Confetti: Maldives (Travel)
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 […]
How to Interview for Radio and Television
Over the past 10 years I’ve been fortunate enough to interview hundreds of interesting people, from Oliver Stone, Nicolas Cage and Dustin Hoffman to intellectual heavyweights like of Sir Patrick Moore, Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins. I’ve spoken to people who were raw with the pain of unimaginable tragedy and I’ve rejoiced in the successes […]
Top 10 apps for for Ipad (May 2011)
Having just invested in an iPad 2, I have been spending an inordinate amount of time online looking for the best apps. I’ve filtered the rubbish, so if you’ve just bought an iPad, download these apps first. And yes, there are 13. I just put top 10 because it’ll get me more hits… Flipbook Quite […]
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 […]