Now, a decade after it first appeared Tinteán has come to another point where hard decisions have to be made. Continue reading →

A Tribute on the occasion of his funeral by Perry McIntyre Firstly, my heartfelt sympathy to Tom’s extended family and friends. Particular thanks to his wife, Trish, for asking me to say something today about one of Tom’s great passions and achievements – the building of the Memorial to the Great Irish Famine at the … Continue reading →

Book Review by Hugh Vaughan Gerald Dawe. In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast. Merrion Press, Dublin Nov 2017. h/b 134 pp ISBN: 9781785371462 RRP: €11.99   And then from outside the frosty window raps She jumps up and says, Lord, have mercy I think it’s the cops And immediately drops everything she gots Down into the … Continue reading →

  A Book review by Frank O’Shea Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling Gill Books, Dublin. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780717175536 RRP: €14.99 Here is a book to make any reader over 50 realise how out-of-touch with modern life (s)he is. And we are not talking about an inability to understand the … Continue reading →

A story by Michael Boyle ‘There’s a cow in a hole. Come quick!’ ‘Where? Where is it?’ I asked. ‘Between the middle lane and Mayogall’, said my sister Marie. ’Get there before her head goes under the water!’ In the late 1980s my wife Annette and our young son Patrick were back visiting my parents’ … Continue reading →