@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] On last week’s Bogotá Nights, we discussed insecurity in Colombia’s capital city and the country in general. One regular viewer, an Englishman who has been based in this country for nine years, told...
@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.] In today’s rapidly changing world, the doctrinaires amongst us tend to suffer the most. Adaptability and flexibility generally trump the dogmatic approach. With that in mind, whilst some of you may view...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Back in those halcyon days in the early years of the last decade, I published a blog post called Phantom freedom. If you’re too busy to click on the hyperlink to read it, the basic idea was that despite...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In a recent interactive video, the English comedian Ricky Gervais was asked which of the following he’d prefer: to be told his death date and live longer or not to be told it but live a shorter life? The...
@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 [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘The hardest part was leaving the WhatsApp group.’ This is a common refrain you’ll hear from recently retired sports stars, those who are part of teams that is. Groupthink I find this rather...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Whether one agrees or not with the coronavirus pandemic response taken by most of the world, the fact is we’ve all had to live with the constraints for well over a year now. Fear mentality As is well known, and as is the case […]
