I must say I have been very fortunate. Health wise that is. I never had any real problems to worry myself about. So it was very upsetting when I hit...

I suppose City Renewal is a good thing, “out with the old, in with the new” but, do we lose something in the transition, and should we be careful of...

How many of you remember him? He would come down our avenue shouting, “rags or bottles, old clothes or scrap” as he tapped the horse that pulled his cart. On...

When we say the world is in flux, most of us simply mean that tomorrow will probably be as different from today as today was from yesterday. Time flies because...

In Secondary School, I came out of my shell. In first year, I would have been about 12, I was a nervous wreck starting “big” school. I had always hung...

Dad once gave my brother Jimmy a telling off because, whilst we were attending a summer party the textile company held for workers kids, Jimmy found a way into the...

Whilst cycling home from a Thursday evening meeting of the air cadets, I approached perhaps one of the most important forks in the highway of my life. I had cycled...

My brother remarked that it was a while since we had gone fishing together; I agreed and reminded him that, with two nippers and me not owning car, fishing was...

While not actually clock watching, my stomach was telling me the end of the shift was not too far off. My wife always had a nice cooked meal waiting and,...

In 1963, after an eventful year in the Merchant Navy as a radio officer, I found a job on the North side of Dublin as a technician in a radio...