@radiobrendan For many occurrences in life, it is easy to be wise after the event. Yet, while this Sunday, April 24th marks the passing of 100 years since the start of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, no one can say with any certainty what the men and women behind it should or...
@radiobrendan So Colombians throw some 9.76 million tonnes of food in the rubbish bin each year. That’s over 200 kilograms per person, if it were divided equally, which of course it isn’t (witness the country’s many homeless scavenging through bins as proof of...
@radiobrendan A typical response by some what you might call ‘leftist’ types to Isis-inspired terrorist attacks on the West is, after the perfunctory expressions of condolences, ‘they (we) had it coming.’ There’s a modicum of truth to that....
@radiobrendan A significant factor in man’s ability to obliterate his fellow man, as has happened on countless occasions, is to view him as less than human: mere vermin to be exterminated. Such a mentality is usually witnessed amongst competing cultures or races; the...
@radiobrendan What heady times they are experiencing back on the homeland. Excitement is almost at an unprecedented level as the electorate in the Republic of Ireland gets ready to go to the polls on February 26th to vote for a new parliament. In the relatively short campaign — the election was only called earlier this […]
@radiobrendan It was with some bemusement I found myself watching the Fox News hosted US Republican Party presidential candidates’ debate the other night ahead of the upcoming Iowa caucus. Most of it was utterly cringeworthy — no surprises there I hear you say. Perhaps we should cut them some slack; it is after all just […]
@radiobrendan The ridiculous amounts of money the globe’s top sports stars earn is something that is regularly debated. It’s certainly a topic that comes up with many of my more advanced English students via a discussion book that explores what are seen as some of...
@radiobrendan Some like it in its brilliant-white crystal form, taken with a spoon. Others prefer it less refined, in its ‘purer’ state. While more, perhaps the majority in the world, prefer to ingest it, refined, into the bloodstream via a straw. It’s a global...
@radiobrendan We are, as it’s said, shaped by our history; and certain past experiences define us more than others. This year, Ireland is gearing up to commemorate the centenaries of a couple of such ‘game-changing’ events. In general, they are viewed as...
@radiobrendan The on-line edition of the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘sport’ as ‘an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment’. The amount of ‘physical...
