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Vitriolic comments dating back to the referendum make awkward reading for some of the participants today

Tue Aug 07 2007 at 6:57:53 "And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." - Jonah 1:17 The belly of the whale: Jonah  (prophet of God, formerly of Galilee) The back of the whale: Saint Brendan  (Irish monk from Tralee in Ireland) The head of the whale: Tashtego (harpooneer on the whaler Pequod, formerly of Martha's Vineyard) The belly of the whale: James Bartley  (British seaman on the whaling ship Star of the East.) Four people, four "big fish" stories, some better known than others. Fisherman's tales often grow in the telling. Jonah's Tale Jonah, a prophet of ...

Why medieval Ireland was known as the 'island of saints' Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021 12:08 St Jarlath as depicted in a stained glass window designed by Richard King in 1961 in Tuam cathedral. Photo: Andreas F. Borchert/Wikipedia Creative Commons Analysis: we know all about St Patrick and St Brigid, but what about Ireland's other medieval saints?  While Ireland's saints are best known as figures from a distant past, they nevertheless remain an intrinsic part of our culture. From the making of St Brigit's Cross on February 1st to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 17th, these...

13th March 2021 George O'Brien Kennedy FRINA, (1912-1998). Known to everyone as Brian, and renowned as a dreamer of dreams, he is seen here in his early days of pioneering the Shannon Hire-Boat industry in the 1960s You know how it is. You're wondering if the slightly odd flavour of the evening cuppa is a hint of the imminence of the C-Monster's indicator of taste-loss. All this, too, just as it's increasingly clear that your already-proposed personal date with the jab before the end of March now seems less and less likely to be on schedule. And then the phone rings, and this guy shoots stra...

Died: December 18, 2020. IN 1976, a 36-foot leather boat graunched up on a beach of the Hebridean island of Iona. The two-masted curragh, Brendan, had been made out of quarter-inch-thick skins from 49 cattle, sewn with almost two miles of leather thongs on to a highly flexible oak and ash frame that was designed to bend with the waves. Its skipper, Tim Severin, who has died in Ireland aged 80, was a slender and dapper young man who was once described as being like a golf-club secretary. He amazed onlookers with the news that his plan was to sail and row his wobbly boat across the Atla...