Selling Greystones By The Pound

Even though your faithful servant GG was one of the speakers – alongside such luminaries as Flynnstone #1, George Jones and Dermot Dwyer – we’re still not entirely sure what this morning’s Greystones Is Awesome presentation was all about.

We do know that three very handsome, sexy and debonair judges from the Starship Enterprise were there to hear our pleas, and that, after a talk and a tour, they seemed darned impressed.

Which means that, hey, Greystones might be representing Wicklow in the much-coveted Ireland’s Most Kick-Ass County competition later this year. All we had to do this morning was to convince the judges that Greystones is a little bit more dynamic than Blessington. 

Easy. We’ve got electricity, for a start.

It was actually quite stirring, to hear so many different Greystonians wax lyrical about their hometown, from young Jones‘ tales of our rich history to videogame wiz Cathal O’Sullivan‘s future electric dreams, from award-winning headphone case Luke Byrne to Stephen Flynn on how to become a multi-millionaire miso muncher.

After the Greystones love-in at The Whale, we all piled onto a mini-bus and took a tour of the town, heading around through Killincarrig, Eden Gate, Charlesland and stopping off for a quick walk up through the main street before last orders down at the harbour.

Jaysus, if we didn’t already live here, we’d be looking for a place down by the sea right now.

The weather was with us, the people with real love for this town were there too, and, most importantly, even on an everyday Tuesday, Greystones looked feckin’ magnificent today. Well played, kids…