It happens nearly every night I go out for an evening at this gentle season of the year. Often I am in pubs or clubs where I am not known, just another passing stranger of the night, a small bearded ...

Our columnist's pride as “Silent Night Christmas in the Trenches 1915” pops up on the smash hit, Irish singing group Celtic Thunder. Warm greetings from a chilly Clare with the winter solstice biting ...