Farming Life Column – A Swiss Spectacle
For over 20 years, an event has taken place on the last Saturday in September in the small rural town of Schüpfheim, in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It is…
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Travel
The Fermanagh Camino
Seven years ago, I took a sabbatical from Purple Rain to run a photography exhibition in my home town of Rathfriland to raise funds for the Simon Community. After another…
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Let’s hear it for New York!
New York delivers … but first, let me catch up on my sleep! Having been to and experienced a taste of New York (five days is only a snapshot), I…
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Feeding Venice – a food, farming & travel log from an Agri-press trip to Italy – part 1
The vaporetto pulls out of Piazzale de Roma into the Venetian lagoon and I can’t quite believe I am in Italy. This is my first overseas trip after the pandemic.…
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Some Purple Rain PR for Yellow Water
Over the summer, I entered the Irish Farmers’ Journal Country Living’s Local Treasures writing competition. They were encouraging people to write about a place that they went to over lockdown…
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The Entlebucher Alpabfahrt 2017
Over the years, I have brought in the cows for milking hundreds of times on the farm. If the sky is clear, I can look right across the Mourne Mountains,…
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Behind the scenes at Wimbledon
Those that know me will know that I like my tennis and I love Wimbledon. I have been fortunate enough over the years to win tickets in the public ballot…
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Beautiful Bruges
I enjoyed a weekend break to Belgium recently. When Great Britain’s victorious Davis Cup team won the final in November 2015, I liked the tweets players and tennis journalists were…
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