Chris Muse, teacher, justice, author,

Earnest Hemingway described bankruptcy as happening two ways: ‘gradually then suddenly.’

An amazing Irish summer; Steve Lynch hangs on; The tragic consequences of ‘joyriding’ and youthful malaise

“I’d love to promise that the sun will shine on you, but I can’t!”  This was my sign-off on this page in my last dispatch at the start of the summer, a message to all readers intending to make the trip “home” in July or August.  As it turns out, I shouldn’t have been so negative and I couldn’t have been more wrong.