The Beamish Family Memorabilia in Listowel, Kennedy's Pet Farm and NCBI official opening

Greenfinch at Beal

photo: Ita Hannon

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NCBI Official Opening

The lovely ladies in the NCBI shop on Church Street threw a party to mark their official opening.

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Summer on the Way!

The days are getting finer. I enlisted some help to prepare my summer transport.

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Pet farm Revisited, Sunday April 24 2016

I love visiting here so much that the Kennedys are now our friends.

 The setting is absolutely idyllic.

Mrs. Hen was brooding in the midst of it all.

Bambi feeding from Sean's hand.

 Christmas is months away.

 This is one of the many cocks I saw. They seem to live and let live at Kennedy's.

They had a nice young pot bellied pig.

 All of my boys loved the guinea pigs.

Cupboard love; Bambi is following Killian everywhere not because he loves him but he is watching for an opportunity to steal his food.

 Carine loves the puppies best.

 All of the animals at Kennedy's live in harmony.

Sean tried his hands at the milking.

Posing with a rabbit

 Posing with a goat

They had an 8 week old litter of puppies on the day we visited.

It's always hard to say good bye to Kennedy's

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Presentation Secondary School, Listowel

Photo taken on Proclamation Day and posted on Twitter

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Beamish Exhibition in The Seanchaí

An event that happened at Listowel Military Tattoo 2016 was the display in The Seanchaí of the sporting and aviation memorabilia of the Beamish family of Dunmanway.


Here are just a few of the exhibits I photographed. The artefacts are on permanent display in Britain but were kindly brought by the family to Listowel for the Tattoo

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Darkness into Light

Next Saturday is the morning when all of Ireland walks into the dawn of a hopeful new Ireland without the pain of suicide and self harm.

Billy Keane is doing his bit to promote the walk by persuading all of his celebrity visitors to try on the T-shirt.

Actor, Patrick Bergin

Rugby player, Jonathan Sexton