Michael's Blog straight from Killarney !

Who'd ever have thought of it ?

If I had said to someone a month or so ago that Ireland would basically be closed down to all inbound and outbound travellers, because of Icelandic volcano ash in the air, I suspect I would instantly have been surrounded by a posse of burly men in white coats, armed with massive syringes full of horse tranquiliser…….

Will someone please anwser a question that has been bugging me for years

A baseball player can hit a ball that’s flying at him at 100 miles per hour, spinning unpredictably, and with thousands of people shouting their lungs out at him….. 

Yet, on a tee box, a golfer needs to have complete silence to hit a golf ball that is absolutely stationary and perfectly set up to be hit…… 

Why is this? 

The Golder Trekker Scheme

Its not too often (in fact, its never!) that I stand on the rooftops and sing the praises of the Irish Government or any of its many Agencies....! But hats off to them and heartiest congratulations to them on a fantastic initative that they launched on St Patrick's Day.

Irish tourist industry

ITIC is the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, which is a grouping of the main stakeholders in the Irish Tourism Industry. Last July, they interviewed me about what I thought of the current state of things. Here's what I said...... I'd love to hear back from you about your thoughts and ideas about the state of things in Ireland right now [click read more to watch the video]