The older I get, the more appreciative I am of the gift of experience. As long as you can reflect a little on what has happened (and writing several thousand words a week, every week, for fifteen years now is quite helpful in that respect), the gift of experience is to act as a filter to the world. The best outcomes are unlikely. So are the worst. Actions are everything. Words are wind.    Tommie Gorman’s interview with Bertie Ahern last weekend contained the seeds of something deep, and perhaps if it is not wisdom, it is certainly the gift of…

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