Material Amendments to Draft Mayo County Development Plan 2021-2027 Submission that I’ve sent in to the amended draft Mayo county development plan. I have been involved with the campaign to get a Greenway built on the route of the disused rail line from...
Have you made a submission to the draft Mayo county development plan 2021-2027? Everybody should at least, have a read of the development plan. If you have an opinion, then you should let your voice be heard and make a submission. I’ve been a strong supporter of...
2017 Paddy Bollingbrooke Tournament Final The 2017 Paddy Bollingbrooke tournament final took place today. I managed to get there just in time for the 3pm throw in! In the final this year were Pauline Gallagher and Ollie Cassidy playing against George Miller and Peter...
2017 Spring Colour In Swinford Some shots I’ve taken of the 2017 Spring colour in Swinford. Some of the earliest spring flowers to bloom are crocus’s. Its a pity that there’re so delicate and don’t last too long with the wind and rain. Luckily...
66th St Patrick’s Day Parade Swinford 2017 Some photos and video of the 66th St Patricks day parade Swinford 2017. Despite the very poor weather, which was the cause of a lot of parades being postponed, Swinford parade went ahead as scheduled. The weather may...
Autumn Colour 2016 Some Autumn colour 2016 from around Swinford. The best camera in the world, is the one you have in your hand to capture the shot! All these photos were taken with my mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy S5. No filters used, flash used in one shot. As...
Prize Winner At 28th Swinford Agricultural Show The weather was terrible today but was a delighted prize winner at 28th Swinford Agricultural show. Usually we’d have our hanging baskets planted up and ready for hanging out on the first week of June as...
Tears From A Rose With all the recent glorious fine weather we got here in Mayo recently, the gardens and flower beds are really beginning to come into bloom.
Some Early Summer Colour Around Swinford Has summer come early? The weather has been brilliant here for the last week or so. Here’s some early Summer colour from around Swinford that I managed to capture over the last few days. While out photographing a few...
Swinford 1916 Centenary Parade Sunday 24th April 2016 On Sunday the 24th April 2016 we held the Swinford 1916 Centenary Parade. Well done to everyone involved in the parade everyone who took part. Swinford 1916 Centenary Celebration Parade from Michael Maye on Vimeo....
Swinford Celebrates 1916 on weekend of 22nd to 24th April 2016 Swinford celebrates 1916 is a weekend of events to commemorate the 1916 rising. The first event took place last night, “1916 The view from the west, Evidence from the military archives”. This...
April sunset over Swinford Its time that the weather started to pick up! Here’s a shot I got of an April sunset over Swinford. Photo of the sunset with Neiphen in the background was taken from a usual location I use, the top of the hill in Kilconduff Graveyard....
Swinford 65th St Patrick’s Day Parade Some video footage of the Swinford 65th St Patrick’s Day Parade. I have recorded over an hour of footage but have it edited down to about half an hour. I tried to get as many people as well at the parade. The...
Spring 2016 Finally here, just about! Has Spring 2016 finally arrived? Some of our first dwarf daffodils have appeared in the last few days here in Swinford. We have also got some crocuses up, though some of them have been up for the last week in some of the tidy...
Storm Desmond Flooding Swinford There has been some serious flooding here in the Swinford area as a result of Storm Desmond. Met Eireann has had a status red warning issued for rainfall since last Friday. We have had nearly a months amount of rain, dumped on the west...
November Colour Swinford Camera Club’s monthly theme for November is Colour. However with the poor weather of late, as we do get at this time of year its hard to get out with the camera to get some November colour. I’m not too keen going out in the pouring...
Aurora over Swinford October 2015 I got another chance to view and photograph the Aurora over Swinford last night, or should I say early this morning! Thanks to Anne Marie for tipping me off about this recent spectacular show of the Northern Lights as there’re...
Swinford Culture Night 18th September 2015 Swinford Culture night was held last Friday night in the Cultural Center Swinford as part of the national culture night celebrations. This is the 10th year of Culture night and I think the first one held in Swinford. Culture...
Well I finally got to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis over Swinford for the first time in real life last night! I’ve only ever see photos of the Aurora, mostly from Scandinavian countries and Northern America & Canada. Sometimes there has been...
ISS Flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 ISS flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 at 21.05 to 21.09. The ISS orbits the Earth in under 2 hours. It travels at a speed of between 17,300 and 17,500 miles per hour and is a distance of 200 miles from the Earths surface. The...
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