months. An unsettling few months. A time when I have been acutely aware of something shifting. This unease began as my eldest daughter and my precious granddaughter returned to their home in Australia in January, after a two month stay here....
by Barbara | Apr 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Having just returned from a wonderful few days back in one of my favourite places, I thought I would share this which was written back in 2012 and featured on RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany. We soon realised we were on the wrong bus. Instead of heading out...
