Shannon Town Men's Shed

 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 :)

 A very noisy electromechanical clock will hopefully get a clean and makeover from Mike and others... 

 The weather was a bit damp to start out trip as we met outside Lidl at 9:45. But our driver, Colman, from Shannon Tours and our 15 seater minibus were excellent :) Our first stop was at the Michael Cusack Centre , which luckily we had pretty much to ourselves and our guides Agnes, Shelia and Martin were very knowledgeable and made our visit fun. Highly recommended. And the local scone ands tea and coffee were delicious and very welcome giving us all a chance to discuss the history explained by our guides. The following 360 movies on YouTube are best viewed in VR headset with YouTube definition cranked up to 4K resolution :) and capture a little of our visit. Next, Colman drove us the the Birds of Prey Centre where the guides explained in detail and exercised an African vulture and two Harris hawks Again the following 360 movies on YouTube are best viewed in VR headset with YouTube definition cranked up to 4K resolution :) and capture a little of our visit. Ger made a friend in t...

 We are all excited about this Thurs trip to North Clare :)

 Lovely work by Jarlath, Gerry and John creating steel rimmed turf barrows for Bunratty Folk Park . Wood supplied by Flan O'Neills building supplies (061 362 822).