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Oileán #5 - Are you happy with your lifestyle choices?

Oileán #5 - Are you happy with your lifestyle choices?

Reflecting on a recent trip to Donegal in a cloud of fever and self pity

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Tom Shiels
Jun 08, 2025
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It isn’t. It might be. Surely not. Maybe it is? It’s probably not going to be. But it could be.

This is what’s going through my head on Friday night as I reach for the last Covid 19 test in a box that’s been gathering dust at the back of a cupboard. Within seconds I have my answer, yes it is, of course it is. The grogginess I felt early on Friday morning…

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