A gladdening sight appeared between the ditches along the road back to Tralee last Saturday. Just before the county bounds between Cork and Kerry, where phone signals briefly dissolve as part of a necessary security buffer zone, two elderly men outside a small farmhouse were leaning against a wall within two metres of each other, chatting. Lord knows what they were talking about – the weather pinballing between rain, sun and hailstones perhaps; maybe the football, with Cork and Kerry both out for the first time of the year; or the gigantic motorway bypass currently gouging its way across the countryside to liberate drivers from the tyranny of the old traffic snarls in Macroom and Baile Mhuirne. Whatever they were talking about, it was nice

Source: The Times May 19, 2021 22:52 UTC