January 26, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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Sinéad Cochrane of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology is doing a survey of bloggers and those who read blogs. It would help her a lot if you took part. It’s very short and you could win a … Continue reading
January 17, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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I made a quick mention of the old TB hospitals in a blog post about BCG almost two years ago. As far as I know there were lots of them. Peamount, which we drove past many times, opened in 1912 … Continue reading
January 15, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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We decided to head down and look at the poor dead whale in Courtmac this evening. Totally unprepared of course. Hundreds of cars down there, traffic mayhem, tons of people out on the sand taking pictures. Unfortunately we were a … Continue reading
January 11, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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Pork & Sons I was given this lovely book for Christmas 2007 and finally finished it last month. What initially appears to be a coffee-table resident turned out to be one of the best books on food I’ve ever read. … Continue reading
January 8, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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It’s that time of year again to get your nominations in for the Irish Blog Awards. The ceremony is being held in the lovely Cork International Airport Hotel on February 21. The number of wonderful Irish blogs increases daily and I can’t keep up … Continue reading
January 8, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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The Empire may have done its best to kill the pork industry in Ireland but the producers are fighting back. Barrie Tyner from Slow Food Ireland just let me know that the West Cork and Cork City Conviviums are coming together … Continue reading
January 7, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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I just got a mail from the lovely people in The Good Things Cafe in Durrus to tell me that the awesome Carmel was on the Foodtalk programme on Newstalk Radio. Foodtalk is hosted by one of the best food … Continue reading
January 4, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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It looks like 2008 was not a good year for new content on this blog. Only two posts were in the top twenty most-read in the last 12 months. I promise to do better this year The most read content … Continue reading