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Don’t be fooled by the photograph: the horse and cart are rare beasts in the west of Ireland, and Galway is as full of fast-moving traffic as the rest of the country. I learned that when I was driving along the very busy main Galway to Limerick road and suddenly decided to stop my car […]

Everything about the Tuam babies scandal is deeply disturbing. In 1975 two boys playing in a field found a hole ‘full of skeletons of children.’ A local priest said a mass and the area was covered up again. No investigation took place – why not? If somebody found one skeleton in my garden I am […]

Some writers blog and write about the ‘real world.’  While others prefer just to write fiction. There’s nothing wrong with either choice – it’s all words, sentences, paragraphs and pages. It’s up to the individual writer to decide how we order these words and which world we describe with them. Of course, much of fiction […]

I am confused at the moment. If I were to judge by social media I would say we care more for animals than children. Post something about cruelty to cats, or dogs and you will see huge engagement. By that I mean people liking, sharing and commenting – donating. But, post something about what’s happening […]