by Kathleen Mullane

OUT AND ABOUT

Well in case when anyone is reading my few lines this week  they think that I’m looking into the future, they aren’t too far wrong  as I’m e-mailing a week in advance due to the fact that a group of us along with Fr. Willie Russell are heading off to do The Camino —-The Way Of St. James this week and I will give a report on our journey next week, hoping Fr Willie won’t be too sad among us Limerick contingent following Clare’s defeat to Limerick in the Munster Final .

Anyway it was another great win for the gallant Limerick hurlers with such a great crowd of dedicated supporters and as always a wonderful atmosphere and what speed and skill they show, it’s unbelievable. They give us all great viewing but we must remember also the huge sacrifices they have to make day in day out from constant training to missing out on family time to watching their diet and a whole lot more so they must be praised to the last  and deservedly so.

And wasn’t it wonderful to see the Irish Athletes doing so well in the European Athletics Championships in Rome over the past few days  doing their country proud  they have really come a long way in recent times since Sonia O Sullivan’s win.

Continued good luck to all those coming to the end of their exams these days. No doubt a sigh of relief for all and they can now take a breather until the results .

Sorry to see one of my favourite writers in the Sunday World, Roy Curtis, finishing up this week after 37 years doing his page which was always so good and I quote from his last page this week

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a Place, we stay there even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there”.

Another wise man on a cooking programme the other night said that everyone should be able to cook, both boys and girls, men and women and it’s important to start young, it’s as important if not more so than being good at English or Maths for example and more especially for our young people who may be heading off to college etc. I know when they are in National School there could be flour everywhere but who cares. I wouldn’t be any thing near a Chef or the like but TG my mother, God rest her, went to a Domestic Economy School many years ago in Claremorris and instilled in us never to waste food  and left us with enough skills to not go hungry.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

EXAMPLE IS NOT THE MAIN THING IN INFLUENCING

OTHERS, ITS THE ONLY THING.