An Irish vacation with your own private driver

An Irish sky can be like this .....
or like this.....all in the one day.
An Irish landscape.....with the bonny purple heather.

What a busy week we have had here in Ireland, especially on the sporting front. Last weekend the big event was the All-Ireland Hurling final in Croke Park in Dublin. Just in case you do not know, hurling is the all-Irish game played with the Ash sticks and the leather ball, and for me it is the greatest game in the world. It is an all action game and a real man's game. The football players you see rolling around in mock agony on the soccer pitches would not last a minute in this wonderful game. The players themselves would not tolerate for one minute anybody playing the baby, and they would be laughed off the pitch. Hurling looks like a vicious sport, but it is anything but that, and the skill involved in playing this game properly takes many years of practice to develop. It is the fastest game on earth played on solid ground, ice-hockey is the fastest but that is played on ice of course. It is a game where scoring is frequent and even when your team are a few scores behind they can come back into the game with a number of scores in a very short space of time as the game is so fast flowing. This makes it most exciting and last Sundays final was one of those really great games.
Tipperary, the reigning champions, were playing Kilkenny, last years champions. Tipperary had defeated Kilkenny in the final last year when Kilkenny had been going for an unprecenented "five in a row" championships. Kilkenny were out for revenge, and how they got it. It was a magnificent match and all credit to Tipperary who made them work every inch of the way. I could not speak highly enough of the men from both teams and their wonderful sportsmanship. They were a credit to their counties. Long live the game of hurling.
We also had the world championships of "Ironman" in Galway throughout the weekend and thousands from all over the world came to enjoy that event.

Just in case you think i have retired, i have been quiet busy on the work front and will be starting another tour tomorrow. My next party are coming from Louisianna from the town of Baton Rouge. How did they find me? My name seems to be bouncing around on the far side of the Atlantic thanks to the many great friends i have made over there.
The interest being shown at this early stage with regard to visiting Ireland in 2012 is surprising so if you are thinking about coming contact me as soon as possible. No harm checking it out.

Catch you again very soon.