Michael Crichton of ‘Jurassic Park’ fame has died.

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Hamlet (as recited by moi)

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that.

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Glendalough was lucky enough to receive a visit from Paddy during the recent trip up the country.

A beautiful place but the tranquility was non existent ‘cos twas mobbed with people.

Bloody tourists!

Duckett’s Grove was the 18^th, 19^th and early 20^th century home of the Duckett family. It was the centre of a 12,000 acre estate that dominated the Carlow landscape for over 300 years.

The mansion was transformed into a castellated Gothic fantasy by Thomas A. Cobden for J. D. Duckett in 1830.

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While in Carlow we visted Brownshill Portal Tomb which has a capstone weighing about 150 tonnes probably making it the heaviest capstone in Europe.

You can learn more about Portal Tombs/Dolmens here!

Wonderful!

The Department of Education may start to lease computers from IT companies for use in schools if they cannot afford to buy them during the recession.

The Sunday Tribune can reveal that education minister Batt O’Keefe met a number of leading IT firms last week to negotiate a ‘computers for schools’ deal as the downturn takes hold.
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