May, 2016

While television here in New York has endless debates on Donald Trump and whether he gave women career opportunities or something rather more basic, I’ve been sent from different sources links to two articles, both dealing with events in the early twentieth century. The first was an account headed ‘Black and Tans were not so […]

The birds are going crackers in that bush behind the shed .Such a piece!! Bedlam! The racket stirred up sounded like the kind of row a fox would invoke in a chicken coop with all the clamour, botheration and flying feathers that might entail. When I investigated it was simply two wee birds, neither of […]

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Did Mike Nesbitt check with the SDLP before making his ‘We’re walking’ announcement last week? I suspect not, which is why the SDLP are feeling as surprised as the rest of us and ten times as worried. Nobody saw Nesbitt’s leap coming, which tells you how worthwhile all those TV wiseacres on telly and in […]

On the flight from Dublin to JFK airport in New York, I watch Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins. I’ve watched it at least twice before but that was years ago. On reviewing it looks at times a bit hammy. Alan Rickman’s portrayal of de Valera gets the voice just right but beyond that we have a […]

Another guest blog marking M E Awareness Week… http://www.mickeltherapy.com/blog/the-great-mistake-renaming-chronic-fatigue-to-systemic-exertion-intolerance/

    Those of us in the north who remember the south of Ireland pre Celtic tiger, will know how much it has changed. The annual exodus each July brought an influx of much needed revenue at the time.  I remember I used to spend as much as possible each time I travelled south, I […]

  I’m going to be away for just over a week. During that time I’ll try to keep my blogs going but there may well be lapses, missing days, delays in getting your comments verified. Do be patient, please – as always I’m doing my best, honest…And if anyone was toying with the idea of […]

Are you suffering from electoral fatigue? I’m not. Already I’m missing the leaders’ debates, the gaffes, the put-downs,  the what-me-worried insistence  of candidates who are clearly worried to death. And there’s no point in looking south: they’ve gone and cobbled together a government at last. It should be a quality Fine Gael minority government, given […]

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