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PUTIN’S POSITION IS PRECARIOUS
September 17th 2022
This week has not been good for Vlad the Bad. Perhaps the most significant turn of events was a petition put forward by a group of council members in his home city of St. Petersburg calling on him...
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HEALTH SYSTEM WILL BE ON THE WINTER CRITICAL LIST
September 10th 2022
This week I’ve been in hospital and believe me it has yet again made me appreciate the care and kindness shown by the staff at St. James’s Hospital. However, there is no question that the HSE...
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CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL CRIMINAL
August 13th 2022
It is hard this week to write about, no less think about, anything without feeling the heat. The last time I encountered something like this was in 1976 when I gave up my publishing job in...
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LEADERS MUST ACT ON CLIMATE
July 30th 2022
My thoughts this week are with the Taoiseach and his 2 wing-men, Leo Varadkar and Eamon Ryan. They must deliver on the thorny issue of emission targets and as we all know the main problem is...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
July 23rd 2022
I don’t know about you but I’m still in a state of shock that climate change hit the UK in such dramatic fashion. The aerial footage of those houses in Wennington, Greater London ended up being...
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MORDAUNT HAS RIGHT QUALITIES TO BE NEXT PM
July 16th 2022
Glad to be back home from hospital this week with that embracing warmth that allowed me sight unseen to go and hug my favourite young copper beech in my pyjamas. Some people might call it eccentric...
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SELF PROMOTING BORIS UNFIT TO BE PRIME MINISTER
July 9th 2022
I have been in hospital this week so some entertainment was welcome. Well Sky News provided it, the Boris Show, politics in its rawest form, with the opening salvoes giving running commentary on ...
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STAMP-EDE OUT OF SNAKE ISLAND
July 2nd 2022
During this appalling war in Ukraine it is hard to find anything to smile about but this week is different. “Kaboom” tweeted Andriy Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration,...
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WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT OUR NEUTRALITY
June 25th 2022
Normally what is happening in Lithuania would not really be a concern of ours but ever since Vlad the Bad invaded Ukraine everything has changed utterly. To put this in context, Lithuania is both a...
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PRESIDENT MUST REMAIN NEUTRAL
June 18th 2022
Returning home from a short stay in hospital I do so appreciate the intensity of the bird song. A walk to my favourite copper beech tree fastened my re-engagement with nature. This time, Thank...
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