Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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I sat in the front room of my home last week with my brother and parents. As we chatted a hearse drove slowly by and I saw the words DAD written in flowers on the side of it.
Published 16 May 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.....?
I'm told there is a "Dad's Army Appreciation Society". You know, fans of that old comedy set in the Home Guard at Walmington-on-sea during the Second World War.
Published 16 May 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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Last week I wrote a column about how much I regretted that I didn't make a complaint about a hospital when I was neglected at one of the most vulnerable times of my life; twenty three years later very little had changed.
Published 09 May 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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I read this week that a couple of amateur surveyors from Wales have been climbing some of Britain's highest peaks to see if they should be classified as mountains or hills.
Published 09 May 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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Twenty three years ago this week I went into labour. Nothing unusual about that as I was nine months pregnant. When the pains started on the Friday morning I went to my local doctor and he told me to go directly to the hospital. I did. Fifty miles later I entered the Regional Hospital in Galway now called University College Hospital.
Published 02 May 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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What are you complaining about?
In the old Monty Python sketch, a man walks up to the complaints desk in a big store.
Published 02 May 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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There are none so blind as those who will not see
I watched on a neighbour's TV as Tom Cruise cruised into Dublin for the opening of his new movie. I think it was a 12-hour stopover. The radio the next morning was full of people calling in saying how wonderful he was. He shook my hand and said hello one woman cooed. Bully for him, I thought. Who did she think was keeping him in his multi-millionaire lifestyle? He was smart enough to spend a little time with the people who keep him where he loves to be.
Published 25 Apr 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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We tell our children that it's good to share, don't we?
Bertie Peacock is a name that will be familiar to some of you, but by no means all.
Published 25 Apr 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
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As I escorted my elderly parents to the Ard Fheis in County Mayo of a political party that inadvertently blossomed with the help of a woman who lay in state on the other side of the Irish Sea I was reminded of a story a woman told me a year ago about her grandmother.
Published 18 Apr 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Blood on the street from evil in the human heart
I was sitting watching Coronation Street on Monday evening, and at about twenty to nine there was an ad. break.
Published 18 Apr 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Margaret Thatcher, the final judgement
It used to be the way that when a major world figure died, there would be a certain pattern.
Published 11 Apr 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
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Give me my money. Give me my money,' he screeched for the tenth time.
Published 28 Mar 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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Every supermarket has a full section of products to kill any germ that was ever heard of and some invented to part you from your money.
Published 21 Mar 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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If you snooze, you might lose a school or hospital
I hope you had a great bank holiday week-end.
Published 21 Mar 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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Outside the funeral home the hearse pulled out and moved away slowly. I hesitated when a wee voice in my head said, pull out.
Published 14 Mar 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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What were you doing last Sunday morning?
Published 14 Mar 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
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Witnessing integrity and how we could learn from it
Bridie says I should vote Fine Gael,' she said, as I poured her out a cup of tea.
Published 07 Mar 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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A changing attitude to alcohol, I'll drink to that!
My experience of the A and E department of hospital, or Casualty as it used to be called, have been thankfully rare over my lifetime.
Published 07 Mar 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
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It was snowing when I awoke. It was forecast but I watched with interest to see how much would fall. I had been talking to him yesterday and he had mentioned that the roads might be bad on Wednesday morning.
Published 28 Feb 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
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He was coming to help me run the house. To be there when I needed to get away. To support me with others if they needed it.
Published 21 Feb 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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What's in our food? Keep asking the question until it's answered
My doctor told me to watch what I eat, so I switched on the television for the 4.15 from Newmarket.
Published 21 Feb 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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It was a dark winter's night in the mid nineties. I recognised the voice when I took the call.
Published 14 Feb 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Do we care enough when we hear of pain and suffering?
Wasn't it Rabbie Burns who first used the phrase "man's inhumanity to man."
Published 14 Feb 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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When you can't see the wood for the trees
A few weeks ago I got a call from a woman looking to come to stay for a night.
Published 07 Feb 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Small is beautiful, and I should know
We live in an age where we want everything NOW.
Published 07 Feb 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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I worry about piling pressure on our children
I enjoyed a quip from a comedian who was talking about relationships.
Published 31 Jan 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Fearing change, but change can be good
Newspapers in England this week published a list leaked from Arsenal Football Club of the fines imposed by manager Arsene Wenger on players.
Published 24 Jan 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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When I met her she was in her late seventies. Not a handsome woman but with a beauty that came from the soul. She walked with a confidence that was delightful to be around. Tall, elegant and peaceful. I was fascinated. What was it she had found that had made her so? So content, so loving, so kind, and so serene.
Published 17 Jan 13 • Read More
How I See It with Denzil McDaniel
A personal view by Denzil McDaniel
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Get a grip. It's not time to hug a hoodie
My headline of the week comes from the Belfast Telegraph:
Published 17 Jan 13 • Read More
Mary Lynch is the author of "The Long Road Home", available in bookshops or from www.londubh.ie.
Contact Mary at mary@marylynch.ie or visit her website - www.marylynch.ie
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He sat back in his leather chair, swung his feet up onto his desk and stretched himself out like a cat. His next appointment had cancelled, so he had half an hour to himself.
Published 10 Jan 13 • Read More
News 
'Good Samaritan' who drove when over the limit does not escape driving ban
There were no "special reasons" why a "good Samaritan" who had been drinking should escape a driving ban after he drove his seriously injured friend to hospital, his solicitor has conceded.
