The Limerick Writer

The stock markets may seem like something ordinary folk should stay well clear of. You may think they are for only high flying financial types. The reality is very different. The stock market rules all our lives. If you’ve a pension, it will almost certainly be invested in stocks and shares. So even if you don’t directly have any investments, your pension does. I’m not a serial investor, but…

Greenland is a country that doesn’t get into the news very often. Recently President Trump’s attempts to convince the world that the USA should control it has seen it headline in the news fairly regularly. It’s fair to say this hasn’t gone down well with Denmark, Greenland, or most of Europe, so…. There once were Greenlanders stern,At conquest proposals they’d spurn.They said with a grin,“You…

I read today about the wave of nostalgia for 2016 that is currently doing the rounds on social media. Can you remember perfecting your Snapchat dog filter pose, listening to Justin Bieber, or hunting Pikachu on Pokémon Go? No me neither! Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1e605dvgo There once was a meme from 2016,Resurfaced in 2026’s machine.When news feels a grind,We look back to…

When people think of the sectarianism that plagues Northern Ireland to this day, they don’t appreciate it’s origins. Simply put, the trouble in Northern Ireland is between Catholics and Protestants. It isn’t. It’s about civil liberty, culture, and above all self determination. It just so happens than one side is Catholic and the other Protestant. To fully understand why the troubles were framed…

With the UK voting in favour of assisted dying, the question of whether Ireland will follow suit remains. Ireland often does. It takes its time, but the will of the people wins out in the end.