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I remember giving my mother a bunch of hawthorn flowers and being warned to take them out of the house as they were bad luck. I remember ...

Reading 'Star of the Sea' by Joseph O'Connor, reccommended to me by my Father, I was struck by the many and varied ways we se...

In The Blarney Stone and The Gift of the Gab I talked about the gift of eloquence and the difference between the right and almost right wo...

Visiting Blarney Castle in the Irish village where I spent my last school years I once more kissed the Blarney Stone. For the people with...

 62% YES Vote for Marriage Equality in Irish Referendum Guardian Article on Irish Referendum: Guardian article on Ireland being fi...

'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.'   (Martin Luther King, cited by Halligan, May 16th...

Sufferin' Succotash Reading the recipe book for a new blender  I see the word 'succotash' and immediately think of Daffy Duck...