20 February

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 […]

5 February

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 […]

28 January

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 […]

23 January

Stellar: Video Games

After two years of writing this column I have decided this month to finally share a little part of my private life with you, something I’ve kept from you all this time.  You see, I suffer from a condition.  It’s not something I admit in public and it’s certainly something I would normally keep from […]

16 January

Positive: Stellar

There’s something rather undignified about a pregnancy test.  Such a momentous occasion, such a life-changing moment, the beginning of something incredible and it starts with my new wife peeing on a stick.  We stood there in the bathroom waiting to see if a blue line turned into a blue cross on a little plastic wand.  […]