An Irishman’s Diary about the little-known Lough Erne Monster. Researching the “Drummully Polyp” – that near-enclave of the Republic of Ireland surrounded by Fermanagh (September 18th) – earlier this week, I came across a strange story in this newspaper’s archive. It dated from the years before the area became an international border. And in fact the setting was not quite what is known as the Polyp. It was slightly east of it, further along the river Finn, in what is now Northern Ireland. There, one afternoon in June 1910, two McDonagh brothers from Drummully were “resting leisurely” in a boat. They were presumably fishing for roach or rudd, or maybe pike…
Irish Times, 19/09/13. Read the full article ‘Exit, pursued by a fish‘.
