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…
Some of the old boats that used to sit on the quayside on George’s Quay a few years ago.
Stuck in a moment on Liberty Street, Cork.
Dunquin Pier at the end of the Dingle Peninsula sits below a steep grassy cliff. Last year I saw three teenage girls sitting on the edge of the cliff you can see in this photo. I got dizzy just looking at them but they weren’t in (much) danger. There’s a step below where many feet…
Training ship Grace O’Malley docked in Cork recently.
The Three Sisters on the Dingle Peninsula just as the sun sets.
Mist and fog (the same thing?) gather in the hollows of an early morning last week near Blarney.
Hank Wedel and Ray Barron in Charlies Bar last night. There wasn’t a huge crowd but the music was oh so good. So good to hear Hank and Ray play again as we haven’t been in Charlies since before the pandemic started.