Services

no_space

Supporting Opinion

a different view

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...

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 thu...

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 happ...

  • a different view LATEST

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...

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...

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...

Grandparents; the glue that keeps the show on the road

A Different View with Dave O’Connell What a poorer place the world would be without grandparents, the glue that keeps the family together – and ...

Dublin seems determined to destroy its golden goose

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It sounds batty but we’re rapidly getting to the point where, if you want to enjoy a night out in Dublin, t...

Mid-life crisis is just bowing to the reality

A Different View with Dave O’Connell The real crisis with a mid-life crisis, according to the late novelist Martin Amis, is that the worst crisi...


SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Free Newsletter delivered twice weekly into your Inbox containing all the highlights from Galway from the pages of the Connacht Tribune and Galway City Tribune.

False dawn to end of lifelong losing streak
Go Up