And so another year comes to a close, not just a year but to borrow Auden’s September 1, 1939 ‘a low, dishonest decade.’ We are in appalling trouble with the grim inequality, ecocide and frightening disconnection. But as offensive as these situations are we need to grasp them with both hands, to not be ‘uncertain and afraid’ but to be determined to change. Challenges are the flipside to solutions and where we currently stand provides the keys to embrace new values and resolve to build a better world. A world of higher values; one that reveres all life;
Read more →By Anthony O’Reardon Sometime early in 2016 I received a phone call from a historian by the name of Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. He was writing a book about the War of Independence: Truce: Murder, Myth and the Last Days […]
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For generations of Dubliners the traditional Christmas pantomime has been regarded as the most family fun you can have in public dressed up as someone of the opposite sex. The stars of Christmas Panto in places like the Theatre Royal and the Queens Theatre,
Read more →BY Kathrin Kobus The end of the playing season finally arrived at Clanna Gael Fontenoy on the afternoon of the 7th December. Just after 3pm a huge cheer could be heard across Sean Moore Park. Clanns u16 boys had won […]
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If out and about in the shops or at the stalls, don’t put your handbag into the shopping basket or trolley.
Beware of counterfeit currency, namely bank notes. In recent months there have been repeated warnings about ‘movie money’ in form of ten or twenty euro notes
There’s a sense around the club that Christmas has come early this year, such has been the level of success both on and off the playing field. Not that such success has been easily achieved. On the contrary, the tremendous […]
Read more →By Gavan Bergin Charlie O’Hagan was born in Buncrana, County Donegal in July 1882. He was raised in the village of Linsfort, where his father ran the local shop. As a boy, Charlie played football and by the time he […]
Read more →By David Prendeville And so Ireland’s EURO 2020 qualifying campaign concluded with Ireland having to enter the play-off games in March, needing to win both of those, to get in to the tournament we are co-hosting next summer. This campaign […]
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An Post has launched the new service called Click&Post. It allows customers to print off labels for parcels, packages etc at home and drop off the posting item at the post office or a parcel locker. If you don’t have a printer at home you can still save some time
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