Links between Ireland and Australia
I can remember it like it was just yesterday. It was the mid-eighties and I was just an awe-stricken young eight-year-old as I accompanied my aunt to Shannon Airport. She was the second of my relations that was travelling to spend a summer in Australia and I can still remember the look in her eyes as we saw her off. To me, she exuded an air of nervous anticipation, tinged with the excitement of what was no doubt going to be one of the most memorable summers of her young life. As we entered through the cavernous doors of Shannon International Airport, you can imagine what the place must have looked like through the captivated eyes of a child. I could not stop looking around and twice my grandfather had to reprimand me for wandering off. Whether I was enthralled in the wake of a visiting Spanish football team, with their strange skin and even stranger language, or mesmerised in the pursuit of a Jamaican couple, who sported an outlandish hairstyle which perfectly accentuated their strange multicoloured clothes, all it took was a mere word from my grandfather's weather worn lips and his faithful companion would return to his side! I instantly loved it, a bizarre place where a weird or wonderful s
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Approximate Word count = 2036
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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