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Michael Farrelly and I took a little trip to mark 1 May 2012 from his home in 19 Cherryvale, Dundalk, to Concra Wood, Castleblayney Golf Club, after lunch today, driving in my white 2010 Toyota iQ. Michael and I have many things in common. Although his father was from Longford, his mother from Leitrim; my father from Westmeath, my mother from Meath; Michael and I are both natives of Co. Louth, he living in Dundalk and I living in Jenkinstown on the rural outskirts of the town. Michael is 66 and I am 68 at the present time. He played in goals for Clan na Gael; I played in the full back line for Hunterstown Rovers: gaelic football. Michael has two sisters, alive, and two brothers, dead. I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers, too, all of them still alive. Unlike Michael, you see, I am older than all my siblings. We shared a psychiatrist, Professor S. Desmond McGrath, in St. John of God’s in the 1970’s/1980’s and we both attend the same psychiatrist now, Dr. Geraldine Lyster, in the Ladywell Clinic, Dundalk. Michael trained in Jury’s Hotel as a hotel manager and really enjoyed working in Canada in that business in his early years. I am a fully qualified teacher and practised my profession for a number of years until things got too much for me. As you know 1 May is associated with labour and the worker. Work was the furthest thing from our minds today as we reminisced and pontificated about life. A cold day, windy, with a hint of moisture in the air. As you may detect from the pictures this did not deter the golfers. Quite a few women braved the elements today.
impero 
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