Ennisnag always looked a grand spot but I never stopped there. Is it closed now?
Another scorcher in store
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Lashed rain for the infamous AISFF as well. My memory of that summer is of a humid wet summer.
Still going, was in there only a few months ago, I’d have relations down that part of the world.
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Rain falling in Winchester GB currently
Those that know know
Now that I think of it again the father and myself went down to Cork for two matches. Cork vs Limerick and Waterford Tipperary and they were grand sunny days. The day of the Munster final in Limerick was grim needless to say.
I usually find that a good gauge of what a summer was like can be had from the GAA games of that summer.
Cork v Galway AISHSF
Galway v Donegal AISFSF
Dublin v Cork AISFSF
Cork v Dublin AISFSFR
All were played in excellent weather.
Cork v Kerry in the Munster football final was flood affected however, or certainly the attendance was.
I think the two Dublin v Meath games (June 12th and July 3rd) were played in good weather. Kilkenny v Wexford in the Leinster hurling semi-final (June 19th) definitely was.
Cork v Waterford 1983 was played on a fine summer’s day (July 10th) as was the Leinster hurling final between Kilkenny and Offaly, the very same day.
I wonder was there much commotion in the meeja about the Munster hurling final and Leinster hurling final clashing. Probably not, I’d say.
How would you describe your memory? There must be sone way to monetise it! I’ve been at many of the games mentioned here recently and I can remember very little,
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As regards 1983, mostly obtained via de telly and YouTube.
Though I do have a recollection of getting my tonsils out, which is not a pleasant memory, not least because I was deceived into visiting the operating theatre. I asked were there puppets as in a Punch and Judy show, and was informed there were indeed such puppets, so enthusiastically agreed to go the theatre. This was a lie. There were no puppets or Punch and Judy shows, only the knockout punch of a general anaesthetic.
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I had major surgery in October 1983, my abiding memory of that time in the hospital was the song Karma Chameleon and having chipper food brought to me most nights once I had recovered by a kind uncle, learning to play gin rummy, drinking lucosade to the point that I was sick shit of it and having maltesers fights on the boys ward, leave the malteser in your mouth for a while before using it as a projectile and it would often stick to its target, or more commonly the wall, Sister Fidelma would regularly lose her shit.
The following year while on holiday in Youghal we met the surgeon who performed on me as his mother and his daughter were staying next door to us
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I think my tonsils were October 1983. I also got the measles around that time, and a thing called croup, which required a stay in Cherry Orchard hospital, where they served me potato croquettes, and more potato croquettes.
Karma Chameleon is a great song. I cannot imagine being a young child growing up in today’s bleak musical environment rather than the early to mid 1980s which was rich with indelible and enduring pop hits. The pop hits of the day were the like the oxygen you breathed or the water you swam in, always there. Now there are no pop hits.
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The Summer 87 saw a Hemorrhoid on my hole the size of the Blarney Stone. So swollen and angry, it was pulsating in Morse code.
Now, back to the weather.
It’s mank. The end
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Michael Lowry’s Country Music Festival takes place in Holycross tomorrow.
Lowry has a direct line to God and ensures it never rains for it.
Michael was on Local Radio this morning and assured everyone tomorrow afternoon will be fine in Holycross.
Did you kiss it?
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Them fucking Europeans better stop hogging all the global warming. 13 degrees* here in DUB.
*car thermometer reading so it could be anywhere between -5 and 30
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13 wasn’t bad for 6am.
Be thankful for small mercies…
Like getting to four All Irelands in a row.
Last few hours of ‘summer’. July you’ve been memorable.
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Weather should improve in a couple of weeks, second half of august will probably be nice
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Oh, the Indian summer.
Every year it’s normally Failte Ireland or the like, release the story.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m sick of the rain. I’ll clutch at any straws.
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Any basis for this, or are we clutching at straws? Understandably if so, we’re desperate for sunshine. Accurate weather forecast still up to 6/7 days?