Snow in Athlone

Irish Proverbs

1. For every mile of road there are 2 miles of ditches Meaning: There are two sides to every story. 2. There is no use boiling your cabbage twice Meaning: Stop going over and over worries in your head because it solves nothing. 3. The older the fiddle the sweeter

Old Halloween Traditions

Colcannon Colcannon was a traditional Halloween dinner. Colcannon is boiled potatoes, curly cabbage and raw onion. Coins were wrapped in baking paper and placed in the potato for the children to find and keep. Halloween cake A traditional Halloween cake is call barnbrack, which is a fruit cake. Each

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