@wwaycorrigan ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Most of us have heard that statement before, Isaac Newton’s third law of motion as it is. It has, of course, significance in our daily lives. That is to say, every decision we take has...
@wwaycorrigan Renowned historian and author Niall Ferguson believes Colombia had little option but to impose what he refers to as the ‘pretty blunt instrument’ of a lockdown for dealing with coronavirus. Speaking to Wrong Way’s Colombia Cast podcast (recorded on 19 June) Professor Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, revealed Colombian […]
@wwaycorrigan It has been said that the first item on the agenda of a newly formed Irish political party is the split. Ireland just doesn’t do unity very well it seems. Borrowing from that, after over eight years of Bogotá as my base, it would seem the first item on my...
@wwaycorrigan OK. I admit it. I’m addicted. For over a year, I thought I had it under control. The discipline and routine that a full-time job gave me saw my dependence on this reduce dramatically. However, then came the double hit. The first was self-inflicted: resigning...
@wwaycorrigan ‘Clean up your own room.’ It’s a sound, longstanding piece of advice, although one that some people these days associate more so with celebrity clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson (he’s slowly coming back to the public domain after an...
@wwaycorrigan Rejection is never easy to accept. Nonetheless, like most things in life, the more we experience it, the better we are at dealing with it. Both personally and professionally I’ve had my fair share of rejection. I won’t say that I’m now indifferent...
@wwaycorrigan About the only thing we can be certain of these days is that the uncertainty permeating through practically every sector of society is set to continue for the coming months if not years. Much has been written about the «new normals» we’ll have to live with because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them, […]
@wwaycorrigan As most of you regular readers of this blog may have realised, it’s not one that tends to engage in hyperbole. So, in honour of that, here’s the understatement of the year: The coronavirus crisis is having a negative impact on many sectors of the...
@wwaycorrigan While born and raised on a farm in the west of Ireland, it would be quite a stretch to say that my upbringing was one where I lived completely off the land in some sort of idyllic, symbiotic relationship with nature. No. For one, we rarely directly consumed any of...
@wwaycorrigan There really is no greater an emotive topic than death and the pain and suffering one’s passing inflicts on those left behind. (OK, romance heartbreak might come close at the actual moment of hurt but this generally diminishes with time.) We never really come...
