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We’re getting terribly excited in London about the forthcoming Olympics, now less than a year and a half away. The place is being absolutely...

The central problem in Anglo-Irish relations is that the Irish remember too much, and the English forget too quickly. Most Englishmen barely...

As a District Nurse, Susan (not her real name) started work at 8:30 by popping into the health centre for messages and to deal with any urge...

Signs at two gates to the same industrial compound, a few metres apart, suggest a degree of confusion over identity. OK, but which of y...

It took me over an hour to buy the newspaper today, and not just because I’m an exceptionally slow walker or unusually tired. The main rea...

A terribly exciting development at work: I may soon be able to count hospital deaths. Properly. End point. And the starting point for so...

Amazing how a simple shop sign can set a whole train of thought going. A sign to conjure up dreams. Or nightmares It happened the other ...