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Slainte | Oats: The Original Comfort Food
Call me crazy, but oatmeal cookies have never had a spot on my favorite foods…
Sláinte! Christmas – Winter Solstice
Christmas season is the time to eat, drink and be merry! Wherever one goes it…
Sláinte! Samhain: The Celtic New Year
Halloween is a night of magic, mystery and merry making. Ghosts haunt the imagination and…
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Sláinte!: A Charmed Life
My friend Michael says he has a charming mother. He hastens to add: “I know you think we all do, but my mother has charms other than the ones on […]
Sláinte! Ireland Conquers The World
Pining for a pint of stout, an earful of blarney, and a toe-tapping fiddle tune but find yourself far removed from the Emerald Isle? Fret not. Edythe Preet has the […]
Sláinte!: Ballinasloe’s Great October Fair
An Irish adage advises: Go East for a woman; go West for a horse. When I was a girl I had a bicycle. I wanted a horse. That was not […]
Sláinte!: Ballinasloe’s Great October Fair
An Irish adage advises: Go East for a woman; go West for a horse. When I was a girl I had a bicycle. I wanted a horse. That was not […]
Sláinte!: Go, Big Fan, Go
I don’t watch much television. Mainly because, despite the hundreds of channels, the menu is mostly repeats. Every so often, however, something extraordinary airs and I become (dare I admit […]
Sláinte!: Comfort & Coincidence
A Wedding Day and Bloomsday Coincide Coincidences never cease to amaze me. Once is, well, coincidence. Twice, will earn a ‘hmmm.’ Three times, sends the eyebrows soaring. But when something […]