A funny kind of New Year’s resolution | CAPUCHIN GENEROSITY AT CHRISTMAS | BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A funny kind of New Year’s resolution:NEW Year resolutions and I are old friends. Usually I muse at the end of the old year about what I need to commit myself to for new year’s arrival. This year the pandemic cuts down the options. Going to the gym isn't on. Taking up senior hurling or football? Same problem. Stopping the drink? Maybe? But seeing as I am fairly sober most of the time it would be going too far not to have a wee deoch every so often. For medicinal purposes.CAPUCHIN GENEROSITY AT CHRISTMAS IN Dublin on the Tuesday before Christmas an estimated three thousand women and men began queuing in the cold and dark of a bleak December morning outside the Capuchin Day Centre.All below and many more are available through An Fhuiseog, 55 Falls Road, www.thelarkstore.ie• Time Shadows: A Prison Memoir by Laurence McKeown.• 6000 Days by Jim (Jaz) McCann.• On Dangerous Ground, A Memoir of the Irish Revolution by Máire Comerford. Edited by Hilary Dully.• Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution by Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston.• Inside and Out, A Book of Poetry by Gerry Kelly,• Pluid by Eoghan MacCormaic.• Ón Taobh Istigh by Jake MacSiacais.• No Ordinary Women by Sinéad McCoole.