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This was a planned cycle by the Royal Canal and backroads to Mayo. Here are the links for each day’s cycle. Day 1: Dublin Mullingar Day2: Mullingar Strokestown Day3: Strokestown Charlestown Day4: Charlestown Newport The trip was completed by Sinead McDermott, Alastair McDermott, Paul Morton, Bruce Ryan, Mike McCarthy, Mike Millar, Joe McDermott. Back up […]

This was a training trip. Sinead and I just doing another warm up for the September cross Ireland cycle with Paul Morton and friends. There is a nice biking and hiking route from Castlebar and the National Museum at Turlough, to Bohola on grassy back roads, even linking up to Kiltamagh!!! Almost no traffic, forests, […]

Official opening of The Great Western Greenway Story: Great day …this opening of The Great Western Green way. The Taoiseach [Prime Minister] Enda Kenny led the peloton as we set out from Westport, to Newport, Mulrany and into Achill Sound. It is wonderful to have a Taoiseach who can participate comfortably in such a cycle […]

One of the most noticeable features of the Newport Landscape this summer was the appearance of bicycles. In all shapes and sizes, colours and designs. On bike racks attached to cars, on trailers, and stand alone they appeared. Why? well, we all know thw answer, The Great Western Greenway attracted cyclists from far and near, […]

Well it was almost inevitable, the Leinster pack were just to strong for Munster and Ronan just could’nt kick….. opting in the first half to look for attacking positions from penalties, positions that were extremely well defended by a mean Leinster defense….. and Johhny could and did kick his points…. one a lovely kick to […]

This was a great trip if not the greatest match. The boys in blue did enough to ensure a home draw against Clermont Auvergne in the quarter final of the European Heineken Cup. We had 7,500 supporters over from Ireland. The atmosphere was good even if we were in such a big stadium, [47,000] altogether […]

For some time I had been thinking about this activity. I finally got around to joining the Geocaching community in January. It is great fun. Already I have found four local caches. I hope to “hide” one myself within the next few weeks. I enjoyed the caches where I had to hike in to the […]