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AP News Radio
10 Dead in Gas Station Explosion in Ireland, Officials Say
"Several people have died from a gas station explosion in northwestern island the explosion happened increased low in county donegal the force of the blast leveled the gas station building which holds the main shop in the post office for the village The day after the blast service workers came through piles of rubble looking for people who are still missing Irish police spokesman Lee and Gary sponsored local community has been overwhelming They were dealing in a situation in their village in their local people their neighbors they turned out in great numbers and gave great assistance to the emergency services And it's remarkable and admirable as to how they reacted Iris police officer superintendent David Kelly milford said the blast has shocked the nation This is a tragedy for our community
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"donegal" Discussed on The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"All right, let's get some prices out at Saratoga where number 6 ready to perform won the grade two national museum of racing Hall of Fame stakes. He's a three year old chestnut coat by kittens joy out of the more than ready elementar owned by donegal racing and trained by Brad Cox Joel Rosario, the winning rider on ready to perform. Good for me, 9 84 73 40, we move forward. Second number three wit 5 20, $4, third, 8 celestial city at four 90, fourth was the favorite number 9 tis the bomb. Dollar exact at 32 75, the 50 cent trie one 1725. The dollar super $902 and 50 cents. Horses have arrived in the paddock for the 9th and co featured event at Saratoga. It's the grade three Troy stakes for four year olds and up going 5 and a half furlongs on the turf $300,000 the purse here field of 7, but as the betting public is concerned with only one of those 7, that's number 5 golden Powell two time breeders cup winner. He won the breeders cup juvenile turf sprint in 20 at Glen. He won the breeders cup turf sprint last year at del mar. He is pointing toward the breeders cup turf sprint at Keenan once again this year, try to become a three time breeder's cup winner. He is one to 5 right now as the saddle goes on and he is in the walking ring, just waiting for riders to come out. So we're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll have live coverage of the grade three Troy. It's just ten minutes away. This is betting with Bobby, presented by Caesar's race book.
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"donegal" Discussed on The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"Welcome back. Final segment on the breast net dot com call in show, Bobby Newman James Scully out to the phones we go Jeff in Morgantown. You're on the radio, my friend. Yeah, your last caller mentioned tis the bomb, I was one of those lucky guys that had him to win in that juvenile turf. So he gave me a little bit of little bit of cash to play with. My question is, I'm looking at his Jeff ruby steaks time and table Santa neither Derby time and they're both at one 48 and then the speed figures for those are like 13 point different. And I'm just wondering if you guys could put a little light on that for me because I'm thinking a myelin at 8 one 48 is a pretty good Derby runner. So I don't know, I just don't understand the discrepancy in the speed figures. We appreciate your call, Jeff. So I'm going to start with this, James. But basically, when speed figures are made and whether it's you're using the bris net speed figures or the ones with the racing form or the ragis and cheats or things like that, they have a lot to do with what other horses on the same card and same surface did as well. For instance, mo donegal ran a very fast would memorial this year. Didn't he go like one 47 in change for the mile in May, but the track was playing lightning fast all day. We were seeing rocket ship times all day. We even had a caller a few weeks ago that said that he's against mode donegal because he thinks that it's souped up time and it's not as impressive as it seems. I think that's what it looks at one 48 at one track is not one 48 and another track and one 48 at one track on a certain day is not the same as one 48 on that track a week later. So depending on how other horses did compare to par times at San Anita that day and what other horses did compared to like an average time at turfway park that day, that's how they come up with these speed figures and why one of them is so much faster than the other. Yes, and I'll add, you know, every single day, every single racing day, there's going to be a variant that is going to be established based on the races on depending on distance and on surface. So basically, for a lot of these speed ratings and these figures, that daily variant that is going to be calculated for one turn races and two turn races on both turf and dirt. And they're going to be measured those races are going to be measured against each other. I think in moda coast case, there was only one other two turn race that day. It was the busher stakes for oaks Philly's nostalgic that's in the oaks won it. She ran like three seconds faster than, I mean, slower than modon ago. That probably inflated his figure a little bit on the variant. But that's the basically also, I would say this to Aaron, that perfectly park has a to petit track that is a different kind of surface. From turf and art, you know. And so the times aren't going to be comparable from that those kind of synthetics to dirt, per se. And it's the same thing for any dirt track as well. You'll have dirt tracks like Santa aqueduct played much faster that day than saying Anita typically does because San Anita typically has a deeper track Bobby and so that was just a