International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day. A video featuring James Bond actor Daniel Craig, dressed as a women and voiced by Dame Judi Dench was released by Equals (a partnership of various charities) to highlight the injustice and inequality that still exists for women...

WHY NOT HAVE THE KIDS SHOT?

It’s Happy Faces Day again this Saturday. This is the day when Irish Photographers open their studios and make their talents available in order to raise funds for charity. This years charity is Cystic Fibrosis…. a most worthy cause.As many of you know, my...

GO DAD

Yesterday, 6th March 2011 was my dear ole Dad’s 10th anniversary. It’s hard to believe he has been gone that long. But it was fitting that a story of mine in which he features was recently published in The Examiner newspaper. It is not online so I...

THE SIGNS ARE GOOD

How the hell are we already in March? It seems like Christmas was only yesterday. The daffodils have blossomed, their buttery brightness cheering up the still muddy garden no end. I love daffodils. They are such a symbol of hope. In our family we mark two...

BUMS ON SEATS FOR THE OSCARS

I thought that Ireland acquitted herself quite well with the recent IFTA ceremony (Irish Film and Television Awards). The show was a tad long but the new venue of the Conference Centre was much more suitable for an Awards Show with its theatre style seating. However,...

The Home of Irish Writing Online!

I know that many of the visitors to my Kitchen Table are writers and so I am delighted bring to your attention a great new writing website which has launched called Writing.ie.Writing.ie has been created by Vanessa O’Loughlin of Inkwell Writers fame. I jest not, nor...