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A Mighty Woman Passes
I’M writing this especially for the hundreds of you readers who sent bright postcards and letters and messages from about every state to my sister Maura recently after I wrote about the magnificently black humorous way in which she coped with impending death from a horrific facial cancer.   more...
(Irish Voice) 26 April 2007
Grandfather’s April Traditions
There has been a Sean Mulhern living in the farmhouse on the edge of the lake for more than a hundred Aprils. The first son of every generation is always a Sean. It is traditional since almost always.  more...
(Irish Voice) 18 April 2007
Tale of the Frisky Cat
DID ye notice I wrote nothing at all about That Meeting in Belfast?.   more...
(Irish Voice) 11 April 2007
Stories and More Stories
THE gales are howling outside the cottage like there’s going to be no tomorrow. All day it has been sleeting and hailstoning and raining.   more...
(Irish Voice) 05 April 2007
Now We’re Stylish Winners
AT the climax of the most nationalistic week of the year in Ireland it is fascinating to look at the new realities of this old place through a sporting prism. There is much to be learned.  more...
(Irish Voice) 29 March 2007

Nothing Obese About Lents Past
IT is Lent. We are in the middle of the once very penitential Catholic season of prayer and fasting and repentance for our Irish sins of the world and the flesh and the devil.   more...

(Irish Voice) 22 March 2007

A Dreamer Goes for It!
I THINK this is a heartwarming and beautiful yarn especially because it breaks the kind of mould you encounter in small towns like the town of Corofin in North Clare where we lived for a few years in a rented cottage before moving here. And where Peter was our postman and our friend. .  more...

(Irish Voice) 15 March 2007
Survival of the Fairy Tree
IT is with the greatest of pleasure I can report that, despite mammoth roadworks at Latoon in the county Clare, the famous Latoon Fairy Tree has survived.   more...
(Irish Post) 08 March 2007

A Beautiful, Useless Cave
I’M delighted to inform you all there are clear signs that Clare County Council seems at last to be seeing the light in relation to the charges which they proposed to levy on all visitors coming to Clare to view the magnificent Cliffs of Moher.   more...

(Irish Voice) 28 February 2007
My Sister’s Heroic Dying Days
LET me tell ye a big wee family kind of story, and after reading it some of you might be inclined to do me a small favor while you’re at it  more...
(Irish Post) 21 February 2007

Tragedy of the Boy Racer
HIS name was Tony McGarry but they never called him Tony. They called him Tonto. There is a subtle thing there for those of you who remember that Tonto was the Indian sidekick of the Lone Ranger. .  more...

(Irish Voice) 14 February 2007

Your Disappointing President
FROM where I’m sitting in this small Republic it is somehow disappointing that Hillary Clinton is the front runner for the Democratic nomination in your presidential election next year.   more...

(Irish Voice) 7 February 2007 '07
Where Have All the Dogs Gone?
Dramatically, because of social and economic factors in the New Ireland, the dog population of this island has been cut by what must be half in the last decade and that’s very sad.   more...
(Irish Voice) 31 January 2007 - 05 February 2007
The Men Who Beat the British
We are an island of perennial rebellions and a million ballads recounting in detail how they all failed. That is a fact.  more...
(Irish Voice) 24 January 2007 - 03 February 2007
The Cave Prepares to Open
I write about the ongoing amazing events at the fabled Cliffs of Moher which, as ye know, have irked and intrigued me through most of last year as the Cave of Moher is being hollowed out in the bowels of the hillside over the attraction by Clare County Council at a cost which will end up at over 32 million euros  more...
(Irish Voice) 17 January 2007 - 24 January 2007
Ready for the Next 12 Rounds
Even before I wrote that ballad a number of years ago, when poor Mairtin was knocked out by a heart attack long before his time, I always regarded incoming New Years as being akin to keen boxers with a hell of a punch in both hands coming shuffling out of their corners to take you on over 12 rounds, with every intention of putting you to sleep as fast as possible.  more...
(Irish Voice) 10 January 2007 - 17 January 2007
There’s Water on Mars
MADIGAN has a double-jointed body. He can do amazing things with his fingers and thumbs, snapping them in and out, and with his legs too even though he’s not a young man any more, maybe 55 or thereabouts. more...
(Irish Voice) 3 - 9 January 2007
The Changing Face of Christmas
Much of what happened at St. Patrick’s primary school on the first day of December this year happens every year. It is the erection of the Christmas Crib in the big rounded alcove just inside the door of the infants’ classroom on the ground floor.  more...
(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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