Irish Independent: The Power of Placebo
There is a radical medical treatment that is gaining popularity worldwide. It costs next to nothing to produce and has proven in quality medical studies to be effective against symptoms of an incredibly wide range of unrelated conditions: Ulcers, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, angina, arthritis, and even Parkinson’s Disease. Half of all doctors in America[1] and […]
Fashion (Stellar)
I’m tired of it. Every week I hear some girl on radio or in a bar throwing out this truism that Irish men are crap dressers and yet no-one ever questions why. It’s an entirely different rule-set for women: it seems you girls can pretty much wear whatever you like. For example, unless you’re Robin […]
Stellar: Cormac
Title: Cormac Author: Jonathan McCrea Date: 20th Feb 2011 Publication: Stellar for publication It seem like aeons ago when Cormac and I were kicking around the lane. As kids we were nothing alike but our sheer proximity meant we became inseparable. To parents and teachers, Cormac was a waster, useless at pretty much anything except […]
Maldives: Confetti
A young coconut is not brown, but rather green with smooth skin. It’s one of the things you learn on honeymoon in a tropical paradise like the Maldives. We Irish, of course, are familiar with the hairy dark exported coconut with its three black eyes that no-one eats at Halloween. But before the fruit of […]
Stellar: Cars
Up until this week I’m not afraid to admit that I drove an Opel Corsa 1.2 litre from 1997 (rather appropriately the year Titanic came out). It was my first love, the car I learned to drive with and it has never let me down (except when I ran out of petrol on the M1 […]