Alfie
For as long as Alfie could remember he checked his watch every 14 minutes to make sure it had not stopped. As he poured his chocolate...
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Darragh Gallagher
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Embarrassing Dad
Never meet your heroes (with your Dad) My Dad is a blues man. He's played with Irish blues legends such as Don Baker, Red Peters and...
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Eoin Lynam
- Jun 19, 2022
- 5 min
Father Christmas
Tommy woke up, yawning broadly and rubbing his eyes. Excitement coursed through his body, today was the big day! He sat up and looked...
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Pat Mullan
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
Tranquillity
I always like the soothing feeling of getting the hair cut. The thrum of the electric clippers, KFM playing softly in the background,...
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Robert McDermott
- Jun 4, 2022
- 8 min
ON CORONADO BEACH
The sweeping arc of the bridge to Coronado Island is as breath-taking as it is banal. It rises through the San Diego docks like a...
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Sam Moorhead
- May 6, 2022
- 11 min
“Nitelink of the Living Dead”
It’s July, 2007. A Monday night in town, during that odd stretch of time when Westmoreland and D’Olier streets were the places to be for...
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Eamon O'Leary
- May 6, 2022
- 4 min
Bells A Ringing.
The wind was rattling the windows and because it was lashing and because I was a big boy of four and three-quarters, Ma said she’d leave...
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Eoin Lynam
- Apr 14, 2022
- 11 min
The Travel Chronicles II
The bus rumbled into a staccato rhythm, easing itself into the early evening as it made its way through the lush, green countryside. The...
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Brian Finnegan
- Apr 5, 2022
- 6 min
The One That Got Away
He's going to meet his cousin at the diner. His cousin told him it's called Russell's now. Apparently they do good burgers. In his day...
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Ann Linehan
- Mar 30, 2022
- 6 min
Anna
Anna watched the neon pink jacket ebb and flow with the crashing tide 300 feet below the clifftop. The waves pounded the rocks and the...
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Mark McCallum
- Mar 2, 2022
- 5 min
A Touch of The Called.
By day I used to walk along these same gravely paths, the solitary rustling sound of the stones was a harmony to my ears. Now I travel...
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Ciara Stagg
- Mar 1, 2022
- 4 min
Say When
It felt like love. It’s always easy to look back on things and say it wasn’t love. Like water stains that cloud the shine of a glass, it...
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Pat Mullan
- Mar 1, 2022
- 7 min
Tipping Point
Eddie watched the trolley being emptied and the groceries slowly snaking their way along the belt. The woman was about his mother’s age,...
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Conor Graham
- Mar 1, 2022
- 8 min
It took only 8 seconds
The process began when the hand left his chest. Ever so gentle. It was not forceful, but there was malice. The hand, soft as it was, left...
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Marcus Power
- Mar 1, 2022
- 5 min
Sorry officer
Sorry officer, I can’t stop, I’ve got a deadline to meet. The full beam of the headlines cut through the deep darkness, lighting up the...
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Eamon O'Leary
- Feb 15, 2022
- 4 min
Technicolour Blues.
It was hard to put an age on Jake. Sitting tall in the saddle, unshaved, and sweaty, he swept a layer of grime and dust from his...
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Sam Moorhead
- Feb 4, 2022
- 6 min
Fatherhood, not for the Faint of Heart.
The big day had finally arrived. The day I was to become a dad for the first time. It was surreal. How could I be a dad? I wasn’t even a...
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Rose Malone
- Jan 23, 2022
- 6 min
Leaving Poetry
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone out of the heart she muttered, reading from the book on the kitchen table. She picked it up, noting...
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Eoin Lynam
- Jan 23, 2022
- 10 min
The Travel Chronicles I
Lara edged forward towards the counter, second in line and soon to be up. The train station hummed with the usual natter of distant...
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