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

One for the road

One thing is certain if you manage to haul yourself out of bed early on a Saturday morning in Galway - you pretty much have the city to yourself. Lady Godiva could do a few laps up and down Shop St. and not raise as much as a blush (let alone anything else). OK, the city wasn't completely deserted - there were a few revellers still tottering about, with the obligatory gang outside a certain pub at the Docks. (if you find yourself outside O'Conaire's at 6.30 am clamouring for porter, you know it's time to go home) It seemed like there was a student 'do' on the night before, and two chaps in particular caught my eye as they staggered into town from Salthill- each with a thousand yard stare and a crazy grin. They won't last long, I thought. [By the way, there was a farmer in Barna turning hay at 6.45am yesterday morning in a pitifully small field - if that isn't an incentive for students to get their exams so that they can spend their lives gawping at computers in soulless office, I don't know what is, but I digress]. On the way back into Galway later in the afternoon, guess what? The two lads were still tottering about - the stares were a bit more glassy, the grins more of a rictus. But they were still standing, well into a new day.

Gentlemen, I salute you! (now go home).

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