Youghal celebrated the historic landing on the moon in its own unique way this week. Motorists driving on the road between the Church of the Holy Family and Youghal GAA Club could easily experience for themselves what it was like for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the lunar surface 40 years ago.
Report/Photo: Michael Hussey ( www.youghalonline.com)

Crater-like formations regularly appear like crop circles and mass-goers can experience that heavenly effect when travelling the old barrack road to pray. The tarmacadam surface has turned into Tranquility Base!

Great credit is due to the men and women who did the construction, design and the tests into the building of these huge craters.One motorist (adding his own twist to the thoughts of Mr. John F. Kennedy)  gave his thoughts on the matter, ‘I believe that this council should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of filling in all the potholes and return safely to home while driving your car’, while another irate lady motorist, whose car had come a-cropper stated, ‘They can put a man on the moon but they can’t fill in a pothole.’

The late Communist (or should that be Cosmonaut?) journalist and traveller Claud Cockburn, who lived in the town of Youghal for many years may have been right (stuff) when he described the town memorably as ‘standing at a slight angle to the universe.’

Hubcaps, we have a problem………………now over to Mission Control! Read more