Berna Cox nearly beat the lump in her throat at Dublin Airport, but the Irish mammy losing a child to emigration was defeated At the best of times, airports do it to me. Even if I’m there for good reasons – like going off on a ramble or welcoming someone home – it still gets [...]
Giovanni Morelli visited châteaux in Bordeaux, read about buried cheese, and discovered that the Luas lines in France connect “We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain [...]
Berna Cox writes that a giving someone a bunch of flowers — though a hackneyed gesture — is still a wonderful way to express affection A ccording to the June 1949 issue of The Rotarian, Henry Penn was the Boston florist who first came up with the slogan ‘say it with flowers’ sometime around the [...]
In a new column for Irish Medical Times, financial guru Eddie Hobbs says that many pension funds — including the GMS pension fund — haven’t allowed for double-digit inflation, which is likely in the coming years. What can you do to protect yourself from asset destruction? It’s hard to get your head around what’s happening [...]
Major twentieth-century artists, Francis Bacon and Edvard Munch, are now on show in Dublin, Dr John Wallace reflects on two new important exhibitions running this autumn The Hugh Lane Gallery on Dublin’s Parnell Square is hosting a major exhibition of Francis Bacon’s work. Bacon was born in Dublin of British parents in October 1909. His [...]
Shirley Lanigan advises gardeners that nature abhors a vacuum and there are useful jobs you can do in the garden at this time of year to maintain it — as well as plants that you can sow It is a good feeling to arrive into October having enjoyed a warm, mostly dry and for a [...]
Berna Cox is celebrating 30 years of something approaching marital bliss — if she makes it through the week! If we’re spared and if we don’t kill each other in the meantime, himself and myself will celebrate 30 years of wedded bliss (well, bliss-ish, if you’ll allow me a little literary and etymological licence) next [...]
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