No garage or run-down shack is good enough. No.
Only the inner sanctum of Ballaghaderreen Golf Club will suffice for chosen residence – and without the necessity to cough up green fees.
Many thanks to SOK for the photo which set me down on two separate memory tracks.
Flight 1. | Flight 2. |
In college days, PM’s visits home on the bus to Mayo was through Ballaghderreen. This was the only time I would have heard or spoken the word Ballaghderreen ( Balla- Ha-Dreen) Years later, my local publican said he used to live in Balla-Ha-Der- Een – and explained thatas a border town there was a Mayo and Roscommon pronunciation. Similarly, Ballyvaughan – which I always understood to be Bally-Vaawn. That was until the people of Clare corrected me to Bally-Vaw-Han | Hey, Boy, See the Birds Them aren’t birds They are birds Oh, by jay, you’re right, they are birds. Easy….. With thanks to JG |