“From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!†– George Orwell, 1984 We are about to enter into a state where every digital step you take is recorded. At the end of March, the Government will introduce the most draconian [...]
The tagline of a Canadian commenter on DailyKos Canada – where a pack of smokes is ten bucks and a heart transplant is free.
I wrote a small afterword for Michael Augustine‘s latest book in English, Mickle Makes Muckle, translated from the German by Sujata Bhatt and published by Dedalus Press . You can download some of the poems (and my afterword) in pdf, listen to Michael reading from the book at the Dublin launch, and indeed buy the [...]
If you know anyone with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), then this heart-warming story in the Irish Independent sends out a message of hope. The onset of AMD is due to a deterioration in this pigment made up of lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin (MZ). The new supplement which combats this is undergoing studies at Waterford Institute [...]