Lisa and I are pretty sure Coach Lane is the best restaurant in Sligo. We didn’t think we would get a table on Valentine’s Evening, but were able to snuggle up in a booth by the bar. This is the place to get fresh seafood and we did it up with an order of mussels [...]

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If I have been enjoying one thing thoroughly, it is the quality of content on the radio here. Actually the quality of content in general, whether it be the papers, television, etc. You could easily do with the four national TV channels and live happily. The public supports countless papers and the coverage of culture [...]

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The Leitrim Mobile Cinema rolled into Carrick-on-Shannon with Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, more of a high-art film than a soccer documentary. I have to admit that I had never heard of Zidane until I watched the World Cup when we first moved to Ireland and watched him head-butt an opponent (apparently his lowest moment [...]

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Gabe doesn’t just look Irish anymore, we got official notice of his citizenship as of the 18th of January.

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We broke ground on the vegetable garden this afternoon. Lisa instructed me on how to properly cut a ridge of potatoes as passed along by Thomas O’Gorman in Crusheen. You essentially score two strips of soil and fold the soil (grass and all) into the center as if on a hinge. You are left with [...]

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