Aeschylus claimed that truth is the first casualty of war. Communication is the first casualty of a medical disaster.

IT WOULD have to come from Scandinavia, wouldn’t it? These days, the minute any discussion gets going about some social progress our nation or any other nation wants to achieve, up pops an expert to tell us the Scandinavians have already done it.

I’m researching the Cardiff Hall shipwreck, which was lost on the Shoonta Rock, at the Seven Heads, in 1925.

IT was the worst thing she ever did as a doctor and it has haunted her every day of the last 15 years.

When you set out to make a point, it’s all too easy for people to miss it if you’re not physically present. It is difficult to make a strong emotional argument by being absent from a colourful parade that involves a million people and goes worldwide through mainstream nd social media.

I may not be transparent and accountable, but I am compliant.

THIS got my attention: “He sat down beside me in the studio when I was presenting my programme live on the air, and took his trousers off.”

Any good spin doctor would have done the moan-in-the-throat indicating a planned action has a lot going for it — but that, at the same time, it carries potential problems.

I DON’T like to mention it in polite company, but my foundations are a bit exposed. The recent storm lashed at Portrane and made my Martello Tower spring leaks in more places than you could imagine. Eight buckets were deployed at the height of it, and we’re now in the check/replace/repaint phase.

HE was a neat, quietly-spoken, witty, smallish man of Irish extraction who was liked wherever he went, in New York during the Roaring 20s. Not that he went that many places.