It’s May 2025. The sky is grey. A singer stands under a porch in Bandon. His hands move masterly across the neck and body of his guitar. Chords well-played. But it’s the sound, the melody and the soaring lyrics of his song that give it wings and lift it above […]
‘Babies Beneath My Feet’ – a handwritten plaque observed at the site of the former St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Institution Tuam, Co. Galway where a small grotto created decades ago remains. I have just returned from a gathering of Irish and international retreatants, who joined together for five days to […]