“Peig always moaned that her children never came home (go figure) I thought she use to say she had one foot in the grave and one foot on the pigs back - many’s the time I wanted the pig to move!” - Judith in Wexford.“Paula I’m genuinely interested now – what happened to Peig?!” (see below).“Morning Paula, why would you be talking about the government sponsored torture, Peig Sayers, at this hour of the morning?! I only remember she threw a mouldy cabbage at someone!” - JB in Clonmel.Had I known in advance half, or even one-third of what the future had in store for me, my heart wouldn't have been as gay or as courageous as it was in the beginning of my days.") (The opening doleful lines of her 1936 book, as dictated to her son, Maidhc, read: "I'm an old woman now with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge. Top line act did not receive such a roar!” - Ger in Cork An Irish version of Murder She Wrote / CSI Blasket Islands. Either fell off the island or kicked by a donkey. It started off with the line it’s an old woman I am with one foot in the grave and the other in the edge. Peig Sayers can still bring me out in cold sweats. “Ah Peig, an old woman from Kerry, she had a really hard life and you felt sorry for her until she started telling everyone about it and made life unbearable for thousands of school-kids!” - Padraic.It doesn’t matter what language it’s written in, Peig is one of the most depressing book ever written!” - Gerry, Sligo
Anyway best of luck to all today!” - Stephen “Oh Paula, why oh why mention that book?! On my way to work and had to pull van to side of road as the mention Peig had me crying uncontrollably - it has scarred many a person.Two weeks ago she finally managed to get a room.
Oceanworld employee Axelle Lépée, 23 and originally from the Auvergne region of France, had searched for accommodation since February and had been staying in a B&B. Maire Treasa O’Shea, of the aquarium said that “there is absolutely no staff accommodation”, adding that it’s been difficult for years, but given that 2016 has been one of the busiest tourist seasons yet, the situation has worsened. Other public lands and buildings were also being looked at, according to a written report produced for Mr O’Shea.ĭingle Oceanworld, one of Kerry’s biggest tourist attractions, has recently spoken out about how difficult it was to get accommodation for staff in Dingle. The council said it has held meetings with the HSE, which is the owner of old hospital buildings in Killarney as well as in Dingle, with a view to converting them to accommodation. The price of property in the area was beyond the reach of most local people and no social housing had been built in around seven years, said Mr O’Shea. Mr O’Shea suggested the old Dingle hospital be turned into self-contained apartments for seasonal staff as well as for local need. “The lack of accommodation is having a massive effect on business,” he said.īusiness leaders had approached him recently to try to find a solution. He said there is also a problem with single local people on social housing lists, some of whom had been on the lists for a decade or more.ĭingle had “a very large bachelor population” and older people on their own found it next to impossible to get social housing in Dingle, said Mr O’Shea.
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