Shannon Town Men's Shed

We gathered by our coach at 9:30 am near Lidl in Shannon Town. John from https://www.ShannonTours.com was a very patient driver :) In total 11 members attended and  a full day was ahead of us! Our first stop was at King John's Castle, which after a mix up about our booking, the staff accommodated us and Oisín was a wonderful knowledgeable guide as well as mighty on the harp! From there we drove to Ardnacrusha Power Station and after cooling our heels for an hour we joined our three tour guides Cathal, Adrian and Dermot for a wonderful tour inside and out. After this we headed fro a meal at Nuala's in Tuamgraney John dropped us all off back at Lidl after 8 pm after a grand day out! As ever, more videos are available on our YouTube channel at:  https://www.youtube.com/@ShannonTownMensShed

 Our members had great craic attending the lunch, get together and awards ceremony. Derek kindly shared these photos: "Some photos from today's Sheds For Life awards and certificate presentation. Great day had by all" Dermot, John, Mike, Greg, Jarlath, Derek, Tim, Paul and Joe Paul entertaining Jarlath, Tim, Mike, Dermot, Joe, John, Paul, Greg and Derek

 Tony made the most of the jigsaw to save hours of sawing when cutting up some scrap wood to make weather proof housing for his solar powered LoRaWAN sensors :) Follow on  https://www.facebook.com/SLANShannon/ And LoRaWAN background at  https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

 Brian was working on the second bat box today. You can see the scoring inside and out that allow the bat to land and climb inside to sleep :) Bats have a few names in Irish including, 'Sciathán Leathair', literally 'Leather Wings' ! :)

 The fellas (left to right: Mike, Jarlath, John and Brian) are busy designing and building bat boxes :)

 Tony demoed watching the recent birds of Prey to Dermot, Tim and Denis and walking along the Cliffs of Moher using a Meta Quest 2 with the image cast to his mobile phone using Meta Horizon app :)