Mum took a summer job on a ferry, serving plates piled with slices of black pudding and greasy triangles of fried tattie scones, to tourists…
Make an appointment with the GP, who examines your scalp and says, Hmm, only a little. At your age, a degree of hair thinning’s to…
tell me my shoes need resoling/ (who doesn’t?). Some crunch in a quiet kind of way/ but others/ spit fierce into traffic or hedgerow/ tiddley-winked.…
Our Irish language editor, Sadhbh, will be on Raidió na Gaeltachta on An Cúinne Dána at 6.30pm, Sunday 26th November, discussing a new book of…
In the old blue Escort, hurtling along humped roads bookended by skinned bogland. Benson and Hedges butts crinkled and bunched into the open ashtray like…
Bhí an aifreann díreach thart agus greim daingean agam ar mo leaidíní i gcoinne an borradh pobail a bhí ag brú amach tríd doirse an…
Deir daoine éagsúla gur dia a rinne mé ach ní chuimhin liom aon dia a fheiceáil agus mé ag fás aníos. Chonaic mé mo thuismitheoirí…
Músclaíonn tormán an chomhartha bípeála mé as mo staic shioctha. Trasnaím, mo shúile dírithe ar na mionscáileanna idir na clocha sa tarmacadam fliuch, loganna beaga…
Go díreach agus an beartán á theilgean san abhainn aige feiceann Cassius Clay sonda i mbun an ghnímh chéanna ag ceann eile an droichid. Buaileann…
Tá San Peadar is Pól ar an gceathrú séipéal go bhfuil cuairt tugtha againn air. Deinim cos bhacóide is mé ag faire ar Mhamaí Íosa…