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Farewell to a childhood hero and an old soldier who will never die

Country Living with Francis Farragher There’s always a bit of poignancy when one of your childhood heroes passes a...

How to tell if you have turned into a mobile phone zombie

Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s bad enough reading somewhere that mobile phones are turning children an...

Savouring the sweet sorrow as season of light departs

Country Living with Francis Farragher “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the matur...

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We all need money to live but let’s just leave it at that

Country Living with Francis Farragher I remember a pleasant Wednesday morning on the 17th day of August,1977, walking into a building site on St...

Maybe a time to stop flogging the same old dead fuel horse

Country Living with Francis Farragher Will it become a reality over the coming winter month – the price of petrol and diesel shooting up or abov...

The strange world of tractor dates, Tinder and awesome Tipp farmers

Country Living with Francis Farragher Are those two an item?” is one of those curious rural expressions inquiring as to the romantic status of t...

Maybe a time to let women fill those gaping clergy gaps

Country Living with Francis Farragher We all see it happening on our own doorsteps, and last week as I glanced through this newspaper, and saw a...

Hotter times ahead as El Nino decides to join us

Country Living with Francis Farragher My attendance record at lectures back in the then UCG (University College Galway) of the late 1970s wasn’t e...

All a long way removed from cautions over noxious weeds

Country Living with Francis Farragher Maybe, I’m a bit old-fashioned, but back the years we were always given the standard family advice of the ...


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Farewell to a childhood hero and an old soldier who will never die
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