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.

IT’S too late, I know, to try to influence the budget.

I’VE been thinking about Christmas already, because I spent last Sunday afternoon making a Christmas cake.

‘THE failure by the legislature to enact the appropriate legislation is no longer just unfortunate; it is inexcusable.

SOMETIMES, especially in the hurly burly of life, you forget what idealism looks like. And then you meet someone like Catherine McGuinness.

JUST under 600,000 people.

YOU’RE familiar with the butterfly effect, of course.

LAST Friday evening, at the bottom of Grafton St, a remarkable thing happened.