The public phones at the top of St. Patrick’s Street Cork are in a sorry state. Eircom, the original national phone company in Ireland, haven’t been known publicly as Eircom since 2015 according to the Eir Wikipedia page. They really should get rid of those eyesores.
A stag and a few hind in a field in Killarney. Far off in another field.
Walkers in Killarney National Park a week ago when I was there trying to photograph the stags. A huge group of people out on a Saturday morning when a storm passed overhead and thunder and lightning filled the air. A few of us from Blarney Photography Club braved the elements for our photography!
A gang of Kerry cattle observe me and a group of humans as we walk past their field. Fun fact – they are “believed to be one of the oldest breeds in Europe” according to Wikipedia. 🙂
The clocks of Shandon Bells, or the Four Faced Liar (because the clocks rarely agree on the time), and the County Hall far off in the distance.
A busy Garda, Dublin. June 2004. Gardai have a shit job but I wonder what this person did to deserve a write-up? Drunk in public? Homeless? I hope she was taking notes to help this person.
The mural of a hurler on Anglesea Street on a bright July afternoon. Always great to see this when I walk or drive past. The last time I photographed this mural was in the depths of winter last January! ACHES did a great job on this one!
I spotted this nasty looking fella on a trail in Killarney last weekend. We hoped to catch the rutting but the weather was terrible, and stags were shy. No fights but a few photos to post later.. Anyway, this guy was huge! This page says they’re about 2.8 cm, but I swear he was bigger. His…
A few photos from the Stone Mad Blarney Half-Marathon today. Well done to the runners! You can find a full album of all 352 images here on the race Facebook page.
In the midst of a housing crisis and buildings up and down the country are left empty and rotting away. Follow Frank O’Connor and Jude Sharry on Twitter. The Derelict Ireland hashtag is full of photos of crumbling or boarded up buildings all over the country. Meanwhile, people live, 6 to a tiny room, in…
Ned, a donkey that lived in the grounds of Blarney Castle, in 2016.
An Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita [*] in the grounds of Blarney Castle yesterday. It’s a poisonous mushroom found throughout temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, according to Wikipedia. It’s also poisonous, but these days death from ingestion is rare. It has psychoactive uses too, and it’s…