Limerick Ketch Ilen's "Wild Ride" from West Cork Home to Shannon Estuary
The gallant 1926 Conor O'Brien creation – Ireland's only surviving traditional trading ketch – came through it with style
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The gallant 1926 Conor O'Brien creation – Ireland's only surviving traditional trading ketch – came through it with style
THE door to the manager's office at Auchenhowie was always open for Kevin Thomson over the last three years. It is the one at New Central Park that…
Thurrock BGT star set to star in Southend FOLLOWING a sell-out show staged at Sands by the Sea restaurant, Southend, in December, After Dark Live – the organisers of the Comedy at the Sands stand-up spectaculars at the seafront restaurant – are finally able to announce a follow-up performance. . . on Saturday, May 22, 2021. And it’s promised that the evening will be “absolutely magic” – Essex-based magician/comedian Graeme Mathews, who shot to fame after making it to the semi-finals of television’s Britain’s Got Talent, will headline the performance. As the coun...
IT is one thing being a good player, but quite another being a good professional. Stuart McCall understands the distinction - and the importance of it - as well as anyone. That is why he admires Steven Davis as much and rates him as highly, and why he never doubted that the Northern Irishman would win over his doubters when he returned to Rangers two years ago. As a player, McCall was part of a successful Ibrox squad that was full of big talents and bigger personalities. As a manager, he valued those that went the extra mile and for whom the team was more important than the individual.
Limerick's Ketch Ilen Safe Home to Her Winter Berth 24th December 2020 "She stopped time for everyone around". So said photographer Teddy Murphy as he recorded the characterful Limerick trading ketch Ilen when she came through Dalkey Sound in a flash of sunlight on the afternoon of December 7th for a busy two weeks visit to Dublin Credit: Teddy Murphy In Greek mythology, at the Winter Solstice, there is a brief calm for the Halcyon Day, and this was the experience of the crew on the Limerick ketch Ilen as they headed away on Monday evening, after a busy two weeks in Ringsend which had inclu...