Observations. Satire. Politics. Interviews.
Interview 4 in my Ordinary people…..Extraordinary lives… series. I would imagine that sports people are finding the embargo on freedom of movement difficult at the moment. People that are used to the routine of regular group training and then weekend performance. Sports is an amateur pursuit for all but the lucky few and last week…
Official HSE statistics place the population of ethnic Chinese in Ireland at somewhere in the region of 60,000 people. Many of these come to Ireland first as young scholars on a variety of different student visa programs. Today, I interviewed Changying , a woman who came to Ireland in 2002 on one of those very…
So the week draws to a close with the island of Ireland receiving a visit from the infamous coronavirus. In the circumstances, I guess Storm Jorge provides an appropriate backdrop to unfolding events. Since the Italian outbreak, there’s been a certain creeping inevitability regarding COVID-19 happening upon our shores. In the end, it was a…
This is a story about a young man who was homeless. A man, David Bissett, whose life at that point, in his early twenties, had descended so far that he was shuffling between homeless shelters on the streets of Dublin. At this his weakest moment he got a phone call. Hindsight tells us that phone…