Barry Murphy

Bog track in West of Ireland.

Beautiful bog track; pity about the non-native conifers beyond.

Mullaghmore in summer.

Magnificent

Bartragh Island.

Beautifully located ringfort right on the Moy estuary, Killala Bay.

Best I managed of last night's Aurora over Castlebar. Phone camera with 10sec shutter speed.

Jaysus, just spent 48hrs in Dublin. The dereliction in the capital of this supposedly filthy rich country is incredible. Liberties to SCR, it's everywhere.

I remember watching one here in NW Ireland, nearly 20 years ago. A remarkable and beautiful sight.

Fragen an deutsche Wanderfreunde:
Wer kennt die Romantischen Straße gut?
Welche Strecken sind am besten, um Asphalt zu vermeiden? die schönsten? führen zu den reizvollsten Dörfern für eine Übernachtung?
Möchte 7 Wandertage unternehmen.
Vielen Dank aus Irland! #wandern

One of his 4 or 5 greatest songs.

Drumleen Lough last evening.
Mayo.

Wild Nephin NP, Nov 2025.
No new tracks, they said.
No new structures, they said.

We hike north Mayo from 3-7 June 2026.

A brilliant idea 👏 maith thú

This is criminality.
It looks like East Berlin 1980s.
Is there a Lenin effigy in relief on the bomb shelter?
WTF is the grey material in this screengrab?

The interweb is yours today.

Why don't we care, Jude? Where are the mass protests outside streetscapes like this? BTW, where is that street?

The amazing Greco-Roman city of Empúries.

Sure. Twitter updates us on the latest score before the ref even knows...

Very good year. We have tons here in Mayo.

The roots of which grass might that be?

Bridge of Song returns from its summer recess. Castlebar's monthly godsend.

I had a loolaa demand one at precisely 0900 last week ...

"The Irish" don't give a shit. Ergo, neither do their elected representatives. Logically, those in the Oireachtas ensure "investigations" lead nowhere and, just in case they occasionally do, that punishments are laughable and not enforced.

It can be gorgeous. We just spent 2 nights in Roundstone hiking and it's beautiful, although a hell of a lot of invasive Montbretia.

Today, from Inis Mór, i could clearly see Brandon, 105km away.

Wonderful.

Inis Mór on this very fine day.

Importing nuclear, presumably?

You might correct this poorly written sentence, please. "Of the the three orders that made offers, the Bons Secours who ran the Tuam home, offered a contribution of €12.974,720, which was accepted by the Government."