A PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING This is for all you Father Ted fans!! The wonderful Dermot Morgan, one of our most beloved alternative comedians, made a career out of satirizing Irish politics and rose to international fame playing Father Ted – a priest with quite a weakness for […]
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I’ve romanticised the Beara Peninsula ever since watching Deirdre Purcell’s Falling for a Dancer with the gorgeous Liam Cunningham many years ago – for him I’d forsake the city and go live in the wilds!!! Whilst familiar with the major tourist sites at the ‘mainland’ end, I’d never ventured out along the peninsula itself – […]
Read MoreThis week’s theme from Debbie for One Word Sunday is CLOSED I love this piece – located in the market area of Ennis – a town in County Clare in the west of Ireland….. ….. the deal is CLOSED with a spit in the hand followed with a shake. The scene depicts two men finalising the sale of […]
Read MoreI came across this seat earlier this summer in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. The woodland is located alongside an old railway line – now a very popular cycling route. I can’t find much about the piece but it serves as a poignant reminder of the past – this part of the country […]
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Why don’t we leave earlier in the morning – says she – get to Westport by lunchtime and do the climb in the afternoon… Well – says he –we could do a bit of it I suppose… No! No! No! – says she – that’s not the attitude – its all or nothing. We’re going […]
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