All Ireland Sunday – Getting to the match

by | Sep 1, 2017 | Cheekpoint memories

Sunday 7th September 2008 dawned bright and clear.  A good day for a trip, and a good day for a match.  Waterford were to meet Kilkenny in the All Ireland Hurling final and expectations were high. It had got off to a slow start, with some controversy but had improved...

Growing up amongst the nets

by | Aug 18, 2017 | Cheekpoint memories, Fishing Heritage

Growing up in a fishing village like Cheekpoint in the early 1970s, nets were part of the everyday scene in the community. They lay around in the same way tractors and machinery hang round a farmyard.  Nets for fishing the weirs, trawl nets including beam and otter,...
The Snowhill War Heroine

The Snowhill War Heroine

by | Aug 11, 2017 | River Lore, World War I

Snowhill, Co Kilkenny is now little more than a place-name on the river, but it once graced a fine Georgian mansion with an extensive farm and demesne and boat house on the river. I previously wrote about the house, which prompted a memory in an older neighbour of...