Category: Personal

  • Welcome Frankp – my blogsitter

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    I’m off on a three week house-swap holiday tomorrow morning bright and early with the family (if I remember to bring the right passports this time!). In my absence I have asked good friend FrankP to look after the blog for me (to free up comments which have ended up moderated or in the Akismet…

  • State of the water in Cobh

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    What are they putting into our water in Cobh?

  • My beautiful little boy is growing up!

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    Our son Tomás had his ‘graduation’ from his Montessori class today. They dressed the kids up with mortarboards and had them singing songs! It was great fun and Tomás had an absolute ball. He starts in school in September.

  • Charity link meme

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    Tom Raftery
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    I hate tag memes and rarely participate in them as I see them as little more than chain letters and time wasters (yeah, I know, bah humbug!). However, I’ve been tagged by Gavin and Bill to add to this charity link meme. The idea is to improve the page rank of charities in Ireland. If…

  • Airport security is a joke

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    Not that we haven’t known that for some time but it was recently drilled home to me on my flight back from Madrid last week. My son Enrique has asthma. He got quite bad with it earlier this year when we were in Spain and a Spanish doctor prescribed a cough suppressant called Expectu to…

  • Niall Greaney 1987-2007 RIP

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    Tom Raftery
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    Niall Greaney was the son of my first cousin Greta Greaney. He was born 10th June 1987. Yesterday, 8th June 2007, I attended his funeral. Niall died  as the result of injuries he received in an horrific car accident on Wednesday morning (Jun 6th) last. Niall was full of life. At 19 he was already…

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    The Irish police force have started a road safety campaign which includes mounting wrecked cars at busy intersections with the words Drive Safe under them. I saw the example above shortly after hearing that a 20 year old cousin of mine had been killed in a car crash yesterday morning.

  • I am such an idiot!

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    Tom Raftery
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    We were flying to Madrid this morning. Everything was set. Bags were packed. Ticket printed. Accommodation arranged. The lot. My wife lived in Madrid for six years so we have friends here who we had arranged to met up with. Needless to say we were looking forward to the weekend for a long time. We…