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What can we do to cope?  We can start each day and end each day with a Gratitude List, as suggested by Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post.  It is grounding and never more than now, we need to engage with  life … Continue reading →

From: <editor@irishhealth.com> To: <michelle33@eircom.net> Subject: Message posted Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:10 AM Michelle, Thank you for your comment, which has now been reviewed by the Editor and has been posted on the relevant site discussion area. — Original … Continue reading →

Morris West – The Shoes of the Fisherman ‘It costs so much to be a full human being and there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage, to pay the price…  One has to abandon altogether the … Continue reading →

Like so many other things in 2020, the pandemic is screwing up cancer research. Clinical trials—indispensable to discovering new treatments—have been shut down, postponed, and disrupted by the lack of periodic, in-person, check-ins. Source: Another victim of the coronavirus pandemic: … Continue reading →

No. 1 25th February 2013 ‘Mortgage Delinquents’ by Michelle Clarke (Chestnut) Mathew Elderfield makes reference in a recent article to ‘Mortgage Delinquents’. Is this too harsh or is there a sense of realism here and if so, why? If people … Continue reading →

No. 1 3rd January, 2013 Toxicity & Eye of the little Green Monster.   by Chestnut (Michelle Clarke) – Citizen Journalism:  Reply to Joe Mac This makes the Citizen Jouranlism position and lack of profile so clear. There quite evidently … Continue reading →

No. 1 14th April 2012 What changes? Inverse Debt rises while social conditions deteriorate rapidly for our most vulnerable. Dublin 4 bandied across the media to imply elitism. Truth is so many peope are in debt, more are fighting to … Continue reading →

June 19th 2020:  COVID-19 and all dog pounds are closed down.  Our dear dog Freddie passed away after nearly four years with us.  We loved him dearly but we had Jack Russell for nearly 14 years and today I found … Continue reading →

No. 1 22nd March, 2011 The Moriarty Report is published; one report in excess of 1900 pages by Michelle Clarke (Corruption) – Dublin Castle : The Scales of Justice   From 1997 to 2011, March 23rd and finally the cupboard … Continue reading →