Public drinking: bottles left on the steps of Dublin Landmark, the Custom House, originally uploaded by blather.

Binge drinking: bottles left on the steps of Dublin city centre landmark, the Customs House on a Saturday afternoon, August 2nd.

New laws under the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008 concerning alcohol consumption came into force on Wednesday July 30th. The new regulations including giving gardai ( police ) more powers to seize alcohol consumed in public earlier off-licence and nightclub closing times and stiffer penalties for those who sell alcohol to under-18s

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This is picture I took nearly four years ago - but it wasn't on my blog! The Boyne River Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Ireland is regarded as something of an engeering feat. It's certainly impressive to drive over at night. Placed 3 kilometres west of Drogheda, Co. Louth , most of the bridge, including its central pylon and 56 cables are situated in County Meath, although the last few northern most cables partly stretch across the county boundary into County Louth. The bridge carries traffic from the M1, across the River Boyne, linking Dublin and Belfast. It was built as part of the M1 Drogheda bypass, diverting traffic from the old N1, now reclassified as the R132, around Drogheda and out of the town centre. The Bridge is widely admired and around 2005 became the main feature in the crest of Louth GAA, even though it is almost entirely situated in County Meath.

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Lahinch, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather.

The seaside, golfing and surf town of Lahinch, Co. Clare, Ireland, reflection in the water at sunset.

Ok, well, it's Marian Keys, Irish novelist. I've never read anything by her, but the nice folks at Digital Railroad licensed my photograph of Lahinch, Co. Clare, to Cedar Publications, who publish British Airways Highlife magazine. A friend was on a BA flight and stumbled across my credit beside the photograph - and then another friend sent it to me in the post. Thanks guys!
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version »

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Christ Church Cathedral - the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin, Ireland is the elder of the city's two mediæval cathedrals. It is officially claimed as the seat or cathedra of both the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic archbishops of Dublin. In practice it has been the cathedral of only the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, since the Irish Reformation.

The cathedral was begun in 1038 by King Sitric Silkenbeard, the Danish Viking King of Dublin, for the first Bishop of Dublin. Henry II attended the Christmas service at the cathedral in 1171, and in the years thereafter, Strongbow and other Anglo-Norman magnates helped to fund a complete rebuilding of Christ Church, comprising the construction of a choir, choir aisles and transepts, the crypt, and chapels. Christ Church was extensively renovated in Victorian times, with the sponsorship of distiller Henry Roe, of Mount Anville.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Christ Churchs crypt was used as a market, a meeting place for business, and at one stage even a pub as a letter of 1633 says "the vaults from one end of the minster to the other are made into tippling houses for beer, wine and tobacco".

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Leopold Bloom considers a pork kidney for breakfast while Molly, originally uploaded by blather.

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Bloomsday June 16th 2008, Dublin. Actors from Balloonatics theatre company perform the "Calypso" chapter from James Joyce novel Ulysses around Eccles St. and Dorset Street. Paul O'Hanrahan plays Bloom.

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Independent Senator David Norris explains why he voted "no" to the Lisbon Treaty, originally uploaded by blather.

Editorial Use Only: Irish Senator and human rights activist David Norris explains to Dutch TV Nederland 1 why he voted "no" to the Lisbon Treaty, outside the Polling Station on Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. He cited possible European military expansion following a "yes" vote as a key issue in his choice in voting "no".

David Norris was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Ireland. Senator Norris is also a prominent Joycean scholar, is the a big player in Dublin's annual Bloomsday celebrations. Senator Norris's razor-sharp wit and debating skills have made him a popular figure in Ireland.

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Let's Make Europe Work Better - For the Rich, originally uploaded by blather.
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Defaced poster for the Yes campaign on Clonliffe Road, Dublin's north city, during Friday rush hour.

The vote takes places on 12 June 2008. As of June 6th, the no-vote was reportedly overtaking the yes campaign.

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Red light for Lisbon Treaty at Ballybough, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.

