3rd October 2011 The season finally ended on the 30th September following the lowest Summer temperatures in years. Ironically some of the last days of…

September 2011 On the 4th September Oughterard was part of the route for the Ironman 70.3 endurance event. The town provided 50 people to man…

Towards the end of August Christopher and I headed to Kerry for a few days prior to the starting of the school term. We climbed…

For the very first time in 25 years we actually took a holiday in July. With a wedding to attend in New Jersey on the…

The summer has been very unusual this year. April had the best dry sunny weather, may was very windy for every day of the month.…

Well  the new trout season is well and truly underway and some good fish have been caught. The mayfly is up and running and most…

On Friday 1st April 2011 Oughterard hosted the President of Ireland to a presentation of all the voluntary effort around the town. A fantastic day…

The development 50 competition took place last weekend and there was a very tight battle to the finish by two local teams – – it…

December – January was one of the coldest spells in history around here! The river froze – to the extent that we needed a crow…

We saw salmon spawning the other day. its hard to photograph but there are two fish in the photo, one sideways digging the gravel the…