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Mullooly Matters - 03 January 2024

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SHARING OPTIONS: Matt met a group of men in hospital where competitive spirit was alive and well. \ iStock Recently, my wife and I separately and accidentally “booked” ourselves into two separate “hospital hotels” at the same time. Nothing to do with the fact that maybe, after 49 years together, we needed a break from each other. Her stay was planned and she was booked into what I’ll call a five-star facility – the Blackrock Clinic Hospital Ho...

Roisin Rice repeated her Leaving Cert English exam after a 38-year break. Reader Roisin Rice wrote a letter to the editor about her completing her leaving cert English as a mature student. Here she tells us more about the experience. “Students of Leaving Cert 2020 will have access to their results from 12 noon today”, was one of the Morning Ireland headlines. It was Tuesday 2 February and all of a sudden D-day had arrived for me. I was halfway through my daily energy boost of Flahavan’s ...

“Peter Farrell? East Laois Macra? Sure you know that’s Pat and Caroline’s son.” As time passes, I find that when a person (child) is being honoured for an accolade, it is now the parents I know. This conversation was instigated as Peter Farrell was the deserved winner of the recent Macra na Feirme creative writing competition. We are delighted to print his short story, After Milking, this week. I sent my congratulations to his parents. Peter Farrell, who won the short story section of...