Sitting at home on a bright but wet May evening and looking back on a days activities, I notice there was a recurring theme to my day... that of 'water'.
Some colleagues were asking me whether I had heard of the theft of a lovely medieval font from a church site in Rathmore, Co. Meath. The beautiful carved stone water font was stolen by an organised gang of thieves. The font stood in the church for hundreds of years and was left unaltered.... respected for successive generations. The font used for many religious ceremonies. Not that this matters any less, but the fact that it was stolen from a national monument.. makes it slightly more annoying. Its impossible to police for this... but in the year of 'the gathering' when we want people to come back and see their heritage... it's particularly disrespectful and mindless to steal an object that so many would like to see. Click for newspaper story
On the same day, I got home and say a lovely piece on the national news about a find in a river. Sitting in the bank of the River Boyne in the town on Drogheda, Co. Louth was discovered a dug out canoe. The boat is probably thousands years of old and the river has kept it hidden from theft and discovery for centuries. The fact that the man who discovered it, is so confident about what it is, is so good. He knows full well that it is a boat, as he found one with his father some 40 odd years before. Click for video of story
So it's a day of water, it's falling from the sky, the stone sculpture that used to hold it for religious ceremonies is gone, but in forming rivers its protected valuable perishable objects of our heritage.
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