Tuesday, December 24, 2019

SOLSTICE

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My youngest grandson was born on the winter solstice three years ago, at home (not intentionally): grandfather supervising, father deliver...
Monday, December 16, 2019

SURFERS & STROLLERS ON SILVER STRAND

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Thursday, December 05, 2019

CHRISTMAS WISHES

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Monday, November 11, 2019

AFTER THE RAIN.....

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                                                                Burnished beech,                                            Mast and...
Friday, October 25, 2019

VOTING DUPLICITY AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN IRISH POLITICAL LIFE

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Aristides, when ostracised from Athens wrote his own name on an "ostraka" or pottery shard voting slip. Two Fianna Fái...
Friday, October 11, 2019

BACK SOMERSAULTS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE....SORT OF!

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Driving home on a cool, blustery autumnal Friday the light was fantastic around the Blackrock diving platform in Salthill, Galway, def...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

BREXIT AND NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE AGREEMENT - PRINCIPLES COMPROMISED NOT PRINCIPLED COMPROMISE.

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In times of doubt as a European I often turn to John Hume’s December 10, 1998 Nobel Lecture – when the 1998 Peace Prize was best...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

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MOON LANDING  First Day of Issue from my childhood stamp collection.  At around 20.17hrs UTC (Coordinated Universal Time/Greenwich...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

RIHLA (Journey 68): KORONI, MESSENIA, GREECE – VERVE, VERTIGO AND INTANGIBLES

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Monastery Cells up against the west wall of Koroni Castle Keep looking north Rihla  (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Ce...