Editorial Use Only: Red light for Lisbon Treaty at Ballbough, Dublin. Poster calling for a no against "foreign rule". Former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern looks on from another poster, calling for a "yes". The vote takes places on 12 June 2008. As of June 6th, the no-vote was reportedly overtaking the yes campaign.

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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.

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Christ Church Cathedral - the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin is the elder of the city's two mediæval cathedrals. It is officially claimed as the seat or cathedra of both the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic archbishops of Dublin. In practice it has been the cathedral of only the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, since the Irish Reformation.

The cathedral was begun in 1038 by King Sitric Silkenbeard, the Danish Viking King of Dublin, for the first Bishop of Dublin. Henry II attended the Christmas service at the cathedral in 1171, and in the years thereafter, Strongbow and other Anglo-Norman magnates helped to fund a complete rebuilding of Christ Church, comprising the construction of a choir, choir aisles and transepts, the crypt, and chapels. Christ Church was extensively renovated in Victorian times, with the sponsorship of distiller Henry Roe, of Mount Anville.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Christ Churchs crypt was used as a market, a meeting place for business, and at one stage even a pub as a letter of 1633 says "the vaults from one end of the minster to the other are made into tippling houses for beer, wine and tobacco".

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Showing off a horse at Smithfield Horse Market, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.

The horse market at Smithfield, Dublin takes place on the first Sunday of every month. People come from all over Ireland to trade horses and equipment. It's absolute chaos, with young kids galloping across the cobbles on distressed looking ponies, horses whinnying, gardai chasing jaunting cars on their bicycles. A big part of the horse scene involves the keeping of animals, by Dublin urban youth, in gardens or public areas. The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says that the market facilitates the sale of horses to under-16s, who are then unable - or unwilling to look after them. Amongst the dozens of horses visible, I did see a couple of examples of cruelty - the most obvious one of all was by an elderly man, kicking his pony in the stomach for no apparent reason.

There's talks by Dublin City Council of moving the market out of the city - as Smithfield becomes increasingly gentrified, the more urbane of the urban dwellers in the surrounding apartments are apparently unimpresssed with the smell of horse shit once a month!

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Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.
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I took this as a long exposure on the railing of the boardwalk, praying the hordes of soccer louts beating seven shades of shite out of each other would fail to notice me. My prayers were answered.

The Ha'penny Bridge, known later for a time as the Penny Ha'penny Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge built in 1816 over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. Originally called the Wellington Bridge (after the Duke of Wellington), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge, its official name to this day. It is still commonly known as the Ha'penny Bridge. The toll itself was dropped in 1919; before this there were turnstiles either end of it.
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Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.
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Malahide Castle is a Norman structure in north county Dublin, Ireland. et on 250 acres of park land in the pretty seaside town of Malahide, was both a fortress and a private home for nearly eight hundred years. The Talbot family lived here from 1185 to 1973, when the last Lord Talbot died.

The house is furnished with beautiful period furniture together with an extensive collection of Irish portrait paintings, mainly from the National Gallery. The history of the Talbot family is recorded in the Great Hall, with portraits of generations of the family telling their own story of Ireland's stormy history. One of the more poignant legends concerns the morning of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when fourteen members of the family breakfasted together in this room, never to return, as all were dead by nightfall.

The castle is open to the public.Radiohead and Neil Young are playing there this summer!

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Harpist Brenda Malloy busking outside Trinity College Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.
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Harpist Brenda Malloy busking outside Trinity College Dublin. I took this photograph for a magazine in Washington DC., but was rushing to another meeting plus a friendly german man approached me to talk cameras.. I didn't get a chance to talk to the harpist, so I didn't know her name. However, I realised later that I had a contact on flickr that is a harpist, so I emailed her, hoping she might know the College Green musician.

Typically, "Diogenes 24" on flickr.com turned out to be the very person I'd photographed - Brenda Malloy!

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Get high resolution version: Mute Swan nesting on the Tolka River, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather. Look underneath the swan - you can see the eggs!

