The heat is (still) on
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Irish Times’ columnist in France Lara Marlowe had a house in my hometown, just up the road...
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Thorns in the Flesh
By Richard Dickenson Several things have proved puzzling and even irritating these past few weeks. In no particular order they include the way the Brexit...
More water with that?
By Richard Dickenson I live in an area which is on one of the main tourist migration routes of the island. For the most part...
Once more unto the breach
By Richard Dickenson What on earth has happened to Brits? And how? And when? We Brits were not brought up to be like this. What’s...
The silencing of Jadotville
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou We learn our histories in school at an age when a lot of our past is not of...
Inanimate objects that aren’t
By Richard Dickenson All machines are responsive, willful, and downright user-unfriendly. Remember that Woody Allen idea about machines closing ranks and retaliating against their would-be...
Impressions, assumptions, drunks and queues
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou In a queue at a Nicosia hospital (pre Gesy) a woman made an enquiry of the person registering...
Freedom of the press
By Richard Dickenson It’s all a matter of priorities, and the vital process of prioritising is a feature that lots of us don’t seem too...
Old boys and older girls
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou It was an Irish ladies’ night out, ladies without male companionship, widowed or divorced, so the chat eventually...
To begin at the beginning
By Richard Dickenson It seems that when the universe first appeared, and there is, as yet, no firm evidence that it was on a Monday...
From the mouth…
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Living in a women’s hostel in the UK gave this small town girl who had left Ireland at...
Decisions, decisions
By Richard Dickenson Isn’t life just full of them? Every last one of them important decisions. Do you support Liverpool or Spurs? Were you rooting...
Ranting and raving
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Facebook can be a pleasure or a pain. I love keeping in touch with people I don’t see often or people...
The days of the drones
By Richard Dickenson Despite what some readers may think not all British drones are to be found living it up within the confines of the...
Sri Lanka: A fairy-tale ending or new crisis?
YOU could write a heart-warming fairy-tale about the turbulent events in the island nation of Sri Lanka in the past two months. It would involve...
Candidates reinforce idea that politics is about transactions
INTEREST in the presidential elections is very low with only a few weeks left before the vote. Apathy rules, with the public disengaged and the...
Cycling is no longer safe, unless attitudes change
THE tragic death of the 13-year-old boy Damianos Pachy, who was hit by a car while cycling with friends on a country road on Wednesday,...
Coffeeshop: Of mice and men: the best plans for financial cover-ups
AFTER years of foot-dragging and lame excuses by the parties, the eagerly-awaited law that would allegedly introduce transparency and combat corruption by forcing our...
Whistleblower mayor Phedon Phedonos has got it right
PAPHOS Mayor Phedonas Phedonos knows very well how to stir things up. He has done it on several occasions, since first elected, to good effect....
