Articles tagged ‘About Ireland’
Flannery’s
By Seán | September 16th, 2006 |
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So this evening I headed out to Flannery’s for the Saturday session. The roads were wet with rain and the streets were full of celebratory Junior Certs in search of The Pub That Does Not Check For ID. I met a friend for a couple before heading across town with the bodhrán in search of [...]
Come on the weekend!
By Seán | September 15th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
After a long week of work, the weekend is finally here!
And it was a gorgeous day here in Athlone, sunny as all get-out. A shame I lent my camera to a friend last night, otherwise I could dazzle you with sunny photos. You’ll just have to close your eyes and picture . . [...]
Athlonian vs Dublin City
By Seán | September 15th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Noel O’Gara sells stone in Athlone. Last year he noticed that a lease on a forgotten park in Dublin had expired and that it was quietly added to a list of items for public auction. The absentee British landlord was mis-advised as to the value of the land and let it go to [...]
What’s up with the whole Northern Ireland thing?
By Seán | September 14th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
So some time last year England finally told the Northern Irish government that if they couldn’t fix things Dublin and London would get together and do it for them. To that end, they told the folks in Northern Ireland to meet the accords of the Good Friday Agreement or their positions and salaries would be [...]
Irish minister warns students not to drink too much
By Seán | September 14th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Today the results for the Junior certs were released. The Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, issued a warning hand-in-hand with her congratulations, stating that students, “must avoid the ‘disgraceful’ behaviour of previous years”. Not only does she go on to mention alchohol consumption, but the press has twinned her comments with warnings from Alchohol Action [...]
God bless Ireland
By Seán | September 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
God, I love this country.
This bore a second posting: walking into town a bit later I saw, parked in the puddles, an Athlone Town Council service truck and an attendant watering the rain-soaked flower baskets.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Ginger Craíc
By Seán | September 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Well, last night was the Shack session. Oh, the pints and tunes and mayhem.
We’ve been running the “modern” session out in the Shack on tuesdays for the last year when it moved from Sundays, where it had been ongoing for at least a year before that. I sensed that the evening was going to be [...]
Winter comes to Ireland
By Seán | September 13th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The sound of wind and the fresh smell of rain woke me this morning, coming frigid and gleeful through the open window.
“But, it’s mid-September,” you say. “Why were you sleeping with your windows open?”
Well, it’s been stiflingly hot at nights here (yes, this is still Ireland we’re writing about). The news has been [...]
