This is Richard Thronton with the ball for Coalisland Na Fianna GFC and Gerard Mooney for Ardboe O’Donavan Rossa GFC playing in a Tyrone senior county league game in Ardboe today. I was covering the  game for the Tyrone Herald newspaper. Coalisland won with a score of 1-11 to 0-10. Every Sunday all over Ireland thousands of people participate in or go to spectate at Gaelic matches.

This is my niece and god daughter Aisling Corr who graduated yesterday from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown with a BSC in Sports Studies. Today she will captain the Tyrone Senior Camogie team against Offaly in Birr. Aisling has represented  Tyrone at all age levels and has also played for Ireland in Shinty a game slowly related to camogie.

This is the cast of the Marie Jones Comedy “Fly Me To The Moon” Katie Tumelty and Tara Lynn O’Neill who did a fantastic job in this farce about two care workers faced with moral dilemmas stemming from the death of “Davy Magee” an old man in their care. The play was in Craic for one night only before going to Newcastle and Armagh before it opens in New York later this year

Some of Tara Lynn’s film credits include : Disco Pigs, Wild About Harry , The Most Fertile Man In Ireland , Omagh, Nothing Personal , Kaos , Cycle of Violence, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Bobbies Girl (HBO), Short films include: At Deaths Door (Fuji award winner) Last Christmas, Dinner Party, Full Circle (best actress award Cherburg) and many more.

Notable TV credits include : At The Waters Edge (BBC) Touched By An Angel (CBS) Eastenders (BBC),Over The Wall (BBC) Saturday Disney (ITV)

Some theatre credits include: Everything Between Us / Clean Room (Tinderbox, True North project) Lay Up Your Ends (Green Shoot Productions) Somewhere Over The Balcony, The Liverpool Boat, A Midsummers Nights Dream , No Place Like Home, Translations, Of Mice And Men, The Hyperconraic and Jane Eyre (The Lyric) Cyrano de Bergerac (The Gate).

Katie’s work has included  The Billy Trilogy, Remembrance (Arts Theatre Belfast and Irish Tour). Blood, Sweat and Tears, School on the Green (Big Telly Theatre Company: Riverside Theatre and Irish Tour), Wedd’ins Wee’ins and Wakes, (Lyric Theatre and Millennium Forum), Christmas Eve Can Kill You (Lyric Theatre), The Liverpool Boat (Red Lead Productions: Belfast), Some Where Over the Balcony (Balcony Productions: Irish Tour), Lay up Your Ends ( GBL Productions; Grand Opera House Belfast).The Miser (Lyric Theatre Belfast and Irish Tour) Fly Me to the Moon (Oron Mor and Paines Plough Scottish, English and Southern Irish Tour) Belongings The Old Mill

Television and Film Credits: Events at Drimaleen (BBC NI), Out of the Deep Pan (BBC NI), Divorcing Jack (Scala Productions), So You think You’ve got Troubles! (BBC NI), Dead Lands (BBC NI), Eureka Street (BBC NI), Holy Cross (BBC NI), City of Ember (Pipe Works).

Radio Credits: The Seduction and Demise of Joseph Loughran,The Journey, A State Macabre,(Pearse Elliot) Dividing Force, At the Base of the Pyramid,(Gary Mitchell), Dying for an Mother (Graham Reid) ,The Genius of Pleasure, Radio Fun (Various Playwrights), (Radio 4).

This was the sky over Tyrone this morning. The summer so far has been a wash out with the wettest June on record  but we live in hope that the weather will pick up for the rest of July especially as myself and seven others will be sleeping rough for four days as part of the 32-32-32 penalty kick challenge around Ireland in aid of the Simon Community for the homeless. It take place from the 24th – 28th July.

Following on from yesterdays photo and my admission of a fondness for Knickerbocker Glories and other sweet food stuffs. This is the result. I’m currently the wrong side of 15st in fact I am about a stone or more from my ideal weight.

When presented with the dessert menu I always go for the Knickerbocker Glory of which this was a fine example.

This is one of the walks in Peatlands Park which in the summer you would expect to be bone dry but following the wettest June on record (according the the BBC weather forecasters) the place is sodden.

A couple waiting for the Train in Connolly Station Dublin.

This is a famous  Irish writer beside a statue of James Joyce. They are standing at the junction of North Earl St and O’Connell St in Dublin. Dubliners always like to give their public art statues names. There was the “Floozie in the Jacuzzi” The departed Anna Livia statue which was on O’Connell St from 1988 until 2001. There is the “Tart With the Cart” or the “The Trollope with the Scallop” The Molly Malone Statue on Grafton St. “The Crank on The Bank” The Patrick Kavanagh statue on The Grand Canal and the “The Quare in the Square” Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square Park and “The Ace with the Bass” Phil Lynott’s statue on Harry St.. The statue of Joyce is known as “The Prick With the Stick” and the famous writer is Ronan McSherry. If they ever erect a statue to Ronan (he was born in Dublin) It will have to be “Ronan the Rant”!!

This is a group of Tyrone GAA club members with Dublin Football star Barry Cahill in Croke Park. It was at the launch of a major fund raising initiative for The Simon Community between 24th – 28th July were the group will travel to all 32 counties in Ireland take 32 penalties at  club pitches and hopefully raise 32 euro/pounds from each club in Ireland. During the trip they will be sleeping rough on the streets in solidarity with the homeless for whom The Simon Community provides such vital support.  (L-R) Barry McElduff, Ronan McSherry, Plunkett “Oz” McCallan Barry Cahill Ciaran Slane, Ronan McMahon and Damian Crown. I will be going on the trip myself so there should be a good pictorial record of it all. CLICK HERE  for more information on how both clubs and individuals can contribute.