@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Motorbikes and speakers. Such plagues on Colombia. They’ve turned what I imagine were once rather tranquil towns into hubs of headache-inducing noise. Let’s tackle speakers first — something I...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] I was looking back at previous blog articles — a blogger’s version of going through old photos — when I found Introducing «our» Colombia, published in July 2017. In that piece, in an attempt to...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Back in my Gaelic (Irish) football-playing days, when the extent of strength and conditioning training was often little more than running and sprinting, I was quite the stickler for following the exact course of any run. For example, if we had to do laps of […]
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Fellow imbibers, you know the feeling. The morning after the night before. ‘OK, it was good fun but did I have to binge so much?’ When the hangover is particularly bad, the hair of the dog feels like the best, nay only cure. Or so […]
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Living relatively independently in Colombia, a nation that hasn’t completely tried to control almost all aspects of its citizens’ lives, means that I’ve been shielded from much of the health...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Right. Time to face up to an uncomfortable truth. I’m just too much of a nice guy in this world made for chancers and charlatans. Nice — or charitable in any case — that is, to those who clearly...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] ‘Rather than ask my child, «What did you learn at school today?», I believe it’s better to ask, «Did you ask good questions?»‘ That suggestion was given by a contributor to a BBC podcast...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] It’s that time of year again when content creators and publishers can be a little lazy and rehash, under the guise of a review, some of the work from the previous twelve months. The Wrong Way Corrigan...
@wwaycorrigan The end-of-year bumper quiz, a tradition for many publications — English-language ones in any case (is it a thing in other languages?). And some of you may be aware that I had been running a quiz (or trivia, if you prefer) night, IQuiz «The Bogotá Pub Quiz», in Bogotá since 2015. This year, though, […]
@wwaycorrigan I have been known to write the odd letter to Irish newspapers when I feel the need arises. This might surprise readers but sometimes certain issues annoy me. Below is a screenshot of my latest letter, published in Ireland’s Sunday Independent on 08 December...
