What a week! What started as a Corona slowdown imposed for the safety of our citizens has, in the last 48 hours morphed into a virtual Corona lock-down (or as David McWilliams suggested we Irish refer to it, to make it more palatable, a lock-in!). More and more businesses are shutting up shop voluntarily or…
I much prefer the term Physical Distancing to Social Distancing. If anything, we need to remain even more socially connected than ever before. COVID-19 has hit us all – not just here in Ireland, but in every corner of the globe and it’s serious. The immediate threat, of course, is to our health, ours and…
Nobody gets into business for it to fail but businesses can and do fail. My first foray, having left the so-called security of the day job was case in point. Before I get into the story of how (and more importantly why) it failed, and the life lessons taught me, let me state that I…
My mother, 82 this year please God, is hale and hearty and known to take the odd tongue-in-cheek swipe at men, suggesting we have it easier – she’d say, “Oh, if I come back, I’m coming back as a man!” She also, when I wished her another happy Mother’s Day some years back said to…
Where does your head go when you hear the phrase, “The hits just keep on comin’”? Are you at a gig? in a nightclub? Or are you battling hit after hit after hit in your life right now? A good friend of mine gave me the phrase recently when we were chatting and I smiled…
Little Tomi Reichental was only 9, when he was imprisoned in Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen; the same Concentration Camp where Anne Frank was held. Tomi survived. Anne, as well as 35 members of Tomi’s family perished along with six million other Jews during the Holocaust – a horror perpetrated by man on his fellow man in Central Europe…