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Prof Laurence Kirkpatrick, Wednesday 8th July 2026

Shops and restaurants use these codes to collect information about us.

Time was a big part of our conversation.

How we live today shapes our character.

He was a very unusual Englishman – for he actually understood Ireland!

...something tiny, when multiplied, can topple anyone.

Words are rarely neutral. They carry baggage, particularly in this place I call home...

The reality that time moves on should make us realise the importance of the here and now.

To see beauty in the grey days is hard.

We are all interdependent.

I continue to struggle with day-to-day things I once took for granted.