I simply cannot imagine a life without ladies’ Gaelic football. I first started playing Gaelic football at eleven and when I think back on my teens and early adulthood, so many of my fondest memories, closest friendships, and cherished opportunities have had this sport at the heart of them.. But until fifty years ago, there was no Gaelic football for girls and women. Being a member of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) is a part of my identity. It …
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Books for Business and Life… Given his constant presence in the upper echelons of the Irish podcast chart, it is no surprise that demand for Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett’s …
One of the best history books I’ve read, that is both accessible and broad, is E.H. Gombrich’s informative A Little History of the World. Originally published back in 1935, and …
… and to be entirely appropriate, Manners Maketh the Woman too! No, I am not being supercilious or patronising, but I do bemoan the death of basic manners. In everyday …
The London Review of Books turned forty this year. For some twenty of those forty years I have been a subscriber—not just a subscriber, but the kind of fanatic who …
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