Mae Leonard

Its cargo was carried by the fast-running tailrace and washed onto St Thomas Island, and as Shakespeare put it, thereby hangs a tale.

The 52M changed the direction of my life.

The strange thing is that only a few years ago, I travelled along the Grand Canal at Robertstown, County Kildare, on a canal boat called the Eustace.

the very knowledgeable inland waterways man told me that this is, in fact, the 52M, refurbished and renamed and still going strong, whilst those halcyon picnic days on St Thomas Island are but a hazy memory to me now.