There’s something about a treehouse that brings out the big kid in all of us. Garden designer Robert Moore indulged his own Secret Seven vibes, making one that’s so incredible he’s finding it hard to leave.
The colourful flotilla of kayaks appeared in the distance, the colours popping against the sparkling blue of Lough Foyle in Co Donegal, as they brought a man, who is a friend to so many of us, on his last paddle.
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For many years, travelling the long road from Dublin to Donegal by bus as a student, my first glimpse of the River Foyle and the lights of Derry city meant one thing: home.
This is not a story I want to tell. I baulk at the writing of it, rail against the words as they land one at a time. But my friend Adrian Harkin has asked me to share some of his adventures and the last undertaking of his life to raise money for motor neurone disease (MND) research so that others might someday benefit and not suffer as he has.