Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #15
Cathy Freeman is an Australian field athlete. She is also an Aboriginal woman. In fact, not only is she both, but she is the first…
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Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #14
Back in the 1970’s Tony Mangan attended school in Dublin. Often, back then, young girls wore skirts and young boys wore short pants as…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #13
Maewyn Succat was a boy born to Roman parents, kidnapped as a teenager and sent into slavery in Ireland to tend on sheep in county…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #12
During this past week Tony Mangan has landed in Crocodile Dundee country. The 1986 hit movie chronicled the lifestyle of outback hunter gather Mick Dundee…
17 More Families in Emergency Accommodation since early March
Reacting to the publication of the latest homelessness figures by the Department of Housing earlier this week, COPE Galway have said that the reported increase…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #11
Back in the 1890s there was a lot going on. In Ireland, the Dublin football team were the team of the times as they ended…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #10
As the good old jokes go: A man walks into a bar… For in a bar you are bound to meet the most interesting of…
Sugar Tax to fight Obesity – Nanny State Politics or a Good Idea?
All agree obesity is a problem. The notion of the upcoming levy on sugary foods, the so called sugar tax, is in the pipeline. Without…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #9
There’s a wise old saying: If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain According to the Oxford dictionary this generally…
Tony Mangan ‘Walk Around The World’ #8
Tony has been keeping it very Irish this week. Despite St. Patrick’s day having passed, his memories of the emerald isle are sharper now…