Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
What else would you do on New Year’s Day except to get up in the early hours of the morning, while it’s still dark, and take a hike up into the Dublin mountains to see the first sun rise of the new year? 2020 has been a horrible year, what with the COVID-19 thing, and
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Some building works started on Dodder View Road in Rathfarnham last week, and I was curious to know why they were happening. Dodder View Road doesn’t appear on Google Maps for some reason, but it’s a section of the R112 road that runs alongside the River Dodder from the Rathfarnham Shopping Centre / Springfield Avenue
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I’ve been thinking lately that it would be great if Dodder View Road would be permanently closed to traffic. The route – shown as R112 on most maps – runs alongside the River Dodder between Terenure and Rathfarnham. Along it’s 1.2km length, between the Rathfarnham Shopping Centre at Fairways and Rathfarnham Road, there are no
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I often pass over the stepping stones on the River Dodder to access Bushy Park in Terenure. On days like today, when there’s been a lot of rain recently, I can pretty much predict that the river level will be high, and make the stepping stones flooded and unusable. But other days it’s harder to
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I’m very lucky to live near to Bushy Park in Terenure, Dublin. It’s a great park with loads of amenities, and is also a park full of interesting places to explore. One of the parts of the park I love the most is the area alongside the River Dodder between Terenure and Rathfarnham. In this
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This blog is written by Richard Bloomfield who lives in Dublin, Ireland. I write about stuff that interests me - technology, singing, cycling, and a myriad of other topics.
