PERSPECTIVE is a great thing. Two people can look at something and come up with a completely different views. Take the latest JNLR survey, for instance.

I GOT A CALL last week from a reader of this column (yes, believe it or not, some people do correspond with me to either complain or agree with my views on certain topics) to talk about the road works at St Mary’s Cemetery.

I AM ALL FOR anything that will improve the overall appearance of Carlow.

SOMETIMES we are so intent on criticising all the wrongs that we see, the wastefulness in the public service, the lack of accountability, the continuous failure of systems to deliver a good service, that we completely miss a lot of the good we see ...

To this day I can remember seeing one fellow student get the living daylights bet out of him – and it wasn’t by a member of the clergy

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