I got this clipping out of the South Wales Evening Post, one day last week. I always thought Ed Byrne was a bit "frosty" and h...

Some Irish politicians are ranting against the Seal of Confession. They claim it is used to stop crimes being reported to the police. In tru...

One of my favourite songs is Tara Hill by the the Fureys. OK, its an old romantic song, in the sense of idealised Ireland and historic roman...

The Irish Teashop - sorry Taoiseach - Enda Kenny gave President Obama a Hurley stick today on his last day in Ireland, before he left to vi...

St Nathy's College, Co Roscommon A fair few weeks ago, I was pointed to this Blog called "Maria Stops Abortion" which had ...

And you thought my post on the English singing God Save the Queen before their Six Nations matches was controversial. An Irish acquaintanc...

For those who don't know me, I am Welsh with a bit of Irish thrown in for good measure (the best bit as my local postmaster keeps remind...

Fergal Keane: Good Job... So Far. There's a great programme about the history of Ireland put out by RTE and the BBC. I've misse...

500 AD and Glastonbury is still held by "Welsh" tribes After a minor kerfuffle from my last post, it seems that at least one MP...

This photo of my grandfather and grandmother, Daniel Hurley and Ann Hurley, is undated. My father believes it was taken in Cork City when th...

"The Hurley's" of Ballinspittle, Co Cork. Doing a search for Hurleys in Kinsale I came across a Hurley's Bar in listing...

Denis Donovan began life in Cork, Ireland and ended up in Australia after moving there in 1958. Here he is pictured with his Hurley stick ...

This video is of a re-enactment event in Kinsale, which seems to span the centuries from Celts to the 20th Century. There seems to be some...

OK, so this is an old news story, he said clutching at straws, but this is a wonderful way of showing where the Hurley name comes from. Th...

This is the best article I have foundf thus far, which explains the history of the times in relation to Bl. Dermot O'Hurley's martyr...

This is the famous Hurley Chalice, a relic of Blessed Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, held at St Mary's Cathedral, Cork City. I found ...

Further to my last post it turns out that the Hurleys don't have their own Saint. But as a Blesséd, the good Archbishop is just one step...

This is quite an interesting website if, like me, you are a Hurley: Link: The Hurley Family Tree Not least because it tells us that: ...

Cymru Am Byth? Wallace the Welshman I have long told anyone who will listen of the Welshness of St Patrick. You see, the Briton (i.e. W...