really fast time by a taiba in there based on that track variant that day. That's why you got a bigger figure, the variant wasn't as there was the variant wasn't as high for there was other fast performances on that Jeff ruby steaks undercard so that race was that track played faster in a sense than Santa Anita did. You know, given their similar times. Let's go back out to the phone's Bill in Northern California. You've got Bobby and James on the brisnet dot com call in show. Hey, what a great time to be a horse player, guys. Quickly, I know we're almost out of time. James, what's your opinion of cocktail moments? He was the only other horse moving on nest as they approached the finish line there at keeneland and I think he's got a puncher's chance. Yeah. Hang up and listen. All right, thank you, Bill. I think she, I think she is a little bit interesting in that race. But, you know, to me, really, I mean, I just thought Ness was super duper impressive and, you know, I did give cocktail moments credit for running down interstate daydream that looked like she was going to be second, even in deep stretch of that race. But I still think she, I question whether she's fast enough, first off, to compete against these Phillies, namely even in a nest in the Kentucky oaks. But she is going to have some look for super effectives and trifectas for me, Bill. Because she is a closer that is coming in off of them, improved effort, stretching out from one turn mile in the davona Dale to a two turn to 16th in the Ashland. James, we're getting close to the end of the show. I know you've got an interesting Derby stat. And I'm interested to hear it before I say that though. We give you a little bit of a homework assignment for next week. I know you're going to be on with us Tuesday morning as part of the Derby countdown presented by hill and Dale with Mike Penn and Jude feld. Joining me. And of course, we'll be back next Thursday.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Keith Getty Describes New Album 'Confessio,' a Love Letter to His Irish Heritage
"Book. But we're here to talk about your album. Tell us my friend. Confessio, this goes back to Irish American route. So you're in Nashville now, but you're from Ireland, and your wife is from Ireland. And talk and talk about the album, confessio, brand new album. Will you kindly interview us before sing global last year? We started the family him saying and did sing global all last year through the pandemic. And then we were honestly our heads were just fried. And so we went home for a year. So 7 days after 7 days after sing global, we flew home, 9 11. It's an easy day to remember, getting in a plane. On 9 11, we flew back to Ireland, and we stayed in Ireland for the whole year. Like John Lennox and C. S. Lewis and Allison McGrath and many other people who you know, we come from that tiny little north coast of Ireland and we spent the year there. And this album really is a love letter to that. You know, we, you know, we come from this place that Christianity is 17th centuries old that until the 1980s gave more missionaries per capita than any country in the world. South Korea and I give the most. And but also, but also this connection as you brought our four daughters who are all American citizens. He brought them back. We're all born in America. As he brought them back to their heritage and explained to them, here's been kind of donegal or John Newton's boat came in and he wrote, begun to write amazing grace. Here's here's where beat on my vision was written. And here's our culture and we began to realize that even as musicians that everything from country music to bluegrass to gospel songs to ship note hem the day to American and Appalachian music are all outgrowths of our own scotch Irish tradition that we have. And so this album was just really, I think it's a love letter to our
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"donegal" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"They're really popular are you can do them all over the place. is especially famous for because they get the best waves in ireland Simply because of the location bread it's more popular among the younger generation than anything. I know family members still went up. There they lova and they were of an older age as well so it has something for everyone but the real hot spot donegal is definitely the league cliffs. These cliffs are dramatic is the only way to ca. Put them delake rages. They only have one side that you can fall off if that makes sense. They're like you can walk along these small little Would be safe and get clean of experience. That's what these cliffs are like. And they're about an hour and a half from donegal airport. I was there once again. I've been gone once. When i went on our trip now employment to go back this the place i really wanna go back to disown roy hair if you see pictures of these cliffs to sunrises here are incredible actually follow a few people on like instagram. Still fund. their wakened old butler's four in the morning and then they're going to catch. The sunrise is here and it's like wow. This is incredible. You don't get this year. The one thing we didn't say about this part of the world it sort of true when i was talking about the dingle peninsula but it's true the pictures i'm seeing donegal also is it's very much a windswept landscape. It's kind of like the joke about. If you get lost in the icelandic forest what do you do. Stand up there. They're not a lot of trees. It's wide open rock and fields and such. So you've got these spectacular views of miles and miles from on top of these clips that you're talking about here because there's there's nothing to break the view. There's no trees to speak of just so open. I think that's why a lot of people call them for the surfing as well..
