‘Camino Danny’, poet and pilgrim — ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís

He was continuing this journey down the coast of Spain and Portugal when he died, writes Victoria White.

THE sea is, “as rough, as cruel, as unwelcoming, as devious, as deadly as anything you’ll ever encounter”. So said musician Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich in the recent TG4 documentary Camino an tSáile.

His words rung true at the weekend when the news broke that the Kerry poet, writer, boat-builder and stonemason Domhnall Mac Síthigh had died following an accident with his traditional “naomhóg” (currach) at the mouth of the River Minho between Spain and Portugal. There was something particularly tragic about this death, because it happened to a man who built a dream and was rowing in it.