Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s a forlorn wish by now after a half-century of fruitless effort to try and stop losing all those simple things that help to see us through our days like keys, phones, glasses, remote controls, sun glasses, passports and wallets. One of the few consolations I take from this little […]
Country Living with Francis Farragher As a child, I remember once being told by my mother, that a certain gentleman farmer just over the road from us was now 40-years of age. To a child of about eight or nine summers, it seemed to be terribly old, as I thought to myself would I ever […]
Country Living with Francis Farragher Probably being from country stock has meant there has always been a little allurement towards the weather and maybe for good reason too. It often determined the workload for the day and also big decisions like when crops could be harvested or whether we’d be kept home from school to […]
Country Living with Francis Farragher On one of the dying mornings of January as I listened to Marty Whelan on Lyric FM while stuck in the now inevitable morning traffic jam heading into the Coolagh Roundabout on the east side of Galway city, he said that there always seemed to be around 10 weeks in […]
Country Living with Francis Farragher Political correctness was never a term I was familiar with as a kid, and maybe just as well, thinking back on some of the stuff we used to come out with. We learned nursery rhymes where the ‘N word’ featured through 10 verses in a row without even having the […]