‘The wind was fierce last night, wasn’t it?’ ‘Yeah. I thought the windows were going to blow in on top...
My life as an onion dry skins for compost layers of meaning rings of time faster than a tree cut...
Lust in the Time of Covid How can he not sneak out to meet her through the darkened streets his...
‘Tick-tock, tick-tock’ goes the clock in the bedroom he shares with no-one. He sees that it is time to rise...
Sheets of rain slice your face. From this distance, you should be able to see Salthill’s bars and restaurants but...
Paddy McMenamin shares his thoughts on the year 2020 with an extract from his book Walking Through a Story of Life....
Somewhere in the Blue Majestic. I imagine you proud out there, somewhere high on an Appalachian trail, where the boulders...
AT THE KITCHEN TABLE The late spring snow catches us off-guard, drifts against the henhouse wall, blots out the distant...
In 1893 the city of Chicago celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival with the World’s Columbian Exposition. I have...
One of the first actions the British Government took after their withdrawal from the EU on the 1st January was...
Yumi sat crossed-legged on the floor. She had spread out onto the carpet an ugly lime green table cloth that...
Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....