The Celtic Phoenix: out of the fire and into the frying pan

Professional journalists are frequently asked why the news media don’t focus more on good news rather than relentlessly focusing on bad news.

It’s a legitimate question and a sign of the times we live in. Ireland has been through a period of remarkable trauma and it is easy to become ground down by more than a decade of crises.

So it is understandable that one of the results of the last 15 years ...