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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.
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blather.net's dave is off again, sailing the high seas. This time, he's on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, sailing...

Hellfire Club, West Wycombe
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In yet another episode in a never-ending series, blather.net returns to the lair of the English Hellfire Club...

stonehenge solstice
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Dave escapes the gravitational pull of London, stopping off for a mid-winter visit to Britain's best-known megalithic site......

Charles Fort's House, London
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Last weekend, I went to see Charles Fort's former home, at 39A Marchmont Street in London, now a...

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The River Slaney, Wexford, seen from Crossabeg, above, Killurn Bridge A beautiful Irish environment under constant threat. Dave...

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Recently, a joint Blather-Strange Attractor-3rd Stone group went on a trek around the ancient megalithic landscape of Avebury,...

Bonfire Night Lewes
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Blather goes to Bonfire Night in Lewes - complete with exploding government ministers, some fine-anti-popery, fireworks-dodging and general...

Hellfire Club Dublin
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We've written loads about the Irish Hellfire Club on blather.net, of ghosts and black cats and satanism... But...

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Guest writer Kat Bolstad tells us about the recent photographing of a giant squid... You've probably been catching...

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I walked out of A History of Violence a little confused. Was that a Cronenbergian take on a...