So I’ve finally made it back to fencing after an extended period of injury and illness. Back at the start of March a small infection in my right (sword) arm spread aggressively from elbow to chest and I had to be admitted to A&E for some swift surgical intervention. It would be nice, or...
Flame-haired Former Fencer Flattens First Minister Naomi Long Elected MP for East Belfast In the biggest upset of the general election in Northern Ireland, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has beaten the Democratic Unionist Party leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson to be elected as Member of Parliament for East Belfast....
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...
To the Gaiety Theatre for what may well have been the last ever production by Opera Ireland, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette. In the current economic unpleasantness there have been suggestions that the main opera companies in Ireland be amalgamated into a single national company. I love the opera, it has everything, music, drama, spectacle,...
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...