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(Form today’s newspaper, written by Indians, hence the gorgeous archaic style…) Public security sleuths have mounted vigil on cyber cafes across the city after three Asian employees of an Internet café were recently caught accessing pornographic websites that were blocked by the local telecome company. . The café to which the nabbed trio belonged was […]

Sorry – yet another image of feral cats, this time a mother and her kitten lurking under one of this town’s most famous landmarks. Went out early last Saturday morning at around 7.45am to get shots of this monument when the sun was shining on it. Very pleased with the result – and the walking […]

(Cake decorations in a shop window) Went to the supermarket at around 5pm, and it was all right, but everything you do now is determined by the searing heat. I asked one of the locals working with us what they did? “We go to Europe,” she answered. So the weekend is spent indoors, attempting as […]

(Cake decorations in a shop window) Went to the supermarket at around 5pm, and it was all right, but everything you do now is determined by the searing heat. I asked one of the locals working with us what they did? “We go to Europe,” she answered. So the weekend is spent indoors, attempting as […]

(See left for the street where I live. The appartment block is in the middle distance) ‘Hottest meanest stretch of desolation this side of hell’; well not quite – I took that line from a movie playing on cable TV recently. But it certainly is hot, with temperatures stuck in the mid-40s. It affects everything […]

Mariana shows off her tattoo(above); Amalia on top of the world (well, the climbing tower in Marlay) (below); Max swings (right); Susie, Ben, Mum, David (on top).

Back here, nothing much has changed. This country is still a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In 2004, the population was 744,000. Last year (in other words six months ago), it was estimated at 855,000. The experts now think that number will swell to 910,000 by the end of the year. Of that figure, only […]

Back here, nothing much has changed. This country is still a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In 2004, the population was 744,000. Last year (in other words six months ago), it was estimated at 855,000. The experts now think that number will swell to 910,000 by the end of the year. Of that figure, only […]

The smallest breed of horses in the world. At Marlay Park. Baaaa, said this sheep plaintively as his coat was sheered off at a Farmers’ Day in Marlay Park, Dublin.

Exactly 16 days ago, I landed at Dublin Airport for a week’s break from this strange gig I signed up for. On the bus trip home to Booterstown, lots had changed (what’s with those prancing hares in O’Connell Street?) but much had remained the same.My priority on my first day home was to get my […]