The West's Awake
by Cormac MacConnellCormac is a novelist, journalist and columnist. "The West's Awake" is a big hit with Irish Voice readers.
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The West's Awake for February 2010
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 07:32 PM
There are far too many scribes around the place writing about the doom and gloom of our current social and economic plight.
Ye know me by now. I prefer to navigate a path around the dreary mountains of doom and gloom and look at things from another point of view where possible.
There's nothing like a box of Cadbury's Roses
Many of you are Irish-born or the offspring of those born in Ireland. A high percentage of ye, therefore, would not be reading this, or would not be here at all, were it not for England's great gift to the world, the Cadbury family.
That is a historic fact as I will quickly explain, using just one small story drawn from my own experience.
