Cormac MacConnell

Great weather in Ireland - even better music, dancing and craic

In our unique heatwave, there is a growing shortage of water nationally but, by heavens, there is no scarcity at all of midsummer craic and festivalia. A real lava of levity and laughter and pure joy at about every level.

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Irish folklore would have it that the butterfly brings beautiful weather

Red Admiral's, crazy Irish weather and chatting over a pint at the Spancil Hill horse fair near Ennis.

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Irish Voice

Top tips from a local for your vacation in rural Ireland

As record numbers of Northern Americans arrive on Ireland's shores our man on the ground has some sage advice.

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Opinion

Silly season, fake news and my Donald and Hillary whirligigs

How observing two garden ornaments in the lazy summertime lead our man Cormac MacConnell to realize a connection between it and the real Donald Trump's actions.

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Irish Voice

An Irish ballad of leaving and endings

Since June began I have been somewhat malevolently enjoying myself hugely on all possible occasions by singing in singsongs in Clare’s bars my dreadfully tear-jerking ballad called “The Leaving.”

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Irish Voice

My time as a smuggler on the Northern Ireland border

With European borders literally all the rage just now in every sense of the word, let’s still have a bit of midsummer craic to lighten the doom and gloom.

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Travel Tips

Visiting Ireland? An Irishman’s advice on the “dos and don'ts”

From tracing your Irish roots, traveling the Wild Atlantic Way, drink driving and Donald Trump advise from a local especially for you.

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O’Dowds to O’Connells - Irish certainly have a way with names

"I lit a candle for little Maggie and all the other little Maggies overlooking us... the intriguing truth is that she knows well what you wrote about her."

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All about visitor’s Irish clan names in Spiddal, Connemara

Not only does an Irish surname reveal almost all about where a family hails from, it also exposes much about the genetics as well.

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From Coole Park to Coole Swan, summer in Ireland begins

A party, a tree and a great Irish liqueur!

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