Hello again Tony, I've just spent a very enjoyable couple of hours on your fantastic website,(still cant find my original email, never mind.) I cant believe the changes that have taken place. It really is a big town now eh? The last time I was over was in 1985, we came to see U2 and staid in Balbriggan. We had a fantastic week-end, meeting up with some old friends( we stayed with Trish and Freddie Mcgarrigle). I remember the first thing we did was,buy a brunch and a packet of Tato, ha ha. That was our staple diet when we came on holiday in the sixties and seventies. Do you remember the boys coming over from Glasgow every year? I think we had been coming over since the 1930's. It's amazing even now, when I meet my old friends in Glasgow, we always get round to talking about camp, that's what we called it, not so much Balbriggan, camp. That's because we stayed in tents for up to four weeks at a time. Can you imagine the young ones doing that nowadays? No chance. We had the time of our lives. If you do remember, I wonder if you remember big Peter Callaghan, he was one of the organisers. Anyway, he has his own loft conversion company here in Glasgow and i got in touch with him by email,about four weeks ago,to see if he could convert my loft. I hadn't seen or spoke to him for quite a few years,so anyway, he arranges to come and see me to give me a quote and he say's " I'll bring my photo album, the one with all the photos from camp". Sure enough he turns up the next day, we get the loft business out the way and then he brings out the album. It was brilliant seeing all the old faces again. There was one of me aged nine in 1966,i was quite surprised, I thought i was too much of a mummy's boy to go camping to Ireland for nearly a month ha ha. There was a couple of my two young brothers, Brian and Gerry as well. We spent a nice couple of hours reminiscing about Balbriggan. Tony, I wonder if you could do me a favour? If you know Frank Meehan, could you give him my kindest regards and if he is online, perhaps you could pass on my email address to him, i would love to say hello to him. I haven't spoken to him since that week-end in 1985. If you could mention me to any of the other names I mentioned in my original email, I would be much obliged. By the way Tony, Is Veronica Kenny, Eileen Kenny's sister? Eileen was agood Friend of mine back then. She had a brother we called the Rua, if im not mistaken. Here I go again, all these names are flashing through my mind. I'll mention two more and then i'll let you go Tony. Tubby and Gerry Walsh, absolutely brilliant guys. ok,just one more,a really good friend to me Slim Corchrane ,great guy. Keep up the good work Tony and I will pass on the site details to as many as the boys as I can. I've already told my two brothers about it. By for now. John Coyne

John Coyne.
Photo courtesy of Martin Fanning.