Many readers will have some connection to the Good family in West Cork. They were part of the C16th and C17th English settlement of Ireland and primarily settled in West Cork. Most have retained their Anglican roots and their history is recorded in Church of Ireland records. I have been […]

The easing of most public health restrictions comes at a perfect time, just as we open to the promise of Spring, one of the most hopeful times of the year. The announcement we were all waiting and hoping for, in the end came quite suddenly. And, even though very welcome, […]

While we are introspective in winter, Spring gives us a new sense of life, physically, spiritually, emotionally and, undoubtedly our wardrobe needs to reflect this. When I hear people say how ‘pressured’ they feel to have a ‘current wardrobe’ or how clothes shopping can be depressing, I feel genuinely sad […]

Things are looking up in regard to Covid and I heard an interesting theory that, rather than getting more virulent with successive Covid mutations, the virus needs the infected individual to survive, otherwise it has nowhere to go! This may be the case with the Delta to Omicron mutation. An […]

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