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Life during lockdown

This blog that I’m writing is a message of hope for all those people who are alone and stuck at home. We’re all in this together and, at the very least, all the celebrity aristocracy are every bit as miserable as the rest of us. I try to think about the time of the plagueContinue reading “Life during lockdown”

Growing Up in Dublin

I was 10 years old. It was 1968 and I lived on the Ballymun/Santry border. The street I live on was called Old Town road. I went to Larkhill Primary School. At a very young age you learnt which families were the catholic and which were protestant. If your surname began with an ‘o’ i.e.Continue reading “Growing Up in Dublin”

Kings and Queens of lockdown

This blog is going out to all the kings and queens of the lockdown scene. I’ve just read that lockdown may last a while. We’ve always taken our freedom for granted – the way that it is, is the way that it is. The messages out there now seem to be: take nothing or nobodyContinue reading “Kings and Queens of lockdown”

Don’t let the virus get you down

Today, I wanted to talk about the stay-at-home lockdown scenario that we are all going through. When I was a child, my dad, Jim, who sadly passed away in March, liked to share with me what it was like when he was growing up. In Dublin during early May 1941 he told of 4 bombsContinue reading “Don’t let the virus get you down”

Mad dogs and Englishmen

Hi my name is Paul McGuinness or my nickname to my friends, if I have any left, is Maddog. In these blogs I’d like to talk about my life, living with a brain injury and music. To quote W. C. Fields “I was born at an early age” but it’s taken me 56 years toContinue reading “Mad dogs and Englishmen”

My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.