Had She Never Written a Poem
Oh that as they lay there On the floor of the family home Taken by gas like to many of their folk …
The Actor Quits The Stage
This was not part of the script The actor ended the play Told the audience its over He is the actor and …
Edgeworthstown exhibition aids Pieta House – Fighting against suicide and depression and for urban horses and horse fairs
The fight against depression and suicide has many armies, one of the most prominent of late being PIETA House, and at a …
High Cost of Cheap Beef From Brazil
The powers that be tell you that we Should be happy with beef from Brazil They suppose its racist to oppose What …
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 …
Men at the Door
The men came to the door, Some in uniform More not. The children crying, the mother too What could anybody do? The …
Phonecalls Never Made
I meant to ring but never did He normally did but never did The unspoken though that silent hid Told the truth, …
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 …
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 …
We Are Not the Enemy
We are not the enemy, the folk who pay the bills, Who try to pay their mortgages, who themselves through suicide kills …
All Sorts of Accents at Accents Café
As per invitation, we arrived at Accents Café on Lower Stephens Street for seven-ish. OK, for once, I was actually early, arriving …
Another Enemy Less For Enda – Trevor Murtagh Tribute, R.I.P.
Enda’s taking them down, one by one, on behalf of the EU and the Banks His cronies get commissioners jobs: Merkels way …
Smiles Can Hide a Million Tears
Smiles say more than a thousand words, By some folk it is said, But some hide the falling of a million tears …
Death on a Traintrack
A stopped train, and I awaken In the middle of some godforsaken Piece of country, as an announcement is making By some …
A Phonecall Overheard
A double suicide delayed by train back to Dublin after the Poets Express event in 2010. The pointlessness of it inspired the …
Divine Struggle – Sylvia Plath.
The raging waves of the mind Tore her spirit asunder Yet still she wrote Those word we read… with wonder As words …