One night in Accident and Emergency
THERE was a dreadful stabbing pain across my lower belly as I stood up and I knew immediately I was...
Maurice's Blogs
Voices of the past
MY career as a creative writer has taken a modest step forward. A contribution to a new book, The 32:...
Days of roast-beef
TOURISM was doing a roaring trade in Northern Ireland until the Coronavirus came along. I don’t need statistics and charts...
Life and death in a lost Eden
I SPENT much of the month of June at my home in the borderlands where there are no queues at...
Darkness at the edge of freedom
THE Coronavirus lockdown is now two months old. We are accustomed to a ‘new normal’ and dream of the lives...
Island of céad míle deora
WE have been in lockdown for more than a month now and I am beginning to look like Gerry Adams...