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A dreamer, seeker, adventurer, idealist and non-conformist. Interested in many things- culture, languages, travel, books, film, music, activism and the Great Outdoors. Still trying to get a handle on this 'adulting' thing and find out where my talents really lie....
Lockdown number three seems to have brought out the survivalist in me. Not only have I been weirdly obsessed with reading crime thrillers (“Blood Orange” anyone?) but I seem to have developed a possibly unhealthy and morbid fascination with disaster films, particularly ones which involve planes being hijacked, strange viruses attacking humans or apocalyptic movies […]
MoreYesterday, I read a story in the Irish Examiner about a 3year old boy who was found shivering in a cabin at the back of a house by Gardaí while his mother and partner were busy taking heroin. According to the Garda who found him, “he was shivering” and “very cold” He had no shoes […]
MoreI’ve got serious questions for Trump voters. I’m a 41-year old Irish woman. I’m ‘middle class’, college educated, a liberal and a feminist. I also believe in science and that the rate at which our climate is changing, far from being a natural phenomenon, is a human-induced one, caused mainly by our reliance on fossil […]
MoreHere I am featured in an article that was published in the Irish Independent weekend section on October 3rd. https://www.independent.ie/weekend-magazine/parenthood-or-the-planet-choosing-the-fight-against-global-warming-over-having-children-39575503.html I shared the link to the article with a couple of close friends and family and was pretty underwhelmed with the response and feedback I received in all honesty. Maybe it’s cos people have more […]
MoreA male (my Dad’s ) perspective…. My Dad sent this via a Whatsapp family group message and I was amused but thought I’d respond with an alternative version, cos let’s face it, we’re we’re always getting a male perspective on things…. This was my version. I’d love if you could let me know in the […]
MoreWhen I started this blog and was choosing a title, I wanted a title that I felt would be representative of my life as a whole and initially, I felt that ‘paddling your own canoe’ pretty much covered it. However, WordPress informed me that that domain name was already in use so I Googled idioms […]
Morehttps://villagemagazine.ie/the-elephant-in-the-staff-room-lack-of-diversity/ This freelance writing business is pretty challenging and precarious it would seem… Don’t think I’ll be giving up the day job just yet! I wanted to write something about the homogeneity and inherent conservatism of the teaching profession (particularly at primary level) as it’s something I’ve noticed and thought about a lot and during […]
More*all opinions expressed are my own The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA at the hands of the police, has given many of us pause. It comes as no surprise that the killing was totally unjustified and senseless. His supposed ‘crime’ (for which he paid with his life) was to present a counterfeit $20 […]
More*this was an essay I wrote as a college assignment but I feel in light of recent events in the US, it’s actually very relevant and topical* Human society does not exist in a vacuum. We are products not only of our gender, social status/class, background, ethnicity, and religion but also from a media perspective, […]
MoreI came across the piece below today. Reading over it, it amused me and also struck me that I’d obviously had a particularly trying and difficult day on the job (I’m guessing I was at the school in Trim when I wrote this!) and fantasising about a different life was a way of coping with […]
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