In the hills outside of Midleton lies the village of Clonmult. It is one of those blink-and-you-miss it places that is hard to find when you look for it, and passes by almost unnoticed when you drive through it. There isn’t a huge amount of things to see up there – the site of one […]
Tag: cork
Paul Ryan, dead dolphins, ortolans, country fairs
Week five of my wafflings; eventually I will just turn into Lenny Bruce and use it as a platform for bitterly attacking anyone who I feel wronged me. But for now it’s still mostly shit jokes about deceased mammals. Politics is a lonely business. Spare a moment for poor Paul Ryan, current US Speaker […]
Cities, Eurovision, giant rats
Column Watch – week three. The mood is tense. Somehow it hasn’t been cancelled yet, but this one might do the trick: We are flocking to cities. According to the data provided by Census 2016, nearly two thirds of the population of Ireland now lives in an urban area, with 25% of us living […]
Method Man
Science is something of a dirty word in the whiskey business. Consider the life and work of Aeneas Coffey. After risking life and limb as a gauger, he applied all he knew about distilling (and a lot of what Scots inventor Robert Stein knew) to a new type of still. It was cleaner and more […]
My weekend in photos. In other words, I basically didn’t go anywhere or do anything.
The Fountainhead
I’m not sure that many people in Midleton are aware that one of the world’s most significant distilleries lies just outside the town. It sits there on the skyline, silently creating and maintaining the bulk of the world supply of Irish whiskey. Of course, the local lack of understanding isn’t helped by the fact that […]
Trevor O’Connell’s photos from the Knockmealdown Mountains.
Beautiful photos of Cork harbour by sailing enthusiast – and former classmate of mine – Nicholas Bourke.
Dave McGrath’s photos of Cork wildlife.
Expressions of Cork by Michael Fahy.
Triple Distilled Communications 