by Barbara | Mar 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Mar 6, 2016 | Animals, Cats, Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Barbara | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
