by charley | Aug 24, 2019 | Current Affairs
Happily Self-Segregated in my Rainbow-Coloured Safe Space ‘Irish American News’, September 2019 The world is confusing me – again. Nothing new there; it seems that a week doesn’t go past lately that I don’t feel as if I’ve fallen ass-first down the rabbit...
by charley | Jul 3, 2019 | Current Affairs
Welcoming Trump…and Other Words We Mustn’t Use ‘Irish American News’, July 2019. I’ve been thinking lately about climate change. And about golliwogs. There you go: if talk of climate change has begun to bore you as much as it does me then that word –...
by charley | May 8, 2019 | Current Affairs
An Informal Chat with Tony Slevin, former U.S. Marine Corps. [from Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’, May issue] I’m something of a slow learner, always have been. Come to think of it, maybe the only time I learned something really fast was when I never got...
by charley | Dec 11, 2018 | Current Affairs
Chicago’s Irish American News, December 2018 Good old Sinead O’Connor. Well, as was. Between the jigs and the reels I haven’t found a lot to smile about these past few months, but Sinead’s latest shenaninigans are… oh, different. Even for...
by charley | Aug 31, 2018 | Current Affairs
“All I ask is a Merry Yarn… when the Long Trick’s Over…” Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ September 2018 It’s not the earliest memory I have of my parents, of course it isn’t; but it’s certainly one of the nicest. There was my brother Donald and me – he, six...
by charley | Jul 28, 2018 | Current Affairs
Tricky Mickey Lowry & Other White Collar Crooks Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’, August 2018 “What business had they, bringing me here to the special criminal court in Dublin?” wailed dodgy TD Michael Lowry after being slapped very mildly on the wrist with a...
