I came home from work, mid afternoon on Halloween, noticed that the local kids and parents had started to stockpile for a bonfire for...

After few quiet weeks, it finally was time for my holidays which started with a weekend for himself and myself in London. Despite the...

The following Wednesday, I had won tickets for a screening in Dundrum for Me Before You thanks to the RTE guide, Niamh and myself made...

After the eventful few weeks over Easter with the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, our parents visiting and finally getting to...

I happened to have a day off, just before St Patricks day, and with everyone else working, I decided to check out the Proclaiming a...

I won 2 tickets last minute for the Bow Street Sessions at the Jameson Distillery, thanks to Hotpress magazine. The night included free...

After a last minute invite by my workmate Carol, I ended up going to the Jameson Cult Film Club event  at the Round Room in the Mansion...

You would expect things to go back to normal once I put our mother on the coach home, however I went off shopping to sort a few last bits for the Christmas tree and soak in the christmasy atmosphere on O'Connell Street for the turning on of it's Christmas Tree and whilst getting a free packet of Tayto, I got my photo taken with Mr Tayto, sure be rude not to. On the route home, hopped into the Church of Adam and Eve, the National Shrine to St. Anthony, to check it out. The cra

After a slight mishap with ordering the taxi to the airport, we had a very smooth check in with Aer Lingus Dublin Airport, the desk...

After Liam and I were able to get our shifts changed in work, we decided to try visit some of the buildings that were open for Culture...

From the 22nd of August, there was a week of heritage events to celebrate Heritage Week. So I decided to try to visit as many buildings...

With the weather so changeable, I decided on my day off and the weather had been so sunny, To get the bus to  +Glasnevin Cemetery Museum...

Not long after our parents left on the bus back to Clare, I was wondering what will I do with my week off. After a suggestion from +Niamh...

After a last minute swap at work, I was able to support  +Niamh , my mother and Clodagh, who were doing the VHI Women Mini Marathon. Before the start of the 10km, we went via the Mansion House, so Niamh was able to collect her t-shirt for Laura Lynn and also gave me a final chance to have a sneaky look inside. Of course the girls had to have a picture taken outside of the Mansion House before the race. Niamh and Clodagh had entered as joggers, so set off about 15 before my mo

My postal vote for the referendums arrived after my mother posted them up to me, so on my next day off May 12th, I went to the nearest...

When our mother retired, she wanted to celebrate it by going on a holiday, I was only one who had time off around the time. So I booked a last minute holiday for both of us to Palmanova in Mallorca for the end of April. The day before the holiday, our mother got the bus up from Ennis, although it was raining when she arrived, once it stopped we made our way into town and showed her around. We finally managed to get her to House, a bar on Leeson Street and see if our cousin wh

After the holiday to Lanzarote, I decided it was about time to check off the remaining churches that I wanted to see and had eluded me so far, around the city. In particular the insides of the Pepper Canister church, St Paul's Smithfield which is the church Eamon de Valera got married in and  University church near St Stephen Green which I didn't know much about before hand. It was during lent when I was able to visit the church so waited until after it's lunch time service t

Friday the 6th of February, after work while waiting on our mother to arrive,  +Niamh  surprised me with an early birthday dinner at Jimmy Chungs on the quays, which was a great way to begin my holidays and 30th celebrations. After collecting our mother from Heuston station, we had a few drinks before I was yet again surprised with an early birthday Pizza. About lunch time the next day, we all decided it was time to head out and get a bite to eat. Our mother, kept asking wher

With life finally getting back to normal now, everything unpacked, settled into the new place completely, thought it was time to finally pay the donation I owed Padre Pio, that I promised him, during the stress of finding a place to live. Managed to find a Capuchin Order Friary on Church Street near Smithfield. As is usually my nature in the lead up to Christmas, I went Christmas shopping around the October mid term. As I am working in retail too long, that I won't think of d

With the excitement of Italy behind us, we came home to the joys of accommodation hunting  which was proving difficult separately  and +Niamh  starting her new college course in Healthcare Informatics. When we started to look for a place together, although still hard was more promising. We still had time to enjoy ourselves, with a reception at Harvey Nichols and cinema tickets to see Before I Go To Sleep in Dundrum. My weekend off, was a quiet affair, just spent watching Clar