#Olympics #RonnieDelany #Athletics #Journalism Ronnie Delany heartily shook my hand and greeted me like an old friend when we met in...

#JohnHume #NorthernIreland #UnitedStates #PeaceProcess For me, former SDLP leader and Nobel Laureate John Hume is the greatest living...

#WaterfordNewsAndStar #JournalismMatters #Covid19 #SocialDistance #WashYourHands “In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not...

#Hungary #Orban #EPP #EU #Covid19 #Europe So democracy is no longer a thing in Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, thanks to a 137 to...

#Covid19 #FlatteningTheCurve My heart sank a little this when I read a Tweet by Waterford-based paramedic Clive O’Regan this afternoon....

“How much sadness there is in life, nevertheless one must not become melancholy, and one must not seek distraction in other things, and...

“I write everything in longhand - I’ve never written any other way,” Ranulph Fiennes told me when we chatted in Lismore almost a decade...

The streets of Waterford have never been quieter in living memory. The calls for a reduction in community activity in a bid to flatten...

There’s a gated entrance to a house not too far from my lodgings which has featured two ‘planted’ Tricolours since Saint Patrick’s Day. I...

The name W. Ian Lipkin, I must confess, only came to my attention less than three weeks ago while reading a piece in The New Yorker. The...

While the White House press briefings on Covid-19 have become practically unwatchable due to the idiotic ramblings of President Trump,...

“You fail every day if you’re not doing good,” said Ernest Hemingway (pictured). “When you first start writing you never fail. You think...

With newspaper duties dispensed with and a delicious homemade pizza slowly digesting, I was back on my laptop just after 7pm last night...

In his first inaugural address on March 4th, 1801, Thomas Jefferson described the government of the then fledgling American republic as...

“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire,” so says the Talmud. As I ran past University Hospital Waterford (UHW) last night, that...

"Don’t worry too much,” my Grandmother Catherine ‘Kit’ Keyes told me during one of our lengthy night-time chats in her Ivy Cottage home...

A great many of us are likely to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis with a much deeper appreciation of the extent of the service provision...

Cocooning entered the national lexicon thanks to Leo Varadkar’s State of the Nation address last night in which he re-iterated the...

“In short, we are asking people to come together as a nation by staying apart from each other.” Leo Varadkar’s address to the nation may...

I never, ever thought I’d experience any level of genuine anxiety in a supermarket. But today, as I gathered some groceries in one of...