by andrew | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
As a child, Halloween was a lot simpler and cheaper. There again in the mid 1970’s with one TV channel and limited radio, the ability of advertisers or foreign TV shows to influence our daily lives was much less than today. Although they are very...
by andrew | Oct 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
As a young boy fishing in the river, the one thing I hated more than anything, was keeping up to the nets with an oar. Pity the boy that let his mind wander and the boat blow off the nets, or worse, onto the mud on the flood tide on the coolagh (cool ya) mud. I...
by andrew | Oct 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Pat Murphy of the Green always told me that according to Aggie Power of Daisy Bank House (Susan Jacobs Grandmother) the Reading Room was built in 1895, the year a horse called The Wild Man of Borneo won the Grand National. Mrs Adelaide Blake,...
by andrew | Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
We have never had a visitor to the house that we haven’t brought to the Minaun. If it was good enough for Cornelius Bolton who brought Arthur Young to the summit during his tour of Ireland in the 16th Century, it should be good enough for anyone else....
by andrew | Oct 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Where would we have been without the Suirway bus? In the Cheekpoint of the 1960’s to the 80’s when cars were scarce and escape from the village was required the choices were few; shanks mare, boat or the Suirway bus! Suirway Bus has been serving the area...
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