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I am angry, I hate abortion but I am voting YES
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....
THE WRONG BUS
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 of...
SNOW LESSONS
In the suburbs, leafy and otherwise, the only remaining evidence of The Beast from the East, Storm Emma and the little brother of the Beast are mounds of dirty, icy snow languishing in dark corners of footpaths and gardens. Looking back, I can now reflect on the...
Girl of my girl
I had 32 days. 32 days in Perth, Western Australia; days of living Australian while fruitlessly searching for some good, sharp blackberry jam to go with my homemade scones (yep, I see what I did there.) I did manage to source Kerrygold butter, which my daughter told...
A very expensive jaunt on the LUAS
I have a salutary tale to tell you and one which should be of interest to anyone who uses public transport, especially Dublin’s Luas. I am not a regular user of public transport, as I work mainly from home and my forays into the city are usually at off peak hours and...
Budget Day and Da
Budget Day always makes me a bit scratchy. A bit uneasy. I feel like the world is shifting slightly on its axis and I worry that something important may get dislodged in the process. Something that may cause a domino effect of tumblings, scattering vital bits of my...
Oh, what a night(ie).
My father stood at the top of the stairs and viewed all the kerfuffle in the hall below. My mother was in a bit of a spin but not as much as one of my brothers who had clearly decided he was the ‘man in charge’ of this unfolding new situation. My younger brother...
Smart Alecks and Ninjas
So, we were having issues with our broadband recently so we put in a call to our supplier, Virgin Media with a request for help. We were logged for a call out and waited for the text with date and time. The text that arrived went as follows: “Hi, your Red House...
Imagine if it was like this all summer!
As I write it is ten am and the temperature in Dublin is 23 degrees. Now we all know that in Ireland temperatures of 23 degrees are unusual at the best of times, but this is about the fourth day in a row that we have reached such scorching heat. And in Ireland when...
Religious Orders are selling out on our children; why we should all be concerned.
We are currently riding another wave of self-congratulation on how modern and inclusive we are in Ireland, in the wake of the election of Leo Varadkar as Leader of Fine Gael and presumptive Taoiseach. We now have a leader to match Canada and France in terms of boyish...
Wars are now fought right where we live.
Another regular day bleeds into an uneventful evening which ends on the sofa in front of the TV. As I begin to think about heading to bed, I check Twitter and my heart sinks. That now almost familiar, feeling of dread, seeps through my bones as I try and piece...
In Many Ways Nuns Are Great Feminists But They Shouldn’t Be Given Our National Maternity Hospital
I was educated by nuns in Secondary School in Dublin. My experience was almost entirely positive. After five years (no TY then) I left my Catholic ethos, convent school with a clear idea of how to be a strong independent woman, able to speak up for herself and stand...
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