The Somme Heritage Centre - Visitor attraction that provides displays and information on the Irish contribution to the First World War. Includes articles on the war, as well as information on how to make a donation.
African Safari - Information on holidays offered to South Africa. Includes photo gallery.
Ballywalter Park - Country estate and stately home, offering tours and corporate entertaining. Site includes history, photos and contact details.
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Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
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-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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-- George Bernard Shaw What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Travel and Tourism Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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-- Polish proverb He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
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"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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