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The Booze Muse

The Booze Muse

The Irish playwright, novelist and essayist, John B Keane famously said that, Drink in moderation is one of the most ridiculous statements ever made. You must drink a little more than moderation. Sadly, he passed away in 2002 at the age of 73 after an eight-year...

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The Shame of Rape

The Shame of Rape

This is the face of my 19-year-old self, free and innocent, at a party in Italy with a heart full of hope and excitement about the future. Just a few weeks after that photo was taken, I was raped. I have chosen to write publicly about this for the first time in 35...

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Green with Envy

Green with Envy

Those of you that know me will know that my favourite colour is green. I love the fact that there are 40 shades of it too, according to the song written by Johnny Cash during his 1959 trip to Ireland. The shade of green that is my focus today though is my least...

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A Sweet Life

A Sweet Life

And so, another Christmas has passed, leaving behind a whole heap of colourful packaging that brought with it enough sugar to send every living thing into a frenzy. And now, as the year-end approaches rapidly, we are either facing up to or denying the new layer of...

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