Baghdad Burning

From time to time I read a blog from Baghdad, Baghdad Burning.

It is an award winner, has been published as a book, and is a sobering and timely view of what it is like to live in that city over the three years of occupation.

I know nothing about the writer except from her writing, but she documents -- and clearly has herself -- the extraordinary strength of character which many in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq need to just live day to day.

In our booming Celtic Tiger economy, it is worth reading just to show how easily life can all go wrong, and how quickly.

Brian Byrne.