@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] It shouldn’t surprise those familiar with Colombia to be told that many of its citizens are proud of their land’s rich biodiversity. ‘No country is more beautiful than ours’, is a common...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] Hubris. Melodrama. Scheming and screaming. Refusal to accept one’s errors. Refusal to accept defeat. No, I’m not referring to South American football teams — although, all the above do apply to...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] For native English speakers of the Old World, namely inhabitants of Britain and (whisper it) Ireland, it can be hard to accept that our New World ancestors have better language conventions than us. For some...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] While not officially a mechanic, my father is fairly well-versed in the workings of the combustible engine, its accompanying components and other such machines. In the rural Ireland of his youth, the sight of a...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] In my early adolescence, I was a regular attendee at mass. Oh, how impressionable the young can be! I bought into it to such an extent that I used to think that I was on a higher plane than those, such as my...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] ‘Please secure your own oxygen mask first before helping others to secure theirs.’ That epigraph is, as some of you will be aware, advice given to passengers by aeroplane cabin crew in the event of...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] No pain, no gain. The meaning of that proverb needs little explanation, expressed in various guises as it has been throughout the ages. I can’t think of any success of note I’ve had — yes,...
@wwaycorrigan In this independent blogging/vlogging game, the numbers do make a difference. OK, it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever make a living from it but one does get a small endorphin hit when one publishes what turns out to be a, um hit, views-wise. My modest hits...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] ‘You don’t know how easy you have it. In my day, life was far worse.’ This is one of the standard ripostes from older folk when they hear youngsters complaining about how bad their current...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] ‘I wish to reply to the opinions of Brendan Corrigan (Letters, 9 October) where he gave his rather right-wing views on child benefit being means-tested. I have to say that I found Mr Corrigan’s views quite worrying. It is obvious to me that he lacks […]
