Stories about cats – for crazy cat lovers everywhere. If you are a cat lover and you love stories about cats then you have landed in the right place. Maggie-Many-Cats And The Cat That Flew In The Window is set in the magical town of Ballyyahoo. Ballyyahoo is a secret place – somewhere on Ireland’s Wild […]
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Christmas In Ballyyahoo
A funny children’s story for Christmas. Ballyyahoo is a tiny, magical town in Ireland. Christmas in Ballyyahoo was going to be the best one ever. Until Santa and Rudolph show up on Christmas Eve and take all the presents away! It’s up to two boys, Kevin and Gerry, to save Christmas. The boys set off […]
Christmas Stories
Christmas stories have always been a big part of Christmas for me because I was lucky to have parents who always bought me books. I particularly loved reading funny stories about Santa getting stuck in the chimney, or losing his way, or running out of presents. All those little ‘Santa’s little mishap’ type stories were great […]
Real Witches
I don’t believe in witches. Not in the ancient ghostly sense. But, that doesn’t mean the writer in me doesn’t find the idea of there being witches hanging around my local woods very appealing. I recently finished two stories, one funny story called The Witch of Ballyyahoo and the other one, slightly more spooky called, The Real Halloween! […]
THE WITCH OF BALLYYAHOO
Another Little Story From Ballyyahoo Gerry lives in a tiny Irish town called Ballyyahoo. Despite the fact that Gerry lives in the best most magical town in Ireland Gerry’s bored. He’s so bored he just spends most of his time swinging on a gate. As you can imagine, his mother is fed up with him […]
The Real Halloween
FREE TODAY! A ghostly, Halloween story for kids, from the tiny town of Ballyyahoo in Ireland. Never run away on Halloween night. Sean loves Halloween and he especially loves ghost stories. He reads them every night in bed. When his mother turns off his light and tells him to go to sleep he fishes under his […]
Halloween
Halloween is getting scarily close and to celebrate I am giving away The Real Halloween. The Real Halloween introduces the world of Ballyyahoo. This site is to be the new home for all things Ballyyahoo, the fictitious little town where a lot of my stories are set. I originally wrote The Real Halloween when I […]
Halloween stories – for children
I was obsessed with Halloween stories during the run-up to Halloween. I fell asleep thinking about the return of the dead and I woke up thinking about restless souls. You see with Halloween in the air I set myself a deadline for getting two stories ready in time for Halloween and it was a bit of a […]
THE LITTLE BOOK OF SWINGING ON A GATE
‘The Little Book Of Swinging On a Gate’ is a short story for children from the ‘Another Little Book From Ballyyahoo,’ series. The stories are set in the tiny but magical town of Ballyyahoo. Ballyyahoo is Ireland’s best-kept secret and it stays well hidden between the mountains and the ocean. Only the people who live there know […]
Bullying and technology
WHY CAN’T WE BEAT BULLYING? Bullying and technology are two words that are coming together more and more now. Technology is relatively new but there’s nothing new about bullying. However, what is new, is the rise of technology as a bullying tool. Bullying in childhood used to be confined to a specific group – usually […]