Accidental Gods
"donegal" Discussed on Accidental Gods
"To the soul of the world around them. Yeah i landed in donegal in ireland. After lewis that's where we ended up When we get a fled after after four Radical years and we lived in a part of donegal where there were mantis called the seven sisters. At each of the seven sisters had a name and yes two of them were and yet thank and and yak oval the little host. And the because and i i just i always wondered what was hussey about them now. That part of ireland and other violent has a wonderful story of the horse goddess and so there is a whole thing going on in the land there. But but i just every morning. I would walk in the box next to the seven sisters. I had a wonderful panoramic view of every one of them. And i would name them every morning. I would stand there. And i would tell them you know the names would acknowledge them not really become very important ritual to me. But i couldn't figure out why the horses and there was just this one day where the lights had shifted At a part of the year. That i that i was in donegal for the first time and it. The shadows of the clouds just highlighted the contours of these two mansions and it became incredibly clear to me that these were two horses lying down on the ground kind of entwined each other. You know one. Turning one way and the other attending the other way is the symbol for that. And i can't think what it is it's cooled and i could see that rise of the next and the you know the noses that went down and it was just like a moment of revelation and i thought to myself at the time that happened to me with another mountain in seven sisters. I really have to work for that. You know it wasn't going to reveal itself until i'd been up there every morning for a few months and it by its named wanted and and respected..
Historical Bookworm
"donegal" Discussed on Historical Bookworm
"I don't know about you but in some ways the nineteen fifties. Don't sound too bad. What's not to love about beauty tip that involves actually lying down for fifteen minutes out of a hectic day. Mary you go complain. Manatee on your slant. Board right. sounds reasonable to me completely. Healthy time for our bookworm review a dance in donegal by jennifer diarrheal all her life boston bourne. More darty has relished her mother's descriptions of the emerald isle with her mother dies unexpectedly in the summer of nineteen. Twenty more is compelled to fulfill her dying wish she become. The teacher embodiment the beloved village in donegal ireland. She's heard so much about. After an arduous voyage more begins a challenging new job in an unfamiliar and ancient country though a few locals offer a warm welcome others are distance by superstition and suspicion rumours about mars mother aren spoken in her presence but threatened to derail everything she's journey to ballymun to do more must rely on the kindness of a handful of friends. And the strength of sean and unsubtly handsome thatcher who keeps popping up on announced as she seeks to navigate a life she'd never dreamed of but perhaps was meant to live i have read the most exquisite irish love story a dance and donegal. This was my typical read. Podcasting has me reading more. In my genre than ever jennifer dial weaves this nineteen twenties era love story and the irish countryside with justin of suspense and mystery and romance. The you can't help hold your breath from chapter to chapter. This book gives enough romantic tension to tease yet. Descriptions are discreet and wholesome. There's one violent seem that might be a trigger for some a man attempts to assault a young woman. The scene short and tactfully portrayed the spiritual arc was often accompanied by bible verses in the character's thoughts oftentimes spoken as though god himself was speaking. I typically prefer a more subtle approach but nonetheless the biblical themes are effective. If you're in the mood for a sweet irish love story with beautifully described countryside fund gaelic colloquialisms and the theme of how god restores one woman's reputation thereby cementing her place and call in ireland. You won't want to miss a dance. Indomitable by jennifer deepal. You've been listening to the historical bookworm. Show where history mates fiction but more information found at historical bookworm dot com..
Historical Bookworm
"donegal" Discussed on Historical Bookworm
"With the white oleo margarine. So that the cook could beat the color in themselves. Oh my goodness. I definitely believe that. But it's just like dude. How shady all right so funny now housewives in the early nineteen fifties had it slightly easier because in nineteen fifty one the w. e. denison company patented die tablet tucked inside the margin package and without opening the oleo margarine. Could break open the tablet and need the color into the fat so when they opened the package they had a butter substitute that looked like but that by can you think about that. Imagine writing a book in nineteen fifties. I better need the diane exactly. And they've got a need the margarine to get it yellow belly around nineteen fifty five. Selling yellow oleo margarine was once again legal and cooks could forgo the needing process except in wisconsin which held out against colored oleo margarine until nineteen sixty seven gene..
Historical Bookworm
"donegal" Discussed on Historical Bookworm
"No trying to find that. Yet but yeah. It's very exciting to see book addresses those things. I hope that we can all think about the loyals in our lives. And i think that's one of the most enjoyable things about writing. Is that stepping into somebody else's skin and that the book before this i had a heroine. Who was kind of awful. And i was surprised at how much i enjoyed writing somebody who was really hard and jaded by life and she gradually softens a little bit throughout the book to write a character that has a personality. That's very different from your own. I find really intriguing. And it makes me when i'm interacting with other people just in my day to day life i think of them if this was a person who is a character in my book. What would their history. Where would they be coming from. What would be the reason for this type of behavior. I think it can make people more empathetic to attention to how different types of characters think an act and feel for sure because when you meet people.
