Mick O’Callaghan’s photo of a corner of his garden
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The Curragh Military Museum
I visited here on my Kildare holiday. All my photographs are taken outdoors. Photography is not allowed in the museum.
Frightening looking field guns and tanks are on display.
My son in law, who is a member of the army reserve and is familiar with much of this artillery was my guide. Aoife was there too.
This museum is well worth a visit for anyone interested in military history.
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From The Archive
The gymnasium was in the sportsfield.
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Lessons in Sport
I like to support my family’s sporting endeavours when I can.
That’s Cora, No. 19 waiting with her friends for their turn to go on at their Under 13 developmental match in Bishopstown on Friday August 16 2024.
30 girls turned up for each side and everyone got a chance to play half a game.
Ballincollig, Cora’s team, were playing Bishopstown. This is what happened before the game.
A lovely young lady who was a member of Bishopstown GAA club, Kate Wibbe, had lost her life in a road accident earlier in the week. Kate had just celebrated her 23rd. birthday and was on her way to work at her first job when the tragedy occurred.
On Friday evening, before the game, on a pitch on which Kate had trained and played, 60 young girls and their mentors bowed their heads and observed a minute’s silence. It was very sad, very sobering and very respectful, a valuable life lesson on the solidarity of sport. GAA is family.
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Big Day in Super Valu tomorrow
The official reveal of Garvey’s Listowel store revamp is on tomorrow Thursday August 22 2024.
Special guests, tastings, giveaways and fun in store. The shop is looking fab. when I visited yesterday the pimping was in full swing.
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A Fact
There are at least thirty ways of saying “drunk” in Ireland. Here are twenty to be going on with;
Three sheets in the wind, out of his skull, stocious, in the staggers, scuttered, scundered, polluted, legless, ossified, twisted, rat-arsed, bollixed, jarred, fluthered, paralytic, pissed, half cut, shit-faced, locked, langers etc., etc, etc.
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