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Living in the sticks in Mullagh - Experiences of a young couple who have relocated from Dublin city to the picturesque village of Mullagh.

Laragh - Pictures of people and places in Laragh.

Lough-an-Leagh Environmental Group - Group's mission is to protect and preserve the environment and heritage of the Lough-An-Leagh mountain and it's hinterland.

Cavan Research Center - Irish Family History Foundation.

Cavan County Development Board - Community forum model to support and provide direction for community groups.

Cavan Baptist Church - Includes events, activities, sermons and location details.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Society and Culture He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Society and Culture If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Society and Culture All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Society and Culture Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
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