Referendum proves it is time for next generation to lead
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
Despite popular – and populist – conception, it wasn’t just the youth vote that delivered the Yes verdict in the Marriage Equality Referendum…but it definitely unleashed a new generation...
Actual friends meet face to face – not on Facebook
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
here was a great cartoon once that encapsulated the conundrum of the social media age; a widow talking to her friend in a funeral parlour with no one else...
Global cures to ease the pain of the morning after
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
It would be very wrong to encourage drinking to excess – partly because this is Rag Week/Mayo Monday/Donegal Tuesday or whatever you’ve having yourself, but mainly because some of...
Things are either good or bad in Trump’s land of black and white
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
The most astonishing story of last week wasn’t the Ryanair debacle or Brexit or Leo Varadkar lobbing abuse at Mary Lou McDonald across the floor of the Dáil; by...
Losing your money and your mind down back of the couch
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
We’ve all done it – gone off on one, accusing the world and its mother (or maybe your own mother or the mother of your children) of losing or...
Doing the write thing this Christmas season
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
We’re a generation away from losing the ability to write. Not writing as in putting words together to form a half-coherent sentence, but writing as in taking out a...






