Hi, I went to Norway a couple of weeks back, which was a somewhat unplanned adventure. It involved three flights: Cork to Amsterdam, on to Bergin, then on to Tromso, in the Arctic Circle. My husband, who is doing a PhD in Quaternary Landscape Studies...

Hi, The weather in Ireland has been amazingly stable for a month; almost endless sunshine. I wake up every day wondering when it's going to break, or if the news is going to take a turn towards predictions of drought and water restrictions. It's a st...

Hi, NEWSFLASHThe Irish Key (Bookouture) is 99c special offer today on AmazonOur 2024 has been exciting in the publishing arena, and crazy busy on the home front. My mother (93), who was getting too frail to live alone come to live with us, but as we...

Hi, The sun is burning in Ireland. Interspersed by days of deluge, it provides the perfect weather for creating potholes in the roads. The manic requirement to make hay means there are huge tractors dashing around the tiny roads, pulling even bigger...

Hi, WRITING NEWSFLASHHer Irish Home, a short story commissioned by Bookoutureis a precursor to my women's fiction series set in West Cork, Ireland,writing as Daisy O'Shea.Now available to collect free of charge (Click on the image).The Irish Key, a f...