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Godfreys Gospel
By Michael Godfrey THE late Jim Townsend from Ballybar was a great community activist and a staunch supporter of volunteerism....
Monday, 05/04/21 - 10:53am
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By Michael Godfrey THERE was little difficulty shutting down the country. The government spoke and all businesses, except a handful...
Saturday, 23/05/20 - 11:55am
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WOULDN’T you know there is a by-election in the offing and a general election on the way? Pledges, pledges and...
Friday, 01/05/15 - 11:53am
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THERE are times when there is no question but we are going backwards. In 2003, the country was bursting with...
Friday, 24/04/15 - 12:03pm
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I KNOW it is legal, but that doesn’t make it right. What I am talking about is the release of...
Friday, 17/04/15 - 12:04pm
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ASK any tourist what their lasting memory of Ireland is and they will probably tell you it is the colour...
Thursday, 19/03/15 - 2:54pm
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AN underlying attitude of entitlement and arrogance was how Sinn Féin’s Pierce Doherty described taoiseach Enda Kenny’s claim that he...
Friday, 06/03/15 - 12:11pm
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IT SEEMS Pope Francis cannot say anything right these days. He is damned if he does and damned if he...
Friday, 20/02/15 - 1:25pm
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I HAVE to admit that it infuriates me when legislation impinges on the simplest of things, such as buying eye...
Friday, 13/02/15 - 10:30am
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Time to Think
DESPITE the confinement and lockdown, not to mention the coronavirus, we have enjoyed great weather this spring. Nature and the...
Sunday, 24/05/20 - 11:59am
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A YOUNG, academically-excellent person applied for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview. The managing...
Friday, 17/04/15 - 12:05pm
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I SAW a strange sight. I stumbled upon a story most strange, like nothing my life had ever prepared me...
Friday, 27/03/15 - 11:05am
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EVERYONE has a mother, so it isn’t surprising that throughout the world there are ways of honouring and celebrating mothers....
Friday, 20/03/15 - 2:51pm
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I SHOOK my head in disbelief. This couldn’t be the right place. After all, I couldn’t possibly be welcome here....
Friday, 13/03/15 - 11:23am
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LAST year, I baptised a tiny 28-week baby. Her name was Angel. She survived and is testimony to the resilient...
Friday, 06/03/15 - 12:14pm
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Quit worrying LIFE has dealt you a blow and all you do is sit and worry. Have you forgotten that...
Friday, 27/02/15 - 12:53pm
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ASH Wednesday, 18 February, marks the beginning of Lent. Traditionally, Lent brings with it a time of cutting back, which...
Friday, 20/02/15 - 3:24pm
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AFTER decades of debate within the church, Pope Francis has formally recognised that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed “in...
Friday, 13/02/15 - 11:32am
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Times Past
FOLLOWING the 1916 Easter Rising and the subsequent executions, Ireland was devoid of purpose, with many of her sons serving...
Friday, 13/03/15 - 11:13am
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ALTHOUGH fighting started on 28 July 1914, Germany’s declaration of war on Russia on 1 August is noted as the...
Friday, 06/03/15 - 12:09pm
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BRITISH prime minister Herbert Asquith’s ultimatum to Germany was to get out of Belgium before midnight. This was ignored. At...
Friday, 27/02/15 - 12:55pm
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THIS article will be in four parts, and even that isn’t enough for a comprehensive review of ‘The Great War’....
Friday, 20/02/15 - 3:26pm
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AT 9am on 29 July 1974, workmen cutting grass discovered a woman’s body lying in a ditch close to the...
Friday, 13/02/15 - 12:34pm
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THERE are many religious who have served Ireland well down through the centuries. Some have received the recognition they deserved,...
Friday, 06/02/15 - 1:44pm
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KILMAINHAM is a town and townland in the parish of St James, within the boundaries of Dublin city, although originally...
Friday, 30/01/15 - 10:26am
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THE Tudor reign ushered in the most anti-Catholic period ever endured by Irish people under the English crown. But at...
Friday, 23/01/15 - 3:10pm
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SOME times, this column includes forgotten heroes or those practically written out of Irish history. This week we are highlighting...
Friday, 09/01/15 - 10:56am
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Trials and Tribulations of a Single Parent
SO, there we all were, having a jolly old time of it over lunch on a Saturday afternoon. There was...
Friday, 22/05/15 - 10:13am
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SO there we were watching The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford when the definition of the word ‘assassination’...
Friday, 01/05/15 - 10:34am
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SHE wanted, she said, to go to Coláiste Fiachra to start a new life. She said that she was “sick...
Friday, 24/04/15 - 11:55am
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THE waiting room was busy for that time of the day. It was as busy as a doctor’s surgery on...
Friday, 17/04/15 - 12:07pm
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A helicopter parent is a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child’s or children’s experiences and problems, particularly at...
Friday, 10/04/15 - 11:29am
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And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re...
Friday, 03/04/15 - 11:52am
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I OFTEN mistake the word ‘wedding’ for ‘funeral’. I don’t mean to do it and it’s a troubling trait to...
Friday, 27/03/15 - 10:06am
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SORCHA and Siobhán and the others are going drinking on Paddy’s Day,” she says, squinting up from her phone. Reader,...
Friday, 20/03/15 - 2:49pm
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“AS A woman in this family, you only have to think of a penis and you’ll get pregnant!” My mother...
Friday, 13/03/15 - 11:17am
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