@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.] I’ve stated previously how I’m not at all averse to routine, as long as I feel it’s not too detrimental to my health and well-being. Downwardly mobile On the other hand, I’ve also let it...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] For somebody who likes to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, to discover new, more tranquil settings, having not left the greater environs of Bogotá for over 15 months has been far from ideal....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] At the best of times, it’s not easy being a politician. In today’s social-media dominated world, our elected leaders are scrutinised like never before. OK, they willingly sign up for a life in the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A common complaint you’ll hear from Colombians when the C-bomb gets dropped in their company is that the biggest, most problematic issue at play is the drug’s use by foreigners in developed nations....
@wwaycorrigan There’s been a lot of frustration expressed on social media about the world’s longest coronavirus-induced lockdown. Since mid-March Colombia has not only been in a state of emergency but also in an ‘obligatory quarantine’. On the face of it,...
@wwaycorrigan It has been said that the first item on the agenda of a newly formed Irish political party is the split. Ireland just doesn’t do unity very well it seems. Borrowing from that, after over eight years of Bogotá as my base, it would seem the first item on my...
@wwaycorrigan As most of you regular readers of this blog may have realised, it’s not one that tends to engage in hyperbole. So, in honour of that, here’s the understatement of the year: The coronavirus crisis is having a negative impact on many sectors of the...
@wwaycorrigan «You’re a posh boy now, a gomelo.» So go the jibes from my old barrio buddies now that I find myself living in a swankier part of Bogotá (gomelo, for the uninitiated, is the Colombian word for what you might call preppy types). Yes, it’s true, my move a few kilometres south of my […]
@wwaycorrigan There is an expression we use in Ireland to describe those who put themselves before everybody else. We call them ‘mé féiners’, putting an English ending to two Irish-language words, ‘mé féin’, meaning ‘myself’. Basically, you could say these are a type of fundamentalist individualist. ‘The greater good for the greater number’ only comes […]
