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Back after the break!
What a lovely Summer we've had - lots of healthy-looking people about.
Best Wishes to all the little people starting big school these days, and no doubt all the other boys and girls are happy to see the friends once again. Such a pity is was raining on the first day back to school for so many.
Congratulations to all the Leaving Cert people! We wish them well on whatever they path they follow.
Lucan Festival - Birdie is all set for the week ahead - Lots of things to do and see around Lucan. Well done to the hard-working organisers - all we need now is the weather to play its part!
What a big mess! Try as we might to be positive about our Village Green, it is very frustrating to see a worker breaking up some newly installed part of the construction, once again.
You wonder will we ever see the end of it this year!!!
Sharpen those shears! We can cut the hedges again from Monday 1st September ....
St. Mary's Camera Soiree
With the Newsletter back from its summer break this week the back page has a selection of photos submitted by the members of the Camera Soiree during the month of August.
Donal has been all over the place giving us phots of Fanad lighthouse in Donegal which has been a working lighthouse since 1817, to the changing skylines of Dublin as you look towards the port.
Brendan submitted a beautiful shot of old Galway.
There were two photos of historical interest.
The first is that of an old coinbox, or public, telephone which Michael G found as an attraction in a Dublin restaurant recently. For those who know nothing about them, you inserted your money, dialled the number you wanted and pressed button A if the number was answered or button B if there was no reply. The theory was that you then got your money back! It is almost 100 years since the first phone boxes appeared on Irish streets. At one point there were approximately 3,000 public telephone kiosks around Ireland. The last of them were phased out last year
The second historical photo was Donal's photo of 'Bad Eddie'. ('Bad' as in Gaeilic for Boat). Bad Eddie was owned by local fishermen Eddie Gillespie and it went aground on Magheraclogher beach (a predominantly Irish speaking area of West Donegal, Gaoth Dobhair) in the 1970's and has made its home there ever since. Over the intervening years it has deteriorated badly with getting battered by decades of the wild Atlantic and all its extreme elements.
Until next week stay safe!
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