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Continue reading →: Cracking Stories – Week 3 – Dark Web
The investigation into the Belfast bombing of the university was led by Inspector Conor Doherty of the Special Branch. His experienced team of 15 officers at the PSNI headquarters was working their way through witness interviews and forensic reports. The Inspector introduced Sinead Morrissey, the chief forensic computer analyst, to…
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Continue reading →: Other Minds
The experiential nature of human existence and consciousness is personal. We often make assumptions about other people based on our own thoughts. In reality, people are unique individuals and, although our behaviour is moulded by the society we live in, there are no constraints on our private fantasies or unconventional…
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Continue reading →: Sleepless in Finaghy
Tough night last night. My better half has vertigo and it is not pleasant to watch…God knows how it feels. It meant that she was struggling to sleep comfortably last night and I had stupidly left an alarm on our new DAB clock radio for midnight, just when she had…
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Continue reading →: inspiration or perspiration?
I trot out the odd rhyme, particularly for friends and family. What intrigues me is the variation in how long it takes me to find the words that sound ok to my ears. On occasion, there is a flow of verbiage that can be rearranged into what passes for poetry.…
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Continue reading →: Chance Encounter
The beauty of chance encounters is the rich pool of other people’s experiences that just happen to come your way. It was my good fortune to meet a couple of people having a leisurely glass of wine at House on Botanic. The gentleman was reared in Belfast but now lives…
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Continue reading →: Special Collections
There is something charmingly ritualistic about entering the inner sanctum of Special Collections in the McClay library. You are given a key and a smart pass by the librarian and accompanied to your desk. The book(s) you requested are brought to you. The books I had asked to see were…
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Continue reading →: Friday is story time
I have the germ of an idea, and I hope it will be of interest to my discerning readership. Every Friday, I will publish installments of a story about…well, you’ll have to read it to find that out. I may try to stick to a word limit, but that has…
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