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In the tragically ironic words of Anne Frank – “we make our choices, then our choices make us”. Whenever I speak to students, my theme

While observing my nieces study for their University and Leaving Cert exams respectively, I wonder why for so many learning begins and ends with school

Having spent decades criss-crossing the oceans and continents of the world, I’ve inevitably endured the odd bad experience when flying. I was once violently thrown

I wonder if 2015’s Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Rod Stewart or Paul McCartney soundalikes were to compete on “The Voice” would the red chairs turn,

When my more than obliging mechanic offered to accompany my car for its annual NCT for a nominal fee, I seized the opportunity, remembering how

I have been awarded penalty points for speeding in Wicklow, Kildare and Sligo (points now expired), been traced for exceeding limits in Tasmania and the

Hardly a day goes by when the media doesn’t offer us further evidence of man’s devastating effect on the diversity of human life, as we

As Ian Paisley faced his maker, he’d left behind him a questionable legacy on earth. Growing up an Irish Protestant ‘Nationalist’, people often confused us

When Kim Novak, screen siren and star of Hitchcock’s  celebrated “Vertigo”, recently accompanied Matthew McConaughey onto the Oscars stage to present an award, across the