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A Different View with Dave O’Connell It sounds batty but we’re rapidly getting to the point where, if you want to enjoy a night out in Dublin,...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The real crisis with a mid-life crisis, according to the late novelist Martin Amis, is that the worst crisis...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s all about health span, not life span, writes the great Richard Ford in his latest novel – and final...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell he UK’s Education Minister is experiencing a week to forget on many fronts – primarily because half the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Teetotallers aren’t just good for the lift home from the pub or for keeping their heads when all about are...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A long, long time ago in Rathmines’ bedsit-land, a few pints in the pub turned into a crowd coming back to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have been Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli who coined the observation that there are three kinds of lies...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell here a segment on a radio quiz show called Sorry I Haven’t Got a Clue on BBC Four, where compere Jack Dee...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It never seems like it at the time but even the biggest stories fade from the front pages and the public...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Culturally there’s clear blue water between Druid and the Saw Doctors, but collectively they made last...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When Blondie played a storming set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury recently, Debbie Harry kicked off with...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was the cardboard box outside the plastic tube of toothpaste that triggered it – why the double wrapping...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you’re a child,” wrote the veteran novelist John Irving in his latest and what may well be his final...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The late, lamented DJ Tony Fenton was a very funny man. Only he didn’t really know it and he wasn’t trying...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A cracking new book from our old Tribune colleague Harry McGee – currently prominent on the shelves in every...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Children who are breastfed are twice as likely to do well in their GCSEs as those who aren’t, proclaimed...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was back in the early days of the technological revolution in newsrooms when one intrepid sports reporter...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s impossible to put an exact figure on it, but the consensus by now is that there are actually more Irish...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The only time in your life that you should ever utter the words: “Do you know who I am?” are if you’ve...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell As it turned out, we were much closer to a Eurovision win than we could ever have imagined – not Ireland, of...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Contactless payments reached a record €17.9 billion in Ireland last year – up by 31 per cent on 2021, as...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Every dad who has ever stood on a sporting sideline had to feel a small twinge in the back of their leg at the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell If you’re ever in a tight corner and desperately need to turn a career-ending negative into a party-popping...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s an entirely legitimate aspiration to seek out quiet space – even on a busy inter-city train – but...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christy Moore who famously offered a tenner to St Anthony to help him find some sleep, although that in...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell there’s a wonderful line in Sebastian Barry’s new novel, Old God’s Time, when the main character, retired...
A Different View by Dave O’Connell The first home I ever bought cost me £34,000; it was a brand new three-bed semi-detached bungalow in a new...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Journalists, for the most part, will never win awards for their sartorial elegance; the traditional image is...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Paul Mescal has a lot to answer for – and it’s nothing to do with his Oscar nights or his antics in Normal...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s a strange thing to go to a funeral when you don’t really know the deceased – because, when you take...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The shy child was now a woman with a voice that she demands will be heard for the rest of her days, but her...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I’ts definitely twenty years ago since the eldest son – now well into his twenties – was celebrating a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s consolation of a sort for the thousands out there who tossed and turned in the quest for sleep...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell With St Valentine’s Day firmly on the horizon, thoughts for some may turn to love and even marriage –...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I’ve never understood betting but, just as I’ve never understood astrophysics either, I’ve plenty of time...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Somewhere in a supermarket in Australia last week, a person or persons spent €57.88 of my money on food or...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell As Elton John once said, sad songs say so much. But now it turns out so do Adele songs or classics by the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Much has been written about the downturn in newspaper sales, and in printed matter generally, on foot of the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There is an age-old parental conundrum as to when you should clear out and do up your grown-up children’s...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was a time when the height of audio sophistication was a single white earpiece connected by chord to your...