Historical Bookworm
"donegal" Discussed on Historical Bookworm
"Both of them are natives of west. Virginia that i carry him with me and i carry at love and all that feeling and it has nothing to do with a specific spot. You know we talk about the peace of cemeteries and the love that we carry from people who have been so important to us so that was a beautiful moment for me and i thought this is. The heart of my books is just this joy and love that my family has passed to me that i hope i am sharing with people through my stories and the love the hope that are embedded in them. So yeah that was certainly something. I haven't shared because it was so new. Yeah when a grief like thighs fresh. It can take time to adjust to like a new reality. But you're right. He's still with you and psych his legacy of storytelling carries on through you. I want an honor to get to do that. Yes absolutely so true. We are so blessed. I lost a parent and it is hard but you really understand. What a blessing. Someone's life has been in your own once that time for them to go has come by we better. We pick this up before one of us starts. Crying should talk about books. There's something yes your latest. Release the right kind of fool right. Yes okay. i'll read the blurb and then we'll dive into some fun questions found good. thanks darcy. Thirteen-year-old loyal raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in nineteen thirty four when he slips away for a quick swim in the river and vise a dead body. He wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of beverly west virginia in ways. No one could imagine the first person. Those ripples disturb is oil absentee father when creed rains realize. Infants emma's dad. He headed for the hills returning only to help meet his family's basic needs but when loyal now a young teen stumbles upon a murder. It's his father. He runs to tell shaping words with his hands. As credence pulled into the investigation he discovers. What sense son apart isn't his inability to hear rather his courage longing to reclaim the life. He abandoned creed will have to do more than help solve a murder if he wants to win his family's hearts again. Wow that sounds so amazing. It's like tom sawyer with mystery absentee father in the nineteen thirties. I can't wait to read this. I like how you read. The blurb darcy. That was good. I think you..
Historical Bookworm
"donegal" Discussed on Historical Bookworm
"In west virginia the seventh generation to live there her christian fiction is in west virginia and celebrates the people the land and the heritage of appalachia. She's a fundraiser. For a children's ministry and holds a bachelor's degree in english. Her novels have one in awards and final for the christy award. Acf w carola award and the christian book of the year award sarah loud and thomas. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. Actually listened to one of your interviews on historical fiction unpacked with allison treat and you talked about your latest novel. The right kind of full. And i thought. Oh i gotta have this author on historical.
Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"Yeah well it a say like a bow around are maybe certain other rooms were particularly about ron. When it's made the skin is not In any way by with the strong chemical dinners a d. Contacting sound that hits your gosh the life center rather than slowly going through your head and heart and because it's going to sound the rhythm and speed of maybe paying is called straight here because it's a very much a felt experience. How what happens to you. That's why dramatizing churches damore primitive aspect of a person's psyche is because it to sound kind of straight into your. Where does your interest come from. Malecki sorry mustard again. Where did your interest in not only interested in the instrument interest interest in playing it interest in manufacturing it by end when i was very blessed. I understand looking back in my life. I lived beside heather mercier. Who founded chieftains a famous folk. And at that time the power was often used in plays tears in irish in ireland. And it would just topped with sticker a hand but powder mercer start playing around with kind of control rolling rhythms playing with two boom like leg of goals and his hand talk behind the skin and he started experiment with racing sounds and different tones and displayed. You can do all of that. Because both hands are interacting directly. Which is now the cleverest idea into word of manual for question. The way our on his plate is always acknowledged as being the terrorist idea in wardrobe and i was lucky to live beside to master to read the inventor of the same technique road all began other mercier and he was a very kind gentleman. He had a very special influenced my life personally as well because he often taught me how to be camera in life and things i touch and all. I was very young dan nervous. So that's the divine kind of gift really to be around like that. And i loved music anyway because i come from the coleman family.
Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"Yeah greetings. So i'm tucked away. Here in round stone in west camera is most westerly pointing to in europe. Almost and it's a beautiful evening with snow coming and we'd love for a little while you were asking. Could i explain what about run is a.
