I always get emotional when driving across Wexford Bridge at night. It’s a bit like Griffin’s speech about Ferrycarrig, with the moon on the water and the twin churches on the hill overlooking the harbour.
Vinegar Hill in Enniscorthy is also a superb place. I walked up there a few years ago just to take in the view down to the River Slaney and to try comprehend the enormity of what great Wexford people had sacrificed for their people up on that Hill.
Then I found out Liam Dunne was training on his own up on Vinegar Hill in the depths of the winter of 2002 as he sought redemption after being sent off in each of the 3 previous championship campaigns. Running up and down the hill so he’d be fit enough, mentally and physically, to repay the people of Wexford the following summer. Typical of the man and typical of the Wexford spirit that Vinegar Hill embodies.
But what about outside your own county? Any place that made you go, ‘fook me - this is spectacular.’
I’d have to mention the RDS in Dublin at Christmas when Funderland is on as being up there. I’m off to think about some other places.