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Fiddling on Kildare Street while the West perished

Country Living with Francis Farragher IT’S been a long time since I’ve witnessed such frustration and anger at cen...

Dreamin’ dreams on a Faithfull night at Claregalway Carnival

Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s kind of strange at times how a little line you hear on the news about t...

Storm Éowyn bombed in to deliver some harsh lessons

Country Living with Francis Farragher For nearly all of us it will go down as the long weekend that never seemed t...

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A vain effort to try and absolve the guilt of having a regular pint

Country Living with Francis Farragher This is a battle or discourse where I acknowledge defeat even before I write the first dozen or so words. ...

Recalling from a distance a night of joy and poignancy

Country Living with Francis Farragher There’s a familiar line from an old Frank Sinatra hit – Love’s Been Good To Me – of, “It only seems like y...

Yesterday, a time when all our troubles seemed so far away

Country Living with Francis Farragher With the Christmas word not destined to be used for another nine or ten months, and the New Year celebrati...

A hotch-potch wish list for the beckoning year of 2025

Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s that time of year again for the alphabetical wish list for 2025 – the usual mix of the serious, not s...

An odd moan but hard to beat traditional Christmas

Country Living with Francis Farragher IT would just seem wrong not to write something about Christmas in the week that’s in it, but a lot of the...

Time passes as battle between optimism and despair rages on

Country Living with Francis Farragher There’s a line from an old Frank Sinatra song, ‘Love’s Been Good To Me’ of ‘It only seems like yesterday a...


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Fiddling on Kildare Street while the West perished
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