Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in his own bed. We will never know if it was stubborn pride or a fear of being deported that kept him from going to a hospital to treat the pneumonia that killed [...]

David’s usually got some insights: Back to basics for Ireland Inc Cowen’s crocodile tears blurring economic vision And an editorial at the Indo about the property market: Instead of ripping off first-time buyers, the Government should have studied Sweden

€200,000 for a derelict auld cottage and calling it derelict is praise for the condition it’s in: http://www.mattosullivan.com/prop_display.php?id=305 But, browsing for other properties turned up a restored cottage going for  €450,000, so I guess after spending €200,000 for a hovel and another €200,000 to modernise it, it’s still a (relative) bargain. Via the wonderful pics [...]

I forgot I had these pics up on my old CS address: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~mtimony/Donegal/index.html The first set has a few pics taken up in Dungloe. Meself, me sister Jeannie, and my friend Sue spent an afternoon driving there via Glenveagh Park to visit Edel. We stayed overnight at Edel’s parents house and went out on the [...]

Feck! I didn’t one good hike in. From last year:

The cousin has a nice map of Ireland up on the wall of his kitchen! Niall & Helen’s Kitchen.

I saw this on RTE’s News website about the M3 motorway to be build near the Hill of Tara: http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0430/m3.html The Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, has turned the first sod for the M3 motorway just outside Navan, Co Meath. Organisers kept the event low key to avoid opponents to the project turning up. The [...]

One of my favourite pics that I’ve taken while back home in Ireland. A lot of grays, but I really like the different textures of the clouds and the sea, and the 2 wans snogging:

Best, cutest pic I’ve seen: http://www.monasette.com/archive/001049.html