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words and phrases my Grandmother used
I've mentioned before that I first came to live in the Russianside with my grandmother, Maura Moran, in my late teens. "Nanny" as she was called was in the family had her own way of expressing herself. But of course, she was just a different generation, and from an...
amongst the Herring shoals in Waterford harbour
As the Reaper and the other Cheekpoint boats proceeded downriver, we were joined by the Passage and Ballyhack men, forming a convoy of decked and half decked motor boats of varying size and power and a multitude of colours. Depending on the tides, the Passage...
The Banshee attack at Coolbunnia
Halloween is upon us again. In the past it was a very different occasion and I've written about the Halloween of my childhood before. Now it wouldn't be Halloween without a Ghost story and here's one my Father told1. "There was a family called Walsh who lived above...
Drifting for Herring, Winter 1983
It was about this time of year in 1983 that I got my first taste of fishing in the deeper waters of the harbour around Dunmore East and the Hook. It was a strange and confusing place that was more dangerous and unpredictable than the fishing I had known...
whats a phone box?
As a child the village shop was owned by Molly Doherty, on the spot where Ben Power now trades. There's a photo hanging up there of Molly standing in front of it all those years back. It was a much more modest building, but one feature of it was as you...
Misadventures of a gravedigger
Regular readers may be surprised to learn that I have something in common with Abraham Lincoln, Joe Stummer and Rod Stewart. Well As a fishermen in the 1980s Cheekpoint, and in the depressed economy of the time, you quickly learned to take a few pounds wherever...