A Place in Time

Sometimes the light plays tricks with your eyes and not only that, but coupled with the movement of water, often what you think you see simply isn’t there. Alone in the stillness and expanse of blue with nothing to disturb the tranquillity except the constant lapping of water against the boat sides or a distant

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Don’t go in the Water

It would be difficult to imagine any body of water as unique as the Calliagh Berra’s Lough. Its uniqueness stems from the fact that it’s a lake on the summit of a mountain – Slieve Gullion – the highest point in Co Armagh at almost six hundred metres. This fascinating mountain is at the centre

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Interwoven Meandering

Several years ago as a Belfast medical student I spent an Erasmus term in Galway. Such a vivacious & welcoming place with many new friends made. Now I’m working as a junior doctor in the middle of the Covid pandemic. Such a difference from my carefree student days, this bewildering and angst laden time, everyone

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Memories of Devlin’s Quarry

I prayed that the Lord would keep my children safe as I lay in the ambulance. Soon I would leave the green fields of North County Dublin behind, to enter the suburbs of the spreading city. What would await me there and why was I feeling so ill? I stared apprehensively through the window, as

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