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Finally we have something different to talk about! And to think about.Snow.Tons of it.Snow like I am not sure I have ever seen before in Dublin and I am very old!This morning as I write this, there is a white out here in Cabinteely. My world has been gifted a thick...

7 Billion, 24 billion, 35 billion….Bail Out,ECB,Bond Markets,Ollie Rehn,Front loaded adjustments,Budget deficit,Blah Blah Blah,Gobbeldy gookIt streams from my radio.It jumps from the pages of my newspapers.It scares me to death and yet it is...

The 26th of June 1963 was my mothers 28th birthday. On that evening she stood in the front garden of our house on the Swords Road in Santry with her 18 month old daughter in her arms and together they watched as one of the most glamorous and charismatic leaders the...

No doubt in order to balance Black Thursday, God in her infinite wisdom, decided last week to gift us with Chilean Wednesday. As I watched the events taking place, thousands of miles away in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, with the rest of the world, I too...

All of us remember the dreadful earthquake that devastated the island of Haiti early this year. I wrote about it here. Haiti has now disappeared from news reports and from the forefront of our minds, which I suppose are not very taken up with our own economic...

I am delighted that the Irish Times today published a piece I wrote last Thursday - Black Thursday in Ireland - when the Government finally came clean on more or less how much this bail out of the banks is going to cost us!I have been overwhelmed with the response I...

Regular readers of my blog will know that one of my all time heroes is Michael Collins. I have written about him before here. For my overseas readers, Michael Collins was the man who gained Ireland her freedom after 800 years of occupation by Britain.Many of you will...

A shorter version of this short story was published recently by Woman's Way magazine. Enjoy!_______________________________________________________________The short term car park was a cauldron of bad tempered chaos. Negotiating slowly around pillars, cars double...

Just as I was savouring the last minutes of peace and quiet, my phone rang. It was Mia, our youngest, suggesting that I collect them from school as she needed to go to the Orthodontist.“We don’t have an appointment today Mia”, I said.“No but I need to go. I broke my...

Thanks to Ann over at Inkpots and Quills for this award. I am most grateful Ann - especially at the moment when I am finding that inspiration has deserted me. So this award gives me a post which will hopefully kickstart my creative juices! You probably know the drill...

As I write it is a grey day with the rain bucketing down. And there is a chill in the air. Altogether not a bright Monday. But I came across these few photos by Paul which I thought I would share with you.They are of our estate's garden which up to this year was a...