by Barbara | Oct 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Oct 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Oct 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Sep 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Sep 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
