In the summer months we spent a lot of time in
"the bog", which was an area of raised peat behind the house. Here we
dug tunnels in the high banks and erected barricades on the heather and
generally had a good time getting mucky and dirty.
Thanks to Watcher - and Santanta - for bringing this story to our attention. It deserves a wider airing and I have lifted the following Independent obituary, by Rupert Cornwall off the Internet for your benefit.
I seemed to spend a lot of time in the Reilly’s as a
boy - at least once a week, walking across the footstick over the CregganRiver and the fields from Drumbally.
Robinson begins talks over parade disputeThe North's first minister, Peter Robinson, is trying to start talks between both sides in a long-running dispute over an Orange parade through the Catholic part of Portadown, Co Armagh.
