Simon Tierney
@Newstalkfm - Reporter, Presenter of NT specials - Shopping Trolley Hotline -Stuff that Changed the World - Ireland's Greatest - Volunteer with @ALONE_IRELAND
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6 days ago |
irishexaminer.com | Simon Tierney
As I made my way down a dusty waymarked path, Scots pine filtering dappled sunlight onto the encroaching rhododendron, a scene more reminiscent of the Mediterranean than Ireland opened up before me. The quiet solitude of a little inlet on the north side of Kenmare Bay reminded me why I had undertaken this 50 kilometre hike along the Kerry Way. A little slice of heaven, that rekindled memories of my childhood holidays in this magical corner of the South West.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Simon Tierney
When my daughter had a short spell in hospital recently, I was curious to discover that her patient wristband used ‘Tierney’ as her surname. While this moniker likely did a fine job of identifying her to staff, it was officially incorrect, according to her birth certificate. People rarely call my daughters by their actual name. I don’t mean their first names…that’s the easy part. I mean their surname.
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2 months ago |
thejournal.ie | Simon Tierney
IN AN INTERVIEW with a Jesuit magazine in 2013, Pope Francis declared, “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.”This is not how many Irish people will remember their first experience of entering a confession box, at the tender age of eight. The idea of telling a small child to step into a dark wooden box and to share their worst secrets with an old man who is sitting inside always struck me as bizarre.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
independent.ie | Simon Tierney
I love to give flowers to people. My wife and my mum, mostly. But I’ve never had this experience myself. It always makes me smile. The sight of distressed men scurrying into petrol stations on the night before Valentine’s Day, desperately looking for that last forlorn, manhandled bunch of red roses. I love to give flowers to people. My wife and my mum, mostly. But I’ve never had this experience myself. Because no one has ever given me a bunch of flowers. And why would they? I’m a man.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
independent.ie | Simon Tierney
Should Irish school pupils call teachers by their first names? First names are used in some schools as part of a more ‘child-centred’ approach. Photo: GettyIn his memoir, Frank McCourt, the author of Angela’s Ashes, recalls his time teaching in a high school in New York in the 1960s. One day, a student shouted out, “Yo, teacher man”. He replied, “Call me Mr McCourt.”While “teacher man” might be a step too far, should we really be using formal modes of address in our school system anymore?
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