Mute Swan nesting on the Tolka River, Dublin, near Ballybough Bridge or Luke Kelly Bridge, on the road to Fairview. Not sure if this was the male or female - they share the nesting work, tho the male usually stands guard while the female sits. The previous day I had seen both at the nest, but the light wasn't good. There was a batch of large eggs in the clutch - they produce around six eggs, sometimes up to ten or eleven. It takes about 35 days before they hatch - lets hope these ones will be safe from cats and globshitey humans.

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Terry, protestor at Rath Lugh camp, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Terry, activist from Cork, standing beside a stream that now runs under the partly built M3 motorway that is controversially cutting through the national monument of Rath Lugh, an ancient promontory fort that was a defensive position for the Hill of Tara, the sea of the High Kings of Ireland. Behind Terry is a large mound of construction rubble. The trees in the photograph will be cleared by the motorway construction.

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The woods at Rath Lugh, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

The Woods at Rath Lugh, near Skryne or Skreen Co. Meath. These woods on the the esker and beside the promontory fort of Rath Lugh that are currently being threatened by the construction of the M3 motorway between Dublin and Navan.

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The Woods at Rath Lugh, near Skryne or Skreen Co. Meath. These woods on the the esker and beside the promontory fort of Rath Lugh that are currently being threatened by the construction of the M3 motorway between Dublin and Navan.

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Tara activist JP Fay in his hut at Tara, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Tara activist JP Fay in his hut at Tara. Fay, from Trim has been one of the long-term activists in fighting the M3 motorway's path through the Tara area. He and other proposed an alternative route that was turned down, and was one of the "Tara Four" jailed for refysing to bail conditions to stay away from the construction site.

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Poet and Tara protestor and poet Kieron Murray, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Poet and Tara protestor Kieron Murray, also known as Kyrie Murray, reading poetry in a hut at the Hill of Tara.

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The Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny at The Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, originally uploaded by blather.Get the high resolution version »

The Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny at The Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland until the 6th century AD. This standing stone is on the Inauguration Mound, and in legend it was the Coronation Stone for Irish High Kings into the 6th Century AD.

The Hill of Tara is located near Dunshaughlin and Navan, and the River Boyne.

Also in legend, the stone was supposed to have been brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé Danann - a magical race who once ruled Ireland. The Lia Fail itself was supposed to have magical properties - when a rightful king put his feet on it, it would roar for joy, and would rejuvenate a king to give him a long reign.

Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to cry out under his protegé, Lugaid Riab nDerg, and from then on it never roared again, except under Conn of the Hundred Battles and Brian Boru.

You've got to admit though, it's a bit of a phallic symbol - author Michael Slavin suggests that the king had to wed the Goddess of Sovereignty. However, it appears she was wearing a strap on!

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The Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

The Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland until the 6th century AD. It's located near Dunshaughling and Navan, and the River Boyne.

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The Mound of the Hostages at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

The Mound of the Hostages at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath Co. Meath, ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland until the 6th century AD. The Mound is an ancient passage tomb, from between 2500 and 3000 BC, and has impressive spiral artwork inside. Facing directly east, the door is matched with sunrise on both equinoxes. Despite being quite small, some 250-500 bodies were buried inside, this continued right up to 1600-1700 BC.
Bizarrely, the mound was dug up in the early 20th century by the British Israelites, we thought that the Ark of the Covenant was buried inside!

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The Mound of the Hostages at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath Co. Meath, ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland until the 6th century AD. The Mound is an ancient passage tomb, from between 2500 and 3000 BC, and has impressive spiral artwork inside. Facing directly east, the door is matched with sunrise on both equinoxes. Despite being quite small, some 250-500 bodies were buried inside, this continued right up to 1600-1700 BC.
Bizarrely, the mound was dug up in the early 20th century by the British Israelites, we thought that the Ark of the Covenant was buried inside!

