Crosshaven on a bright and sunny evening in February. Love walking along the road where I took this.

These four buildings on North Main Street, Cork, are an eyesore. Thankfully they have been the subject of a compulsory purchase order by the local council so hopefully they will be saved and developed. Please follow Frank O’Connor on Twitter where he tweets about #derelictIreland.

The building that now houses Golden Discs on Patrick’ Street in Cork used to be the Pavilion Cinema. If you look closely at the top of the building you can see the faded lettering of that establishment.

Ardmore Cemetery is the final resting place of some of the crew of the S.S. Ary, a steamer that ran into difficulties in rough seas in 1947. Only one person survived.

Tourists waving to an incoming flight on Lanzarote.

Despite the cold temperature there were lots of people surfing at Garrettstown Beach today!

The North Side of Cork looks over the train station and the docklands.

The view from my car on a wet, snowy morning outside Wilton Shopping Centre a few days ago. The snow didn’t settle thankfully but it was cold!

One of the nice things about having your own blog is that you can say something that would get your message filtered on Twitter on Facebook for the profanity, so here goes. Fuck Putin. Fuck him and the horse he rides in on and his smug face and for everything bad he’s done to Ukraine,…

Small sailboats in Cork Harbour in front of Cobh.

Spotted on the River Lee by the Marina in Cork a few weeks ago.

We visited the graveyard adjoining the ruins of St. Declan’s Cathedral on our trip to Ardmore. The view from there out to sea and over the local town and beach is glorious! The first time I visited here in 2005 I slipped while taking photos, my camera hit the ground hard and something broke inside…