by charley | Mar 5, 2016 | Current Affairs
It was almost as if they had read my mind, saw that I was a bit fed-up at the opportunities we missed in last week’s election; and then decided to cheer me up by giving me a right good old belly-laugh. Not one but two – count them, two – ex-Dublin Lord Mayors came out...
by charley | Feb 10, 2016 | Current Affairs
Remember me telling you about the nasty old threatening letter I got recently? Well… by recently I mean that it arrived on January 20th and came (just to make me feel special) from the imposingly-named Central Arrears section of the Allied Irish Bank group. It warned...
by charley | Jan 21, 2016 | Current Affairs
Your banker is your friend. No; it’s true. Honest. They worry and fret about your welfare and if you should wander into the red, then they want to advise, comfort and soothe you immediately. Take this full page letter (five paragraphs) that I received from Allied...
by charley | Jan 19, 2016 | Current Affairs
I had just posted the following article to Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for inclusion in their February issue, when I heard just how much of a crisis the Hand in Hand children’s cancer charity were really in. As a result the editor/publisher Cliff Carlson has...
by charley | Jan 17, 2016 | Current Affairs
The debacle in Germany and by extension in Europe – starring a cast of refugees and economic migrants from near and far — continues to trundle on towards what promises to be an inevitably depressing conclusion, presided over by Ireland’s own CEO and...
by charley | Dec 18, 2015 | Current Affairs
This appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for December, 2015. And if you saw Councillor McElvaney in action then you can now be under no illusions as to what they think about you or the contempt in which they hold you. In fact, if you only needed ONE reason to...
