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Road Works In Ballyboughal

Got this in via email from Michael Kennedy. Pardon the cliché – but a spade being a spade – he’s the only one to let me know.

I am writing to you to advise you of road works to install the East West Interconnector that will be taking place in your area.

Area:

On the road West [...]

Cnoc Dubh ?

Ah yes welcome to the beautiful countryside, farming rural town of Ballyboughal where the sheep sleep all day and the leaves of the trees rustle in the wind….

Oh hold on a second…..? The above image is what was supposed to happen. The one below is what has existed for close on…. 2 years [...]

Is O’Connors pub in Afghanistan???

Ha ha you must all think i’ve really lost it now. The toys are out of the pram, the bird has flown, sure he’s as mad as a bag of cats. However, your wrong if you think i have gone bonkers. The title is actually refering to the eyesore adjacent to the pub. Jesus god how were [...]

Help Peter Find A Home For This….

remember this… see here for more images and information on no rubber soul -

I was talking with John last week – that would be John Friel, the brains behind turning some of my ‘other’ idea[s] into reality – this one he was most famed for.

Turns out, after being in storage for two years [this year] [...]

The Big Snow…

It seems the snow has gone…. and today the sun is shining…. I had meant to put these up a while ago but I guess I just never got around to it [explained below]…. anyhow for those of you outside of Ireland this is a sampler of what I snapped over the Winter period.

A note [...]

the garden groups first adventure

PLEASE NOTE: comments here are closed – names only over at the landscaping weblog. Click the link below….

http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2010/01/15/the-garden-groups-first-adventure/

war memorial gardens

It is official. The first ever outing for the Garden group has been organised is set up and ready to go.

The trip is to The National War Memorial Gardens [Dublin] and it will cost you absolutely nothing.

We [...]

Join in Peter’s Garden Group

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So it was sometime last year that the suggestion came in to set a garden group up…. and I did… but not a whole lot happened with it for so many varying reasons… but thats another story and this is 2010.

It’s a new year and it’s time I got things grooving in this department…..

With [...]

Cheer Up Ireland.... eh.... Ballyboughal...?

Dena…

This is Dena [above] Why is she on Ballyboughal.net….? Well…. mainly because she looks so happy here……

But…. today I went on a photowalk around Dublin City Centre… I caught up with the guys in Smithfield [I missed the Phoenix Park bit] and then walked on down towards The Stags Head direction….

The reason for all this [...]

An interview with Green Party Senator Dan Boyle

I had published this over on the gardening blog. But, I reckoned that those interested in farming or more recent and relevant the Ward Hunt wouldn’t mind [...]

the tidy towns...

Florrie dropped by with this last week in paper format [thanks florrie ]…. scanned it in and now its here for all to see. There’s talk now [for the first time in a while now I believe...?] of the Ballyboughal garden competition returning which is great to see

In the meantime here’s how Ballyboughal did [...]