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Sorrento by dusk
Sorrento is a beautiful place. Assuming that you can see it. My own eyesight is a little bit restricted so I can appreciate the beauty of Sorrento. In a restricted way. A few months ago I signed up for a week in Sorrento with a travel company by the name of Traveleyes. As the name…
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Brexit and Boris
It started on 23 June 2016. Three and a quarter years ago. It feels like 33 years. Maybe 103. Actually 1003. Brexit matters. It will affect many people. Jobs will be lost. It may well lead to a return of border controls within the island of Ireland. Something we thought we were forever finished with.…
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The Dubs and Kerry
I’m a Dub. Born and bred. Lived in Dublin all my life. All of which makes my decision to place a bet on Kerry to win this years All Ireland football final against Dublin seem a little strange. Sport is one of life’s great inventions. It has the ability to take us out of our…
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Liverpool, United, Spurs and the rest
Most Irish soccer fans are happy when the English football team are beaten. Most likely it’s the whole ‘800 years of oppression’ thing, which is actually something of a myth. 400 years is actually closer to the mark. What’s 400 years between friends? So why is it that Irish soccer fans are so taken by…
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Change and adjustment
Along with death and taxes, there is one other thing that is an absolute certainty in life and that is change. Once upon a time, I was quite a keen golfer. Nothing brilliant, but respectable. On a good day I could get around in the low eighties, on a bad day I might drift into…
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What is with cyclists?
As someone who regularly strolls around the streets of our capital city with my white cane for company, I have come to the conclusion that on one of these fine days, or more likely not so fine days, a cyclist will get me. Take me out. Ambulance. A & E. High dependency unit. Intensive care.…
Blind light 