Ireland

What are your plans?

Mar 7th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Ireland

The journalist asked, “Apart from keeping things over, have you any other plans?’

‘Keeping things ticking other is not such a bad thing to do’.

It wasn’t a very good answer. On reflection, there might have been a more positive response.  The point of keeping things ticking over is to be counter-cultural; to re-assert the values of community, to affirm those who have held on to a belief in something other than money and possessions in the face of rampant materialism.  Keeping things ticking over allows a rediscovery of roots.…