MAGAZINE OFFERS BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF LIFE ON THE HOOK
STUNNING COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTICLES CAPTURES A MOMENTOUS YEAR ON PENINSULA
THE 33rd issue of ‘On The Hook’ magazine is in shops now, offering a birds’ eye view of life on the peninsula, with several brilliant feature articles on local people.
Sport is to the fore in this year’s publication which features a stunning photograph of an egrit at full stretch taken by editor Liam Ryan, on the cover.
Jim Byrne takes readers on the Feile boys’ journey – the team having managed to achieve the impossible and bring home All-Ireland glory on two occasions in both hurling and football.
Not content with a county title, the St Mogues Intermediate hurling team went on to achieve an historic first for the club by winning a Leinster title. Their journey continued with a successful quarter-final outing to London and eventually they earned their place in the All-Ireland final in Croke Park, an achievement that the club and its legion of fans could scarcely have imagined, Ryan writes in his foreword to the magazine.
Mark Wallace created his own little bit of history by becoming the highest ever scorer in an All-Ireland Junior hurling championship final and his achievement is acknowledged within the publication’s pages.
The long trek to Ruislip by sea, air, and road by the players and fans of St. Mogues and the craic afterwards in the clubhouse in McGovern Park is recorded.
Wildlife of a different nature, including a stunning photo of a harbour seal relaxing on the river bank at Tintern Abbey, also feature, as does the geometric gardening design at nearby Colclough Gardens. In a first for the magazine a photo taken by a drone to illustrate the geometric garden patterns is used.
Among the other groups featured are the Village Players who are forty years in existence, the state-of-the-art new primary school built at Poulfur.
Paddy Murphy, 90, takes readers back to the exciting days of his youth spent ‘wrack-hunting’ and he remembers also with fondness, the Coningbeg lightship and the Hook tower before it became a major tourist attraction.
Bill and Nick Cosgrave document the achievements of Cornelius Furlong of Killogan Castle and his expertise in the handling of the transfer of the lands of the Ely estate.
Elizabeth Shutton presents her truly remarkable research of Fethard dock; the smallest dock in Ireland.
All of the fundraising efforts organised on behalf of local lad Rory Whelan are recognised, celebrating the warm character and generosity of local residents. Ryan thanked his colleagues on the committee for their continued support and all those who submitted stories, photographs and adverts.