Older visitors will recognise this poster if they were around Cork in 2005 when the city was “European Capital of Culture”. This poster was draped over the city library, and I was very lucky to capture a tour bus as it drove past on a fine June day, exactly 17 years ago today.

If you’ve been to Blarney recently you won’t have seen this house. It was cleared several years ago and is now an open stretch of grass, and new wooden buildings used by the staff of Blarney Castle. February 2015.

The bus stops on St. Patrick’s Quay are being moved to various locations around the city disrupting the future travel arrangements of people who use them. You used to be able to get a bus from west Cork to the city, walk to the next bus stop and hop on a bus to Dublin but…

Not much use for a night club in the middle of a blistering hot day in Tenerife.

We’ve seen a lot of the Ukraine flag in the last few months following the invasion of that country by Russia. Before that I didn’t realise the wall facing the Centra in Dingle had the same colours. Looking the worse for wear and not the right shades of course.

A book stall in Bristol, by the river. Some good stuff here!

Outside Minihans Chemist on Oliver Plunkett Street.

Malaga, Spain. October 2018.

Sharing a Tik Tok video maybe in a backstreet in Malaga, Spain.

Walking along Opera Lane, Cork. July 2017.

Nearing the end of the year, 2021, and the weather was fine. The sun was shining and it was a warm winter’s day.

A reflection on Washington Street.