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A lifetime of laughs, alcohol, pathos and self-destruction

Country Living with Francis Farragher As a child, I remember once being told by my mother, that a certain gentlema...

Being grateful for the part of this earth that we live in

Country Living with Francis Farragher Probably being from country stock has meant there has always been a little a...

A welcome for humble February as we bid adieu to darker days

Country Living with Francis Farragher On one of the dying mornings of January as I listened to Marty Whelan on Lyr...

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Trying to get it correct all of the time is a waste of energy

Country Living with Francis Farragher Political correctness was never a term I was familiar with as a kid, and maybe just as well, thinking back...

Tricks, trials and traps of nurturing our memories

Country Living with Francis Farragher Memory is a strange old business and sometimes quite an uncomfortable investigative process with the passi...

Decision made never to come ‘under the influence’ again

Country Living with Francis Farragher Expectations, are I suppose, determined to a large extent by the times we live in. Growing up in the 1960s...

Striving in vain for that perfect world of Utopia

Country Living with Francis Farragher In the second half of the alphabetical guide to all things past and present, the realities of the New Year...

Argentina to Golfgate – a lot of catching-up to be done

Country Living with Francis Farragher Well, it’s that time of year again for a little look back – and forward – at what has happened and what mi...

Remembering a night when I nearly bumped into Santa

Country Living with Francis Farragher Looking back on life with the benefit of hindsight, it’s only now I realise that there was a very limited ...


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