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Security men on the slope of Rath Lugh, where the M3 Motorway cuts through it, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Security men on the slope of Rath Lugh, where the M3 Motorway cuts through it. Rath Lugh is an ancient bronze age promontory fort currently tagged for considerable damage destruction by the construction of the M3 motorway between Dublin and Navan. Protestors are camped in the woods, in oposition to the construction work.

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Ya gotta have faith, oh yeah, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Irish Faith Centre, Phibsboro, highlighted on a sunny morning.

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The Virgin Mary and offerings of recyclable waste, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

In March 2008, the Vatican announced that "environmental pollution" was a new deadly sin. I took this photograph last week, before this announcement - I realise now that the recycling bags have been left as offerings for the virgin mary

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Croke Park: Finishing Touches, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

A worker at Dublin's croke park paints a gate to the Canal End stands before a match.

The home of gaelic sports in Ireland, the 80,000 seater Croke Park, controversially threw open its gates to soccer and rubgy while Dublin's Lansdown Road field was undergoing rebuilding.

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Shadowplay - shadows on Dublin's O'Connell Street, originally uploaded by blather.
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Shadowplay - shadows on Dublin's O'Connell Street

This images are more than two years old, but I just found them again when rummaging around. I'd posted an earlier picture here, so here's two more!

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The Casino at Marino, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.
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The Casino at Marino was designed by Scottish architect Sir William Chambers for James Caulfield, the 1st Earl of Charlemont. It was started in the late 1750s and finished around 1775. It is a small but perfect example of Neo-Classical architecture in the gardens of the now demolished Marino House. Chambers was prouod of his work, never completed building due to work commitments in England.

The rather odd (by Irish standards) name 'Casino Marino' is derived from Italian which literally translates to 'The small house by the small sea'. Sightly pretentious, yes, but that was the taste of the time. Regarded by many as the most important Neo-Classical building in Ireland, the Casino is only fifty feet square to the outer columns, taking the form of a Greek Cross with a pair of columns framing each projecting elevation. Seen from the outside, the building has the appearance of a single-roomed structure, with a large panelled door on the north elevation and a single large window on each of the other elevations. It's all an illusion, however - the Casino actually has 16 rooms on three floors. Only two of the panels in the front door open, and the panes of glass in the windows are subtly curved, disguising the partitioning which allows what looks like a single window to serve several separate rooms. The curves also serve to act as one-way-mirrors - you can see out of the front window looking towards Dublin and the mountains, but if you try to look in, you just see reflections of the sky and garden. Inside is full of mouldings based on Roman and Greek mythology, with lots of other architectural tricks.

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A lone discarded oildrum on the wicklow Way, above Powerscourt W, originally uploaded by blather.

A lone castrol oil drum, discarded by loggers the Wicklow Way, a 132 km hiking trail through the Wicklow mountains. Many sections go through managed plantation forests - this path used to lead through an attractive woodland area, which has now been clearcut by Coillte, the Irish national forestry company.

Many of these forests were planted in otherwise treeless upland areas - and in some cases up to 40 times the recommended amount of fertiliser was used to make the trees grow. This is causing some problems now in areas where forests have been clearcut, with nitrates leaching into the watertable.

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Street Preacher, Temple Bar's Crown Alley, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.
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Street Preachers, Temple Bar's Crown Alley, Dublin, originally uploaded by blather.Get high resolution photograph of the Temple Bar Preacher »

Saturday afternoon, Temple Bar, Dublin. Who would have thought it necessary to turn the Irish towards god? In 2007, these rather shouty born again christians find it necessary to take the streets of Ireland's capital city to convert the heathen Irish to the word of god. Not many listened, some took photos, as souvenirs. But god, did they talk a load of muck.

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Dad, RIP, originally uploaded by blather.

Tattoo seen on a girl's arm in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin

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Billy Goat - Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather.

We came upon these characters one cold evening at Hag's Head. The Billy Goats manage to look goofy AND intimidating at the same time...

Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. These goat herds became wild between medieval times and the early 20th century - the species are not native to Ireland.

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Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather.

Wild goats at the Hag's Head, the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. These goat herds became wild between medieval times and the early 20th century - the species are not native to Ireland.

