Brian McDaid

One Guinea was the fee. Mount Southwell Place was the location. Quarter-stretched red brick houses in the middle of Letterkenny…

Our old Standard is the family car I remember the best. I remember its face, the headlights as eyes, the…

53 is my magic number, it’s not my age- that’s more!  I tried to better this figure before putting pen…

I once drove to Dublin with no insurance, if we were stopped I had my brother’s Provisional Driving licence with…

This story starts with an empty window washer bottle in Kerrykeel. One of them times when wipers across a window…

“Jeez!, I thought you were the cops!” I said with relief. A few moments earlier I noticed the black 221-D…

Columnist Brian McDaid returns to using the old school cameras that he used years ago. ‘Can you charge these?’ ‘Sorry…

If my camera could have spoken it would have told me to go home, such was the rain in Galway…

‘Come up and make me smile’ by Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel comes to mind as a song that’s…

Motoring columnist Brian McDaid reflects on Seamus Boyle’s tractor run at the weekend, along with memories of him and his…

Motoring columnist Brian McDaid reflects on the memorable road trips shared between fathers and sons. ‘Look at them old fashioned…

Since I put on the winter tyres there wasn’t a bit of snow. That all changed last weekend, but more…

By Brian McDaid I’m slowly making my way up to the front door of the Ballyraine Hotel. The crowds are…

Santa doesn’t do batteries – you learn in our house not to expect batteries in something that came with the…

I would be at my happiest if one day I could witness the sight of a railway and a train…

The power of an old photo, possibly taken over 100 years ago, lets us travel back in time this week…

“This was once Nee’s, wasn’t it,? I thought it once was A Wear? Nah that was after that.” Upper Main…

“Ah now, I thought we were going home in the Mercedes”, “this is a Mercedes” I replied as I helped…

“This is all our Dan’s fault, it was him who gave me a few lessons on the computer in lockdown.”…

Joe stuck his head in the passengers door, ‘ah that’s that new car smell, it won’t last long you know’…