Cliffs and Fault Lines

I headed west and north across Ireland in July for a few days with my son Ivor. It was a golf expedition as we do not fish or hunt. Ivor wanted badly  to visit Sliabh Liag or Slieve League in English. Sliabh Liag is a mountain on the northwest coast along the Wild Atlantic Way of … Read more

The tragedy and the comedy

Robin Williams said “life’s a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those that think”. The writer George Orwell wrote about the use of euphemism. To describe something which is the opposite of what it appears to be – calling a department that wages war the “Ministry of Peace”. We could come up … Read more