‘To me, the real shifting landscape that must unfold is within. It is an inner change where the human being is no longer the central character in a play that has gone on for far too long; where the human being is no longer at the center, because the human being never belonged at the center. Something else belongs at the center.’ Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

The castle in this picturesque fishing village was built in the15th century by the Laffan family, descendants of the firstNorman settlers in Wexford. The adjacent salthouse wasconstructed in the 17th century and was used to salt the fishthat was landed here in the harbour. After the Normans arrived in the late 12th century Slade waspart of the Wexford lands that were granted to the Knights Templar by King Henry. When they arrived… Read More

“Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It’s not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.” John Grierach