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"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
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Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"We're very lucky that the has been a fantastic tradition here of hospitality at harvey's point by the previous owners and with that the most important asset we have is our team is. The managers are operations. Team is our bartenders and predominantly dave allstate. Stephanie so that is ensured that aid at our regular customer continued to come here. They see little to no change. Only all positive as we very lined fantastic refurbishments a key areas and so forth so absolute. The traditional repeat. Guests are coming but number one local tv. Lots of local people come. And that's going to be so important. I on her shoulder season to ensure that our local people. Because they're the backbone of our weddings are christenings are fantastic parties and so forth. So yeah we're very lucky. We still have that massive attraction to harvey's well and you know in ireland particular and there are a few other places in the world that you know. I would could name that phone into the same category but definitely in ireland when you've got local people dining in a place and you've got foreign visitors particularly americans. It doesn't take long before there are bonds of friendship forming from one table to the next and and the irish being Described as curious for my irish friends. Just label it. What they they say. It's really nosy. Ever it is there. Is this great interest in the visitor and done that. I had so much to the travel experience whereas you can go on trips to other countries and the only people you're going to interface with our the guards at the museum. The taxi drivers in the shop clerks. You never really going to have a chance to talk with people. And that's what makes it so special stephanie. And here are these points. What i would say is here. Were making memories so when we have guests from abroad or guests from other parts of ireland. It's so important. Eighteen communicate and tell the local stories identified places where it might wanna visit but when we have guests from overseas. It's so important that they enjoy an ice cocktail. A pint of guinness enjoyed live music that we have on nightly at harvey's bar and also that they get to meet with the locals and has you say you're so right make friendships for a long long time. But most importantly making memories that lasts forever. There is no question. I have more friends than ireland than anywhere else in the world including america and i'm talking about real friends friends that will step up and truly give you the shirt off their back when it's their last shirt. I mean you know. The people of ireland are so incredibly generous with their time generous with their assistance. And i probably should sometimes sit down and write all the anecdotal stories that i know that people have told me of how one comes to mind quickly of a fellow who was going to visit somebody in mail in american and he took a bus and he fell asleep any overshot. The stocks by eighty miles eighty kilometers eighty miles. Anybody got coughing. Got off the bus and called the people the folks that he met them on the airplane flying to ireland. They drove eighty miles to fetch him and bring them home for dinner and put him up overnight. I want to thank you for joining us today. You've got to come back again and again but don't leave me. We're gonna talk in the top of the hour news. Stay with me everybody. We're going right back to ireland to county mayo. This is stephanie. Abrams were fired. I welcome to travel with stephanie. Abe rose oh. I'm so glad you're with us today. You know i want to remind you. S abrahams dot. Net s. for stephanie. Apr ams dot net. We have at the site these big giant photos and each one you click on. I'll take you things like podcasts of the radio shows Archived audio once the first one you download the other one streams live. You can take us with with you wherever you're going if you go to the podcasts. And you'll find my blog and you'll find all kinds of interesting information and insights into things going on and we have one block cold a little bit of ireland. Because i'm always finding things that interest me going on in ireland and i figure if the interest me though probably interest you too so it might be worth your time to take a look but you know when you're interested in travel. They are far too many people who don't know enough about travel who think that travel is defined. This is particularly true in america. Travel is defined as places with beaches pristine water swimming casinos. And there's a very and maybe shopping. The very narrow view of what it means to travel and then there are those who are road. Warriors who travel for business and go to sometimes go to very glamorous places that people are envious going. They're not realizing that when you're traveling for business you don't get to see much. Besides airports limousines taxicabs office buildings and wherever you're overnight before you head home my favorite business trip from the point of view of unglamorous my trip to singapore. We were roundtrip. Fifty nine hours traveling which included connecting time from the east coast of the us to singapore fifty nine hours roundtrip forty-eight hours on the ground the second day my eyes were out of focus thought i was dying really. I can take a camera and you twist the lens and if you move the lens for enough you'll see two images of whatever you're looking at something like in the doctor's office when they're doing an eye exam that's what happened to me sitting in a lounge chair in the lobby of the hyatt in singapore where the international franchise association and the us department of commerce and we're doing a trade mission to singapore as one of the city's on the one of the destinations on the route in asia and Yeah i i needed to sleep. I was so knocked out from traveling through far too many time zones in far too little time with no time to adjust and going right into meetings and at some point maybe even later today. I wanna talk a little bit about that whole concept where people get upset. When government officials fly first class.
