Sep 28, 2010 | Features
Wrote a feature for yesterday’s Andersonstown News on the Chilean miners who are still trapped below ground. I called the piece, ‘Esperanza, Spanish for “Hope”’. Here it is: The weather on Thursday, August 5th, wasn’t bad. You might have been getting ready for work or...
Sep 24, 2010 | Features
Finished ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ which I found tedious and long-winded. Derivative ‘Silence Of The Lambs’. Cannot understand the sensation around Stieg Larrson’s trilogy; and although my brother-in-law bought me all three as a present in August I doubt if I...
Sep 20, 2010 | Latest
Yesterday, we were in Croke Park for the all-Ireland. Down weren’t up to it and although Cork beat them by only one point, the margin of victory could have been much greater but for this and that. Cork 0-16: Down 0-15. Nevertheless, one of the best days out for a...
Sep 20, 2010 | Features
Wrote a feature for today’s edition of the Andersonstown News in response to the attacks by some journalists on Martin McGuinness and the issue of memory. It appears in the paper as ‘Conjuring Truth From The Tricks Of Memory’. Here it is: “Can you talk about your...
Sep 12, 2010 | Features
Finished ‘The Paris Review Interviews Vol. III’. In her introduction Margaret Attwood gives some tips: “read your manuscript with a ruler; you catch the typos better that way. Make a birth chart for your characters; then you’ll always know how old they are. These...
