Seapoint Rugby Club hosted a family event on Saturday and they had a number of Irish Rugby Legends there. I have photos of some of them below. I don't know which team won the kicking competition, the Legends, the minis or the bigger kids. It seems to have been close to a draw. It was …
Irish Blog Awards 2018
The Irish Blog Awards (sponsored by Alcatel) were held in Tramline on D'Olier Street, Dublin last night, this years theme was Day of the Dead. Attendees were encouraged to dress up, I had entered into the spirit of the evening by using face paints, however, I was unable to get the design I was using …
Irish Blog Awards – Finalist
The Irish Blog Awards sent out emails to the Finalists for this year's Awards and my Blog was on the list, in the Best Photography Blog - Personal Blog section. I had to check twice just to be sure, but, sure enough, my Blog was listed! The graphic for this section of the process is …
Lissadell House
Last week we took a trip to Lissadell House in Sligo, this is the family home of Countess Constance Markievicz, formally Constance Gore-Booth and her sister Eva Gore-Booth, both of whom who incredibly active political figures in the early years of the 20th Century. The first time I visited Lissadell was with my Grandmother when …
Open Training Session
I attended the Irish Rugby Open Training Session at the Aviva this week, I go to as many of these events as I can as I am a huge Rugby fan, sadly the open training sessions for Ireland only happen once a year. This year there were separate events, one was held in Dublin and, a …
Irish Quidditch Cup
On an incredibly rainy Saturday in January, the Irish Quidditch Cup had to decamp from the waterlogged Trinity pitches to Fairview Park, where the Tournament started later than scheduled, however, we still managed to get through most of the day's schedule before being ejected by the Park Warden with one match to go. The great …
IFI – 25th Anniversary
I had the pleasure of being a tiny part of the IFI's 25th Anniversary Celebrations in 2017. President Michael D Higgins and his Wife Sabine were the Special Guests for the evening. Patrick Bergman the actor was also there, I did not realise who he was until he was pointed out to me, and I …
Puck the Guinness Drinking Goat
On a trip to Kerry last week, I meet this goat and his human. This male Irish Mountain goat is six years old and belongs to the chap behind him. One Christmas, Puck (the goat) was in a garden clearing all the overgrowth in it, when some local boys came and untied him. They proceeded …
Hellfire Club
The Hellfire Club is a place in the Dublin Mountains that I have kept meaning to go to, and up until today, had 100% failed to do. However, that has now changed. It is about a 2.5Km walk up Montpelier Hill to get to the ruins of what is known as the Hellfire Club. The building …
Hot Press Magazine Covers Exhibition
As I was early and waiting to meet some people last weekend, I decided to pop into the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square. The new exhibition is of the history of Hot Press Magazine Covers, going all the way back to the first issue in 1977 (Hot Press is an Irish Music Magazine, …
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