I never knew that the Moths of Manchester were famous, did you? So here’s the story: Back in 1800 ‘n odd there was a pretty innocuous, unremarkable speckled moth in England, known as the Peppered Moth because of it’s camouflage colouring; white wings dappled with grey and black spots – this allowed the moth population…
2020 – can you believe it? How did that happen? Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the turn of the Millennium! I hope 2019 was a great year for you? But I am aware that some people I know (and many I don’t) wish 2019 good riddance and so I am prompted to pen…
Steven was only eight when the bullying started in school. He didn’t know it was bullying; didn’t know what it was, so he never told his teacher, never told his parents when he went home. Back in next day and it happened again… and every day thereafter, aged 9, 10, 11 and 12 until he…
Were you taught, as I was, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? Bad advice I’m afraid. Twentieth Century advice at best. Or perhaps at its worst! Bill Gates of Microsoft fame was asked in the late ’90’s, did he fear the big companies – such as the AOLs and the Intels – that could…
I am not a die hard rugby fan – let me say that from the outset – however, living as I do in Munster, I have oftentimes gotten happily caught up in the magic of Thomond Park, and despite hailing from Dublin, whenever I’m there, I wear red in full support. And whilst I’m not…
“Three minutes to doors!” I remember saying this loudly and firmly (never in a panicked way, despite what I might have been feeling) on many’s the occasion in an attempt to hurry both tech and on-stage talent to assume their pre-show positions when we ran Theatre at the Savoy in Limerick a number of years…