This week we celebrate the remarkable career of Betty Bible, a woman whose 60 years of teaching justifiably merits her title as...
Views from the Brasscock
The origins of the Tricolour
The origins of the Tricolour
The national flag of Ireland is a vertical tricolour of green, white and orange, what we’ve come to know and love as the...
Favourite places
Favourite places
I got a good reaction to my column last week dealing with the good news story re WRH and ‘my memorable lunch’ with Dr T K...
Good News Story at WRH
Good News Story at WRH
Last week our WRH attracted national kudos for the unrivalled standards it has achieved in the management of its A&E in...
The Playboy
The Playboy
Last week we delved into a few whimsical doings from times past as a sort of winter gloom busters – it proved a popular item, so...
What a weird and wonderful world
What a weird and wonderful world
To lift the Winter gloom a little I thought I’d take a whimsical glance back at some doings in days of yore by way of a few...
A National Treasure
A National Treasure
The story we tell today is of a man from the world of sport, the world of the GAA in particular yet his reputation transcends...
The Yellow Bittern/An Bonnan Bui
The Yellow Bittern/An Bonnan Bui
This week we take a seasonal look at the poem/song, The Yellow Bittern for a number of reasons. Firstly because a number of...
The New Year Gala Quiz
The New Year Gala Quiz
This year the emphasis is on puzzles and conundrums of all sorts designed to test, tease and tantalise you and yours over the...
Christmas Traditions
Christmas Traditions
This week as we are on the Eve of the Christmas Festival we devote the column to some more traditions associated with Christmas...
The Xmas Factor
The Xmas Factor
Well, just a week to go Christmas itself and so time to get into the party mood as well as some reflection on the time that’s in...
