Sport has a wonderful way of unconsciously teaching us many life skills; dedication, commitment, respect, adhering to deadlines, hard work, manners, dealing with emotions, difficult times, to mention a few.

I’ve had the good fortune, since my last contribution, to have spent a week in the care of the good people of the Galway Clinic.

European elections have always tended to draw quite a bit of indifference and even confusion among the Irish electorate. It was superbly captured by a vox-pop carried out by RTÉ’s Jim Fahy in Ballaghaderreen in 2009.

As a young man, the spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen was travelling around Ireland. In Donegal, he witnessed an ‘Irish’ burial, watching it over a stone wall.

A swelling tide is rising across Europe, carrying seeds of uncertain political change in its currents.

Will Labour definitely win an overall majority in the British General Election, and what would that mean? There is no doubt the Tories are on their way out, but it remains to be seen whether the presumption that Labour will win a comfortable working ...

Between now and the end of all our upcoming elections, there will be many opinion polls. There will be national polls, European polls, constituency polls.

I sometimes walk in the outer reaches of the Ox Mountains and out there it is not uncommon to stumble upon small lakes such as the Cloonacool Lakes, the Tullyvilla Lakes or Lough Minaun.

Carmel Kelly is a woman who knows how to get the job done. She is the Director of Operations at the TF Royal Hotel and Theatre in Castlebar, one of the largest indoor entertainment venues in Ireland.

Apple recently managed to offend good taste and scandalise the cultured classes with its tone-deaf commercialism and crass pursuit of profits over cultural preservation.