A collection of personal musings and photos!
Hard to believe it but it’s true! 29th September, 1979. The recently elected Polish Pope arrived in Ireland to a tumultuous welcome. It was a Saturday. I has spent the second half of Friday wandering in Dublin waiting for the […]
The sun shone; people turned up in their hundreds; trays of cakes and tarts arrived; children danced and sang; memories pleasant and difficult were recalled; tea and wine washed down an enjoyable weekend. The celebrations in Kealkill, Co Cork, to […]
It certainly seemed that way yesterday! The small island in Uibh Laoire parish, and just west of Ballingeary, enjoys a long tradition of pilgrimage. The annual Mass which in recent years is held on the Sunday after St Finbarr’s feast […]
I admitted to a printer today that I think it’s easier to do penance in this life than in the next! I used to be a regular caller at the printers when I edited the Fold magazine but they don’t […]
I’ve met a few people in recent days who were either going to or coming from the National Ploughing Championships which are taking place in Athy, Co Kildare this year. It is the national farming fiesta in Ireland! It makes […]
Yes, everyone knows that Kerry went home with the Sam Maguire again. But while the lads were kicking away in Croke Park, a Corkwoman was swimming her way into the record books by becoming the first Irish person ever to […]
As the Cork football teams heads for Dublin to contest the All-Ireland Football Final tomorrow, I can’t help but recall the last time the famous Sam Maguire Cup was brought back to Cork. I was chaplain at Scoil Mhic Shuibhne, […]
It’s a short piece of road full of pictures. I can’t travel it without recalling the masterly strokes of the school on my boyhood imagination. The road winds its way from the village to the rock where the holy year […]