Death of a Fisherman – Mohsin Fikri R.I.P.
“Whoever kills a person [innocent person]…it is as though he has killed all mankind. And whoever saves a life, it is as …
Abduction at Legan Bridge
Bride abduction is thankfully very rare in Western Europe now, apart from Albania and Montenegro, and most commonly heard of from Kyrgistan …
Her Voice Silenced, Her Song in Chorus Louder We Will Sing – Jo Cox tribute
“These children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness and I know I personally would risk life and limb …
Blog – Walking into the Light – Darkness In Light in Galway 2016
This has been a year where the loss of folk before their time has been all too common and public. I also …
Some House Party In Heaven
They are having some house party in Heaven All of the greats they were playing The Devil enjoyed the music drifting through …
Catch of the Merrow
The Merrow (Moruadh or Murrúghach, from muir, sea, and oigh, a maid) was a sea spirit thought to lure people to their …
Birds Sing
The birds sing among the boughs The wind blows soft upon the face Life is hard on the best of days Hard …
At The Age for This
I’m at the age for this The funerals: all to common now I dont go to them all anymore To commiserate with …
Dawn Breaks as Yeats Goes to Sleep
Yeats died before the outbreak of war, and his Nobel prizes and international fame was most seen through the Versailles era, with …
To Live In Hearts
“To live in hearts we leave behind is to not die” – Thomas Campbell To live in hearts we leave behind It …
She Loved Not Him Who Her Father Chose
A poem I wrote some years back, on love, a disapproving family, and a tragedy of murder and suicide! which I now …
Puff of Smoke and All Is Well
Everyone knows smoking is bad, and causes cancer. However, the blanket blame for all lung cancers on it ignores other possible reasons, …
Wake at Birr
The true and humorous tale, though shocking at the time, of the fiasco of my mothers coffin, at her wake in Birr… …
Wake at Ballinalee
My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially …
Coffin Ships of the Modern Age
Its just news, another raft or ship Upended, people struggling drowning Bodies, lined up on the shore Other unknown, uncared, unaccounted for. …
We Are But Passing Through
History, crumbles, before our eyes And walking past, we wonder not Someday, for all that we are We too, like those who …
Christmas Card to the Homeless
Every homeless person is something to somebody. This was the Jonathan Corrie story >>> More than a face, you have a name, …
Christ Was Crucified In Dublin
As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the Dáil The least …
Piecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
Death walks among us. In every town and village in Ireland, in all communities, even the Irish Traveller community in which it …
Out of Tune
No fingers now draw from it chords That it once formed, each one like words Now only insects and birds Dwell among …