Clare — There’s something special about places where land meets the sea — I suppose the same must be true about that place right on the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, though until Richard Branson invites me on a Virgin Galactic flight I’ll just have to assume this is the case. Sometimes, this meeting place is gentle: Grains of sand bridging the gap between firm footing and water, waves rolling in with the c...
Kerry — I remember when I first learned that marvellous, heartbreaking word. It was while reading Le Petit Prince, and the word was “éphémère”. Our teacher helped us grasp the meaning by comparing it to a s...
Kerry — It wasn’t cold, I can remember no scarf, and my hands weren’t shaking as I took the photograph. The trees were all around changing colours, and their mood infected my own as I watched your windows fo...
Dublin 8 — Dublin’s sunny spell is officially a drought. My plants, whom I have kept alive on our small rooftop through years of cold wet dark, are now dying in the hot dry sun. I fill the heavy, leaky green pla...
Today I walked croagh Patrick and went sightseeing aroud
The summer is finally here and I've spent the day outside in the sun. Moving forward listening to the birds.
I see this morning and it makes me wonder: what is the relationship between commerce and civic society?
Sliabh na mBan, mountain of the women, with Cramp's Castle in the foreground
Thorn must have being here. Probably, an irate motorist who use a sledge hammer to dislodge the wheel clamp. The cost of unclamp in Dublin is EUR 120.
Well this should be the start of something. after not really taking part in social after secondary school, this might be the start of typing my opinions down again.
"Binny's Cairn", a Bronze Age site known locally as "the giant's grave"
Hand-carved tunnels on the border of Kerry.
Filming in an old Manor house today. My work is quite fulfilling.
In Dublin today. We are putting together a social media policy for organisations that work with young people.
Beneath giants in winter...
Today, I taught my child to say "ephemeral".
Last autumn, I saw you from the woods.
Dreary day at home today. The weather is atrocious, and that's not hyperbole. Wish I could see the sun again.
At the edge and the top of the world.
Restroom break, the Beehive.
I love how it gets dark early in the Winter.
Do red marks mean it's going poorly or we'll?
Dogs have it easy... Don't they?
Can't beat a bag of Tayto Cheese & Onion.
A plastic viking helmet, an empty water bottle, my tattered blue diary and a silvercrest transistor radio dominate my desk.
No reception at Broadstrand beach. So posting in Clonakilty. Wet day.
The fog has cleared and the sun is warm. Very peaceful.
Walking in the rain through Dublin
At work. Loving the darker mornings. Office had blown a fuse...
Spiderman spotted in Dublin's Cook Street
The Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin.There is something beautiful about an old library like this.(My first sketch!)
Cycling an oil painting home from An Post.
The drought has ended.
Jesus lives in a patinated gazebo at the intersection of Grey & Reginald streets.
Sunday morning fiddling.
Lily's out pickin' on the roof.
Red Bricks.
Pints in the sun on South William Street.
Cycling to lunch through Newmarket.
Clear skies & chimneys in the Liberties.
Beachside.
Morning view from Kerry.
Very large animals.
The English Market in Cork.
People seem to be blurring away, as we stay in our bubble.
Quay Street buzzes at night.
We found a child's tractor on the beach. It was missing wheels. We made the best of it.
Enough
Once a year Dublin's tallest building is open to the public.
A day tour from Dublin to the West of Ireland.
A table top mountain in Sligo.