Flowers, candles and tributes to Daphne Caruana Galizia left at the foot of the Great Siege Monument, opposite the Law Courts in Valletta. Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated on October 16th, 2017 when a bomb exploded in her car close to her home. She was an investigative journalist in Malta who, “revealed controversially sensitive information…

Fixing the ATM in Bank of Ireland, St. Patrick’s Street.

At Glow Cork last Christmas. Seems like a million years ago now!

Clannad, the Irish band that is this year celebrating 50 years together began the year with a Farewell Tour. They played in the Opera House in Cork in early March when I saw them and they were great. I didn’t know much of their music beyond the obvious themes to Robin Hood or the Harry’s…

Porto, Portugal, November 2019. Long before SARS-CoV-2 hit Europe. Street photography feels like a forbidden art now that we are all at home and we’re not allowed on the streets in any numbers. * You obviously should not walk around with a locker like this. STAY AT HOME!

If you’ve driven along MacCurtain Street lately you’ll have noticed a few lanes are blocked and York Hill is completely closed. A 73-bed “micro-sleeper hotel” is going in there which I presume means rooms will be a little bigger than the capsule hotels in Japan..

Lanzarote Airport sits right by the coast. There’s a beach at one end of the runway where you can get great photos of the landing planes. I wonder what the pilots think of the onlookers watching at this dangerous stage of a flight?

The Ferris Wheel on Grand Parade. Christmas 2019. It’s gone now, I presume.

A few photos taken around Cork City in December with Blarney Photography Club. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file" size="medium" ids="27329,27340,27339,27338,27337,27336,27335,27334,27333,27332,27331,27330,27328,27327,27326,27325"]

The glow of the sun in the sky shortly after sunset in Puerto Del Carmen, Canary Islands.

At the bar of a hotel in Lanzarote, Canary Islands.