The Old Sod

Ireland is the home sod to many generations of Americans and we were fortunate enough to be treated to a beautiful sunny day with blue skies on the occasion of our first visit. Our taxi driver was surely amazed as apparently the spring and summer had been quite wet this year. Unfortunately, as we rode into town, we saw that Dublin has not escaped the economic crisis. The streets were quiet in the early Sunday morning, as one would expect, but the number of for lease signs on the new office blocks was unexpected. And then as you might anticipate by mid-afternoon the sky turned gray and the rains came. We stayed inside and began to look forward to our pre-conference appointments

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