Got a good laugh from this billboard. Came across it recently in one of the most remote spots you can find in Ireland, Carnsore Point in County Wexford. Carnesore Point is the most south-eastern point on the island of Ireland, it is so far removed in fact from the east-coast urban areas, that the…
Stumbled across this abandoned pub on my travels in Co. Wexford. Can’t place the area exactly, but it is somewhere between Carne, Lady’s Island and Tagoat. Sad to see what looked like a once thriving road-house business go to this state. But unfortunately this has been happening on a huge scale across the country for…
I took a trip to Wexford last week in the 23 degree sunshine on a research and fact-finding mission and came across a most wondrous sight. I stumbled on a pub that was in the throes of not only renovation, but also expansion. I first came across the Centenary Stores in Wexford Town 21 years…
According to an article published in the Financial Times newspaper in January 2012, ‘almost 1,000 pubs have closed since the Celtic Tiger economy peaked in 2006 and publicans warn that a further 5,000 jobs will be lost during 2012.’ But the reality today is that Irish social habits have changed irreversibly. With the recession, people…
