by charley | Jan 13, 2014 | Current Affairs
This piece appears in the January 2014 issue of Irish American News The Contemptible Wages of Greed I couldn’t really have had worse timing than with last month’s article, could I? There I was, happy out for a change, enthusing about my new job with Hand in Hand,...
by charley | Dec 16, 2013 | Current Affairs
This piece was originally posted on the Hand in Hand website for December 9th, 2013. A Choice at Christmas ‘The most wonderful time of the year’… Well, so the song says, anyway. But of course in the real world, like most things, it’s good for some people. ...
by charley | Dec 16, 2013 | Current Affairs
This piece appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for December 2013. A Different Kind of Christmas Message So it’s almost upon us once again, that time of the year that we look forward to so much, he said with customary sarcasm: Christmas, with all of...
by charley | Nov 26, 2013 | Current Affairs
A couple of months ago I started working for the West of Ireland children’s cancer charity ‘Hand in Hand’. I can honestly say that I have never enjoyed a job so much, nor ever had a boss that I actually liked so much; or at all, come to think of it (take a bow,...
by charley | Nov 11, 2013 | Current Affairs
Priorities; and Separating What is Real from What is Not (This article originally appeared in Chicago’s “Irish American News” for November 2013) I’m writing this on a Sunday morning, Ye Editor of the IAN needing any copy in by tomorrow, so information on last...
by charley | Oct 24, 2013 | Current Affairs
I’m Caught! Time to Join Sinn Fein! (This article first appeared in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for October 2013) The 19th Century American essayist Charles Dudley Warner is the man who first came out with that famous and well-used statement: “Politics makes...
