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Gracias a Badajoz!

Posted by admin in Friends near and far, Musings with images, Spain on January 28, 2019

One of the joys of my recent visit to the south of Spain with two colleagues was a trip we made into the region of Extremadura which lies to the west of Spain on the Portuguese border. It has two provinces – Cáceres and Badajoz. Forty years ago this year I was despatched by Bishop […]

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John O’Shea, Milwaukee and Waterfall, Cork, Rest in Peace

Posted by admin in Friends near and far on February 13, 2010

When I arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, in 1992, to study at Marquette University in a post-graduate degree course in Journalism and Communications, I didn’t expect to bump into many Cork people! Milwaukee, a city about the size of Dublin, is on the western shore of Lake Michigan and about 150 miles north of Chicago. […]

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