What will we do if our way of making our way in the world disappears? What happens then? We had better get our thinking caps on because we might just need to know the answer.

I was browsing online recently and came across the new National Security Strategy document just published by the Trump administration.

A car, we need to keep reminding ourselves, is a lethal weapon. And even if we don’t – remind ourselves, that is – we are constantly reminded of it, whether we like it or not.

A few times lately, I met people who had seen a red squirrel in their locality.

The woman filming herself in tears because her €400 facial left her skin “only” 98% perfect knows exactly what she's doing.

Behind the shamrock smiles, ‘Kiss Me I’m Irish’ tee-shirts and ‘Top-of-the-morning’ SNL skits, a darker perception of Ireland is spreading in the United States. We Irish are fond of believing we’re the world’s favourite people.

Depending on people’s perspective, the news of the reopening of the Western Rail Corridor into Mayo might trigger different emotions.

It’s now generally accepted that for Catholics ‘the way of being Church in the future’, as Pope Francis described it and as Pope Leo has confirmed, is ‘the synodal way’.

The Celts believed that all trees were sacred; each had a special curative property or spiritual significance. Among our native trees, few were held in higher esteem than the hazel – the Celtic Tree of Knowledge.

There has always been a pious image among very religious people that certain types of people are really cut out to be priests or nuns.