My initial degree was in English and Classics, followed by a Masters in English Lit., in NUI Maynooth where I worked as a tutor and part-time lecturer. While I loved the buzz of academia a nagging voice told me I was only living from the neck up, so I graduated into Personal Development, and became a total addict! I ended up training in various healing modalities, and worked professionally as a Life Coach for a time. But the writing bug got me again and I set up my own website www.the-unscripted-self.com which explores the nature of what it is to be human in a spiritual body, and other weird things! Arriving at NewsFour was like a natural progression where I get to relate stories on a daily basis. Another of my passions is walking. In 2009 I did the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in beautiful Northern Spain. I think I get inspiration from walking and movement. My theory of life is that we continuously experience our “thinking”, rather than what we’re thinking about. It has kept me sane!
6th October 2023
This is the third collection of poetry by well-known Dublin poet James Conway. His previous collections were Vertebrae of Journey (2010), and The Purple Coat (2017), both which met with critical acclaim. Conway, a previous winner of the prestigious Jonathan Swift Poetry Award
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6th October 2023
The Magdalene Laundry system which operated in this country for over 150 years will forever remain a stain on the Irish psyche, and one that cannot easily be expunged. Now a new book has emerged which deals specifically with one of these laundries,
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4th August 2023
Foremost in everyone’s minds at the moment is the Women’s World Cup and the wonderful job the Irish girls did in Aussieland. Sadly they didn’t progress from the first round, but there will be many more occasions in the future when they will get a chance to shine.
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4th August 2023
On 9th July past McCloskey’s of Donnybrook closed its doors for the last time. Situated in the centre of the village, and at the heart of the community, the pub will be a big miss.
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4th August 2023
The sad news of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor on July 26th came as a collective shock. It was almost like we lost a family member, someone we knew. Born in Pembroke Road, Dublin 4 on December 8th 1966 Sinéad grew up in Glenageary in South Dublin,
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9th June 2023
Jonathan Roth is a retired medical gerontologist who spends his time between Dublin and Westport, Co Mayo. In 2022 Jonathan climbed Croagh Patrick (or the Reek as it known to locals) and a few weeks later wrote a poem about his experience called
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9th June 2023
Did you know the first Bloomsday commemoration took place in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the events portrayed in Ulysses? The event was the brainchild of the Irish literati of the day, and saw Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien,
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3rd January 2022
By Eoin Meegan This beautiful 5-year-old Goldendoodle (a golden retriever and poodle cross) is a friend to all who need him. So intelligent and kind he likes nothing more than to share love with those around him. Trained by his […]
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13th December 2021
Sitting here with a very hot and delicious coffee, the aroma and taste brings me back (Proustian style) to Christmases long ago. And it got me wondering how the festive season has changed over the decades. Before the era of Xbox and gaming the big occasion was going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve,
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21st December 2020
Books are always a wonderful gift for Christmas, they are certainly my favourite gift, and there are a lot of good new books of Irish interest out this Christmas. Here we will look briefly at just a small sample of them.
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