Gravediggers

The all-Ireland pub crawl began with a rare visit to Dublin’s north side, when Grainne, Jill and myself headed over to Kavanaghs pub, otherwise known as ‘The Gravediggers’.  Our plan is to visit each of the 15 pubs show cased in RTEs’ documentary ‘The Irish Pub’ by the...

Run-a-muck!

My enthusiasm for new ventures continues beyond my fiftieth year, with the most recent being completing run-a-muck with Mary Corcoran and Ben Hammond.  A mere 5km on relatively flat land, taking in a few ditches and streams; it’ll be great craic we thought, and after all, how hard could it be? Really...

Responsibility

  It’s hard to know where to begin isn’t it? I have many things to say about this election, and the apparent mess of a government which has resulted from it, but my main point is this: we are all, everyone of us, responsible for the Government we have, and the politicians we elected, irrespective...

2016 Targets

2015 was a year full of activity and adventure and I confess that long before the year was out, I started worrying about the year ahead, and how to I might maintain the level of excitement, innovation and new experiences throughout 2016.   I think I can say with some confidence that I am one of very...

My New Walking Buddy

My New Walking Buddy.    We are just back from london, and I take my first Dublin walk of the New Year.  It’s lashing rain, grey and miserable, and my usual walking buddy has fecked off to Uganda to save souls or find herself or some such rubbish.  I reckon she’s going to try and write her...

whats in the bucket?

Some of you will be aware that I have been enjoying a new activity or experience every month of this year, to mark my 50th birthday. I’ve had such a great time and done many of the things on my list – and indeed, a good number that weren’t! Here are the various activities I got to...