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"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"And what a fantastic fine so beautiful beautiful parts of the words and i interviewed norman. Whatever his name is. Who's the general manager there as well while we were in northern ireland. We did it by telephone so we could socially distance but we wanted to take pictures together by the castle wall but we stood forty feet apart from one another. But you have some very fancy background. I mean i can see this group would want you as a gm because clearly you have some amazing experience nile some great experience and out of fantastic time working for the hastings. What a great family tru truly fantastic people in the hospitality industry and certainly leading the front in order to wit magnificent properties as you've outlined their steffi beautiful. Oh tells you know it's funny about that a couple years back. I'm going to say it's like three years ago. Maybe trivia go put out a list of the top twenty hotels in northern ireland. And somebody in and it was published in the belfast telegraph. Somebody in northern ireland. Sent it to me and said you have to see this. And i looked at this list of top twenty hotels in northern ireland and said where are these hotels and so i started looking them up one by one and i came to the conclusion that the word top meant either cheapest or the masses like to go there I don't know you know. It wasn't like the cole porter song you're the top. You're the eiffel tower. Your mickey mouse. You're no no not that. can i top this was. I don't know what made a top but not in my book. So i wrote another list and i remembered as a blog and i published and i sent it to the editor of the belfast telegraph. And they did a story about it and you can find it if you go. Because you know you see these lists and they are meaningless. They're absolutely meaningless but in any event There so i rewrote the list. And i put on hotels that it should be there and you know clearly among the ones that were not showing up on the original list were of the quality of the ones you worked And those are really the top hotels. There are some real luxury and a really incredible so they manage inside that you were doing so well in killarney that they needed to move you to donegal happy about that absolutely delighted. J. property of auto. I'ts beauty clarke's points so let's talk a little bit. How many accommodations are there at. Harvey's points hotel and i really feel. It feels more like a large. You know it because it it it sprawls. It goes right along the waterfront there on the sea shore on the lakeside How many Sleeping accommodations are there absolutely stephanie. And capitalizes on the views of where we're located on the shores of lough ask and until we have sixty four bedroom suites and we also have thirteen lodge rooms but the exciting news here for us. At harvey's pint. Were just starting the process of developing seventeen brand new rooms. Private balconies overlooking. I lock esque or else that blue stack mountains up on the fourth floor and we're also doing a full reform of magnificent lakeshore lodges. Which will all be ready. Please god when we open up When we opened up the big question but hopefully the end of may we would be opened up again. It's not before it's not before. Yeah i'm i've got some stuff that i'll share with you privately. We are off the air later today. in that regard so when i visited harvey's points it's gotta be ten years ago. Maybe more maybe more like twelve or thirteen years ago. The place was charming. I mean it had character. I there was something special about it and the location was the vine but it was tired as they would say in the american real estate industry when a realtor takes you see a house and they want to prepare you that it's not quite up to snuff. They will say well. The houses a bit tired and And i i would have described the lounge. But i didn't get to see more than that and i really didn't get to talk to anybody much so i have to imagine that one a new owner comes in a fresh ideas and fresh resources fall into play to refresh the place and bring it into keeping with whatever the mission of the hotel. Your is or the hotel group so to the existing public areas. Has anything changed since you've arrived. Or is it on the drawing board no seville. Yeah we have. There's been an extension onto our harvey's far which is beautiful cocktail bar. What we've done there is we've done a reform in that area of their hotel and we've also extended at this magnificent paddock patio where we can do al fresco. Dining room also added another abuse. Bar called lock esque lounge. I want that is stephanie. it's like for residents. Only where you go for your morning coffee overlooking the lake or else to leave time you go for a beautiful cocktail before you go into are fine dine restaurant casual dining. So we've really. I put a focus on that whole experience a star in particular. When you're a resident common witness that you've do really feel special so now with investment that we've put into the property really gives that beautiful five-star feeling how we've also invested over eight hundred thousand dollars in.
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"donegal" Discussed on Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!
"Each travel with stephanie. Abrams on the line with me. Live from donegal and harvey's points and you can check them out at harvey's point dot com. But if you're too busy to jot it down and you don't remember later you can always go to s abrahams s a. m. s. dot net. And you will find links to the websites of all of our guests in the show notes and if you went to the podcast you find the same thing so you have linked their take your right over to their website. You can learn more so you were down. Nihil in tipperary was it. Is that what you said. I'm i'm originally from tipperary. But my previous property that i manage to as adults than a colony. And you were there. I was there for two and a half years than killarney. Dan and carey beautiful parts award as we all know. Oh yeah oh. Just ask jimmy dean and tell you so and you can see jimmy dean and people in the episode. I'm going to say maybe. Twenty one or twenty two. It's i think it's twenty one celebrating. Saint patrick's day and marconi ballybunion day in county kerry Jimmy's picture is part of the thumbnail. that is the little icon promoting episode. So what did you do before you were dell in the carney. Well before that i worked for group called hastings hotels face down. I know where the base tell me there in the north so that you work at i was in the sleeve. Donald resort when in magnificent newcastle county. Down yet twenty. Nine miles from belfast. Where is thus. We're we're What years were you there now. So i was there in my god where i was there i i moved from the sleet dowwnard to the collado hotel to sister property off fast. Was there the archbishop's house. So when will you heard. I was with the hastings group for a total of four years altogether and i was back in two thousand seventeen. I joined a group and i went to sleep. Donnart okay so. I don't i think any anything i well. I got to meet an interview. The general manager who followed john toner. And then all stephen meldrum yes. That's the name steven. Yes i worked with. Stephen okay well. I interviewed him. And i want to say that was two thousand fourteen and the reason i think. Maybe i'm wrong. Maybe it was later than that. It had to be later than that. It was the year. It was. The reason i'm saying fourteen. It was october fourteen. Whatever year it was never tell me anything you want me to forget by the way. Catch more people october fourteen. I can't tell you. What year was i have to go back and look part of