A Symphony of Surf

A salty sea breeze beckonds Mary Kay down to the cove. A day for fishing she thinks. Fuchsia bells dangle. A curtain of honeysuckle scents the pathway between ferns, freshia, nettles, waving grasses. Mary Kay sings a sea shanty as she winds her way down a narrow path, with a fishing rod over her shoulder,

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Wise river – New Town

‘Sion Abhainn’ or wise river is the longest in the country, along the 360km of riverbanks and callows people have lived, boated, fished and farmed, for centuries. In the 1960’s a new town was built on reclaimed marshland along the estuary below Limerick city. The former Rineanna became Shannon town, and this new town focused

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Sea Life

The year must have been about 1954 or 55. We had spent the day at the seaside – Summercove, outside Kinsale. It was a fairly typical family outing: mother, father, grandmother and two small boys, the younger a baby. I was the elder, about four years old. The day had passed in the usual way

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