One of the most uplifting images I’ve seen recently was of a 100-year-old religious sister in Dublin looking at and listening to, via a screen, her 90-year-old sister in London.…
Eddie GilmoreOctober 11, 2021
“We never know, at the time, the ripple of consequences set in motion by the slightest act of kindness.” Those words of the late Jonathan Sacks seem especially apt in…
Eddie GilmoreSeptember 8, 2021
One of the guys I cycle with, Conor, was asking if I’d had any days recently going up to London and I told him I’d been up the day before…
Eddie GilmoreAugust 31, 2021
Summer has always been a time for ‘getting away’, and even if in this second year of the coronavirus it remains difficult to jet off to the distant beaches of…
Eddie GilmoreAugust 4, 2021
The American writer Henry Thoreau claimed that we should not judge our wealth by the things we possess but by the amount of free time that we have. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreJuly 6, 2021
Almost as thrilling for me as the spectacle of Euros 2020 finally taking place a year late has been the sight of spectators in stadiums again. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreJune 28, 2021
After over a year of being largely prevented from doing things in groups I feel like the luckiest man alive to have been part of four very special collective experiences…
Eddie GilmoreJune 16, 2021
“You don’t realise how much you’ve missed something until you have it again.” (more…)
Eddie GilmoreJune 8, 2021
Two incidents involving foreign languages in the days leading up to Pentecost gave me an unexpected insight into this feast that I’ve always struggled somewhat to relate to. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreMay 25, 2021
