Hong Kong to London: the second leg of my epic thirty-hour odyssey to the other side of the world. It is a busy flight, but not full. The Northern Irish girl beside me is flying home because her aunt - forty-five years old like me - had a brain haemorrhage a couple of days ago. … Continue reading travelling without moving
ireland
help the hallowe’en party
Hallowe'en is not the big deal in Australian that we had at home every year. It was great time of year for us: autumn was well-established, with all the trees turning gold and the days getting shorter. The clocks had usually turned back an hour the weekend before. A bank holiday and school mid-term break … Continue reading help the hallowe’en party
connemara summer
Bernard’s “Big Five-Oh” gives the Doyle family something to celebrate, and we head to Connemara for a holiday. Red Sails, our home for the week, is in the centre of Carna village, deep in the heart of Connemara and right on the water’s edge. We arrive in convoy with fishing rods, welly boots, cameras, rain … Continue reading connemara summer
road deaths
OK, I know I said I would stop with the statistics, but this one was on my mind. In the UK in 2008, 2,538 people were killed in road incidents. In Ireland, the number killed in the same year was 279. In the whole of Australia in the same period, 1,464 people were killed in … Continue reading road deaths
Máiréad Doyle 