Now that Ireland’s recent general election has confirmed her to be more…
Category: In Passing (page 8)
In Passing: Reflections on our time?
There is no doubt but that something very strange has happened to…
In Passing: The corruption of conscience
When we read between the lines of a non-story in the Irish…
In Passing: The sacred and the profane
“History is written by the winners” is a trite adage which was…
In Passing: The Day the Music Died
Civilisations do not crumble in a moment, in an hour, or because…
In Passing: Mad dogs and Englishmen
Noel Coward’s famous song, Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the…
In Passing: The Great Divide
The world seems to be irreconcilably divided into two diametrically opposed realms…
In Passing: Destructive deception masquerading as truth
There is careless and sloppy journalism and there is cold calculated malicious…
In Passing: Out of the crucible of unimaginable sorrow
The lives of saints, even the lives of great but ordinary people,…