Tag: LIFESTYLE
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Four Halloween Horrors
Yes the headline may have lost some of its edge as it’s now 1:47am on November 1st. But, as a writer, there are times where you have to, as the old saying goes, strike when the iron is hot. In this case it is boiling, seething with rage. In 99.9% of ways, I love Dunboyne…
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McStay misfortune should be a reality check
You can’t be a sports fan without being passionate about it. For those at the next level – either as competitors or working with them or, indeed, as media covering the happenings therein, said passion can serve as dodgy baggage as knockers and begrudgers are only chomping at the bit to knock either competitors partaking…
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Go for a run around Culmullen for a good cause
As somebody living with a disability since birth, when events related to people who require additional assistance to negotiate the journey of life, it naturally peaks interest. More than that, it prompts a natural instinct to help out in whatever way might be possible. So when an old acquaintance from school days long gone, Emma…
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Family is whatever you make it for yourself
What’s obviously around three and a half decades ago now, ‘The Conversation’ was had pertaining to traditions which abide towards the end of the year. To the effect that, when it came to delivered around that time of year, one of them was labelled “Whoever you want it to be from”. In a similar, if…
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One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff
Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…
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Puca Festival Trim Co Meath
Brief highlights of the Puca Parade at the Festival of the same name, held in Trim on Saturday night to bring the week’s festivities in the locality to a spectacular conclusion.
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Rare occasions when being in a wheelchair works to your advantage!
No, you did not misread the headline. Whatever about being advantageous from a parking point of view or skipping queues or such like, over the most weekend there was an advantage that had to be seen to be believed! Well, that would’ve been the case were it not an instance of being forewarned and forearmed.…
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If phrases are like sports jerseys this one should be retired
During my school years, I was truly blessed to be surrounded by the kindest, most understanding and helpful bunch of lads somebody in my position could hope for. Of course, as with any class of 30-plus, there were one or two who, shall we say, weren’t as mindful of one’s circumstances as were the majority.…
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Just when I needed it most
They say everything in life happens for a reason. In the case of me beginning to attend RehabCare Dunboyne, it was certainly applicable. Starting on October 1st last, I wouldn’t have known that, within days, a bereavement would occur which although not family, per se, may as well have been. It is not being fanciful…