Poland

A really strange thing happened this week. An old friend rocked into Katowice for the weekend. OK, that’s not strange ya turnip you’re thinking, well, it was strange because we’ve barely spoken in ten years and had pretty much lost touch.…

Poland’s a really young country compared to Ireland. It's hard to say when it even started. We could start in 1989 when the present ‘democratic’ Poland was born. I use quotation marks because, well, when Communism fell and Capitalism 2.0…

I seriously don’t want to alienate half of the reading audience here. You’ve got to be careful when writing about parenthood because, y’know, half the audience couldn’t care less; and I understand that.  I’ve pretty much no time for other…

“Who are ya, who are ya, who are ya…..” So roar the Millwall supporters who sing in my head from time to time. Why are they singing this? Well, that’s easy, to write an introductory piece about myself you stand on the precipice of an…

I think the first time I fully became aware of Unsound was in 2013, when a total ban on photography meant reviews such as this one were accompanied by artists' interpretations of performers. In the years that followed I went on holiday to…

On the Polish-Belarusian border sits Bialowieza forest. It is the last remaining section of an 8000 year-old forest that once spread across Europe. For all this time it remained untarnished by humans. In it reside lynxes, wolves, bison and…