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“Am I live on air?”, I enquired, after a few minutes of meandering chit-chat. “As live as can be!”, came the reply, in a well-worn

It would surely be no overstatement to declare our beloved Benbulben the most photographed mountain in Ireland, as well as Sligo’s natural flagship attraction. Perhaps

When a recent “Phoenix” magazine cover seemed to imply that our, dare I suggest, somewhat unhealthy Minister for Health was not so much concerned with

At times, when I visit a place for the first time, I sense some higher power, a Creator – God perhaps – is smiling down

Learning comes from education : wisdom comes from experience. It might be an idea for our educators to add in an even bigger helping of

The open-top railcar made its steep ascent up the near-vertical rock-face. Not entirely at ease, I was by now deeply regretting my spur-of –the-moment decision

I never knew my mother’s family – we were partitioned by an invisible line. My maternal grandparents in Bangor died before I was born. My

I crouched down, dropped two pound coins into the battered paper cup, and smiled reassuringly at the hollow-eyed grungy teenager – a lost soul in

I have always harboured an almost inexplicable fascination for all things Japanese, and one of my many unfulfilled travel ambitions is to spend some time

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can share, let me