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River Slate, Rathangan My son gave me a North Face tent and my wife a backpack upgrade. But what good are they unless I use them? And so, wi...

Ever since I can remember I have preferred to run. I get irritated when, in a crowded street, other folk walk oh so slowly and I want to get...

Growing older. You don't think about it much until it happens to you. The mountain bike boy I met a few weeks back whilst walking in the...

Boys a dear ! An exclamation in norn-iron (Northern Ireland) speak. It's a great phrase because it can be used in so many different situ...

The primary purposes of this trip were to meet up with our relatives and (having so done) to spend a few days on our own to mark our 49th we...

I stood on the shore of a wintry sea, with a wintry sun just a few feet above its horizon-edge. It was bare, and waste, and gray. Hundreds o...

This was going to be taking advantage of maybe the last fine weather this year, an overnight cycle exploring the Grand Canal. But I was unea...

Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (then a village, now almost a suburb of Linz) on 4 September 1824, that's 200 years ago. I feel so...

  My track: 186km over two days, elevation gain 440m The Royal Canal Greenway at 130km is the longest greenway in Ireland. As an off-road gr...

This time it was a family affair, six of us. We left home at 5am, drove to the official carpark, climbed via Brother O'Shea's gully ...

I have a Free Travel pass. There is no additional charge for a bicycle on  Iarnród Éireann , but it is necessary to book a bicycle as space ...

I have sometimes remarked how the shape of my Christian faith might have been very different had it not been from the works of C. S. Lewis. ...

Sunrise over Lady's Island lake Last year my forays were limited to a one night layover, so this year I figured I should make better use...

As I remarked to my granddaughter, at her age the world lies at her feet, but at my age I'm thinking "can I even do this?" or ...