Articles tagged ‘river shannon’
Athlone Video Retrospective
By Seán | August 24th, 2007 |
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This is a video sent to me by Joseph Blake of the www.athlonelive.com forum showing a small retrospective and some modern pictures of Athlone town. Fair play to him. Enjoy:
I will force it to be summer with the powers of my mind
By Seán | August 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Repeat after me:
It is the beginning of August. I will put on sandles. I will roll up my jeans. I will walk to the river’s edge to feed the ducks. I will enjoy watching the boats on the river Shannon. I will think about how lovely an afternoon in summer is as I dangle [...]
Space Shuttle over Ireland
By Seán | August 8th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Did you hear the Space Shuttle is visible tonight over Ireland?
Unh-hunh - we all know what happens when you “go for one” in Ireland. I wonder how many points you get on your license for a P.S.S.U.I (Piloting a Space Shuttle while Under the Influence) offense?
See ye in the beer garden at Sean’s tonight! [...]
Quiet week in Athlone
By Seán | August 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
What’s wrong with this picture? Well, it’s a bank holiday weekend in the middle of the summer for one. This is the HEIGHT of tourist season. Normally there would be so many rental boats here in Athlone town they’d be moored out 4 deep along the western quay wall of the Shannon.
Look up at that [...]
Sean’s Bar, Athlone - Oldest Pub in Ireland
By Seán | August 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
There has been a pub awaiting weary travellers at the crossing of the river Shannon for over a thousand years.
But Sean’s Bar in Athlone isn’t just the oldest pub in Ireland. According to the lads at the Guinness Book of World Records, it’s the oldest pub in Europe. Excavations beneath the current pub have [...]
Newest swans on the Shannon
By Seán | August 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
As I mentioned a few posts ago that feeding adult swans might not be the best idea, I thought I’d follow up on how those little swanlings are doing.
As you can see from the picture here I took last week, they’re no longer quite so little! Yes, the Shannon swan family is safe and healthy, [...]
On feeding swans
By Seán | August 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It’s probably not the best thing to be feeding them at all, but it’s REALLY not a great idea to stroll right up to them and stick out your hand, folks.
It’s not like they’re going to sprout fangs, horns and claws and tear a man to shreds or anything - but those wings can [...]
Finally some sun in Athlone!
By Seán | July 31st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It’s about bloody time! Just look at that lovely, sunny blue sky there!
The funny thing is not the sunny blue sky, but what lies beneath it: the water level on Shannon Weir. You may recall last December when the water level rose over the weir (it later flooded the town, actually) and it’s currently [...]
Drumshanbo
By Seán | July 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I have a good friend with a boat which sometimes functions as his primary residence. The other week he rang me up needing a lift back down to Athlone from a little place called Drumshanbo.
Drumshanbo is mostly known to river and boat folk as it is located where the river Shannon meets Lough Allen, the [...]
TriAthlone Winners
By Seán | July 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
As we’ve been talking so much about the triAthlone, it just wouldn’t be right not to tell you who won.
This, the second year of Athlone’s triathalon, saw MUCH better weather than last year (the rain was falling sideways, as I recall). We had more than 1,500 athletes who dived into the river Shannon to swim [...]
