
Islands in the sand
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’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

In 1963 this drug was released and became astonishingly popular: between 1969 and 1982 it was the most prescribed drug in America, with over 2.3

What if I were to build a house in the middle of nowhere … would people come and be my neighbours? How long would it