During past COVID-19 surges, live events and indoor venues pretty much threw in the towel. Not this time. Thanks to vaccines and the apparent mildness of the omicron variant not to mention general fatigue and confusion over the whole pandemic picture most live events and venues have been full speed ahead.
‘Choosing’ potatoes and spats over hens: a peek into our past
As he dips into his personal archive, JOHN ARNOLD reflects on the changes in our society
Tommy Walsh working at his forge at Bluebell, Bartlemy with his mother lending a hand.
John Arnold
BACK in the 1970s, Dublin-born singer Peggy Dell launched an album called Among My Souvenirs the title being taken from a song of the same name that was a hit for Connie Francis in 1959.
Over the last nine months, I’ve spent an awful lot of time among my own souvenirs. The opening lines of the melancholy song are;