I have had numerous periods in my life where I had poor mental health. Clinical depression, stress, feelings of not being able to cope, pick your euphenism. It’s not something I have talked about much until I was asked to write something for the Make a Ripple campaign and then forgot to do it. Poor [...]
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You have probably seen it already. I’m hoping that it was genuine anger and not thinking about the next election. My reaction and those of thousands of people was ‘at long last’ after a truly terrible week and many terrible weeks to come somebody turned to a Government Minister and said stop the lying, look [...]
Some thoughts on Claiming Our Future. What happened yesterday in the RDS was something new for Ireland, 1000 people around 100 tables talking about Ireland and what the priorities for the future should be. Each table was mixed with representatives from various sectors and facilitators were trained to lead discussions and come to consensus on [...]
The weekly ritual that is the reading out of ‘interesting’ bits of the paper from home took place in the henhouse yesterday. Given that my partner is from Donegal it is the Donegal News that she tries to entertain me with. After a few pages of court reports involving scraps, using false driving licences bought [...]
Tags:Closed-circuit television·Crime and Justice·Cross-examination·Donegal News·Garda Síochána·Public order crime
It’s probably no surprise to read that I’m a Yes voter. I voted Yes to Lisbon the last time and I’m voting Yes again – this time with a lot more passion and understanding and conviction. This time I’ve been more incensed by the lies being told by the No side, by the poor campaigns [...]
Tags:EU·European Union·Government·Human rights·Ireland·Lisbon Treaty
…at 7p.m. I’ll be joining Cultureshock’s presenter Fionn Davenport and some other guests to discuss Political Satire. Whilst satire goes back centuries and was present in essays, cartoons, theatre and even poetry, today we seem to mainly associate it with television and web related content. I’ve been watching a lot of it in the last [...]
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Currently in Malaga (as in the birth place of Picasso rather than Torredelargerlout) en route to Seville continuing the love affair with Spain. The weather is pleasant enough, no woolies needed. The cigarettes are €3.10 a pack, the locals are friendly and the food is rather good. The hotels booked have laptops in every room [...]
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In our apartment block or in the car park. He jumped to his death. I don’t know anymore than that and neither will most other people as suicides don’t make the news and probably rightly so. However I haven’t stopped thinking about him and also his family. I was leaving for work when I noticed [...]
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Cos if I was my gmail account would not have been hacked into or attacked by virus would it? Thousands of emails sent out last night to my contacts list. Text messages, emails and phone calls from many of these contacts have been received this morning. (Thank you to those who weren’t laughing at me!) [...]
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