The Phot Gallery has two old postcards of Clonmacnois taken before it was made ready for visitors about 50 years ago. The postcards were given to my brother Jim by Ciaran Flannery when he called to visit him in his pub in Athone last week.
Scottish visitor Ray Cadman called to visit yesterday and told us that Sean Fitzsimons is gone to Dun Laoghaire to have an artificial leg fitted.Ray went to visit Margaret Kelly as when he first visited he became friends with Michael and Margaret.
Home at present from London is Bina Nugent looking a million punts which is even better than a million dollars.
Last year Derek Davis and Aonghus Mc Anally produced a four part serial on the River Shannon covering four places.Aonghus enjoyed the work so much that he hired a cruiser and took the family and inlaws on a river holiday.Last evening they stopped off in Shannonbridge and he was telling us that the series is getting a rerun starting in about a weeks time. Pat Corbett and Ray Walsh recognised him as once playing a guitar on the group called Mushroom.Aonghus told us that a CD of Mushroom is worth 5000 Euro which Ray and Pat took with a grain of Heineken.
Local musician Kieran Rock is taking a weeks break in Costa Del Sol from yesterday.
See that The Flight of The Doves is to be shown next Saturday morning at 2.10 on RTE 1.
Hope Lorraine can pick that one up.