age. O'cuiv who is aiming devil eras grandson. And if you don't know irish history people go look up. Oh better still. Don't look up. Go find the film michael collins. And the part of aim and devil era is played by. Alan rickman and the part of michael collins is played by liam niessen. And that will give you insights into what the troubles in ireland where they came from what they were all about and the formation and debut of the republic of ireland and the partition of six counties of ireland going into northern ireland in part of the uk and the rest of ireland being the republic. So go see the film. Michael collins but ayman de valera who was a past president of the republic of ireland and Michael collins who was a general of the ira the irish. republican army. Aiming devil is grandson aiming o'cuiv is a member of irish government. Tda from connemara in galway and he was speaking at the saint patrick's center in county down in downpatrick. And we when we were staying at the sleeve russell and kevin and we drove that night afternoon up to donegal Up to Downpatrick and county down and say the evening to see the presentation and whatnot and you can see parts of that in episode five of travel. Tv with stephanie. Abrams called celebrating. Saint patrick in northern ireland. You'll see aiming o'cuiv on the stage and he wears these little round spectacles which is exactly the kind his grandfather amo devorah would have worn and his features such think it's aiming standing on the stage it's really ghostly but in any event i interviewed howard as things i don't know how many times and the first time was in march of two thousand two and we've stayed the sleeve diner of times and the colliding and in fact we spent new year's eve Two thousand one at the colliding and got piped into dinner with the paper was grant and so you know i know howard as things and his wife phillipa pippa. And i actually. He asked me if i were arranged. A lovely place for him to stay in manhattan in october thousand and two when he and his wife were celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary and they both have birthdays in october. And they were both turning forty and that was two thousand and two next year will be twenty years since i played personal travel agent for him and called a friend who owns hotel and got him a gorgeous sweet for a week but yeah i mean well i know and interestingly when we got locked down for five months in ireland and twenty twenty between march sixteenth and july. We didn't get home until july twentieth. But between march sixteenth and july fourth. We were staying up the road that you would turn left at the corner Awful man so when you go on the eight to along the irish sea and you're going north and the irish sea is on your right and you're just north of larne northern ireland you'll come to ballygawley castle hotel which i don't know if it's still owned by the hastings group but it used to be and that road is karen castle road you make left and go to the top of the hill and that's on the corner is where the house was. We rented for all those months..
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"And then you get into everything else. All the natural beauty. The landscapes seascapes the history the spiritual history And all of the creative arts in every cultural arm and finger that reaches out from art and music and literature and design and fashion. And you name it name your interest you will find it in ireland with excellence and i am convinced that the reason there is such creativity such passion that is clearly demonstrated in every project tackled by anybody no matter what their creative art form is in ireland that is all the result of how inspiring landscapes and the seascapes are. I mean you know. If you don't have a creative bone in your body you will discover you actually do when you're in ireland. There is something about the place that inspires creativity and the and the natural passion of the people results in projects. Coming to fruition with amazing. Excellence the matter where you go the matter where you go and so. That's one of the reasons. I love to go there especially to i call it recharging. My batteries usually people talk about going to a spa for that. I just have to get off the plane in ireland. And when i get off a plane and ireland i like to head for the west coast so if i find to shannon airport already on the west coast of ireland if i find dublin. Airport that i'm going to hide footed over to the dublin. Galway road which is like the new jersey turnpike. It is like i ninety in Massachusetts they're all three of these rows are about one hundred and twenty miles long hundred and thirty. Maybe so i want to introduce you to somebody at a hotel. I have seen pictures of from its lakeside. I have been in its lobby and its lounge bar but not more And i haven't been there in probably ten years and a lot has happened at this hotel because there's been a sale to a new owner and You know it's like opening the windows and leading a fresh breeze blow through. And i can't wait to learn more about what's going on in donegal in ireland at harvey's point hotel so we're gonna do that right after this portions. Today's show brought to you. By cure sow offering vacationers cultural experiences wrapped in history and charming traditional european architecture. A unesco world heritage city on a southern caribbean island with kkob's speeches and over sixty dive and snorkelling sites curious south. Feel it for yourself. Visit curious how dot com. I am thrilled to have on the line with me. The general manager of harvey's point a beautifully strategically located on a lake surrounded by trees. When you see the pictures that The iconic shots taken from the other side of the lake. And you see only harvey's point hotel and a lot of trees in the lake. That's it and it looks like you're in the middle of nowhere. You're just minutes from donegal town. And all the wonderful shops and bistros and funds stores. That are there so. I wanna thank you so much for making the time to join us. Nile coffee. how old are you now. The general manager in harvey's point. Hello stephanie and a low toll. your listeners My coffee year from goal. I've been here now over year. Donegal an obvious point. Where were you before i was located. Dannon carry than in a beautiful property called addo heights hotel in cary in killarney. I don't know that hotel wearing columbia's it it's just it's overlooking the town. It's a beautiful five star hotel. Beautiful spa really fantastic product at welcomes a lot of american guests. Each year as does everywhere in carrying collini. How far are you from well. Let's see Going to say the colonie plaza hotel. Because that's kind of central yet. Killarney plazas in the town so to drive it at a take fifty minutes but could which you could do. If you're feeling that healthy and out like a long exercise you'd walk into bed. Forty minutes Is that property near the national forest. Where the wonderful. Yeah it's beautiful. It's it's overlooking at national park. But you're open the top of a hill looking down all over killarney so the number one. Us p. r. delights is the view. You're seeing all the lakes kalani. There's a famous opera singer in the. Us sings with the metropolitan opera in new york. And from time to time with the boston symphony orchestra. And at tanglewood. The summer home of the boston symphony. When it's open it didn't open last year and we'll see what happens this year but maureen Her family's from donegal originally and she can't go to ireland for the republic without finding a way to the national park and that waterfall. She is magnificent magnetically drawn as i am. Now we're gonna take a quick commercial break. Don't leave me. we'll be right back talking about harvey's point.
