by Barbara | Sep 4, 2018 | Political
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...
by Barbara | Aug 31, 2018 | Political
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...
by Barbara | Mar 15, 2016 | Political
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...
by Barbara | Feb 8, 2016 | Political
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...
