When RTÉ gave us a Sports Stadium all to ourselves!
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
It may be hard to fathom in this era of saturated coverage on satellite television but there was a time pre-Sky when even those of us in single channel...
How come couches are now synonymous with potatoes?
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
Few phrases out there capture an image quite as succinctly as a couch potato – and yet when you think of it, this makes no sense at all.
Then again...
Shouldn’t we be first of our kind instead of an imitation?
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
here was a story recently about the remaining members of the Eagles suing the owner of a small hotel in Mexico for copyright – because it was called Hotel...
If life throws up a bad smell – blame it on the hound dog
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
It was an old trick in many householders that, if you accidentally discharged a pungent odour from the nether regions – and if there happened to be a hapless...
Whoever turned weddings into a competitive sport?
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
here are many ways to make your wedding day special; you can go for the tried and trusted of being surrounded by family and friends as you make a...
Our conflict with the Brits shows no signs of abating
A Different View with Dave O’Connell
Back in the last century, a quartet of English visitors walked into a pub in Kinsale hoping to cheer on their national football team in a European Championship tie...