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I am delighted to be a regular contributor to the Tubridy Show on 2FM.  Ryan is a nice guy and very easy and generous presenter to work with.This week I spoke to him about Spousal Sacrifice – which is not about sacrificing your spouse but rather the sacrifices we make...

Last night Channel 4 screened a horrifically mesmerising programme called Plane Crash in which a team of scientists flew an ultimately empty 727 airliner to a desert site in Mexico where it was deliberately crashed in order to retrieve data from many sensors, cameras,...

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green GablesAutumn seems to be a little later than usual in arriving this year.  Here we are in the second week of October and I wonder, can you feel it yet?I am just beginning to...

One of the few ‘right’ things we did as a country during the boom years was to take a few steps towards valuing, in a real way, the work of caring for children in this country.Back in 1992 debate began around the provision of childcare in Ireland for families where...

As I write this morning, thousands of kids around the country are receiving their Junior Cert results... there will be tears and there will be whoops of joy. And later there will be lots of underage drinking and tomorrow some of our papers will carry photos that will...

Fostering kittens for the DSPCA is always interesting but the kitten we took delivery of on last Wednesday has a particularly special story.Last Monday (13th August), a woman left Edenderry, Co Offaly and drove (without stopping) to Dublin.  On arrival and when she...

Being married to a Brit I have always taken a lively interest in the goings on of our nearest neighbours.  I have two children who are half English and, if I am to be very honest, that part of their heritage is not ever something I was that excited about.  Their...

I was dreading the Olympics.  I don’t really get sport.  The thought of two weeks of wall to wall competition of all kinds filled me with dread.The Opening Ceremony cheered me up a lot though and left me a little better disposed towards the events themselves.  I...

SUMMER THAT NEVER ARRIVED!So here were are – into August and still not a sight, not a smell of summer.  We have been deluged every month and have only had the odd day here and there when we experienced blue sky, sunshine and heat, all at the same time! Yes it has been...

This week Ireland lost someone very special... a woman who embodied lots of  the very best things about being Irish.  A story teller par excellence.My tribute to our Maeve from Dalkey is on the Writing.ie website.  Click here.