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A savvy website person has advised me to put more of my articles in the links part of this website…so I’ve added some of them. There are loads more to be added if I...

If you go to the links on this homepage you can download a free copy of Philip Casey’s great book The Fabulists. Just click on the relevant thingy. Philip is a very talented and...

I’ve admitted to being a middle-aged hippie in an article in The Irish Independent. It’s a ‘Guest Columnist’ piece in today’s ‘Weekend’ magazine. I don’t look like a hippie in the accompanying photo. I...

I wrote an article about a phenomenon called BookCrossing recently. BookCrossers leave books around in public places for people to pick up and read and then pass on to others. Look up BookCrossing.com for...

Hi there! You can listen to the radio documentary I made about the Hill of Tara on this website if you click on the icon thingy on the right hand side of the home...

Hi there, It’s a nice sunny day here today in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. The plants in my little patio garden look quite lush and the Honeysuckle bush is really big! Later on the summer...

I haven’t yet read ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle though I was once a volunteer gardener at a Buddhist retreat centre and I had to try to ‘stay in the moment’ while...

(You can listen to the Tara radio documentary I made if you click on the relevant icon at the right hand side of this page.) I had a wonderful time last Friday. I was...

(You can listen to the Tara radio documentary I made if you click on the relevant icon at the right hand side of this page.) Two robins regularly visit my little patio garden. One...

You can listen to a radio documentary I made about the Hill of Tara on this website if you click on the thingy at the right hand side of this page. Happy listening! And...

Goodness, it’s 6th February and this is my first blog of the New Year. Need to have some lunch soon. And put out more food for the birds in the garden. There are loads...

When I was a teenager I loved the ad. for Badedas. It featured a photo of a woman wearing a towel – after a bath I suppose. She was gazing out a window at...

I interviewed the actor/director Stuart Townsend last Sunday beside the Hill of Tara and I also interviewed his pal Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn’t feel like I was meeting ‘celebrities’. I felt I was...