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To an impatient eye, nothing ever happens in Ireland s villages. There is a reason the blink and you ll miss it phrase came into common use.
Park up and observe for a while though, and the minutiae of its daily routine gradually reveals itself.
You could sail through Gulladuff, if not literally in one blink of an eye, then certainly in no more than a dozen.
Early May s bright sunshine is chastened by a breeze that has strewn the grass at the crossroads with flowers from a nearby cherry blossom tree.
It s around ten in the morning, and there are cars and vans parked in the narrow lay-bys next to the Vivo, occupied by workers having a quick bite.