Birdie

Those Northern Lights .... We saw wondrous pictures of the Northern Lights from last Monday night. Unfortunately, some of us were all tucked up in bed and missed the real thing ....
Well done to those who braved the cold, to capture those scenes.
St. Mary's Camera Soiree have some nice images this week.

Who remembers getting sad and fed up about the news in Covid times? We're thinking it's getting a bit like that again with all the horrible news coming our way these days. Enough to make one switch off!!!

A bit of good news is that our Jack is progressing well after getting his new hip! Looking forward to seeing him back in the office - the apple tart will be waiting!

Happy 12th Birthday

to Cormac Fitzgerald
in Melbourne
Hope you have a great day!
From all your friends in Lucan

The lads from long ago ....

We dated this photo, sent in by Paul Dunne, back to the late 1930s, and we believe it was taken at the front of what is now Courtney's Pub.

L-R: Dinny Malone (Scorp), Joe Dignam, Barney Thornberry (uncle of Paul Dunne), Paddy Mulligan (Thady), Noel McConnell and Sean Graham (Tweed).
It's nice to hear all those old familiar Lucan names again!
The advertisement under the window ledge is for Will's Wild Woodbine Cigarettes!

St. Mary's Camera Soiree

There was great excitement amongst the members of the Camera Soiree last Monday night when the Northern Lights (or 'Aurora borealis' in the northern hemisphere) put on their show. Sadly, it was impossible to see the display in some part of Lucan because of the pollution of the nighttime sky caused by street lighting and other nighttime lights. However, Kay managed to get some shots wherever she was. According to the Met Eireann website these displays are the results of collisions between gas particles in our atmosphere and charged particles ejected from the Sun's atmosphere. The colour of the Northern Lights will change due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. Oxygen molecules produce a greenish-yellow colour and blue or purple auroras indicate the presence of nitrogen molecules.

Don sent in an interesting slow exposure of the headlights and tail lights of rush hour traffic on the M4 motorway as well as of a cargo vessel presumably off the coast of Kerry.

Paddy got to Corkagh Park which is located near the Naas Road, stretching towards Clondalkin village. The park was opened to the public in 1986 and was formerly part of Corkagh Demesne which had been purchased by what was then Dublin County Council in 1983. The name Corkagh is possibly derived from the old Irish word meaning marsh. This would be in keeping with the fact that the River Camac flows through the middle of the present-day park and former estate lands.

Stay safe until next week!