Grounded – An Occasional Column by Grace O’Sullivan MEP Once a month, the members of the European Parliament up sticks from their usual base in Brussels, and travel down to Strasbourg in France. Strasbourg is where the monthly plenary sessions take place. That’s where the entire Parliament, including us 11 […]
In Billy Joel’s 1989 hit ‘We didn’t start the fire’ he chronicles the 40 years between 1949 and 1989 simply by stitching a series of headlines from the period together. Listening to it, hearing the words sets off images of the story behind each headline and leads to a bit […]
In 1910, Daniel and Hannah Hurley returned from America and bought the shop at The Pike for the sum of £50 – and so Hurleys at The Pike began. At the same time, a young Michael Collins was in London working for a stockbroker while studying law. His history, that […]
With Christmas approaching, there’s a major push on to let hospital patients spend the holidays at home. The National Winter Plan 2019/2020 will aid this by providing additional supports and measures in order to address the usual winter surge in patients. Despite staff at CUH being worked off their feet […]
Photo : The O’Neill family: Gearoid, Neil, Michael jnr, MJ, Teresa and Michael Snr. “Do onto others as you would wish them to do to you.” More about these words later. On a crisply cold and sunny afternoon, Brendan McCormack takes a short trip up to Fernhill House Hotel to […]
“Many wounded men slipped into those shell holes and would have been drowned or suffocated by the clammy mud.” – George Pearkes The Battle of Passchendaele was fought on a 13km square patch of grass in Belgium in August 1917. It took place in a town called Ypres, or ‘Wipers’ […]