by charley | Aug 24, 2019 | Current Affairs
Happily Self-Segregated in my Rainbow-Coloured Safe Space ‘Irish American News’, September 2019 The world is confusing me – again. Nothing new there; it seems that a week doesn’t go past lately that I don’t feel as if I’ve fallen ass-first down the rabbit...
by charley | Jul 3, 2019 | Current Affairs
Welcoming Trump…and Other Words We Mustn’t Use ‘Irish American News’, July 2019. I’ve been thinking lately about climate change. And about golliwogs. There you go: if talk of climate change has begun to bore you as much as it does me then that word –...
by charley | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chicago’s Irish American News, June 2019. “What were you doing when you were posted to Korea?” I ask Tony. “I was working on helicopters as an aerial observer.” Right here is one of the frustrating things about interviewing Tony Slevin, originally from...
by charley | May 8, 2019 | Current Affairs
An Informal Chat with Tony Slevin, former U.S. Marine Corps. [from Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’, May issue] I’m something of a slow learner, always have been. Come to think of it, maybe the only time I learned something really fast was when I never got...
by charley | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Tea, Sympathy and Donkeys I can…. I c-c-c-can… *woah*… Deep breath there Brady, you can do it. I can see, well kinda see… ah, what the hell: I can kinda see Leo Varadkar’s point. There. I said it. I can see Leo Varadkar’s point. Was that...
