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Imagine if we had no government?
It is very depressing to watch and to feel the surge of hope that came with the General Election die slowly. We are now coming to terms with the fact that those we voted back into Dail Eireann seem to be completely baffled by the result of said election. Meanwhile...
‘E’ and me!
I was at a funeral recently at which I suddenly found myself embracing very old friends from a previous life in a previous century. The weird feeling of being whizzed back to the 1980s only lasted a few minutes – just as long as it took to get over the deep laughter...
The reason why kittens are so cute… a post for Mother’s Day!
I have little time for Mother’s Day, probably thanks to my anarchistic tendencies. If everyone is going one way, I will generally prefer to go the other. I also hate being told what to do, hence I couldn’t handle being in a book club. So when the world tells me...
Democracy In Action
So after months of planning and campaigning it’s all over. Now we have to wait to see what our politicians can offer the people in the form of a Government to reflect what it is that the electorate said in General Election 2016; an election which will doubtless go...
UNIFORMITY
Yours truly - JWT Reservations early 1980s! (great hair!)Last week The Guardian Newspaper reported that following a two-year battle, female British Airways cabin crew had won the right to wear trousers. Later in the week a young girl from a school in Dublin was...
HOMELESSNESS HAS TO BE THE ELECTION ISSUE
The fastest growing economy in Europe. New jobs being created every week. Cranes once again stalking the Dublin skyline. Even Dun Laoghaire, poster town of the recession, has an air of recovery about it with new shops opening regularly. Although many of us will be...
BELFAST TICKS ALL THE BOXES FOR A WEEKEND AWAY
We headed north in August for a wonderful weekend in Belfast. Can't believe I left it this long to visit.... I found a proud and friendly city with a great sense of humour. My travel piece appeared in the Irish Examiner last weekend and you can read it here.Here is a...
"IRISH MEDIA IS A BIG MICKEY INDUSTRY"
Back in April, The Media Show on RTE had a segment about the shocking level of sexism that exists in Irish Media. Dr Tom Cloonan and freelance journalist Alison O Connor presented research and personal experience to back up this fact. I have written before about the...
SORRY RED, IT’S NOT YOU… IT’S ME
I remember well the first bottle of wine I ever bought. Well I didn’t purchase all of it.. I had shares in it, so to speak. I was about 16 and with a few girl pals walked over a mile (no – we had shoes and it wasn’t snowing) to a shop where we had heard they weren’t...
DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL
Seaside Marquee - DALKEY BOOK FESTIVALIn the last few years I have become a right pain in the ass about The Dalkey Book Festival. “It’s great,” I enthuse to all and sundry, “brilliant events and the town buzzes with energy and the sun always shines”. Most of those I...
FAILING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE…..
Dinner table discussions are one of the best things about family life.. and like good wine they get better as the kids get older. I had the rare experience of gathering my three daughters and my husband around a big roast dinner last night in advance of my eldest’s...
WEARING YOUR MID LIFE CRISIS….On Your Head
It was Coco Chanel who said that a woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. This may or may not be true. But what is very true is that a woman’s relationship with her hair goes way beyond the obvious. It is a deeply intense bond that proclaims something...
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