Opinion
Customer feedback
BY CLAIR WHITTY We get fantastic feedback from you, our customers, about the products we sell. This helps keep us on our toes to ensure that we keep stocking products that work and could help you feel good. Here are some of your favourites. For joint pain and discomfort our top selling supplement was Solgar …
Why there’s no present like time at Christmas
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON That traditional post-feast question, Howd’ya get over the Christmas?, Covers a multitude of possibilities. It allows for different answers all the way from full blown joyful celebrations to ‘Bah humbug’ Scrooge-like replies. And there’s that other cover-all response, Sure you know yourself. Christmas, or the Winter Festival, if you …
At sixes and sevens over the Christmas tree!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Picking a Christmas tree, I often think, is like picking a partner. Some people like their partners tall and thin, others like them short and plump while more like them in between. I’m an in-between man myself. I like my Christmas tree, not too tall and not too small, but with …
The Christmas that left me with years of guilt
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS The week before the Christmas of my 17th year school was breaking up. On my walk to my bus home I was joined by Micheál, a boy in the same year as me but not the same class. He lived in a neighbouring estate. Although at 17 I …
Hurlers on the rack!
By John Fitzgerald Hurling had been played in Ireland for centuries. The 5th century Brehon Laws mentioned it, and the legend of Cuchulainn enshrined it as a game of great skill and sportsmanship. Its actual origin is still a mystery, but one theory is that Celtic tribes that arrived in Ireland in the remote past …
When Harry met Meghan… the sequel
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON The first three of the Harry and Meghan docuseries released on Netflix has been greeted with howls of derision and criticism. On the one hand, the pair are seen as over-privileged whingers and, on the other, as seeking unfortunately-timed royal revenge. Is this fair though? The pair have been …
Looking after your hands this winter
BY CLAIR WHITTY This time of the year your hands can need a bit of attention. They can become dry with the colder weather whether you leave the house or not. Household chores can leave your hands dry and rough. Or if you are using hand sanitiser regularly your hands are probably suffering and in …
A few good ‘money’ reads for Christmas
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR As with last Christmas I have researched a few last-minute book buys for Christmas with a financial bent. Again, so many just drive our fears and needs and are openly greed driven. So, what I thought was let’s look at a few good books that would be worth reading over …
Off the coast of Western Australia, our Maniki crew reluctantly save Rednose from rocks and sharks
BY NED EGAN Part 1 The wind was “piping up”, as our skipper would say. Three o’clock in the morning. I was on the hilltop above Jurien, on Skipworth’s farm, and I could hear the ‘big ones’ booming in, all the way from India three thousand miles away – and slapping onto the island in …
Carnegie, conception and me!*
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran I was not born in a library. And I am not aware of anyone who was born in a library! I have read about babies being born in taxis, on trains and even 40,000 feet up in the sky on long-haul flights. But not in libraries. Nor was I conceived in …