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"North carolina. Right this is a few years in be twins too. Funny buck basically When i was working in in florida in miami the restaurants the restaurants in where the mostly in the winter season obviously where they have smell dirt of business. Been very quite some time. Many of us not have a job. And i was able to connect with a friend of mine that used to work for chateau and they told me that there was a shot to north of ontario in North of toronto. That was looking for a metre d to run their wallet. Shot to food scene. That was only open during the summertime. Which was that. Sorry what year. Which hotel i was gonna say so. This hotel shuttle was called the in on money to and what was special about that. Place is They had Thirty two outside court and to indoor tennis court and they had pros coming from all over the world so it was also the time where ten is was very popular addition of tennis in the nation for for people that wanted to have great experience in the tail in the food scene and to be able to play tennis so I i work. I went to work there. I did three seasons there so i was going to the to the catfish in the wintertime and in the summertime would transition to the in on monday to and then after three season I was given the opportunity to stay in toronto at another glacier to the wind. Zohrab tale that was located right downtown Toronto and this is a special place in my heart. Because i met my wife working there. She was going through the university of toronto and working part time so to me that was when a transition from going to working in restaurant on the type of place to more small hotels moti kotel luxuries luxury hotels into more of food and beverage capacities or study to be involved with room service and to work with a different type of restaurant and and and outdoor facilities. So this is what i expanded my arise in turmoil food and beverage working in those places and so at. What point did you transition from toronto. They're more inbetween getting to charlotte. Charlotte was the next big leap on or not. I was a longtime westbound or so. When i was in toronto i said about a year and a half of the winds alarms and the by fulfilling toronto at the time was the four seasons and they offered me to run. Truffles restaurant traveled west. Ron was one of the most rated restaurant in toronto and in canada mud of fact of the restaurant that was managing Truffles became the first five diamonds restaurants to ever get that statute in canada. And also and i forgot to say That i'm also summary. A was somebody for the tail and that should competed For best me of kennedy nineteen ninety four and became the third best. Somebody in canada bessemer on -tario and this is when i started my career as a somebody as well. You know i make some. He's crazy. And i really i do for those of you familiar with the term. This is the person who knows everything. There is to know about wine in general and everything there is to know specifically about. What's in the wine cellar at the m- whatever restaurant dining at and i know enough about wine. I mean i love talking with people who own vineyards and You know we've we've done a lot of focus on wine as part of your travels and keeping you happy on your route. And we've done you know. Shows on places like napa sonoma in california in the ohio valley in spain and various places all over france and elsewhere in in germany as well and italy but and chile as a matter of fact years ago. We did a show about you know wine hopping and and we included a good portion of about chile and show but I know that Nineteen eighty-six was a very good year for european wines. There was something about the weather that year or whatever so when a somalia will come over to the table to discuss. You know knowing what we're having for dinner and already prepared to recommend some fine wine choices to go with what we have ordered for dinner and they wanna know. Wh what would i like to have. My answer is delivered this way. I'd like a nineteen eighty six. And i see their eyes light up their face break into a smile. They feel like they have somebody in front of them knows what she's talking about knows what's good to drink and then i finish the sentence. I'd like a nineteen eighty. Six diet with. No ice drives tries absolutely man. But i'm not a drinker every year when i have my physical my doctor. I don't understand that if i were dr. I would never forget the patient who said to me answering the question. How.