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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So, at breakfast this morning, there's an American complaining about how all the information at Matabiau train station in Toulouse was in French and how complicated it was ... Comical, just comical.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bizarre, from the south of France this week. #Béziers

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Marsh St John's-wort; Hypericum elodes; Luibh an chiorraithe. Achill Island last week. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Across Beltra Lough, to Birreencorragh and today's only cloud. An Birín Corrach ~ The Rocky Little Peak #Mayo #Ireland

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Compass Jellyfish at Belmullet today.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This year, over 300 orchids in my never-cut* 36m2 front garden. . * once in March; once in late Sept. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Along Germany's WW II "Atlantic Wall", near St. Malo.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And after all that, the Czechs come last and are going home ...

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Back on the other site, years ago, there was a thread about the most pretentious thing people had ever overheard. Someone said they witnessed a guy at an ice cream van asking for 'two Magna'.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The remarkable Lady's Slipper Orchid, Cypripedium calceolus, on an impossibly wet day in Tirol, Austria. What a total beaut. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bad photos, but might this be Large Carder Bumblebee (Bombus muscorum), Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), or neither?

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The West Mayo disaster that is Rhododendron. The State and its various agencies, like NPWS and Coillte, do nothing whatsoever to control or eradicate this highly invasive plant.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Back on Inishturk yesterday. Min 4 Corncrake and excellent prolonged viewing of a patrolling Peregrine. Plus the scenery ...

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Georgius Rex (1910-1936), The Burren. The V, for Fifth, was not part of his postbox cypher.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Insectivorous Butterwort in bloom today on The Burren. #wildflowers

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Spring Gentian, Ceadharlach na Bealtaine. Banríon na Boirne. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Is this Dactylorhiza Kerryensis, aka Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. occidentalis, despite the lack of the 3 lobes on the lip? Burren, Ireland, today. @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Looks like a sundial stone to me, in a random Clare hedge. #archaeology

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Lizard Orchid; Orchis bouc; Himantoglossum hircinum. Occitanie, France, this week. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Overnight field trip to Sligo this week with ATU Mayo's BA in History & Geography second year students taking the Fáilte Ireland accredited National Guiding module. @atumayo.bsky.social

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Field trip to north Mayo last week with BA in History & Geography first year students of @atumayo.bsky.social taking the Guiding module. @atu-ie.bsky.social

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We hike north Mayo from 3-7 June.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yellow Bee-orchid, Ophrys lutea, in Málaga province, 26 March 2026. #wildflowerhour

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

From my annual Andalucía Guided Walking Tour a fortnight ago.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A brilliant album on its release in 1985, and still a brilliant album. Misplaced Childhood, Marillion.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Disappointing St Patrick's Day parade in Galway today. Castlebar's is genuinely much better. Almost no primary schools, virtually no music, no Irish parade classics, like McAlpine Fusiliers, no tribute to Dolores Keane, poor, very poor.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Beautiful bog track; pity about the non-native conifers beyond.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Beautifully located ringfort right on the Moy estuary, Killala Bay.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Best I managed of last night's Aurora over Castlebar. Phone camera with 10sec shutter speed.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Fragen an deutsche Wanderfreunde: Wer kennt die Romantischen Straße gut? Welche Strecken sind am besten, um Asphalt zu vermeiden? die schönsten? führen zu den reizvollsten Dörfern für eine Übernachtung? Möchte 7 Wandertage unternehmen. Vielen Dank aus Irland! #wandern

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Drumleen Lough last evening. Mayo.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Wild Nephin NP, Nov 2025. No new tracks, they said. No new structures, they said.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We hike north Mayo from 3-7 June 2026.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The amazing Greco-Roman city of Empúries.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Bridge of Song returns from its summer recess. Castlebar's monthly godsend.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today, from Inis Mór, i could clearly see Brandon, 105km away.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

At St. Finbarr's Oratory, Gougane Barra.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Passing Sherkin, on the way to Cape Clear.

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

TICKS. I have posted about this previously, but please do share. Mayo and Connemara are "thick" with ticks. You may not notice ticks on you until (in my experience) as late as 48 hours after picking them up. I am not a medic and you should consult a doctor, but ... 1 of 6 ...

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Sea Holly, one of my favourite wildflowers.

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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Anois ar fáil ar léamh.org, sliocht ó dhán polaitiúil ón 17ú Aois a cumadh do Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Ár mbuíochas le @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social as an obair iontach ar fad lena chur in eagar. Caith súil air anseo xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...

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