Monthly Archives: March 2014

  • The Lone Survivors !

      (This pic was actually taken yesterday on The Vee Valley Challenge between Burncourt and Clogheen) Each and every weekend from now until the end of September there will be Sportive and charity cycles taking place in every corner of the land. Some like the Ring of Kerry will have 9000 people on the 180k…

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  • A change of direction !

    On my first day in secondary school as I walked into the yard of The High School in Clonmel I bumped into the late Patrick Kennedy, the grandson of a neighbour from Grange. It was good to see a familiar friendly face and he brought me over to meet a few of his friends. He…

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  • Local hero raises spirits !

    Today in the shop Ray, John and I huddled around the small screen of an iPhone hoping that no customer would walk into the shop for the next five minutes. Commercially this is not a good attitude to have, we depend upon our great customers to make a living but normal everyday life was now…

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  • Meet the love of your life in a bike shop

    One busy Saturday afternoon these two people walked in separately into our Clonmel bike shop. Whilst browsing through the selection of bikes their eyes met over a set of handlebars and they struck up a conversation. Fast forward a year a half later to September last and a wedding that was initiated in a bike…

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