I WAS with a group of young people the other day when the news broke on a telly in the background. The Pope had resigned.

A LONG time ago, I used to drive a group of adults with intellectual disabilities to the Arch Club in Blackrock, on the south side of Dublin.

IS there, do you think, any real possibility that we will have a general election over the promissory note?

SO, ANOTHER political scandal.

MOST of us, I think, still have difficulty coming to terms with what happened to our economy in the crash.

I STARTED taking Twitter seriously 579 days ago. I know that because Twitter keeps records.

I WATCHED the movie The Iron Lady on Sunday night.

NORMALLY at this time of year I go out and start collecting.

ISN’T it strange how, even if you’re no longer religious, the words of some of the Christmas hymns can still move you?

A COMPLETE and total poverty of imagination.