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    THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! PART TWO

    Jun 24, 2022 4 minutes
    Words and
    photography by
    DAVE LEWIS

    During the course of our week at Ballydavid, the tremendous boat fishing they had experienced in Belmullet on that exploratory trip back in 1966 came up often in conversation. It wasn’t long. before someone, I think it was Des (Brennan), remarked that the following year, 1996, would be the 30th anniversary of that first historic trip. “We should arrange a reunion, and you should join us Dave, the fishing there really is excellent,” Des had remarked; I really was living the dream.

    The following year our arrival in Co Mayo coincided with hot, calm and sunny weather, more or less the exact opposite of what the trio had encountered all of those years ago. Sitting in the bar

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