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TIME FOR A RED WAVE OF FEMINISM 26 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
A few years ago BBC2 screened a documentary series called ‘Tribal Wives’. In each episode a different British woman went to live for a period of weeks with a so called ‘primitive’ tribe in various pa...
WHAT DO WOMEN WANT SEXUALLY? 9 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
I was recently asked by the Irish Examiner to write a piece on a new book entitled "What Do Women Want, Adventures in the Science of Female Desire". It seemed like a straight forward enough task unti...
THE LAST SUMMER 7 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
This is the text of an essay that was broadcast on Sunday Miscellany recently. Some people have asked me how the Debs went... it went great! Summer 1979. Ireland had a postal strike that lasted fo.....
RADIO GAGA AND WHAT TO DO WITH 2FM? 6 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
The first thing I thought when I heard of Pat Kenny's move to Newstalk was that I hope they have somewhere for him to park his motorbike with a roof. I then hoped that the arrival of such a radio sup...
BOOKS... A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS 15 Jul 2013 | 04:16 pm
I was asked to East Coast Radio to come up with some book suggestions for summer reading. I was wondering why summer reading should be any different from reading at any other time of year. I mean, t...
"JUST A BIT OF HORSEPLAY.." 11 Jul 2013 | 09:52 pm
Last night I toddled off to bed way too late after staying up to watch ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’ followed by Primetime on RTE. Both programmes were on much later than usual to give us an insight ...
I AM ANGRY - AGAIN 2 Jul 2013 | 08:15 pm
I am writing this on the 26thof June; an auspicious date in Irish history. It was on the 26th of June in 1963 that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America touched ...
HOW TO SURVIVE BEING A 'STAY AT HOME' 27 Jun 2013 | 04:55 pm
Being a full time 'stay at home' parent (why doesn’t someone come up with a better job description), is not for the faint hearted. It is a job for which there is no training and most of us just jump ...
I AM SORRY SASHA AND MALIA... 18 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
It’s a beautiful Tuesday in suburban Dublin. My neighbourhood is humming with the sounds of lawn mowers but as it nears lunchtime that sound is punctuated by the regular buzzing of helicopters flying...
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE CAT INDEED. 14 Jun 2013 | 10:39 pm
So after lots of hoopla and advance PR last night I sat down with my cuppa and bun, ready to be amazed and educated about ‘The Secret Life Of The Cat’ – a Horizon special on BBC2. Regular readers wil...
