The local Bog Train runs seven days a week and the journey starts on the hour and lasts about 55 minutes.Yesterday Dan and Pamela Drumheller from Washington DC took the trip and when Peter Guinan the train driver stopped to give a demonstration of how the sod peat was taken from the bog in the old fashioned way with a slane, he invited people on the train to try their hand. So Dan volunteered and with an easy approach cut a few sods and pitched them onto the highbank.He was getting better until he missed his footing and fell into the boghole nearly losing his shoe. Dan and Pamela are on a Shannon cruiser holiday for the first time and were telling Louie Darcy of their experience on the Bog Train. Louie summed it up by the old saying -
You can take a man to the bog, but you can't take the bog out of the man.
Visitors to The Fort Restaurant will remember the bearded waiter Fran Moran. Well Fran has decided to do his bit for Kate in Uganda and have a Sponsored Shave the Beard fund raiser for the cause. This was a hasty decision on Friday night but it looks as if he is has been caught as friends threw in over €150 in a few minutes and God knows what more will be added. Well done Fran. Also well done to Ned Hendricks who handed in his completed card with €125 and has gone off with a second card.