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Parke’s Castle
On a recent outing with Swinford Camera Club, we visited Parke's Castle which is located on the shores of Lough Gill in Leitrim. This is a beautifully restored plantation Castle dating from the early 17th century. In the courtyard you can see the evidence of an...
Fleadh Mhaigh Eo 2013 In Swinford
Swinford hosted Fleadh Mhaigh Eo 2013 over the weekend of 10th, 11th and 12th of May. There were over 500 entries in the various categories of the Fleadh competition! My own Nephew Dylan came 2nd in his age group in the Fiddle, his first County Fleadh medal. A huge...
Eagles Flying
Swinford Camera Club organised an outing recently to Eagles Flying which is located between Tubbercurry and Ballymote in County Sligo. I had heard stories from my Niece and Nephews about Eagles Flying from school trips that they were on to the center. I have to say I...
My New Sigma 10-20mm F/4 EX DC Lens
Any of you that are into photography will know this already, no matter how many lens' that you have, you still need that new lens that the others just won't cover! As I immerse myself even more into photography, I find myself in that very same position. I started off...
Mayo Get To League Semi-Final After Beating Cork
It's not easy being a Mayo supporter, following the ups and downs of Mayo Football. We are well used to hearing the comments "Mayo God help us" or "bottlers" but this team are different. They don't make it easy on themselves or us as supporters sometimes, but they...
Final Round of the National Football League
This weekend is the seventh and final round of the national football league. Mayo face the long trek down to Páirc úi Caoímh in Cork this Sunday. There is a big gang heading down to Cork, for what is a must win game for Mayo, to gaurantee us division 1 status again in...
Swinford St Patrick’s Day Parade 2013
Congratulations to Swinford Tidy Towns who won 1st prize in "The most original" category in Swinford's 62nd annual St Patrick's Day Parade. You can view all my photos of the parade here. You can view the video of the parade below. ...
New Sigma Lens and New Mural in Swinford
I recently ordered a new lens for myself as I found the Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5 afs vr a bit slow in certain conditions. See photo; 28mm, f/4.5, iso 3200, @ 1/125sec. This is one of the first shots that I took with my new lens, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 DC HSM VR AFS....
National Football League Rd 3
Its hard to believe that we are nearly halfway through the 2013 Allianz football league.After Mayo's fairly handy win over the kingdom in Mc Hale park in round 1, which I had predicted in a previous post, our bubble was well burst by Tyrone. Tyrone came to town for...
Start of the National Football League 2013
Tomorrow see's the start of the National Football League Division 1 for Mayo. The long road starts again for 2013, and what a tough division we're in, ( Mayo been the longest team in division 1 by the way!) Our first match is a tough one, Kerry at home in Mc Hale...
Leitrim v Mayo FBD League
FBD League football is not the most glamorous in early January, but still its great to be back on the road again! Leitrim were the far stronger team yesterday up in Ballinamore, and the scoring showed it. Mayo were 0-5 to 0-0 down with Darren Coen ( who was a late...
Night Photo of Ireland from ISS
Brilliant night-time photo of Ireland taken recently from the International Space Station (ISS) It's not very often that Ireland is completely cloud free with the added bonus of the "Northern lights" also visible! {Photo credit NASA}
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