It was Friday last week when we found ourselves making the 5 hour trek to Connemara. We'd deliberated over the trip for a while because it was a fair jaunt to go for only two nights and since Andrew i…

To be barefoot on a Connemara beach in April is the closest I think I’ll ever get to a miracle. We had driven down to the west coast from Belfast the night before and the weather had been wild as we…

Fun fact: one of my first jobs was in a florist. OK maybe not that fun but it's true! Back in yesteryear when I was 16, I worked each Saturday and Sunday in a wee shop called The Flower Bowl in Armagh…