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Waxing lyrical on candles and scent of strange things

A Different View with Dave O’Connell A small candle has mysteriously appeared in a tiny can on the kitchen table, ...

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 ke...

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...

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Life span and health span are two very different things

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s all about health span, not life span, writes the great Richard Ford in his latest novel – and final ou...

Sometimes that rising tide does nothing but drowns you

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have been Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli who coined the observation that there are three kinds of l...

How fully life can change on the head of a match

A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you're a child,” wrote the veteran novelist John Irving in his latest and what may well be his final opu...

Memories of a man who loved radio – and every day of his life

A Different View with Dave O’Connell The late, lamented DJ Tony Fenton was a very funny man. Only he didn’t really know it and he wasn’t trying to...

Baby feeds hold the secret to later examination success

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Children who are breastfed are twice as likely to do well in their GCSEs as those who aren’t, proclaimed Time...

What defines the authentic Irish bar far away from home?

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s impossible to put an exact figure on it, but the consensus by now is that there are actually more Irish ...


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