Class, please settle down and take out your copy of Soundings. It’s time to read the most wise and timely poem of the great Patrick Kavanagh. If ever words were needed to be heard throughout the globe I suggest these are they. ‘Through a chink too wide, there comes in no wonder’, or as my …
Last year I took a notion one day and joined Paul O’Halloran on his Foxrock Beckett Walking Tour, organised by Dun Laoighre Rathdown’s summer of heritage series. I had never read any of Samuel Beckett’s work, nor seen his plays, but I do have one link to him, we share a birthday. Though he was …
There now follows an apology on behalf of the author. I would like to distance myself from remarks I may have made in the past, which suggested that running was ridiculous, unnatural and dull. As a lifetime devotee of the simple walk, it's possible I viewed this speeded up version as an abomination, a shameful …
Ordinary Plenty 