Stones between rock and a hard place

This column is in confessional mode today. After a trend, I wish to confess in public to having endured a traumatic experience in my past, writes Michael Clifford.

This decision to open up and bare my soul will probably render me a victim, but with any bit of luck it should also bump up the number of readers to the column, as the masses flock to feel my pain.

While the past for many may be a different country, it was for me only last Thursday.