It really happened! When asking directions a long time ago in West Cork I was told, “If I wanted to go there, I wouldn’t start from here!” . The man’s reply to me had a note of astonishment that asked If you were going to this other place how did you manage to get so badly off track? When you are lost and seeking guidance it is good to be told the truth about how lost you really are. I remember my father driving around in an old Ford car that gushed black smoke from the exhau

This is not a matter of right and wrong; everybody has their own opinions. This statement was made by Regina Doherty the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the Irish government on a RTE radio program recently. The discussion was about the proposal to change the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland which presently recognizes the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn child. She told how she had changed her mind about this very importa