David’s Blog

This day last week was as good as it gets. We had landed at Shannon Airport on the West Coast of Ireland (http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/05/shannon-airport-ireland.html ) on the Thursday night and here we were on Friday on just the most beautiful summer’s day heading to the Doonbeg Peninsular which has the feel of a place apart bounded [...]

Once upon a time, not too long ago, there were 27 unique narrow gauge railways and tramways in Ireland. The last of these to close was the West Clare Railway in 1961, a line immortalised in song and remembered by railway enthusiasts as a special railway with more than its fair share of lore and [...]