@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Earlier this month, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported that accidents at London Tube stations have increased because some passengers are too afraid to hold onto the escalator handrails. This is apparently...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Be it for good or for bad, nothing lasts forever. So I shouldn’t be too surprised that this day has come. In fact, in my soberer, self-critical moments I’ve realised that it could be a positive...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to/watch on YouTube an audio version of this blog entry here.] After almost ten years based in Bogotá, one might have thought that I’d be fluent in Spanish by now. The fact is, I speak the dominant language here mostly in social settings, where...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia … Some new sorts of microbes were attacking the bodies of men, but these...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘If you ever meet a woman … Just be yourself, Dougal. Be yourself, make them feel at ease and, the golden rule, always let them have their way. It’s easiest in the long run.’ That was the...
@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...
