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The Green Mile: Escape to the mountains.
I managed to escape the confines of Tuam and the green mile for a few hours today, and headed off to dip the feet in the glacial waters of Lough Na…
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The Green Mile: The difference between a blackberry and a gooseberry.
Blackberries
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The Green Mile: Silence
Heaven holds a sense of wonder,
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The Green Mile: A dragon-fly & faintly demonic number-plate.
I was crossing the road on Bishop street and spinning towards the green mile - with the ear-phones plugged in, head down and kinda zoned out.
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The Green Mile: A random conversation
I’m ten days between worlds now.
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The Green Mile: A bat out of heaven.
Daily thoughts from the Green Mile.
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The Green Mile
Daily thoughts from the green mile.
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Mise Éire & the Indians.
Three narratives.
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I can't move.
An intense four days boils down to three simple words.
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Is the Age of the Mind finally over?
One of the celebrated Irish minds of a generation past is the reasoning center that is Michael McDowell.
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July 2025

6 Hours left.
The West's Awake. last day.
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Grief.
About a week ago, I had an explosion of grief.
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