THE race to the Áras is almost at an end.
IT LOOKS as though we may have a non-political nominee in the Áras for the next few years – at least if the polls are anything to go by.
GODFREY’S GOSPEL
According to Michael Godfrey
A COUPLE more businesses have closed down in Carlow over the past few weeks. There was no big write-up in the newspapers, no 30 seconds of fame on the radio.
I SUPPOSE I should have been shocked – but I wasn’t.
THE fun is about to begin as the presidential election campaign moves into full swing.
Godfrey’s Gospel
ISN’T it amazing to think that we could find billions upon billions of euro to give the banks a dig out but can’t find the same for private individuals who run the risk of being turfed out onto the side of the road by the same banks who ran this country ragged.
IT’S TRUE, we don’t make enough use of the River Barrow. Last Sunday proved that.
DURING the 1990s, I had the privilege of travelling to New York on an annual basis to cover the St Patrick’s Dayparade, meeting Carlovians who were living there and telling their stories.
SEVERAL years ago, a story was published in The Nationalist trac¬ing the ancestral roots of Hollywood legend Walt Disney to a graveyard just outside of Nurney.
I LISTENED with interest one morning recently to hear an ‘expert’ describe the markets – in other words, world stock markets – as ‘probably 25-year-old egotists who wouldn’t even know how to find Ireland or Portugal on the map’.