It can be surmised, based on Hurricane Charley, that countless island homes will be boarded up or have bright blue roof coverings for months to come.

The rest of the world has opinions, most of them hostile, about everything, but the letter-graffitists, seem opinion-free

A new word, today, for readers to consider. Dementiachondria. A freshly invented noun, describing a condition whereby the sufferer attributes their every ailment to oncoming undiagnosed dementia consequent upon age.

My grandmother described the IRA as ‘our lads’. And yet, at Christmas — as well as the Pope’s urbi et orbi address — she would listen reverently to the queen’s broadcast

US President, perhaps because he’s been in politics for so long, understands the power of a single, carefully staged speech

In his resignation statement, the unfortunate Robert Troy objected to landlords being demonised. In factual terms, this is hairy

Seeing your home through the eyes of others is a delight — but some visitors may have felt let down by my TK Maxx bedspread

We have all but forgotten how polio devastated lives in the 1950s and must heed warnings from New York, London, and the HSE

From wanting to smack anyone who asks if you’re “still” working to becoming impatient with Jane Fonda, getting old means a great many things, writes Terry Prone.

Keeping the day job does maintain a close connection with the realities on the hospital floor