cut on my hand | Joe Bresland | Ireland | Matthew Broderick

Magical Mystery Tour

by Mark Seal
Anything wild, funny, or interesting happen to you there when you were younger? I borrowed a cat when I was about 10 years old. We had mice in Ireland, and I borrowed a friend's cat to put in the house a while and kill the mice, but the cat hid behind the curtain in terror basically the whole time. He never got any mice; he was useless. I took the cat to bring it back. I was carrying it up the road and this huge German shepherd ran out of a house and, seeing this cat in my arms, leaped on me and bit me on the hand. I just threw the cat into a bush. The cat did eventually get home, but I lost the cat and had a cut on my hand. But I didn't tell anybody. I told my parents that I cut my hand on a fence. The next morning, the postman came to our house we were renting and said, "I hear Joe Bresland's German shepherd bit you in the hand." My parents then found out the whole story. That's what a small town it is. You can't hide anything.











he said …
where matthew broderick rolls among ireland's green hills


lodging
castle murray house hotel
, st. john's point, dunkineely, 011-353-74-973-7022,
www.castlemurray.com

harvey's point country hotel, near donegal town, 011-353-74-972-2208, www.harveyspoint.com

dining
john joe's pub, kilcar
, 011-353-74-973-8015

melly's café, killybegs, 011-353-74-973-1093

the piper's rest, kilcar, 011-353-74-973-8205

attractions
maghery beach
, killybegs road, 3 kilometers outside of ardara

silver strand beach, county donegal,
10 kilometers southwest of louisburgh

town of killybegs, www.killybegsonline.org




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ISSUE: Jan 1, 2006
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