Rowan’s rambles
IT is with the greatest sadness, and not a little anger, I observe that the SDLP, one of the greatest political parties in the history of this island nation, has made itself an accessory after the fact of a civil crime.

Rowan’s rambles
THE origins of golf are vague. Some will tell you that it all began on a Scottish hillside when two shepherds hit a couple of stones with sticks they pulled from a brier hedge. Who can say?

Rowan’s rambles
HOW has your week been? I fed lambs in a lamb nursery and lay down with cows, for Nationwide.

Rown's Rambles
WHEN I am asked how I am, I always reply: “I think I am wonderful” and then as an afterthought, “but I may be wrong.”

A journey to peace
TOMORROW night, on RTE’s “Nationwide” programme, I dance with 20 women in west Connemara, having spent the night with them in the Kylemore Pass Hotel.

In hope we find courage
THE BBC reporter spoke about a night last week in Basra. There were owls hooting in the clear darkness of starry skies, the man said, and, at once, I remembered the Iraqi poet who, just as war was about to start, wrote about the carpet of perfume and purple, when the bloom of desert hyacinth carpeted the sandy earth on the first day of the rains, that came again after the seared time of the dry season.

Rowan’s rambles
I BRING you news of great importance to your pocket and to your long-term financial wellbeing.

Rowan’s rambles
IT was the priest who said it. He went out of his way to find me and to comment on his belief born, he said, out of his experience.

Rowan's rambles
NOTHING has changed in the last year at the ferry crossing on the great river Niger.