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Anne-Marie FlynnThe Mayo News |
“Morrie cried and laughed with them. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day. His ‘living...
One of my first recollections of Leo Varadkar is not political. In a now long-gone nightclub in Dublin in the mid-noughties, it was to our surprise...
Where to start with the recent referendums? A shambles, from start to finish, and a costly shambles, at that. Holding Friday’s Care and Family...
REGULAR readers of this column, An Cailín Rua, will remember my examination before Christmas of the spend on road-safety initiatives, in light of the...
Measles is back, and sadly, the disease has already claimed a life in Ireland, the first in over 20 years. At time of writing, nine other suspected...
We have all surely had our fill of dark mornings, inclement weather and the general drudgery of January. But hope is on the horizon. February has...
I find it quite incredible that we are already two weeks into the new year. Perhaps it’s just a side-effect of ageing, but the days, the days seem...
JUST when you thought the world could not get any madder, or more depressing, mutterings emanating from the cesspit formerly known as Twitter, now X,...
THE topic of road safety always come to the fore at this time of year, as the weather deteriorates and end-of-year headline statistics begin to...
“Make sure you take it easy for the evening,” warned the massage therapist as she dispatched me, lathered in arnica, into the cold, dark evening....
It’s November 3, and I’ve just left the pharmacy. Along with the routine prescription and a smelly candle, I left the building with a nagging...
These are heavy times. As dark nights draw in, grey skies droop towards greyer paths, and relentless, bloody war rains down hell on innocents in the...
Tuesday, October 10, marked World Mental Health Day. Established in 1992 as a global advocacy and awareness programme by the World Federation for...
As the Decade of Centenaries draws to a close, there will no doubt be a period of public reflection on the value and achievements of the...
It may have been a fair city once, but looking over from this side of the country, it’s fair to say our nation’s capital is not a place of which...