Category: Family & Parenting

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

Be careful what you wish for as it could come true. Research reveals that winning the lottery doesn’t necessarily mean winning happiness. Many winners reflect that their lives were happier before they struck gold. The one positive effect is that most winners do claim to be happy but […]

REFLECTIONS ON LIFE BEFORE CLASSICAL MUSIC

MICHAEL WALSH MUSIC CORRESPONDENT Of humble background I can’t imagine what introduced me to good music.  Certainly, there was little to be cheerful about in post-war Britain. In our humble home, with its primitive radio that broadcast only four programmes’ we kids were told to be very quiet […]

WHEN IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

MICHAEL WALSH POET AND AWARD-WINNING WRITER There are two things certain in life so it is said; death and taxes. To this might be added regrets and who better to ask what these misgivings might be than the brave nurses in palliative care. What are deathbed laments of […]

The European Regimes that Sell the Family Silver

MICHAEL WALSH DISSIDENT JOURNALIST: We often talk about a country’s assets fuelling prosperity; its industrial might and its natural resources, its economic know-how; its pivotal trading position; its geographical location, and its technology. Sadly. People – yes people, the greatest asset is nowhere to be seen on the […]