Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was running on fumes and I had to stop for petrol. As I was whizzing down [...]

On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can’t kill it nor change to a console. On Debian [...]

On Sunday Jeannie, me sister, and I went to Murvagh beach on a lovely sunny afternoon (or the Backstrands as me Dad used to call it). We spend about 2 hours paddling in the water and walking along the strand on a beautiful warm sunny day, with a big black cloud slowly approaching. I got, [...]

A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They’ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views: And this one getting over 1800 views: Both of these were taken sometime in the 1970′s and I can’t take credit for taking the [...]

A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the voices of people talking about the famine (including Bono). And your in a ruined house. You walk out [...]

One of my favourite pics from a trip home in 2006:

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern resigned, reminds me of this photograph I took while home in January: I’d guess some people think he’s lying!

Go visit my friend’s newly opened Irish pub, (Yes they are Irish) in South Miami: The Irish Times Irish Pub & Eatery is officially OPENING FOR BUSINESS today at 8:00p.m.!!! Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day…. The Irish Times 5850 Sunset Drive South Miami, FL 33143 Corner of SW 72nd Street and SW 58 [...]

Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before they act, as they don’t get credit for preventing things but for solving crisis’s! http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0217/drugsfeature.html If these people were dying at one time [...]