A Selection from a Day’s Rummaging in Shoe Boxes

A Selection from a Day’s Rummaging in Shoe Boxes

And now for something completely different. With time on my hands, like everyone else the confinement is driving us to diversions. Mine is going through and reorganising negatives, scanning some and knowing where the rest are. In the course of time robbing, but enjoyable rummaging today I found an old photo album which I filled…

Remembering Dessie and the Brennan’s Bar Tour to Inishbofin in 2003

Remembering Dessie and the Brennan’s Bar Tour to Inishbofin in 2003

    There are times when I wonder a lot about the Man above – He who pulls all our strings and I’m often highly impressed with his sense of humour. Danny O’Mahony invited me to drop into the Radio Kerry studios on Monday night as he was doing a Desmond ‘Dessie’ O’Halloran special on…

Nelson’s Pillar and the Rocky Pound Road Connection

Nelson’s Pillar and the Rocky Pound Road Connection

If you thought there wasn’t a connection in the world between Pound Road, Castleisland and Nelson’s Pillar – you’d be right. However, not everyone you’d meet here would agree with you. This is because a local man had a lump of rock on the mantle piece of his house – close to where Pound Road…