Find me on Substack @Another World is Possible
I have moved! A few weeks ago, I created a newsletter on a platform called Substack. It is called Another...
On writing to change the story
At the end of November, I attended the last 2022 session of the Climate Writing Group: Writing For Change. It...
Protect Knocksink Wood – a grassroots campaign against overdevelopment
This is Knocksink Wood, on the outskirts of Enniskerry, Co Wicklow. And this precious nature reserve, an EU-designated Special Area...
The Art of Wild Swimming Ireland – a one-of-a-kind book launch
Anna Deacon and Vicky Allan (find them on Instagram @wildswimmingstories) have created the most amazing guide to wild swimming in...
Earth Day 2022 – a poem
On Earth Day 2022 Let your promise be the dandelion that won’t be sprayed or mowed; the tree that won’t...
Connemara – Wild swim at Glassilaun Beach
You don’t end up at Glassilaun by chance. It is a place you seek out. Seek it out, we did,...
Double dip of a St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day 2022 was simply EPIC! It started at 6am when I got out of bed for a sunrise...
Not going back to normal
Covid got me in the end. Just as midterm got underway and the government announced the lifting of the mask...
Imbolc Swimrise – a poem
Imbolc Swimrise Imbolc. I mbolg, in the belly. In the belly of the sea, I bobbed Like a bottle carrying...
My 10 favourite books of the year
Here is, in no particular order, my top 10 books of 2021. It has been an excellent reading year, with...
Magic of November / Magie de novembre
November is my least favourite month of the year. The ever shorter days, the darker nights, the cold creeping in...
Autumn meander at Lough Muckno / Flânerie automnale à Lough Muckno
Sinuous Lough Muckno wrapped itself around the drumlins of Monaghan, and the beautiful light dappled through the trees in the...
COP26 – Don’t go back to sleep
And the winner of COP26 is… The fossil fuel industry!!! I borrowed this line from The Guardian because it perfectly...
Spinc – Hiking to my heart’s content / Une rando qui fait chaud au cœur
This 👆 is my favourite photo of our family hike to the Spinc, in the Wicklow Mountains: my four acorns,...
I wrote a forest…
One morning last October, after I’d finished reading Finding the Mother Tree, by Dr Suzanne Simard (the scientist who discovered...
