As some may have deduced from careful examination of my Instagram posts, I went to Ireland the week before last. Just a quick trip to reset before the basketball playoffs got serious. I basically took the regionals off after the regular season. I figured I wouldn’t miss much this year which proved to be true. It was also a good time to take advantage of cheap airfares and off-season crowds.
We stayed a day in Dublin were we had a visit with my cousin Barbara and her friend Sen. Marie Sherlock. Barbara and Marie attended Trinity together some years ago. They were part of a group of Trinity students that lived in Chicago for the summer so we got to know Marie and the rest of their group pretty well.
Marie showed us around Lienster House, which is home of the Oireachtas Éireann, the legislature for the Republic of Ireland. We had a drink, a couple actually, in the “Dail Bar.” A actually pub inside the capital building just steps from the Dail chamber. Nice.
Then we went to Galway and set in different pubs. Didn’t did much else. Just had some pints and did nothing. It was glorious. I highly recommend it.
Here are some photos I took.
