Dogs and new tricks

Jan 6, 2017 | 0 comments

I was listening to the radio this morning when I heard the cliché uttered as a statement of fact “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. As clichés go this one drives me nuts. First of all, we are not dogs and secondly, if we went through life without being able to...

Gary Linnekar, DIY Divorce and Mathematical Equations.

Apr 29, 2016 | 0 comments

It would appear that Gary Lineker and his wife are divorcing because he does not want a family and she does. He feels that he is too old at 55 and with 4 children already whereas she is 36. You would have to wonder if they discussed this before marriage? This is...

Sabotaged by feelings – Family Law?

Oct 15, 2015

Family Law, despite its prevalence in the lives of ordinary folk, is still a relatively new independent practice area or study of law, particularly, here in Ireland.  For many years, family law just came in under litigation, which makes sense when you consider we had...

The “Equality Referendum”.

May 15, 2015

My polling card arrived yesterday for what is now universally called the “equality referendum”.  For those of you from elsewhere or living here under a rock i.e., the referendum on the rights of gay people to marry.  I know that I am almost definitely going to vote...

Love and Marriage ?

Feb 9, 2015

Are Europeans dying out as Vladimir Putin suggests and is our headlong rush to oblivion demonstrated by our near consensus endorsement of same sex marriage?  Putin concludes that it is, and accordingly, with a rush of logic to the brain, justifies Russia’s homophobic...