Charting role of plough in history of rural Galway
Country Living with Francis Farragher
It’s over half a century since I saw the first scrape being turned by a single plough in a field of soil. By today’s standards, the field was little more...
Relying on hot memories to sustain us through the Winter
Country Living with Francis Farragher
Definitely, there’s no pleasing everybody, when it comes to weather. On a grand soft Autumn evening last week, as I sloped into the local for one or two beverages, one...
Good riddance to era when the dreaded ‘weed’ ruled the roost
Country Living with Francis Farragher
ON an evening last week, as I made my way home from work, I came across the unusual sight of a couple of hitch-hikers on the stretch of dual carriageway...
Trip from Croke Park that took a very strange twist
Country Living with Francis Farragher
Trips down from Croke Park on the evening of All-Ireland finals for Galway fans tend to be gloomy affairs. It’s just a fact of life that Galway tend to lose...
Farewell to the days of tooth worms and ‘barber-dentists’
Country Living with Francis Farragher
There I was a complete wimp on the dentist’s chair with some involuntary muscle movements giving away my deep-seated fear of the tooth doctor, when I thought to myself, what...
Succumbing gracefully to a strange kind of Madness
Country Living with Francis Farragher
There I was last Friday, on a rainy night in Galway, jumping up and down quite excitedly and looking around me at many older men leppin’ about in a similar...