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Cooleague is an Irish townland in County Caavan along the banks of the Shannon-Erne waterway (the old Woodford river), where you can find my farm, which has been my Irish home since 1990.
I originally started this site, because of a growing involvement with everything to do with computers and as a window into my home, where I farmed along with my family of six Border Collie dogs: Wilma (granny), Jake, Jester, Judy, Joe & Wupsie (granddaughter). They are now all buried between two apple trees in my garden.
I started farming in earnest after I took early retirment from my position as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Cavan. I have now nearly stopped farming - though I try to keep bees and a vegetable garden. For the past few years I have been very involved in developing a property in Kraków, which I inherited from my father.
Both real and virtual visitors are welcome, but my interst in computers has declined as mobile computing and smartphones have grown to dominate the field of personal computing, and I hardly do any programming any more.
My farm is called Krakow Angus Farm, in memory of my father who was born, along with his identical twin brother, in Sobolów not far from Kraków in 1899 and which was at that time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. My mother had more local roots some five miles away at Killegar, Co Leitrim.
I inherited my father's house in Kraków on his death in 1990, but it took nineteen years before it was transferred into my name and work on renovation could begin. Two years after that I was able to open some self-catering apartments called "Apartamenty Golebia3", of which there are now seven on the first and second floors. Then, in 2018, I opened my own restaurant called "Paul's Place" on the ground floor. Things were going really well and we had reached #5 in Kraków on Trip Advisor, when the bloody virus shut us down in March 2020.
Nearly all my fabulous staff have had to be let go for the time being. I miss them very much.