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MY youngest has left Ireland and gone to London. It’s not much of an original story. In many ways...
AS I WRITE THIS, appearing at The Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally, Co. Laois, are su...
RYAN Tubridy’s fall from RTÉ grace has been one of those peculiarly Irish moments. In my time liv...
WHEN I first started associating with English people I had to translate when my father spoke to t...
EVERY now and then the country you live in just goes a bit weird. We had weirdness galore during ...
AS if like an echo, Ireland is having its Philip Schofield moment. A much-loved national present...
ON THE day I’m writing this it is World Refugee Day. Now, I’m not really one for designated days....
WHAT does being Irish mean? Does it, in fact, mean anything? For instance, I’m Irish. I was born...
I don’t know the place, Inch, Co. Clare. I don’t know any of the people in Inch, Co. Clare. But I...
THE more one looks at RTÉ’s decision to discontinue its long wave radio service the more one is s...
TERRIBLE THINGS can happen in life, can’t they? Terrible accidents and terrible tragedies. Someti...
THERE is an unavoidable synchronicity about the timing of RTÉ’s decision to close its long wave ...
I LISTENED to it so that you don’t have to. I was driving peacefully through a small Irish town w...
Maybe social media does good things. Maybe it brings people together and gives people some sense ...
Increasingly, the older I get, I can’t help but see nationalism as an ugly thing, a negative thin...
I’m not claiming any kind of victimhood but I do see the importance of being accurate. I grew up ...
Think about the north of Ireland for a moment. Think about Northern Ireland. Just think about tha...
BORN AND REARED in working class Birmingham, of Irish immigrant parents, I lived the first thirty...
First things first, I don’t like rugby. Even if Ireland are playing or Munster or whoever, I don...
I WOULD not have imagined there was much of a link between cats and the Irish far right or, while...