For the second time in a short spell we had another good snow fall. When taking someone back to Sligo airport I had the chance to snap this pic of Benbulben covered in snow. Ben looks so different every day, and this day more so than others.

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So the Super Bowl of rally events has taken over the campus at IT Sligo, and strangely enough, the first leg of the World Rally Championship began just down the road from our house on the backroads leading toward Geevagh town. I have taken this route dozens of times to transport Gabe back and forth [...]

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I have to admit, this story had me hooked from the opening line: “In a major breakthrough in bovine linguistic research …” cows have regional accents. See if you can tell the difference by listening to samples from the BBC. However stunning the proof of cows having dialectical variations, other related research has shown that [...]

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I was hoping to escape mosquitos in Ireland, but alas, they have their own brand of blood suckers … midges. Gabe and I were trying to do some gardening late this evening and needed to come inside in order to escape. Midges are tiny biting flies that are active from mid-May to September particularly when [...]

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