Let me begin by saying this is a response that was coming from me regardless of the election outcome, and that I can only assume your voting choices based on what you have said in person and on social media. Writing is my way of…

That was when he started spending a lot of time at the lake. It began as self-inflicted punishment.

When they reached him, a strayed child from a broken home, he heard only a whisper, a whimper, a wisp.

“A slight turn north onto O’Connell Bridge and the wide River Liffey — like a shot through the wounded heart of…