Michael Moynihan: Our current loneliness — it's of a different order to the old malaise

American researchers equated the effect of loneliness on one’s general health with smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

In the house I grew up in there weren’t too many idols with life tenure in the pantheon of heroes, but one ordinary man from Dublin never had to worry about his position in that hierarchy.

When you hear or read about how things were better years ago, back when society was more ‘stable’, or whatever trigger word or coded language is employed, you'd do well to remember Willie Bermingham.