North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Perambulation

Speaking of Orange, it is the Marching Season in Northern Ireland, leading up to the Glorious Twelfth (July 12th, or Saturday as we like to call it). This year, there is a new destination for Orangemen - Naaavan (as they pronounce it there). As a gesture of goodwill (after the Good Friday Agreement), the Irish government bought the Battle of the Boyne site in Co. Meath. Mentioning the fact that some of the fields in question were owned by an acquaintance of Bertie's who made millions from the sale would be churlish and beneath us all. Anyway, the good folk of Meath are preparing a warm welcome for the northern visitors and, as I write, local entrepreneurs are busy painting their mobile chippers orange, in anticipation (it'll come in handy anyway if Armagh make it to the all-Ireland final). A word of warning, mind, the colloquial term in Meath for one of these vans is the scutherwagon - bon appetit.