by Barbara | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
I thought that Ireland acquitted herself quite well with the recent IFTA ceremony (Irish Film and Television Awards). The show was a tad long but the new venue of the Conference Centre was much more suitable for an Awards Show with its theatre style seating. However,...
by Barbara | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I know that many of the visitors to my Kitchen Table are writers and so I am delighted bring to your attention a great new writing website which has launched called Writing.ie.Writing.ie has been created by Vanessa O’Loughlin of Inkwell Writers fame. I jest not, nor...
by Barbara | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Friday 13th February 1981 was a regular night. I had recently turned 19 and was working for JWT in their head office in Baggot Street. I very likely went for a drink after work – a habit that used to drive my mother mad in the days before mobile phones and microwave...
by Barbara | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I tweeted something reflecting my frustration with the man who may well be our next Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. His reluctance to engage in the leader’s debate tomorrow night on TV3 with the bulldog of Irish journalism, Vincent Browne leaves me breathless…....
by Barbara | Feb 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
As I sit here at my kitchen table this morning writing these words, the world outside my kitchen window is bright. The sky is washed in a delicate blue and the newly risen sun is spilling it’s weak light at the bottom of the garden.Last Saturday, for the first time in...
