#DiegoMaradona #Argentina #Napoli #WorldCup “And one day it happened. One day the inevitable happened. It is an emotional and national...

#Waterford #NorthQuays #VikingTriangle #CulturalQuarter This piece was written in late July 2014 for The Sunday Independent, but was...

“I don’t think of writing as a profession. If I can get money for it, that’s fine. But I’d rather wash dishes than write just for money.”...

11:17am: It’s seldom I’d still be in the scratcher at this hour but a commitment that would have had me up and about before 8am didn’t...

12:16am: Sixteen minutes into our second Level 5 lockdown, a Tweet recalling a bygone job comes my way. It reads: “Dermot, I’m pretty...

“Many things appear greater in thought than in fact. I have spent a large part of my life in perfect good health: it was not only perfect...

#SamBennett #TourDeFrance2020 #StraightOuttaCarrick Five Julys ago, I penned a few thoughts on the man who sprinted into sporting history...

#ImFine #EndaODoherty #PleaseSirOrMadamWillYouReadMyBook “Enda O'Doherty is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary story to share. In...

THE Lions is a rugby concept I first got some semblance of at the age of 10 thanks to some highlights screened on RTE when the British...

There’s something formulaic to the big screen iteration of James Bond which, on the face of it, ought to make an apparently educated man...

It’s a bewildering time. If you’re feeling a bit unsettled, that’s perfectly natural. In a social, civic, medical and economic sense, the...

“Have you ever had a scoop” was a question put to me over the weekend. I’m 21 years in this job and I’ve yet to have a Woodward and...

#WebbMiller #IFoundNoPeace #JournalismMatters #LongRead Webb Miller’s was a name I’d not encountered until a fascinating gift was handed...

Michael Quinn, who was buried on Thursday afternoon in Waterford, was the doyen of court reporters in the South East of Ireland for...

It’s just gone midnight in Waterford and I’m not long in from another of those late night runs I’ve come to refer to in recent weeks as...

How are you? Seriously, how are you? Those three words are ones that most of us don’t necessarily throw out glibly but we generally say...

#JournalismMatters #Covid19 #Waterford #Newspapers How do you ‘do’ journalism? At a time when anyone plying this trade has probably never...

The Outer Ring Road, as observed on Sunday afternoon last during the 'Operation Fanacht' window imposed by the Government and enforced by...

#Covid19 #JournalismMatters #DiaryFromASocialDistance I’ve been writing a diary for the Waterford News & Star for the past three weeks....

#Covid19 #Rohingya #Bangladesh “I’m very afraid, because if the virus arrives to the camp, no one will be alive, as here many people are...