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Electric Picnic and the Year of Little Magic 11 Feb 2013 | 12:25 am
2012 was a whitewater raft ride in many ways. Difficulties, death and despair at every turn, or so it felt. Such wonder as there was seemed pitifully small. And yet, and yet. And yet I believe in magi...
A message from Brazil for Sean Penn 10 Feb 2013 | 09:46 pm
Good luck to the boys and girls from Brazil who made a movie. They want Sean Penn to pop down for the premier. And why not? Ariel, you’re an inspiration. Vem Sean Penn.
To the annoying per-pubescent kid from earlier today 16 Sep 2012 | 06:50 pm
And the pushy one And the one who looked sullen all day And the one with the all-messed-up hipster hair And the fat one And the one who looked too skinny And the one who threw the tantrum in the gift ...
Looking for Suffering in All the Wrong Places 10 May 2012 | 08:45 am
People with disabilities inspire fear and disgust in the able-bodied because they seem to suggest the limits to this promise. But research shows a dramatic difference between non-disabled people’s per...
Derval O’Rourke: ordinary, everyday superwoman 3 Apr 2012 | 10:15 am
It’s not every day you get to mix it up with one of the fastest women on the planet but that’s what Jacob was doing yesterday. Ok, she may be an Olympian, a world champion hurdler (Gold at the World I...
A lesson in love from Down syndrome, a lesson in emotional distance regarding ASD 8 Feb 2012 | 11:55 am
Two special needs stories, related, but at such opposite ends of the spectrum of acceptance that it’s hard to think they were published within days of each other, one in The Irish Examiner and the oth...
It’s better to try than never to fly: introducing The Sky Stealers 1 Feb 2012 | 02:07 pm
Know a kid who likes to read? Before Jacob came along, I wrote a book for children aged around 8-10 years old. It almost got published, but a deal fell through. I’m dusting it off and giving it one l...
The polar bears do not live at the top of the world. 21 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
We’re hanging in space. Nobody knows which way up is. Back there in time, before you or I had to concern ourselves about it, somebody decided that it would be easier to standardise the setup. Make Nor...
The perfect gift 10 Dec 2011 | 11:44 am
I thought of the perfect gift for you this year. I thought I might give you time. What could be more precious? Better yet, I had loads of it. ‘There’s no present like the time, so that is what I’ll do...
The Assassination of Down Syndrome by the Coward Ricky Gervais 21 Oct 2011 | 02:29 am
'Monged up' Gervais. ‘When I use a word,’ Ricky Gervais said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ So stand up, you, child with int...
