I live on Bere Island, work with Bere Island Projects Group, write for The Southern Star & Marine Times & worship at the altar of Manolo Blahnik. Views my own.
The only bank
@AIBIreland
in
#Castletownbere
is going cashless. The biggest fishing port in Ireland, home to two island communities and now no access to a bank. The Beara Peninsula is one of the furthest places from Dublin, once again there’s no support for
#RuralIreland
Bantry Bay starting to fill up with the foreign fishing fleet taking shelter from
#StormIsha
and more on their way in. The first time the bay has been full this storm season, always a sign of a bad storm when they head for shelter. Hatches are well and truly battened down here!
My Chinese takeaway is waiting patiently for the ferry! When you live on an island it’s handy having a sister who commutes to the mainland every day for work and can bring the odd takeaway home 😁
#BereIsland
#islandlife
A great surprise today to see my article on Bere Island and Argentina in the
@SouthernStarIRL
featured on Argentinean news channel
@AmericaTV
this morning - a West Cork paper with worldwide reach!
There’s already very high seas off
#BereIsland
- everything is battened down, candles and torches at the ready, and a couple of Easter eggs still left to get us through it!
#StormKathleen
#IslandLife
View from today’s office, the
#BereIsland
standing stone. Dates to the Bronze Age and is said to mark the exact centre of the island. Working on something for
@HeritageHubIRE
and couldn’t have picked a more perfect day.
Dawn at the
#BereIsland
standing stone, the stone is said to mark the exact centre of the island. Legend has it that a giant on the mainland threw the stone at the Cailleach Beara/The Old Hag of Beara, but it missed and landed on the island
#KnowYour5K
#5kmfromhome
British border patrol vessel HMC Valiant docked in Castletownbere today. The last time a ship of the British Crown was in Berehaven was in 1938. In September that year the handover of the Treaty Port of Fort Berehaven, Bere Island took place.
Last night of
#islandlockdown
#BereIsland
It’s been a surreal few months, but we’ve been so lucky to live on a place like this for lockdown. Looking forward to getting back to some form of normal, but still a bit apprehensive of what’s ahead of us.
#Phase3
102 years ago today sailors from the US Navy inscribed their names on a rock just outside Rerrin Village
#BereIsland
. The US Navy was stationed in Berehaven during WW1, while protecting the sea lanes off Southern Ireland
#KnowYour5K
225 years ago today General Hoche & Theobald Wolfe Tone sailed a French Armada into Bantry Bay. By 1805 the British admiralty had built this Martello Tower at Cloughland Hill
#BereIsland
along with 3 other towers on the island to defend against any further invasions of the bay.
A huge thank you to
@ESBNetworks
for restoring power to
#BereIsland
the first thing to come back on was the sacred heart lamp which has been in the house since the 1950s!
There’s not a particularly bad forecast down this way tonight, but Bantry Bay is starting fill up with foreign fishing vessels taking shelter. Maybe they know something we don’t!
Just came across this photo online of my Dad’s old boat St Patrick sailing by Long Walk, Galway. Dad died this month 21 yrs ago, and 3 months later the St Patrick was wrecked in a storm off West Cork. I like to think he’s still sailing the high seas above on her.
Fantastic whale watching trip with
#WildAtlanticFishNTrips
from
#BereIsland
this morning. Absolutely amazing to be able to get so close to these beautiful creatures around Sheeps Head & Dunmanus Bay, lots of dolphins in the area as well. So lucky to have all this on our doorstep.