ANYWAY.... I see you both have family in Sligo..... from a gigantic Westlife fan like wee Tinkerbell here I always planned to go there one day... see if I can spot any of the boys LOL (Nicky being my fave I think he is a Dublin boy I may be wrong!)
When I was 16/17 my friends met guys on holiday in Santa Ponsa .... we went to visit them.... IN MEATH!
Wow ... I loved it but Im not sure they knew what hit them when a bus full of Weegie girls turned up - i asked the Londis lady where the Mcdonalds was and she had a right good laugh!!
Ginge is from Cloonacool not far from Charlestown. They don't have a Londis. Spar and Centra and their local pub has a shop. Get steaming and buy you're drunken snacks :-)
I've only ever been to Meath once. Knobber....they have no bloody hotels! I went to my uncles funeral and had to drive back to Sligo so I couldn't even have a drink!!
Tinks. I don't know where we went wrong but many of my family in Sligo and Mayo are Guards.
Let me know when you plan to visit and I will warn them.... ;-)
They still bless themselves when we go past a Catholic church in England. It's a habit. I've never taken my kids to mass. I sent them to Catholic schools though. They were all Christened in Ireland, no questions asked. In England they ask for a wedding certificate, which I don't have.
Stayed in a hotel in Kilkenny and our accommodation was down the other end of the street. Ducksie might know it, we drank in Doyles, also an undertaker. Gosh....the Irish love a good funeral.