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The Christmas songs that drive us all wild – or crazy

A Different View with Dave O’Connell As someone you thinks that the height of multi-tasking is walking and talking...

Art of wine tasting is knowing to spit it out

A Different View with Dave O’Connell In fairness we weren’t much older than big boys at the time and the notion of...

Missing person pix show fragility of life for us all

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Every day in Ireland someone goes missing; some days there are more than a fe...

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False dawn to end of lifelong losing streak

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It had been a normal Monday evening until an unexpected email popped into the ‘in’ box – telling me that I’...

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Taking your chances on thumbing to home

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back in the day we never called it hitchhiking or even hitching – we were thumbin’ a lift, as we traversed ...

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Covid naysayers relied on a pandemic of epidemiologists

A Different View with Dave O’Connell The guy behind the counter of the souvenir shop in Liverpool didn’t look happy to see me, but to be honest ...

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Let’s use a carrot instead of a stick to curb smoking

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Nobody will ever mistake me for a smoker – or indeed an advocate or apologist for the tobacco industry – bu...

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Remembering radio days as a nostalgic window into the past

A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a big old beautiful Philips radio that take pride of place on a shelf in the kitchen, gazing down r...

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All together watching Man from UNCLE and ringing your aunts

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was the recent death of the Man from UNCLE that prompted the conversation, of halcyon days when there mi...


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The Christmas songs that drive us all wild – or crazy
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