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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]