Brendan Mc Williams writes a column on the Irish Times called Weather Eye and a few days ago he wrote his article on the Brindled cow hasn’t gone away you know. It is about the borrowed days between Old March and Old April and see if your search engine can locate it.

The river level has risen to 3.88 metres this past week and many callows are flooded.

Noticed a pair of swans on a nest upstream that will be and dry if the level drops.

Had a couple named Morrison from Boston visit here twice this week. They are looking for information on their ancestors who were named Kenny from Cappaleitra. They tried Patrick, Peter and Jack with little success. They intend to look up parish records before returning home next week.

Good to see Michael Green home on a visit from Boston. Also visiting the area this week is Ciaran Molloy, a grandson of P.C. Molloy who was a teacher in Clonmacnois and who willingly took people on tours of Clonmacnois during his time off. One of the Molloys has painted some pictures of Clonmacnois and hopefully some day they might share them with this website. Talking to our web master today and he told us that to put pictures etc on this web would require extra space which would cost about 150 Euros per year. Wonder if a table quiz might raise this amount?.

The Met office in Birr reported that the ground temperature on March 3^rd was -16 C. This was the lowest temperature recorded since 1954.

The English Grand National at Aintree today was won by Number Six Valvence who just beat last years winner Hedgehunter on the run in. A local sweep was run by Louise and the winner was Kate Thornhill with Michael Devine second.

The John Mc Gahern book Memoir has found renewed interest since the author’s death last week and it is back in at Nunber 1 on the best seller list in Ireland.

Shannonbridge are about to hit Thurles for six later this evening. Louise has been booked to play a gig there and a gang of friends are going along including about six musicians and singers and one dancer.

Two of Ireland’s rugby internationals, David Humphreys and Reggie Corrigan announced this week that they are retiring from international duties. Both intend to give one more year to their clubs.