By the time you read this the Ospreys should have returned to my little patch of the Long Island Sound. However, it’s been a strange year f...

I had been meaning to visit Egypt for the last 40 years or more, so last month I bit the bullet and went.   No big deal...

 I was recently asked, “What was the best piece of advice you ever received.” Though it was given to me way back in the last century, the ...

  Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot h...

 It was the best of times and the worst of times – the best because we were young, the worst because we didn’t know any better. That’s how...

  It was a town of poets and photographers, patriots and piss-heads, sailors and emigrants, croppy boys and teddy boys, th...

“You’ve made a holy show of yourself, boy!”   That was a saying back in the Wexford of my youth. It meant you’d done so...