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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Ireland</title>
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	<description>Thanks for dropping by. What is now my hillwalking blog started out as a place to put hillwalking trip reports and photo gallery update news. It has since blossomed from those beginnings to take on a life of its own, with the aforementioned being complemented by related topics such as plans for future outings, walking books, outdoors gear, weather, travel and the wonder of nature. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>Emerald Inspirations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trip to Ireland in March may have taken the form of an elongated weekend that involved no hill wandering (there was some urban trotting around Limerick that took in its People&#8217;s Park and Arthur&#8217;s Quay though) but the warm sunny day on which I needed to leave the place to return to the U.K. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so to 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/01/and-so-to-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having had a few days to catch up with a few recent issues of TGO, a realisation has popped into my mind: maybe basing myself somewhere on a trip away might allow me to get more from it, especially for those places that take a little longer to get to them. Using Dunoon as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/26/a-look-back-at-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, 2011 will have to be seen as one when work very much got in the way of hill wandering. Even if it did, I did get out on quite a few excursions over its course and some of them took me places where I hadn&#8217;t been before then. Also, there was a sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More pondering than wandering</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/03/29/more-pondering-than-wandering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few months have been hectic at work and that has impeded any incursions into the outdoors during what has been a lengthy spell of settled weather. That isn&#39;t to say that I haven&#39;t been out at all. After all, I got away to Ireland over the weekend. In a change for me, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now, why didn&#8217;t I bring my headtorch?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/02/21/now-why-didnt-i-bring-my-headtorch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arctic conditions that came our way before the Christmas were the cause of my having a one way ferry ticket from Holyhead to Dublin as a backup plan should a closure of Dublin Airport due to snow put paid to my crossing the Irish Sea by air. In the end, I did manage that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out in some of the whiteness</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/01/06/out-in-some-of-the-whiteness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those heavy coatings of snow that many of us were to find round about our way before Christmas weren&#39;t left go without my going out and sampling the transformed countryside, even if my excursions were mere nibbles compared with what others were doing. On the Monday before Christmas, I got myself into the hills not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into a sixth&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/01/01/into-a-sixth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the passing of 2010, my only wish is that 2011 brings you and yours good things. The past year saw me distracted by a change of job in the middle of it and I think that it may have reduced my output on here. However, after catching up with a few issues of TGO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative choice</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/08/01/an-alternative-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was in a shop when I overheard someone moaning about the less than exciting weather that has been with us for much of July. Many have very optimistic hopes for the summertime so that sense of frustration was understandable. It&#39;s why it&#39;s best to spread those aspirations around the year instead. Nevertheless, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other things on my plate</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/06/01/other-things-on-my-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My staying at home over the weekend has less to do with the weather not being all that inspiring. After all, it wasn&#39;t that unpleasant either so an outing wouldn&#39;t have gone amiss. However, there were other things needing doing whose details don&#39;t belong on a blog such as this. Even so, I got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching some sun in Munster</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/05/28/catching-some-sun-in-munster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I crossed the Irish Sea for a more social visit to the southwest of the island where my parents live. While there was a spot of lawn-mowing, hedge-cutting and other bits and bobs to be done, there were chances for limited immersion in hill country too. Friday saw us heading to Gougane Barra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They don&#8217;t have to be that high</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/28/they-dont-have-to-be-that-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend&#39;s greyness did nothing to coax me out of doors and other things took up whatever spare time was available. With a promising forecast for the coming one, I am minded to make use of what goodness comes the way though it will mean preparation for colder temperatures and mindfulness of the threat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: a year of reconnaissance and rediscovery</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/26/2009-a-year-of-reconnaissance-and-rediscovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Christmas 2009, I tried making a start on this round-up but the attempt came to a full stop. One cause was a memory block and a certain loss of chronology in the trip report postings. Along with this, end of year fatigue and lack of inspiration had their parts to play too. The latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A longer winter break</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/06/a-longer-winter-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had the cold winter mixture of snow and ice for so long now that it almost is no longer newsworthy. It was there before I set off on a winter airborne crossing of the Irish Sea and remained to welcome me back on my return. That&#39;s not to say that it isn&#39;t causing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A promise made good</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/12/18/a-promise-made-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent days, Mapyx has brought out OSNI 1:50000 Discoverer mapping data for Quo with 1:25000 due to follow. Having found some free time, I got a quick chance to metaphorically kick some tyres. As with OSi maps, you cannot have OS maps and OSNI maps open at once but there is no bar to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSi Maps now on Quo</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/11/26/osi-maps-now-on-quo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Mapyx finally made good their promise to bring out Ordnance Survey Ireland 1:50000 Discovery mapping&#160;data for Quo. Pricing is &#163;1.99 per tile, more comparable with &#163;1.95 per tile for OS Explorer maps than 99p per tile for OS Landranger. Even with the (little) extra outlay, that&#39;s not so bad and I&#160;purchased tiles&#160;for the [...]]]></description>
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