Category Archives: City Life

Jun9

Graduating from Trinity

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Wednesday, 29-October-2025

The day is finally here.

11 months of work. A few thousand hours of effort. Probably around 3,000, give or take.

Lots of frustration. Friendships made, friendships strained.

A crush. A relationship. A love. Built and developed, one moment at a time, step by step.

Top marks earned. One reading, one paper, one exam and one presentation at a time. One by one, studying and learning and focusing and breaking and cracking under the pressure. Rebuilding myself, only to break again… and then to be helped up, to stagger forward a bit more.

All for this. A parchment, handed to me, just one person in an endless stream of faceless celebrants.

Success and completion, at least for a moment, before we were sent on to the next challenge.

Graduation 10am 29.10.25 Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
Graduation 10am 29.10.25 Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
Graduation 10am 29.10.25 Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
MBA dinner Alex Hotel 30.10.25 Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
MBA Dinner 30.10.25 Alex Hotel Dublin. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
MBA Dinner 30.10.25 Alex Hotel Dublin. Pic Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
Jun7

Dublin Castle

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Tuesday, 28-October-2025

As I mentioned; having friends or family visit is a lovely excuse to see the touristy parts of my home city that I wouldn’t otherwise see.

We started with the Jeanie Johnson, which I hadn’t seen.
Then off to Trinity’s Old Library, which I had.
Lastly, the Dublin Castle itself, which I hadn’t seen.

Nicely book-ended, no?


Well, in case the photos don’t make it clear enough… Dublin Castle is fancy. Like… fancy-fancy. Not “Buckingham palace”, or “The Vatican” level, obviously… but still. Pretty damn fancy.

Jun5

Another view of the old library

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Monday, 27-October-2025

After visiting the Jeanie Johnson, a tourist adventure that I hadn’t been to, I took my Mom and Steve to a tourist adventure that I’ve been to more times than I can reasonably count – The Old Library at Trinity, and the Book of Kells exhibition that’s connected to it.

At this point, there’s really not anything else I can add to this: It was just as beautiful as it always has been… and, frankly, just as “we’re in the middle of renovating” as it always has been.

… True story – when I visited in 2023, the Old Library looked exactly the same as it does today. And in 2023, they were telling us that they were about to close the Old Library for renovations “within the next month, to stay closed for at least two years”.

Well… they didn’t. And it’s not. But thankfully, that means we got to visit again!

And the views? Just as beautiful as they’ve always been.