Cork Weekend
Colm Burke MEP for Ireland South (Munster minus Clare) has a new website and blog to keep everyone up to date with his work in the EU, having taken over from Simon Coveney
We were privileged enough to be invited to Inniscara for a party organised by Colm and his super assistant Catrina 
Near the very end of the party, we had a bit of a sing-song and I managed to grab a bit on video - take it away Liam and Colm -
The following day we headed down to the Michael Collins commemoration at Beal na Bláth organised by the Collins 22 Society and others. David Puttnam (entries on wikipedia and imdb) had the honour of being the first non-Irish person to give the oration. He is famous for being the producer on Chariots of Fire and winning the Oscar for Best Picture as well as being nominated for oscars for The Mission, The Killing Fields and Midnight Express. He was knighted in ‘95, became a Labour Lord in ‘97and now lives in West-Cork. His speech focussed on integrity, consumerism and the kind of society we are creating and how Collins inspired him.
Finding Beal na Bláth is was an interesting task, especially coming from Dripsey so I’ve taken the liberty of placing it approximately on Google Maps:
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I still wonder how Ronan just happened to drive past it some day…
August 21st, 2007 at 9:50 am
.. well we did ! it was pre-gps time so getting lost was part and parcel of driving.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I still have to visit it .. must try and get lost in Cork some day and drive by it..