Opinion: Paul Hickey - School holidays, toy crazes and prize giveaways
15 Apr, 2021 09:12 PM
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Marbles was a popular craze and toy in the past. Photo / Getty Images
Rotorua Daily Post
It is so hard to fathom the first term of the school year is done.
Thankfully though, we have completed it here without any lockdown dramas, which makes it so much better than 12 months ago.
In the Hickey household we are well past the school holiday timetable now.
Our daughter Destiny has actually just finished her holidays, with the semester breaks at Victoria University not in sync with the school break.
The RnB singer s Instagram post quickly grabs people s attention in a kind of bad way as some think that the 39-year-old star isn t at the age to show off a hickey.
By Neil Hickey, Contributor
The year is 1980. A former movie actor, Ronald Reagan, whose great-grandfather was an emigrant from the village of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary, is the newly-elected, 40th president of the United States. That same year another emigrant, Ciarán O’Reilly from County Cavan, was performing in an off-Broadway play called
Summer by the Irish writer Hugh Leonard, where he met an actress, Charlotte Moore – granddaughter of expatriates from County Wexford – who was a fellow member of the cast.
Thus begins the origin story of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, the most renowned theater company in the U.S., devoted exclusively to staging “the works of Irish and Irish-American classic and contemporary playwrights” (according to its mission statement) and providing a hearth and a home for audiences to savor the work of dramatists from Goldsmith, Synge, Wilde, and Yeats, to Beckett, Shaw, Friel, and Behan, as well as musicals with an Irish tilt:
Jacob Ammentorp Lund
As a teenager, a hickey is worn almost as a badge of honour – a visible display of your immense sexual prowess (or so you like to think). As an adult, however, the vision of a splotchy purple mark in the mirror offers far less prestige. If anything, you re left wondering how to get rid of a hickey in record time.
While it might feel super hot in the moment, dealing with a hickey or love bite after an overly-enthusiastic romantic rendezvous can be an embarrassing task. But you needn t confine yourself to turtlenecks and scarves for the next fortnight, because there are ways to minimise the appearance of that unsightly bruise and keep your ego intact.