Cormac MacConnell is a veteran writer and journalist. His much loved column, about his life in County Clare and observations about Irish life, has appeared in the Irish Voice for close to 30 years.
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Irish singer Larry Cunningham, King of the Showbands, had a number one hit with "Lovely Leitrim."
"I was once so innocently angelic that an actual halo was seen by all in our Arney Chapel over my head on a Good Friday afternoon."
Cead Mile Failte to you all from this coast of the Wild Atlantic Way in Clare during a historic interlude.
The chances are this piece on the blackest Monday of my life to date will not defeat all the challenges and strains and worries we all know too much about already. With more to come by the hour and minute.
Apologies to you all from this stormy coast of the Wild Atlantic Way which is living up to its reputation for sure during the ritual Ides of March.
Without St. Patrick's Purgatory in the middle of Co Donegal's Lough Derg, Cormac MacConnell may have never existed.
"To every corner of what they call the diaspora and will you find even the smallest and most nominal St. Bridget's Day Parade? Not at all."
On both coasts of the Wild Atlantic Way is the reality that we are about to experience again the craic and stimulation created by election fever.
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