Rebecca’s Mum (@ Eamon’s Mother-in-law – no escaping me Eamon!) – typing this on Bec’s computer in their lovely apartment in Tullow – looking out the living room window at an assortment of roofs – the closest being their local pub – very convenient for Eamon to pop out for a quick nip of Guinness – but then, with 16 pubs in this very pretty village, a quick nip is available from about every second shop! My 4th...

Well to say that last weekend was a big one is an understatement! As you may know it was St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday, to celebrate this Monday was a bank holiday, so a long weekend for all.We started the festivities on Friday night in Tullow at Dalton’s with Karen, Siobhan, Denise and the rest of her family. Denise’s cousin was playing guitar there and singing Irish Rebel songs (I think that they start all sounding the same, but I’m not ...

I am just going to update what has been happening in the past few weeks. I have been working at 3 schools, Tullow Boys, Tullow Girls and Ballon National School. This week I have had a whole week teaching the Junior Infants at the Girls school (they are around Kindergarten/Prep age). They are very cute, however it has taken a few days to get used to them, they get very excited and have short concentration spans! On the weekend we went out with Karen, Danny Sio...

This weekend we had Pat & Barb come down from Dublin to stay. We picked them up in Carlow on Saturday morning then headed to Co. Laois.Our first stop was in Erroll, this is where Eamon & Pat’s grandfather is buried. Once we found the graveyard, it was very easy to find the grave as it is right inside the gate. Pat found it quite weird as the grave stone was for his grandfather Richard Brophy (same name as Pat’s dad) and for his brother Patrick...

Last weekend we went to stay in Meath/West Meath (pronounced meed) with Liam Cunningham and his family. We meet Liam at his local Soccer match (of which he is the coach and occasional player). The soccer field was in the walled in gardens of on old manor. It was a lovely place to watch the game, the entrance was like that of a secret garden. Eamon and I didn’t watch the whole game (not really into soccer) instead we went for a walk around the ...