@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 […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] If you’ve ever listened to and/or read the work of Canadian cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular-science author, Steven Pinker, you’ll know that he’s been at pains to tell us, replete...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ It could be said that when this was first coined — by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 — those who preferred the pen over the sword still had to...
