
Nearly 400 metres below sea level… and counting
It seems as if much of what I’ve taken to be true is being challenged this week. And equally, what I’m expected to know as

It seems as if much of what I’ve taken to be true is being challenged this week. And equally, what I’m expected to know as

Years and years and years ago, when visiting a plantation house somewhere in the Carolinas where the guide was telling us not to sit on

I’m not sure if I can take much more of this. That crash you just heard was yet another illusion being shattered. When I hear

I have long since imagined Bethlehem as a little mountain village with perhaps one main street, an inn, and a manger. I had a romantic

With donkeys and goats competing for space with plastic bags and rubbish of all sorts, the Judean desert isn’t what you’d call pristine. Actually, what

I can read the book or see the movie. I can’t do both. Well, I can, but any time I have, I’ve been disappointed. Nicole

Yesterday, I thought I was heading to Israel. This morning I woke up in Palestine. Perhaps I should have read the itinerary more carefully. Or

Just returned from the wilds of Alaska back in 2001, I found myself in Carlow at a nightclub. Some lad was chatting me up. His

When I arrived in Budapest all those years ago, with two suitcases, two framed pictures, and an assortment of mental and emotional baggage, Keleti Station

There’s a small part of me that has the makings of a conspiracy theorist. I have what I like to think of as a healthy