I spoke to Ian Bailey last week ahead of the launch of his poetry collection at Electric Picnic. I've thought a lot about Ian Bailey over the past couple of years - his various legal cases hit the news regularly - and I've wondered, as I'm sure everyone has, what the hell the truth is. We'll [...]
This is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago for The Herald after a news story in which a girl was found to have sprayed glass cleaner in her housemates' food. I was reminded of it during the week because we're thinking of getting a second dog to keep Vimes company - dogs, poo, [...]
Stephanie Hogan rang the Opinion Line today to talk about the desecration of her murdered father's grave. Her father Packie was murdered a number of years ago in a feud in Blarney, a small town in which she now regularly runs into his killer's family members in the shop. Michael Collins was convicted of Packie's murder [...]
It was a grey June day in 1996 and I was at the Munster semi-final in Limerick’s Gaelic Grounds, watching Limerick beat Clare in a match I can still remember vividly. Vividly, because growing up in Limerick with one parent from Clare, there were only so many matches we went to with opposing flags hanging out [...]