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Michael GallagherThe Mayo News |
JANUARY can be tough. The weather is usually dreary and often mirrors the emotions rambling around the boreens of our lives. The anticipation of a new...
ON a chilly night in 1928, Irving Berlin sat in his New York apartment and penned a song that caught my attention this morning as I looked for...
I’M a great believer in democracy and the fact that majority rules. We may not like the outcome of elections, and we may not agree with those...
I’VE been immersed in the GAA since the moment I drew breath. Many of the people who play Gaelic football have been central to my existence, and...
How many times have we heard that history is written by the strong? Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill certainly believed that was...
LIFE has a way of kicking the naivety out of us and replacing it with cold, hard realism. The promises of government politicians this week will...
WHEN I was in my teens I scoffed at adults who would speak about life passing by in the blink of an eye. I thought they were exaggerating the...
THERE’S a great sense of happiness in our home as I write this. Our first-born has just informed us she has booked flights home for Christmas....
IN the space of little more than a generation, Ireland has changed utterly. My youth was spent in a country far removed from today’s. I grew from...