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Siblings drive you crazy – but you wouldn’t be without them

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It turns out that the Waltons were the exception rather than the rule – becau...

Slip-on shoes and driverless cars are a feat for the feet

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have escaped your attention, but there’s a new shoe on the market that...

Day Ian Bailey rang to offer coverage of Sophie’s murder

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christmas Day 1996 and a skeleton staff was looking after affairs of n...

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Memories of Eurovision glory in a rural showjumping arena

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 inte...

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We’re further from 1984 than Orwell was when he wrote it!

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 Or...

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New soles can’t take the old soul out of your shoe

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 boa...

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Dipping into highs and lows over the last twelve months

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 c...

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You don’t have to be born in a place to be from there

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...

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Don’t write it down unless you want it haunting you forever

A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s an old piece of advice that’s often offered – particularly to journalists but also to politicians –...


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