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A Different View with Dave O’Connell A great old friend of mine – all be he a man with more money than sense – was out one night in Kinsale...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s 75 years ago this June that a small seven-inch or twelve-inch piece of black plastic, timed to rotate...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s exactly six months since the barbarity carried out by Hamas triggered a completely disproportionate...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The new coat was designed to keep the worst of the rain off the bottom half as well as the top, but it’s had...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It has always been true that one man’s thrash is another man’s treasure, but it was terribly evident on...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A well-known medical consultant corrected me many years ago when I suggested it must be unbelievably rewarding...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell A small candle has mysteriously appeared in a tiny can on the kitchen table, proudly proclaiming itself to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell When you think of the hallowed old sporting venues around these islands, your mind immediately turns to Croke...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Galway is not a city to see; it’s a city to do; it’s not that we don’t have loads of places that are...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Ben Dunne knew he was in trouble when police pulled him in from the balcony of an Orlando hotel, paranoid...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell By now almost those New Year Resolutions to give up the drink have, like yourself, fallen off the wagon –...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It turns out that the Waltons were the exception rather than the rule – because while John Boy and the crew...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It may have escaped your attention, but there’s a new shoe on the market that, on one hand, is designed to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christmas Day 1996 and a skeleton staff was looking after affairs of news and sport in the old Terenure...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The annual publication of State Papers 30 years on from the events that they refer to always makes for...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s now 40 years since 1984 – meaning that we’re now four years further away from that year than George...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Fans of classic comedy need no introduction to the Only Fools and Horses sketch – the one where Trigger...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Understandably, when historians look back on the year 2023 in a century’s time, the bookmarks will be the...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Ours was never the most adventurous of families; we did what every other west of Ireland family did and had a...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s an old piece of advice that’s often offered – particularly to journalists but also to...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell As someone you thinks that the height of multi-tasking is walking and talking at the same time, I would find...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell In fairness we weren’t much older than big boys at the time and the notion of a free night at a wine tasting...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Every day in Ireland someone goes missing; some days there are more than a few. Most are missing for a day or...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It had been a normal Monday evening until an unexpected email popped into the ‘in’ box – telling me that...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Back in the day we never called it hitchhiking or even hitching – we were thumbin’ a lift, as we traversed...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The guy behind the counter of the souvenir shop in Liverpool didn’t look happy to see me, but to be honest...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Nobody will ever mistake me for a smoker – or indeed an advocate or apologist for the tobacco industry –...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell There’s a big old beautiful Philips radio that take pride of place on a shelf in the kitchen, gazing down...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was the recent death of the Man from UNCLE that prompted the conversation, of halcyon days when there might...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell What a poorer place the world would be without grandparents, the glue that keeps the family together – and...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It sounds batty but we’re rapidly getting to the point where, if you want to enjoy a night out in Dublin,...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell The real crisis with a mid-life crisis, according to the late novelist Martin Amis, is that the worst crisis...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s all about health span, not life span, writes the great Richard Ford in his latest novel – and final...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell he UK’s Education Minister is experiencing a week to forget on many fronts – primarily because half the...