Globalisation brings world of hard drugs to sheltered towns
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Sometime during the confusion of my teenage years when I was going through a slightly rebellious streak I arrived back home hours after my stay-out time to...
Compromise is part of the price you pay for power
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Iremember chatting a long time ago to the great Con Houlihan about American novelists – and we got onto the subject of Thomas Wolfe.
Not the guy who wrote Bonfire...
Political pitch becomes ever muddier over water
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My abiding childhood memory of winters in Galway was of parallel rain sheeting in from the bay over the Prom. There were few Irish records too in...
There’s a climate of change – on politics and weather!
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Not too long ago, the Kerry TD Danny Healy Rae stood up in the Dáil and delivered a speech about climate change. The speech was magical and...
Thumbs up…Donald Trump basks in the glory of his victory.
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There’s usually an avalanche of stuff to read in the days after a US election, but this time it’s positively Himalyan. Donald Trump’s election immediately sparked street protests in...
Trump’s triumph signs us up for a rollercoaster
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My moment of the US Presidential campaign does not involve anything said by any of the candidates. It was an attack advert sponsored by the moderate Republican...