Chance to build on a French connection in Kinsale
āMY parents were doing Novenas for us,ā says Fiona Russell, recalling peoplesā surprise at the scale of work needed when they bravely tackled The Beacon, a slice of old Kinsale with roots going back 400 years or more.
It was the solitary vision of a perhaps-idiosyncratic Frenchman, Bruno Guillou, who had understandably run out of steam in the re-build of this corner-sited beauty after more than a decade wedded to its sundry stone bricks and mortar.
