I find myself fishing the River Moy regularly each season and we anglers are lucky to witness some amazing wildlife while stalking the elusive salmon. Salmon and are the most obvious species you expect to hear about when you think of the Moy but I wanted to share a few experiences of close encounters I
“I’d rather be at Nick Higgins’s at Liffey Head!” It was a phrase of my mam’s growing up. It meant I’d rather be anywhere but there, she said. It was wasn’t exactly a regular saying of hers but it had its diverse uses in our house. “Mam, would you not want to go to Santa
My local waterbody is Morris castle beach in Kilmuckridge Gorey county Wexford. Before you get to the actual beach there is a take away a beach shop and an ice cream shop named Lawlor’s, all run by the same people. Morris castle is connected to Ballinoulart beach, and is about 22km Long. Morris castle was
I gaze out my village window at the rippling waves of grey-green luminescence that carry the ocean tide into Roundstone Bay. The witnessing of these daily tides takes on a greater importance now in this time of Corona virus lockdown. The repetitive daily cycles, governed by the moon and the ceaseless spinning of our planet,
My earliest childhood memories bring me back to the wonderful riverside of Wexford, to a beautiful and enchanted place- Castle Boro. We would come here on weekends as a family, and the place has remained the same over the years. A tranquil and serene scene, one of the many hidden treasures that the country side
The minnows sparkled below the threads of wet sunlight. Too fast for me to catch. Wading through the water, so cold despite the warm June weather; water straight from the Blackstairs; cool, and clean, and pure. The straight monolithic bridge cut across the curving of the stream, and the weeds, and the trees. This, the
Is páiste na farraige mé. Is I mí lúil ar bhád iascaireacht idir Inis Mór agus Ros a Mhíl a rugadh mé. Mi an t-uisce má chreideann tú i gcomharthaí na Sloidiaca. Táim comportach leis an bhfarraige ó thús mo shaol. Is í m’áit shabhálta í agus is aoibhinn liom a bheith ar an uisce.
We were inland children; we knew nothing of the tides or the ocean. The river running through our land is woven into our lives and we learn with our scrutiny, the depth of our experience outweighing the lack of width. We know our river is connected to an intricate pattern of lakes and bigger rivers
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” ― John O’Donohue The Liffey runs by our town but not through it. Running east to west it intersects the Naas/Dublin road at its northern end. Curving leisurely through the strand, it meanders past the old watering gates,
Our story is of creating our own waterside for nature, in 2018 we began the task of creating a community garden in our council estate in Rathcoffey, Co Kildare. There was about 1 and a half acres of waste ground lying idle and costing the council the earth to maintain, as a resident’s association we
‘We go for a walk down the Glen with mammy and daddy every day. We go on an adventure. We see lots of creatures. We saw a fish jumping to eat a fly. We saw little black eels swimming that look like worms. They are my favourite and the boatmen that swim very fast on
Owneycree River, situated in County Kerry, is a stream that runs through my home townland, ‘Leamyglissane’ within a 500 metre distance of my house. I wake in the morning to open the curtains to view the river and bridge from my own front bedroom window. This river possesses years of endless stories however until enquiring
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