.........it was a momentus year and the summer of ‘69! Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon, the Beatles & Let it Be, the VC strike for victory, and the British Army Land in Belfast & Derry, it was the summer of ‘69!

.........May 2019 and 32 golfers from Galway Bay headed to Donegal to play Rosapenna, Portsalon & Ballyliffen, it was a great 4 days, the Golf, Glen Bar, Harbour Bar, we’ll be back!!🏌🏻‍♂️⛳️🍷🎻

.......the Leaving Cert, that dreaded final exam of teenage yrs, the path to University with 400,500 or 600 pts, the most demanding time of a young person’s life, is the system right in the 21st century??

........35 yrs of conflict and the British Army a major protagonist killed hundreds yet not one soldier charged with murder???

.......in the recent conflict the British Army killed 500 people, no British Soldier was ever charged with murder, British justice how are ye??

.......time waits for no man, Lurgy reach the 40th anniversary but we are losing some stalwarts each year, Dicey, Tony Kelly, Eamonn Doherty, Paul Annie, Raymond Ban, Andy Quigley, Hugh Strain & now Donny McGinley, R.I.P.

Maria Bailey, TD, took to a swing in Ballsbridge and became an overnight sensation with her sense of entitlement and an embarrassment to Leo and the Govt, what do you do with a problem like Maria?

........Darkness into Light, every year hundreds of thousands make the walk at 4am from darkness to light in memory of someone close who has been lost to suicide, we walk the walk with Oisin!🙏

......1981, the year of the Hunger Strikes, Bobby Sands and 9 others die a slow sad death in Long Kesh, my sister Bernadette was the girl piper at each funeral and suffered greatly afterwards, not all victims of violence are physical!

.......2019, the Masters at Augusta and the Tiger roars again! After a decade struggling with injuries, marriage break up, his golf game gone, we witnessed the return of this genius of golf, it was a special evening!⛳️🏌🏻‍♂️