WE WHO ARE YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS…
Last year my friend Annie Galvin gave me a book on writing called Bird by Bird. Its by Anne Lamott. Its a great book and I recommend it. As well […]
MORE BALLS:THE BATTLE FOR THE METAL MAN CONTINUES
As the shenanigans surrounding the Metal Man continue unabated I more and more feel I would like the Metal Man left alone. Weekends and bank holidays are a nightmare. The […]
BRASS NECKS AND BALLS OF STEEL:THE BATTLE FOR THE METAL MAN
As some of you in Tramore may know there has been an ongoing effort by a community group to gain the Metal Man and his pillars and access to same […]
ST. PATRICKS DAY IN TRAMORE
It’s been a long time since I have seen a St. Patricks Day parade and I really only saw this one by accident and only half of it at that. […]
PET CEMETERY
On either side of my Fathers pergola (ooer) in my parents back garden there are two stones both with three-letter words painted on them, ‘BOZ’ and ‘RIP’. You could be […]
BRAMBLED BOTTOM & HOMEMADE CAKES:THE DUNCANNON CELTIC LINK 10KM
Since my late 20s I have always done some sort of exercise, mostly in the gym but on and off I have tried to run outside. I say tried because […]
THE SEA
Sitting on a cliff this evening in a brisk February wind, a forbidden cigarette cupped in my paw as the waves pounded into the rocky bay below, I thought about […]
DEJEUNER DU MATIN:JACQUES PREVERT
I saw this poem referred to in a book the other day and I perceived that it would not be beyond and me and I was right. It’s not even […]
CLIFF ROAD TO WESTOWN
Banded in turquoise, sea meets sky, like the cut edge of frosted glass smudged with icy showers. A translucent peach curtain hangs, ruched and folded with the rain that slides […]
RUNNING WITH CHICKENS
Someone told a friend of mine recently that she moved like a panther. Surely not, surely that’s me, I thought as I looked at her wandering around giving it extra […]
