Advent 8

I was with Viperjohn, Mikey B and Big Willy yesterday, drinking and eating curry. Seeing that formidable threesome put me nicely in mind of today's nominated place. Dunmore East was our destination for the final week of April during twenty over-indulgent years.

Whether it be in The Strand or The Haven (our two favoured drinking holes) fun was always on the menu. The golf was a mere incidental. Most memorable of all are those days when we stayed up to see the dawn and walked back up the hill in the weak morning light before catching a couple of hours of sleep and then starting all over again. Great days indeed.

One of Dunmore's most estimable citizens, Tony Boland, was fond of describing his home as a drinking village with a fishing problem. Amen to that.