Wexford General Chat / Thread.

My grandmother is buried in that cemetery and it is quite a place. If you happen to be there on a day when the fog is dense, the whole area has such an aura...one that would be perfect for a film location. I recall as a child my grandmother and I riding there on our bikes at 2am, as we had gone home late from a great night of music at an uncle's house in Bannow and on reaching home 4 miles away, realized that she did not have the house key. When St Anthony did not come up with the goods, she decided that there was no other option but to go back to Uncle's house and if it wasn't there to go to the graves, where she had earlier that day cut the grass. I was just twelve and so terrified of going down there in the black dark with just a bicycle lamp to show us the way round the graveyard. Well, after another session of earnest prayers to the man himself, followed by much scraping of loose grass, the key appeared bright and shiny! I recall telling my gran how frightened I was and her response was thus ' child, don't you ever forget that the dead will never harm you, but the living would kill you for sixpence' Oh the joys of a rural childhood and the memories they leave. Gran lived to be a 100 and I now visit her place, remembering to check before leaving that my house key is on my person!!!

Anyone know how Grainne Murphy got on, as I was working this am and missed her swim.

Thanks a lot.