If ever there was a need for prayer in Dunderry it is now.A number of well known families have members battling serious illness.
We hope and pray that the good Lord will give some solace to them in their hour of need.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Insulting Catholics a hateful past time in RTE.
Circumstances dictated that I work long and lonely hours presently.I am a great listener to the radio,mostly RTE.
The casual and none too subtle insulting to all things Catholic permeates the Station and I might add that of all religions it is only the Catholic religion that is treated like this.
Earlier this week the woman who replaces Sean O Rourke while he is on holidays hosted a slot about the totally legitimate complaints concerning the bigotry of the student faculty in Cork University and the way they refused recognition to a Catholic Society who are of the Pro life viewpoint.
In my view, if this is true and is stood up,all funding should be withdrawn from the Students Union until such time as it reforms itself and they should be made repay whatever monies they advanced to other societies whilst refusing recognition to this Pro Life Group.
In any event what was supposed to be a balanced discussion was hosted by this replacement broadcaster.
We had a Catholic Priest who was putting his view of the situation in the one corner and an Atheist ,whose name escapes me but who is wheeled out at every occasion where that viewpoint is needed by RTE.And then we had a columnist from the Irish Times who stated that she was there as a referee.
Well the antagonism of the atheist towards the Catholic viewpoint was palpable and it transpired that the columnist from the Times was of the view that religion was a private matter (which begs the question just why she took part in the programme in the first place ) and that she was on the periphery of the Catholic faith just hanging on by her fingertips.
She went on to deride the pro life movement in general because of one only experience she allegedly had over a phone call with a pregnant student many moons ago.
And then she derided in words of extreme vitriol the actions of a dead man,who many would regard as a hero, because the way he corresponded with the Catholic Hierarchy over fifty years ago.
The dead can't sue for slander nor can they respond.I'd say you learn this at journalist school.
I doubt she is fit to lace the shoes of Sean Mac Bride nor never will leave the mark on history he did.
Not one word did she say against the alleged blatant discrimination in Cork University.
So much for balance from that quarter.
But the presenter tore into the Priest stating ,iter alia ,theist the Catholic Church was responsible for a rake of abuses over the years and it was probably payback time against Catholics.Just what you would expect from the RTE mindset.
Neither she,nor the other heads in charge in the station have the wit to recognise that, yes certain evil individuals within the Catholic Church did unspeakable evil against children etc and to blame the entire Church for the deeds of these evil people is a nonsense .
I am a member of the Church and I never abused anybody,neither did countless millions others and I find such statements by journalists who do know better gratuitous insulting.
It is generally accepted that about 4 % of child abuse was caused by religious and the remaining 96 %by non religious .
! % is far too much but to extrapolate that because 96% of abuse is caused by non religious Irish people and makes the entire Irish race into child abusers is just as absurd as saying that he entire Ca tholic Church was involved in abuse .
The dissemination of these sort of inaccurate casual and harmful untruths should cease.
And then we had this a guy ,whose name I forget, on what I think is the" living word",trash his parents for sending him to the Christian Brothers ,trash them further for involving him in attendance at Mount Argos Church for various ceremonies,belittle the Christian Brothers because they did corporal punishment ( like all teachers at the time ) , decry their promotion of Gaelic games as against the game of the squaddies.
And then he trashed Irish society in general as it was at the time.
I lived through those times.
The Christian Brothees educated me and many millions like me.I have the height of respect for them.I loved and still love the games of the Gaels and fair dues to the Brothers for inculcating them.
I still have bad memories of a married lay teacher who beat us up with a stick regularly whilst a very young boy in National School .Immeasurably worse than any Brother I encountered.
I treasure the memories I have of serving Mass and the clergy I encountered .
I have only the fondest memories of my parents and appreciate totally everything they did for me.
And the society I remember,whilst it had its faults was one where you never locked your door,where breakins were as rare as hen's teeth and where a murder was so rare that it was a talking point for years.
Those were the god times man.
But of course RTE puts forward more nonsenical shite.
The casual and none too subtle insulting to all things Catholic permeates the Station and I might add that of all religions it is only the Catholic religion that is treated like this.
Earlier this week the woman who replaces Sean O Rourke while he is on holidays hosted a slot about the totally legitimate complaints concerning the bigotry of the student faculty in Cork University and the way they refused recognition to a Catholic Society who are of the Pro life viewpoint.
In my view, if this is true and is stood up,all funding should be withdrawn from the Students Union until such time as it reforms itself and they should be made repay whatever monies they advanced to other societies whilst refusing recognition to this Pro Life Group.
In any event what was supposed to be a balanced discussion was hosted by this replacement broadcaster.
We had a Catholic Priest who was putting his view of the situation in the one corner and an Atheist ,whose name escapes me but who is wheeled out at every occasion where that viewpoint is needed by RTE.And then we had a columnist from the Irish Times who stated that she was there as a referee.
Well the antagonism of the atheist towards the Catholic viewpoint was palpable and it transpired that the columnist from the Times was of the view that religion was a private matter (which begs the question just why she took part in the programme in the first place ) and that she was on the periphery of the Catholic faith just hanging on by her fingertips.
She went on to deride the pro life movement in general because of one only experience she allegedly had over a phone call with a pregnant student many moons ago.
And then she derided in words of extreme vitriol the actions of a dead man,who many would regard as a hero, because the way he corresponded with the Catholic Hierarchy over fifty years ago.
The dead can't sue for slander nor can they respond.I'd say you learn this at journalist school.
I doubt she is fit to lace the shoes of Sean Mac Bride nor never will leave the mark on history he did.
