Hickey’s World
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The View from Hickeys World
It was my school pal Gerry who first gave me the idea of having a pen pal. I was beginning…
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I’ve never kissed Bono, but my friend Mareike has. Here she is with the great man in a photo taken…
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I last saw Mac a couple of months ago when we stayed with Trish’s first cousin Grace on her farm…
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Few people bother to sit next to me whenever I get the bus. It’s something I was always conscious of.…
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No, I’m not planning to kick the bucket any time soon, but right now I’m looking at life in a…
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I was asked the other day if I had any legacy issues after all my operations, and I answered ‘no’.…
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My cousin took her own life a couple of years ago. Her husband came home one day to discover her…
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I wrote this for the Irish Independent online recently, but it deserves a place on the blog: We were in…
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My dad died on January 1, 2008, in Cork University Hospital (CUH). I had been there the night before with…
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Mathis Ellerbe took his own life a few weeks ago. His name may be unknown to you but he was…
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Why do people think that because we have a facial disfigurement or disability that somehow we are lacking some brain…
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Whenever I wrote letters to pen pals for the first time – something I started in my teens – I…
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She was sitting on the wall, her feet dangling over the side just feet above the river, struggling as two…
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Recently Irish Water announced that 675,000 households paid their water bills. That’s 43% of customers. I’m one of them. When…
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The county’s GAA colours (not Cork’s) caught my eye as the flag billowed in the Sunday breeze. My wife and…
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I have written about Ellen (Ellie to family and friends) Vollmer before, but her her latest blog touched a nerve…
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I had not seen him approaching. The first I knew was when he pushed me on my back and I…
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When President John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, I was as stunned as everyone else. I had…
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Cynthia Cowles’ face seemed frightening to her schoolmates. Her eyes were too far apart and her nose was flat, provoking…
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I was introduced to a bunch of young people recently. They were friends of one of our companions, and we…
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