We are still heading into the town of Boyle showing Ma Femme the historic wonders of this small town I adopted many years ago. Ma Femme is quietly amazed at its riches as we trundle along Military Road and past the Garda Barracks, a new construction built about 30 years […]
Tag: Roscommon County Council
Smart Meters – A Step Too Far, Part 1
Well we have eventually joined battle, ourselves and Irish Water, or more correctly ourselves and Sierra Communications, the official contractors of the jumped up, brand new, watery arm of government. After nearly two weeks carefully waiting for the rolling juggernaut of harm to arrive, it finally did so yesterday in […]
Volunteering For Pleasure.
The two main thing you have in spades in retirement is dwindling money resources and plenty of time. Dwindling money resources, what with bankers, government and markets all joining up to rob you of all your hard earned that you had put by for a rainy day and plenty of […]
Our Play For The Gathering
Two years ago in the Little Theatre in Athlone I had the privilege of watching a debut performance of a play written by Neil Richardson and directed by Caroline Barry called From The Shannon To The Somme. A true story about an Athlone man, Sgt Michael Curley, a soldier before […]
Slo Mo At The Ros Co Co.
I refer to my previous blogs of On The Shit Heap posted 27 January 2010, Deriliction Of Duty on17 January 2010 and Small Town Ireland on 7 January 2010 and I have to say nothing has happened. The status is still quo. I wrote to the Planning Enforcement Officer at […]