I wrote about Alice Munro's legacy. I loved Alice Munro but the literary legacy of the Canadian Chekhov is tainted forever now www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Please read this beautiful, important, inspiring piece by my amazing friend @roisiningle.bsky.social Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot as one woman to another in solidarity and support www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

This great piece by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is making waves

If you want a good laugh, read @patrickfreyne.bsky.social on Hot Frosty today, which has to be the best movie name for ages. What do women want? A hunky idiot without a past, that’s what www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Ah, Dublin in December 2024. The sound of reindeers - and the broken, collapsed posters of the unelected flapping in the wind

I wrote about how plastic flowers in restaurants drive me crazy Fake flowers make me sad and mad: Plastic, plastic everywhere and I can’t stand it www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I am glad to see this story. SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...

Here’s my dog, wondering how my first day on Bluesky is going. They are ALL good dogs. Especially this one.

Cannot get “I like my sootcase” out of my head. “First we have lunch, and then we go to school.” Did he only go to school AFTER lunch? With his Louis Vuitton Sootcase?

Wind like roiling waves in the trees.

A sound and practical friend is looking for a room to rent to use as a small music studio in Dublin. Does anyone on here know of anything to fit the bill?