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No Parking

We like our new neighbourhood. We have already met more of our neighbours here than we did in a year up in Raheny (more of a statement about the layout of our previous estate, and that our house was a bit tucked away, than about Raheny). Every encounter we’ve...

Resurfacing

Summer is officially over. It seems like we just got off the plane from our time in NY, but that was almost 2 months ago. And with the start of autumn, we are enjoying a chance to catch our breath and get our heads back above water for a bit. In early August, we took...

We’re in Clontarf

It took us awhile but we’ve finally moved in to our new place in Clontarf. We currently have about half of our stuff moved in, and should have everything over within the next several days. While we are excited to be in Clontarf, there has been a good deal of...

Our Journey (Part 9) –

(This is part 9 in a 10 part series of posts detailing the events leading up to our move from Ithaca to Dublin. You can read the whole series here. Next week we’ll wrap things up talking about sharing the news with our church in Ithaca.) After Méabh came home...

Day #4 in Dublin…Out and about in Clontarf

Today we had nothing “official” to do around in Dublin. However, for the past few months, I’ve been planning on showing up at Bull Island on our first week in town to meet up with the Bull Island Action Group.  They meet on the beach on the 3rd...

Why Clontarf?

As Liz and I were wrestling with our decision about whether or not we were supposed to pack up our family and move to Dublin, we decided an important step in the process would be to make a return trip to Dublin so that we could meet some people, as well as have an...