Moving Day - Some Facts about MacDara

As today is the last day on this site and the first day on my  here are some things to know about MacDara.

 Macdara is from The North side of Dublin. More specifically he was born in a Nursing home just opposite where the Big Tree pub is on North Circular road. The nursing home is no longer there but there is still a plaque.

He was saved from a possible death at a young age by a picture of Eamon De Valera

The picture was hanging in a hallway of the house he lived in, the picture fell from the wall this one day and the glass shattered making enough noise to make the people in the house go to see what happened, while in the hall they decided to check on baby Macdara who was sleeping in his cot, it was fortunate that they did as they found him hanging form the cot with his head stuck between the bars choking. Some may call it propitious co-incidence but MacDara knows better.

He Went to School in Glassnevin and has had a fascination with graveyards ever since but has no wish to be buried in one yet. He especially likes old Graveyards and will walk through them while on holiday. He played Football and hurling up until his peers told him he was not good enough and still blames his 4^th class teacher for hindering what could have been a promising career playing for Dublin. That same teacher spent every Friday afternoon reading MacDara’s class the Hobbit which did instil a love of reading in MacDara for which he is still grateful. He had his first pint of beer in Slattery’s on Capel Street when he was 17.

MacDara new what his choice of Career was going to be from when he started Secondary School; it was all down to a good looking woman and a flashy car. On leaving school he went to a private institute for training, during this time he also fell in love for the fist time, it happened on Aran Island off the coast of Donegal. Up until then MacDara was a drinker of Furstenberg , but that first night on the Island with the wind blowing from the Atlantic and snow lightly falling on the beach side pub windows he had his first Guinness.

After two years of training MacDara ventured into the real world where he gained experience in Mining, Construction, making things stick and lots of travel and of course he found his own beautiful woman.

In 1998 on one of his many travels he went to Lebanon and was immediately fascinated by the country the people and the history. His time there was short but it left a big impression on him.

Back in Ireland he was happily progressing along in his career and in the evenings was happy drinking in some of his favourite pubs, The Palace Bar , The Half penny Bridge and O Neills to name a few. But world events contrived to upset his career path and what started in September 2001 ended with MacDara moving to the Middle East a year later.

Since moving to Lebanon he was enjoyed life to the full and travelled to many wonderful countries. Jordan, Dubai, Syria, Cyprus, Palestine, Serbia to name a few.

At the moment MacDara is at a crossroads and the next few weeks will see what road he takes.

 Seeing as today is the first Day of the New Blog if there is anything else you want to know ask.