@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] In Bogotá’s perpetual Corner Bar barrio, I explained how a working-class drinking culture permeates the neighbourhood I frequent the most in the Colombian capital. As somebody who grew up in rural Ireland, this is quite familiar to me. One big difference, though, is that […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I do find it somewhat perplexing — and occasionally amusing — how self-proclaimed freedom-loving liberals demand that others follow their path. At times, this is seen in a passive-aggressive manner. However,...
@wwaycorrigan Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste), Leo Varadkar, has said he wants to make the visa process easier for Colombians who want to study and work in the country. Speaking at a St Patrick’s Day reception at the Irish ambassador’s residence in...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] And just like that, it’s all over — kind of. Within a couple of days of each other, both England (just England initially that was, not the other UK nations) and, more shockingly, a heretofore extremely...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] To borrow from John Lennon — and many others besides — another year is almost over and a new one is about to begin. Hitchens hit This is always an apt time for reflection, for taking stock of one’s...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] At the zenith of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger period in the early noughties, a time when most of the populace had, quite literally, more money than sense, there was a public house in my local town that nicely...
@wwaycorrigan You can blame — or thank as the case may be — the Irish Independent for the following. As a recipient of that paper’s twice-daily newsletter, this helps me keep abreast of what’s making the headlines back home. The Indo, as the cool people call it,...
@wwaycorrigan Shannonside Northern Sound’s Joe Finnegan Show spoke to me as part of their series on Irish people living abroad during the coronavirus pandemic. The evergreen Anne Norris — my news editor for the majority of the time I was working at the station — was...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Stop comparing covid-19 to the flu. It’s much worse than that.’ So goes the retort from those who view the coronavirus pandemic as a significant threat to much of humanity, responding to those...
@wwaycorrigan The following is perhaps a sign that coronavirus has finally got the better of me, mentally that is (although some will say I’ve been having issues in my head that predate this pandemic). Covid-19 gets you one way or another, I guess. Whatever the case,...
