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Mick Kenneally (1939-2013) – Potato & Cattle Farmer, Cloonanaha, County Clare
‘They’d all meet after mass and stand around chatting for hours. That’s gone now. Then everyone got motor cars and they drove away afters. Back then it was all walking. There was maybe the odd bicycle or a few asses and carts. But everyone else walked.’