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What’s in a name when it comes to sports arenas?

A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you think of the hallowed old sporting venues around these islands, your...

Best to live experiences – not just see them through a phone

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Galway is not a city to see; it’s a city to do; it’s not that we don’t have l...

Fronting up is the best way to mind your back

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Ben Dunne knew he was in trouble when police pulled him in from the balcony o...

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Beer goggles still don’t give you 20/20 vision

A Different View with Dave O’Connell By now almost those New Year Resolutions to give up the drink have, like yourself, fallen off the wagon – a...

Siblings drive you crazy – but you wouldn’t be without them

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It turns out that the Waltons were the exception rather than the rule – because while John Boy and the crew...

Slip-on shoes and driverless cars are a feat for the feet

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have escaped your attention, but there’s a new shoe on the market that, on one hand, is designed to ...

Day Ian Bailey rang to offer coverage of Sophie’s murder

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christmas Day 1996 and a skeleton staff was looking after affairs of news and sport in the old Teren...

Memories of Eurovision glory in a rural showjumping arena

A Different View with Dave O’Connell The annual publication of State Papers 30 years on from the events that they refer to always makes for inte...

We’re further from 1984 than Orwell was when he wrote it!

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s now 40 years since 1984 – meaning that we’re now four years further away from that year than George Or...


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What’s in a name when it comes to sports arenas?
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