Some of you reading this blog may struggle to understand much of its content; if so please refer any questions to a teenager!! As most of you are aware, I am something of a techno-dinosaur,

Yesterday’s Leaving Cert. results has drawn to a conclusion (for most at least) , one of the strangest and most challenging exam years ever. I say ‘one of the most challenging’ because many of us

Who could have guessed that when we last met for our Parish Annual General Meeting in late April 2019 that all would change so utterly within such a short year and more. On reflection, we,

I am a huge fan of the Vicar of Dibley, we as a family have enjoyed belly-aching laughs at the antics of the slightly (ir)Reverend Geraldine Grainger as she struggles to adapt to and support

Those of you who know me well know that I am a ‘water’ person.  I love walking beside water (haven’t quite worked out how to walk on it yet!). I particularly enjoy walking along a

One of the all too many horrendous school shootings of recent years took place in Dunblane Primary School in Scotland on the 13th March 1996 : killing 16 children, and one of the teachers, and

‘I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown’. And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put

She watched the lone figure make his way through the scrub and low-lying shrubs that spread out below her. Her daily visits to the place where they had parted months before grew more frequent and

We often say when someone quite elderly dies that it’s the end of an era. We usually mean that something is finished, gone and never to return. What we are implying is that the recently