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 March 2012
Spring in our step - Irish travel continues as the world gets ever smaller
It is so balmy and soothing in Clare today that I am not going to allow even a single negative thought or word into this ramble around the events the last 10 days.
It is so balmy and soothing in Clare today that I am not going to allow even a single negative thought or word into this ramble around the events the last 10 days.
The facts are that the gentlest winter season of my entire life is now mingling and melding into a spring of compelling beauty and hope. Even the barometer that is represented by the hourly news bulletins is rising.
For the past month, as the sun shines away in the mornings and the daffodils dance, there have been far more announcements of incoming jobs and positive developments than job losses or other indices of economic gloom.
