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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Ireland’s mixed messages when it comes to Old Britannia
There could be no clearer illustration of our ambivalence towards our nearest neighbours than the General Election of 1997 and the contrasting attitudes of the good people of Donegal. Back in...
When it comes to flogging animals, it’s all in the head
Is there one amongst us who hasn’t done stupid things with drink? Haven’t we all had one of those times when you wake up in the morning with a traffic cone at the foot...