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

Greater than thou

The two morning DJs on Galway Bay FM were having what can only be described as a right auld sneer last Friday at the prospect of the European Foreign Ministers summit in Tullamore. Lads, it's not long since the Dublin media made much the same remarks about the EU summit in Galway a few months ago. Having been at a wedding in the Tullamore Court hotel last year, it was kinda funny to see Jack Straw, Javier Solana and co. wandering around the same place. The morning before, I was waiting at a departure gate in Arlanda airport in Sweden waiting for a flight home when a very flustered looking Robin Cook rushed up, glanced at the display screen and rushed off again (if he had bothered to ask, he'd have discovered that the subsequent flight was to London, where I presume he was headed). Of course, if he'd been able to hold onto his old job, he could have been looking forward to a weekend in Tullamore too. Funny old world.