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A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back in the early 1980’s, in Rathmines’ College of Commerce supposedly training to be a journalist, a few...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s been a week for political departures – and Galway for sure has lost a couple of people who made a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The best education isn’t always consumed in the classroom – and, as with everything, sometimes the best...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The death of former Galway Rovers player/manager Tommy Callaghan on the morning of the club’s last home game...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Wistfully wishing that you could turn back the clock to a time before social media, gaming, and instant access...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was a time when the essence of a children’s birthday party was twenty rugrats belting each other with...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell To all who knew him, he was just Viggy – no need for formalities because Viggy suited him to a tee…the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell At first glance, it should be like trying to mix oil and water – an evening with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There was no good reason that Subbuteo should ever have been a success; little one-inch footballers mounted on...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The reason we love sport is because of the extremes it throws up; the chasm between winning and losing – the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you were a small fella tuning into Radio Luxembourg or the fledgling 2FM on your plastic earpiece, it...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell he irony of youngsters looking for expensive mobiles almost as soon as they can walk and talk is that the last...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s funny how – even more than 40 years after exiting the gates for the final time – the return to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s the time of year when hope springs eternal, when the old slate is wiped clean, the failings and...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell For all of those giving out about the price of All-Ireland Final tickets, the truth is that we’d probably...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell In terms of the weirdest experiences you could image, few would rival a jam-packed musical arena where fans...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Maybe it was a subliminal ambition triggered by some version of Murder on the Orient Express or perhaps...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I never knew any of my four grandparents because they were all gone to their reward before I was born, and our...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Good radio is the art of painting pictures for the mind – most of all when it comes to sports broadcasting....
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Tragic though it was, Tommy Cooper probably had the death that all stars secretly dream of – to die on live...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell For as long as I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers; even back in boarding school, I used to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was a normal news day way back in 1997 when the call came through around lunchtime to the RTÉ desk. Not...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Here’s a mad idea to curb the speed of cars on our roads; make every driver sign up for a five-mile walk...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a well-worn cliché that politicians always return to when public opinion isn’t going their way...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell They say there’s nothing for nothing anymore, that everything has to have a price or it’s just worthless....
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I will never forget the moment that Mary O’Rourke’s fate was sealed as an outgoing TD and Government...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell So Operation Transformation is gone – and not a minute before its time. This public humiliation of people...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I’ve no problem remembering our home phone number from 50 years ago, but I have to look up my own home number...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a little gem of a walk on the east side of Galway city that sort of meanders through some of the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The Workman’s Club on Dublin’s Quays is a wonderful live music venue not dissimilar in size and style to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A great old friend of mine – all be he a man with more money than sense – was out one night in Kinsale...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s 75 years ago this June that a small seven-inch or twelve-inch piece of black plastic, timed to rotate...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s exactly six months since the barbarity carried out by Hamas triggered a completely disproportionate...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The new coat was designed to keep the worst of the rain off the bottom half as well as the top, but it’s had...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It has always been true that one man’s thrash is another man’s treasure, but it was terribly evident on...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A well-known medical consultant corrected me many years ago when I suggested it must be unbelievably rewarding...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A small candle has mysteriously appeared in a tiny can on the kitchen table, proudly proclaiming itself to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you think of the hallowed old sporting venues around these islands, your mind immediately turns to Croke...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Galway is not a city to see; it’s a city to do; it’s not that we don’t have loads of places that are...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Ben Dunne knew he was in trouble when police pulled him in from the balcony of an Orlando hotel, paranoid...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell By now almost those New Year Resolutions to give up the drink have, like yourself, fallen off the wagon –...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It turns out that the Waltons were the exception rather than the rule – because while John Boy and the crew...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have escaped your attention, but there’s a new shoe on the market that, on one hand, is designed to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christmas Day 1996 and a skeleton staff was looking after affairs of news and sport in the old Terenure...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The annual publication of State Papers 30 years on from the events that they refer to always makes for...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s now 40 years since 1984 – meaning that we’re now four years further away from that year than George...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Fans of classic comedy need no introduction to the Only Fools and Horses sketch – the one where Trigger...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Understandably, when historians look back on the year 2023 in a century’s time, the bookmarks will be the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Ours was never the most adventurous of families; we did what every other west of Ireland family did and had a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s an old piece of advice that’s often offered – particularly to journalists but also to...