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Eye on the past
BEFORE I embark on a cycle, I will usually consult one or other of the weather forecasting...
RECENTLY, as I was cycling in rural Roscommon, I passed another cyclist, bidding him hello as I did...
| Here’s one I made earlier! Tom Cox with his St Brigid’s Cross IT’S...
A LITTLE over a week ago, we were spending some time in my native Roscommon. In a...
AS any regular reader of this column will know, from time to time...
LAST month, I left you with a poser on the number of townlands I pass through...
Did you know there are 1,111 townlands in Co Laois, according to the townlands.ie website. In his monthly column,...
I LEFT you last month promising to do a bit of digging in the garden. The garden in question...
My bicycle pumps Pump opposite St Brigids National School building. YOU may wonder how I dream up the subject matter...
Time To Think
ST IGNATIUS of Loyola’s (1491-1556) great insight came while he was convalescing after a serious...
IN THE annals of papal history, Joseph Ratzinger, who has died aged 95, will...
WE ARE about to celebrate Christmas once again. For the vast majority, I’m...
TIME moves by very quickly. Where has 2022 gone? I sincerely pray that the Lord’s...
RECENTLY, Cardinal Mario Grech, speaking in relation to the universal synod, warned against ‘the danger...
HUNGER is a problem that has plagued humanity for millennia and it continues to haunt...
YOU don’t just wake up one morning, light streaming in from the window, birds fluttering about and jump from your...
PEACE of mind is a feeling of being safe or protected, it is the absence of worry. It’s...
STEVE Montgomery was heading home from a painting job when something crazy happened....
