I’ve got through the first week of Lent with just one small lapse from my alcohol fast. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreFebruary 24, 2021
In this social media age it can be tempting to think that if it didn’t appear on Facebook or Instagram, or wasn’t shapchatted or tweeted then it didn’t happen! (more…)
Eddie GilmoreFebruary 18, 2021
If by now some of us have experienced an embarrassing, unplanned moment on zoom then we’re in good company. The latest Youtube video to go viral shows a virtual court…
Eddie GilmoreFebruary 12, 2021
In my interview for a radio station in Cork on the day of our ‘Fireside Gathering’ I was asked the meaning of the old Irish proverb we’d quoted in a…
Eddie GilmoreFebruary 8, 2021
New life can appear in surprising places, even in something which I thought was totally dead. I’ve somehow made it through the first couple of weeks back at work after…
Eddie GilmoreJanuary 15, 2021
The Australian poet Michael Leunig quotes an old saying at the start of his book ‘A Common Prayer’: ‘Love is like bread, it has to be made fresh every day.’…
Eddie GilmoreJanuary 4, 2021
In this year in which so much was unfamiliar it is comforting that some Advent traditions have remained more or less the same. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreDecember 21, 2020
A welcome discovery for me on Youtube this Advent has been a family bluegrass band from Branson, Missouri. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreDecember 14, 2020
