I came across this footage on YouTube from 1941 of a fencing club in Dublin. There is no further information with the video but I suspect it is of the Dublin University Fencing Club, TCD, as that club was restarted in 1941. If anyone knows any more about this video, I would love to...
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Snow Fencing
Snow is general all over Ireland and the nation has ground to the halt. Yes indeed, just a light dusting of snow, a few centimetres, is sufficient to bring the country to its knees. Unaccustomed as we are to snow – this is the worst snow since 1982 or, possibly, 1947 – we are...
Happy New Year
I was going to write a post full of my resolutions for the New Year most of which would optimistically strive for a better me and be promptly forgotten in a week or two. What else are New Years Resolutions for anyway? I could write about how I want to improve my fencing, or...
Happy Christmas
Merry Christmas one and all, and all the best for 2010. In the meantime, here’s a short Christmas message from Ireland’s only Oscar contender this year: