New Year 2024 New year 2024 has dawned. We’re over week one in January Relentless rain has fallen Lashing on the windowpanes. Streaming...

I strolled down the south pier in Courtown. On a cool and windy December evening. I saw a white teddy bear hanging from the railing Lit...

On looking out the window in December Its Saturday morning in December 2023 I pull the blinds and the room is ablaze with light. The sun...

walks

I love that little word half and its many uses in the English language. From my earlier days I remember older people saying “ I’ll have a...

Well, I’ll be damned, but my usual routine was a wee bit disturbed again lately. You see herself, my chief household executive, fell...

Vintage isn’t something new, Its old and that’s how it is, No matter what you say, It’s that and that’s the way, You can ask God for the...

Well, isn’t life gone very strange and complicated when you want to purchase a simple thing like a cup of tea or coffee. Recently I was...

Well, it’s hard to believe that 12 months have passed since we welcomed last year’s 2022 bunch of contestants for the annual Rose of...

Our aunt’s first anniversary mass was being held in Clonaslee Church, Co Laois on Sunday May 28th, 2023. We opted to attend and spend...

It was August bank holiday weekend 2023, and we were expecting some guests for a stayover. Stella arrived on Saturday night, and she was...

I live in Gorey, and I keep loving it for the great quality of life here and for the excellent leisure, artistic, dining and sporting...

On Wednesday May 17th 2023 we headed for beautiful Baltinglass in west Wicklow to explore the terrain . We were travelling from Gorey and...

Bells are ringing, alarms are sounding. Climate change is all abounding. India, Japan, Canada,China,Spain and lots more countries are...

As we all advance up the chronological ladder there is a greater memory bank to look back on and I just love to occasionally travel back...

We headed off on one of our family summer trips to visit the wonderful Johnstown Castle and estate on the Rosslare Road outside Wexford...

I must take my hat off to one very dedicated group of volunteers who are involved in Gorey tidy towns committee. They do an excellent job...

I was down on Courtown beach one day as the spring tide had ebbed way out and had displayed a vast expanse of beach for walking. I had...

I was privileged to be in the company of Willie Willoughby, that intrepid doyen of Gorey history, and forty more historical society...

There are some special days in all our lives that we will remember and May 12th, 2022, will forever be etched in my mind as one such...