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Lying in Lissadell.
There's an old log that lies rotting on the shore at Lissadell, right where the shingle meets the fields. It's lain there for as long as I've been...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Three)
‘I quit this, I quit the trip. I go home. I work a string of meaningless jobs. Eventually I quit those too, and somehow manage to quit all the way to...
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Satin. Part Two.
My daughter Meghan set me up recently on a fantastic, on-line site, where I can sell my things and buy beautiful things at a bargain price. This has...
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Satin. Part One.
Meghan my daughter did her research and told me, “For your curly hair satin pillows is good for your hair,” So I bought lovely satin pillows from...
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Busking In Coffs Harbour
Busking In Coffs Harbour By Paul McCann Although my experience as a poet and songwriter has been a lonely journey I have been happy to experience the...
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Easter 2025 by Alfred N.Muggins (Rogue Reporter (please don’t shoot me, I’m only the armchair journalist))
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1/5/25 Easter came in even more haste than usual, it seemed to Alfred, who liked, in recent years, to write something appropriate to this time of...
Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches
As I swilled back a final deoch an dorais in the cosy and serenely atmospheric old bar, my mind was puzzled by how much a city could have changed in under half a century. Or perhaps it was me and my mind that had changed.
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Old Man Of Storr
Old Man Of Storr does not hide, He carries the weight that shapes This land, his silence gets carried On zephyrs breezes with wisdom, Rock cannot...
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Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
The Donegal and Derry Diary. The ninth and final part, though I’m hoping to be back there in 2027.
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Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace
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(May 2025, 27/5/25) There was a Hollow Victory celebration this year, as 80 years have passed since that day in 1945, when the people celebrated...