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Building a future on the kindness of strangers

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Tom Collins

Compassion as well as professionalism My mum died last week. On the same day another friend lost her mother-in-law. Two weeks previously the father of another close friend died. And it’s a fair bet that many of you will…

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In mourning after the death of a much-loved mother

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Tom Collins

Ethna Collins: rest in peace Ethna Collins, who died on August 18 aged 79, lived an uneventful life but not an unremarkable one. Born in Wellington Street, Lurgan, her father Felix Breen was a joiner. Her mother, Rose Ann…

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A sting in the tail from the Waspinator

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Tom Collins

  “No chemicals, no maintenance, no mess, no dead wasps” … and no use There are traces still of the bees’ nest above the door of my study. Bees are a protected species, and mine were moved by the…

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