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Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather.

We came upon these characters one cold evening at Hag's Head. The Billy Goats manage to look goofy AND intimidating at the same time...

Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. These goat herds became wild between medieval times and the early 20th century - the species are not native to Ireland.

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Grey Seal, Kilmore Quay, Wexford, originally uploaded by blather.
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This grey seal is one of several "tame" animals that hang around the harbour of Kilmore Quay, scavenging fish scraps from anglers and trawler crew. The seal probably lives on the Saltee Islands.

I photographed them two years ago, too

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Young Buskers at the Willy Clancy Festival, Miltown Malbay, originally uploaded by blather.

Festival, Miltown Malbay

A quick break from the Alaska pictures. Here's one from Saturday last....Young buskers at the Willy Clancy Festival, Miltown Malbay, County Clare, in the west of Ireland. It's one of a load of traditional irish music festivals that happen ever summer here.
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Lahinch, of an evening, originally uploaded by blather.

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Driftwood, originally uploaded by blather.

Driftwood on Lahinch Beach, Clare, Ireland

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Election 2007, Ireland, originally uploaded by blather.

Election poster for Madeleine Taylor Quinn on telephone pole in Lahinch, Co. Clare

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Early Purple Orchid, originally uploaded by blather.

Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula, with a waterdrop on a petal. Taken near Cahercommaun Stone Fort, The Burren, Co. Clare

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Spirals and tangents, originally uploaded by blather. Get this photograph »

Cepaea hortensis) - Brown (or white) lipped snail photographed beside Cahercommaun stone fort, the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland

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Hag's Head, at the Cliffs of Moher, Clare, Ireland, originally uploaded by blather.
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Hag's Head, at the Cliffs of Moher, Clare, Ireland, 200m high cliffs on the Atlantic coast. This photograph was taken below the cliff top, from the sea looking in, towards land. The only manipulation in this image is to separate the exposure of the sky from that of the rocks. Which makes it a helluva lot scarier.

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Me on the Cliffs of Moher this morning, originally uploaded by blather.

Me on the Cliffs of Moher this morning.Photo by Damien

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Raven (corvus corax) at Hag's Head on the Cliffs of Moher, originally uploaded by blather.

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Raven (corvus corax) at Hag's Head on the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland. We had just seen ravens fighting with four choughs (a red-bill coastal crow, like a small raven) in a fantastically acrobatic dogfight.

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Damien at the Cliffs of Moher, this morning, originally uploaded by blather.

Ye have to be up early to catch the like of us.

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Cahercommaun Stone Cliff Fort, The Burren, originally uploaded by blather.

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Perched on a high cliff inland in the Burren, Co. Clare, this early medieval stone fort has an atmosphere all of its own...

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Dawn Raid: Raven diving from the Cliffs of Moher, this morning, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version »

Raven (corvus corax) diving from the Cliffs of Moher, near Hag's Head, Co. Clare, Ireland. Ravens are possibly my favourite bird.

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At the Bridges of Ross, Loop Head, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version »

2nd January 2006 - the brooding sky and sea, at the Bridges of Ross

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Irish Mountain Hare, near Hag's Head, Cliffs of Moher, originally uploaded by blather.

Irish Mountain Hare, Lepus Timidis Hibernicus. The Mountain Hare is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. It is distributed from Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia; in addition there are isolated populations in the Alps, Ireland, Poland, United Kingdom and Hokkaido. some scientists believe that the Irish Hare should be regarded as a separate species.

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Hell River, originally uploaded by blather.

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Sign for Hell River, on the R352, Tulla, Co. Clare, Ireland. Weird on this - I've yet been able to find out why it's called "Hell River"! Is this Chronos driving a cattle truck full of dead folk?
Abhainn Ifrinn does literally translate as "river hell", so there's no mistakes of anglicisation - I shall enquire further.

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Duck, abandoned, originally uploaded by blather.

Toy duck hanging upside down in a tree beside the river Slaney, Wexford

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