The phoney war is over. The consequential battles have begun. Six months from now, we'll know the results of the 2020 US presidential election.
Concluding his recent Covid-19 interview on The Late Late Show, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar signalled, finally, that there is a requirement to look at how we, as a society, care for our older people. His road to Damascus conversion has come with the Covid-19 crisis, as when Minister for Health five years ago he didn't travel...
Last Wednesday, lying on my hospital bed, coming out of the claustrophobia of an MRI scan, I got a supportive phone call from President Michael D Higgins.
Anyone who has spent the best part of an hour just waiting to cross a supermarket threshold in the past few weeks will be aware how quickly the outlandish becomes the new normal. Yet even in these strange days it was still odd to hear Gordon Taylor pop up on the radio with the suggestion...
Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died yesterday. He was 87.
So there I was last Tuesday afternoon, back in the centre of the village for the first time in two months, enjoying my first ice cream of the season. Like thousands of Italians, I was benefiting from the fact phase one of lockdown was officially lifted last Monday.
This week, a big thank you to Leo Varadkar for restoring a sense of reality to my poor, befuddled mind.
