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Dublin Daffodils
This is the text of a my piece which was broadcast on RTE Radio One's Sunday Miscellany on 15th March last. You can also listen back here March is the month of the Dublin daffodils. All over the suburbs of our capital city, in gardens, on grass verges, on roundabouts...
An Unexpected Gift
(Broadcast on Sunday Miscellany RTE RADIO 1 January 2011) The recent December snowfall, which caused such travel chaos, also brought with it some unexpected and beautiful gifts, which was very appropriate in the run up to Christmas. The uncommon arrival of such deep...
Cats and how they can break your heart
Ernest Hemingway said that “a cat has absolute emotional honesty; human beings, for one reason or another may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” And as someone who has lived with cats all her life, I think our Ernest is right. But I never really thought that...
HOW TO HANDLE THE LONG FLIGHT YOU WILL NEED TO TAKE TO FIND THE SUN THIS YEAR
So, I know I might be a bit premature on this, but the signs so far aren’t great for a good summer and I am beginning to panic. I have checked my social media posts from last year and by May the weather was already settling into a nice warm pattern which as we all...
We need to support our journalists by buying newspapers again.
Whatever else you can say about where we are as a country at the moment we are certainly living in interesting times. Nowhere is the tsunami of social change reflected more clearly in the result of the referendum to lower the waiting period for divorce from 4 years to...
#PlasticFreeForLent
Last week I thought I was being very clever having come up with the hashtag #PlasticFreeForLent to accompany my rant about the amount of unnecessary plastic you encounter in the fruit and veg department of most supermarkets. However, I now see that...
Menopause – what I have learned so far….
Following on from my last blogpost calling for older women to step into their power especially at Halloween, I thought it might be time to share some insights into menopause; something that is not talked about as much as it should be. And perhaps if we ‘women of a...
Halloween Reminder To Claim Your Power as an Older Woman
Tomorrow is Halloween; the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the beginning of winter and (most importantly) the celebration of woman as Crone. In ancient mythology woman was represented by the Triple Goddess of The Maiden, The...
A presidential election will provide winter entertainment, but that’s all.
The media loves an election, for obvious reasons. It provides cheap entertainment, throws up some great rows, and occasionally provides the great unseating of a candidate who looked like a shoe-in. Normally I too would enjoy the prospect of an election for all those...
Urgent action by government needed after Pope’s visit.
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...
This feminists view of The Rose of Tralee
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...
Somewhere near St George’s Chapel, Diana was laughing.
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...
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