Learning to cope with new reality

The last week in February has been a strange one back our way.

On Raidió na Gaeltachta the other day we had the environmental awareness officer with Kerry County Council in to remind us that March 1 is the cut-off point for farmers to burn off gorse on their land. As if one could light a match outdoors these days, let alone a gorse fire.

Later on in the same programme we had the Professor Emeritus from UCC whose special interest is in hagiography, onomastics, Irish manuscripts and, most especially, the Irish martyrological tradition, tell all our listeners in Cork that St Finbarr, in all likelihood, never set foot in their county and certainly wasn’t born there.