Politicians will drive you to drink faster than advertising ever could
We’re a great nation to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut – an approach clearly illustrated in the latest effort by some politicians to take drink sponsorship out of sport. ...
Galway was clearly saying no to something – but what was it?
It was shortly before lunchtime on Sunday that the raggle-tag band of protestors made their way across from the Cathedral towards the Salmon Weir Bridge – almost sheepish for the paucity of their numbers...
The Leaving Cert – a nightmare that just keeps on giving
Even those who sleep the sleep of the innocent always have one recurring nightmare – it invariably involves a question you’d never anticipated coming up in the Leaving Cert. And if...
Overuse of cameras just another modern day menace
A Different View with Dave O’Connell If a wild man with blood on his hands and a knife and machete in his fist came up to you and asked you to film him on...
Cars and technology show their strength in numbers
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There are many different ways in which we get hung up on numbers – did you ever, for example, wish a woman a happy fortieth and live to...
Cute Kerry boys will always take some beating
A Different View with Dave O'Connell ‘Kerry urges Nigeria to respect human rights as it pursues Islamist militants’ exclaimed the headline on the report by Associated Press – well, the Skibbereen Eagle keeping an...