Visual, Carlow’s new Centre for Contempary Art & the GB Shaw Theatre

Barrow Lodge is very lucky to be situated in Carlow Town.  We are delighted  with the recent opening of our great new Visual Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre which are just a short walk from Barrow Lodge. You just have to see Daphne Wrights fantastic Stallion!  in Visual.  To celebrate  the exciting Winter programme in the GB Shaw Theatre Barrow Lodge are offering the following ‘Specials’.

Snow White – GB Shaw Theatre – 14th November 1 night B&B, €35 p. p. s.!

Michael English – GB Shaw Theatre 4th December 1 night B&B €35  p.p .s.!

Rebecca Storm + Special Guests – GB Shaw Theatre- 5th December 1 night B & B €35 p. p. s.!

Paddy Cole with Special Guests – GB Shaw Theatre – 7th December 1 night B & B €35 p. p. s.!

Peter Corry with Special Guest West End Star – GB Shaw Theatre – 8th December – 1 night B & B €35 p. p. s.!

Neil Delamere ‘Bookmarks’ – GB Shaw Theatre – 10th December – 1 night B & B €35 p. p. s.!

Paul Hennessy ‘Home for Christmas’ – GB Shaw Theatre- 12th December – 1 night B & B €35 p. p. s.!

Cinderella, Panto by Carlow Club Players – GB Shaw Theatre – December 17th to 21st - 1 night B & B, 2 adults 1 child €90 inclusive!!

Conditions: All offers subject to availability.

 

Barrow Lodge Bed and Breakfast, The Quay, Carlow Town, County Carlow.
tel: +353 (0)59 9141173 e-mail: reservations@barrowlodge.com
web: www.barrowlodge.com
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Successfully combining excellent service with luxury accommodation in a scenic area of Carlow Town.

 

Great View from Barrow Lodge

When I answer e mail reservation enquiries I generally say we have a great scenic location here in Barrow Lodge.   Well I am not lying! here is the proof!  This is a view from room 26 in our Bed and Breakfast.  Our house overlooks the River Barrow and is situated in the centre of Carlow Town.  The building you can see on right hand middle of the photograph is Carlow Rowing Club and the right hand top building is the Riverdell Complex which houses the Grill and Grape Restaurant on the ground floor.  This view is one we  look at every day and we like it so much we have had it printed on the our new business cards.

Eigse Arts Festival and Barrow Lodge

The annual Eigse Arts Festival commences this Friday.  Eigse is Ireland’s finest annual multi arts festival featuring an international acclaimed programme of visual art, theatre, dance, music, craft, comedy and family events.  This year Carlow is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Eigse, and to celebate this great achievement, Barrow Lodge Bed and Breakfast are offering their customers a special rate of Euro 70 for a double or twin bed room, inclusive of breakfast for the duration of the festival.

Barrow Lodge Bed and Breakfast, The Quay, Carlow Town.

tel: 00 353 (0)59 9141173

e mail: reservationsbarrowlodge.com

web: www.barrowlodge.com

Barrow Lodge is open again

Barrow Lodge has been closed for the past week.  We were on our annual holidays in Cyprus for the past week and now we are back, energised, and ready for the summer season.  We have a great Summer rate of 70 euro for a double room (subject to availability) for the Summer Season contact George or Mary at 00 353 (0)59 9141173 or e mail reservations@barrowlodge.com  or if you have time on your hands take a look at our website www.barrowlodge.com

The recession is over here in Barrow lodge.

Here in Barrow Lodge we have decided the recession is over.  We have had our share of doom and gloom for the past couple of months and we didn’t like it.  Well now all that is finished.   Summer is on the way, the sun is shining and all is well in our little world again.  We are still continuing with our price reduction of  70 euro for a double room inclusive of breakfast, but the RECESSION IS OVER, THANK GOD.   We are now in a pre boom period and hopefully we will have a bumper summer season.

Carlow Chamber of Commerce Computer Course

At present I am attending a computer course on blogging in Carlow Chamber of Commerce Gateway office on the Athy Road here in Carlow.  Hopefully I will learn something at it.  If I do you will see the benefits here

Punchestown Races and Barrow Lodge

Horse racing enthusiasts like to use Barrow Lodge as an accommodation base for the Punchestown, Curragh  and Gowran Meetings.  They love to leave the heavy traffic, and overflowing pubs and restaurants of Counties Kildare and Kilkenny behind them and enjoy Carlow hospitality.  After parking up and checking into Barrow Lodge there is nothing nicer than a nice short stroll to one of Carlow’s  excellent restaurants to enjoy a succulent steak,  beef or salmon (no pun intended) and a couple of pints of  Guinness.   The seasoned racegoer also knows there is nowhere better to get great racing tips than in Bradley’s Pub in Graiguecullen, which is a stones throw from Barrow Lodge.

Writers Block……..Facebook

Now I know what it is like to have writers block.  This has never happened to me before.  My memory has just gone blank.  I usually have a couple of things to write about and use a simple process of elimination to decide which items to write about or not.  As I cannot  think of anything else to blog about I think I will write about Facebook.  Now this is going to be difficult because I know very little  about Facebook.  Actually that is a lie, I know nothing about Facebook.  Sunday morning while I was waiting on my Bed and Breakfast guests to come to breakfast, I googled my daughter’s name and up came her facebook page with a picture of herself and her friend.  It was a very unflattering  ‘photo of both of them as they were pulling faces, so this morning I told her she should only put  ’nice’  ’photos of herself on Facebook.  She looked at me strangely (she often does this) and said I couldn’t have seen her on Facebook.  I could swear I did.  This leads to lots of questions from me.  What is Facebook?  What is Twitter and Twittering?  Am I being left behind?  I’m still only coming to terms with blogging.  Where will all this end? and will I be able to keep up?

Birds and Barrow Lodge Carlow

By birds I mean the small feathered variety!  Barrow Lodge is situated on the banks of the River Barrow in the centre of Carlow Town.  I used to see lots of small birds in our garden.  Last winter George had a very worrying  close relationship with a robin.  It was the first thing he spoke to every morning.  At the moment we have ducks mating in the front garden and a ducks nest on our front boundary wall.  There is also an abundance of swans on the River Barrow which flows past our house,  however the back garden is a bird free zone.  We recently moved a large sculpture of a bird of prey called Morrigan, by John Behan, which used to take pride of place in our living room,  tothe centre of our back garden.  We think this may be scaring the smaller birds away.  Incidentally John Behan also sculpted the Liberty Tree at Kennedy Avenue Carlow and my favourite Behan sculpture is the one outside the United Nations Building in New York.

We can do better – a new motto for Barrow Lodge)

We can do better -  This is our new family motto.  We have had other family motto’s (is that correct english?) in the past.  George’s motto has always been – pencil it in – not a great motto as everything is left on the long finger with him.  Our family’s most recent motto has been – prior planning prevents poor performance.  This wasn’t a bad motto.  We used to say it to the children at night to encourage them to have their books, socks, uniforms etc. ready the night before for the morning.  Regrettably they didn’t always heed us so we regularly had the mad morning scramble. 

My Dad used always say our family motto was - Dwyer’s don’t take advice.  With the recent downturn in the economy, and the serious hit our pension fund has taken I think perhaps he was correct in his thinking.