Not one word did she say against the alleged blatant discrimination in Cork University.
So much for balance from that quarter.
But the presenter tore into the Priest stating ,iter alia ,theist the Catholic Church was responsible for a rake of abuses over the years and it was probably payback time against Catholics.Just what you would expect from the RTE mindset.
Neither she,nor the other heads in charge in the station have the wit to recognise that, yes certain evil individuals within the Catholic Church did unspeakable evil against children etc and to blame the entire Church for the deeds of these evil people is a nonsense .
I am a member of the Church and I never abused anybody,neither did countless millions others and I find such statements by journalists who do know better gratuitous insulting.
It is generally accepted that about 4 % of child abuse was caused by religious and the remaining 96 %by non religious .
! % is far too much but to extrapolate that because 96% of abuse is caused by non religious Irish people and makes the entire Irish race into child abusers is just as absurd as saying that he entire Ca tholic Church was involved in abuse .
The dissemination of these sort of inaccurate casual and harmful untruths should cease.
And then we had this a guy ,whose name I forget, on what I think is the" living word",trash his parents for sending him to the Christian Brothers ,trash them further for involving him in attendance at Mount Argos Church for various ceremonies,belittle the Christian Brothers because they did corporal punishment ( like all teachers at the time ) , decry their promotion of Gaelic games as against the game of the squaddies.
And then he trashed Irish society in general as it was at the time.
I lived through those times.
The Christian Brothees educated me and many millions like me.I have the height of respect for them.I loved and still love the games of the Gaels and fair dues to the Brothers for inculcating them.
I still have bad memories of a married lay teacher who beat us up with a stick regularly whilst a very young boy in National School .Immeasurably worse than any Brother I encountered.
I treasure the memories I have of serving Mass and the clergy I encountered .
I have only the fondest memories of my parents and appreciate totally everything they did for me.
And the society I remember,whilst it had its faults was one where you never locked your door,where breakins were as rare as hen's teeth and where a murder was so rare that it was a talking point for years.
Those were the god times man.
But of course RTE puts forward more nonsenical shite.
Monday, November 17, 2014
The denigration of the people of Tallaght.
The political classes and the pet journalists ,who are practically bedfellows for their chums ,are at one in heaping opprobrium on the decent people of Jobstown,who recently had their democratic say and utterly rejected the candidate's of the main political parties.
I remember Bertie describing someone as a "Mouth",a spake which true Dubs will understand fully but will not be so obvious to others outside the pale.
Well having heard the likes of Vincent Brown ,Aodhan O Riordan and Cathal Mac Coille ,to name but a few, bully,intimidate and ,in my opinion,maybe libel Paul Murphy on the national airwaves, I can say with conviction that they are nothing but mouthpieces for the Government.
You will notice the contempt that these people and the Government have for those who speak with a Dublin accent , how they belittle them and how contrastingly they suck up fawningly to those with the more cultured accents of their buddies and chums,whose views they think sacrosanct.
It reminds me of the two sides in the Smithfield showdown over the now defunct horse fair,where on the one side you had ordinary non privileged and poor Dubs and on the other the educated well off snobs who can afford horses and ponies ,modern spec stables and manicured lawns for their spoilt offspring.
No more horse fair and fuck the poor Dubs ,and seize their horses and enact legislation which ensures they can never aspire to what their better spoken and rich contemporaries take for granted.
Sure they are only scum and let them take heroin and with a bit of luck thy will became methadone zombies and that is much preferable to allowing them anywhere near a horse or pony ,God forbid.
And keep these unruly mob of bowsies in Tallaght well away from our fragrant Ministers and put our kind of people in there to give them second chance education,having made a hames of them the first time round and use this delayed benevolence as a stick with which to beat them as they legitimately protest.
And Aofhan O Riordan's linking of the protest in Tallaght with a bomb threat was totally despicable as was his claim of a gun threat against himself.
He and his buddies in Labour have bitten the hand that feeds them and are turning on their working class supporters .
And by the way the fact that adults were failed by their teachers and left illiterate the first time round is some indictment of the teachers profession of which himself,and the all of the gang of four are members,Tanaiste included.
Now I would get it fierce hard to vote for Paul Murphy and those of socialist leanings because of the way they push for the medieval murder of the defenceless unborn and the zealous disregard they have for the younger life of the three involved (surely the father ought have a say too ),but in this instance of standing by their constituents I have the height of admiration for their stance and refusal to be bullied and intimidated.
The Government has long tried to blacken the anti water charge movement by claiming that dissident terrorists and all manner of unsavoury people are involved and are using what happened here as an attempt to dissuade people to stay at home and stop protesting ,
And their supine media and craven journalistic friends are so far up their ..... that they will stop at nothing to help them.
To hear these stooges you would swear that it was a capital offence to have a megaphone and that if you sit down and block the passage of a car you should be deported.And that if someone else in a demonstration misbehaves the fault is communally shared.(Does this principle of communal blame attach to all Gardai on duty if one lets fly and half kills someone ?)And don't count on legislation to outlaw this not being rushed through the house,as was the legislation causing the furore ,on the sly and in a few minutes.
No wonder the people of Rossport who demonstrate against their nemeses are so pissed.
The pious platitudes that "I fully support the right to demonstrate"which is chanted like a mantra by the political elite when being lined up for fawning interview by their media chums is always followed by a "but" in which it becomes clear that what they really mean is that these protests should take place out of sight,nor against them or their buddies and somewhere else,maybe an abandoned warehouse for example.
And what is the touch of a water balloon compared to the heartbreak of a parent waving goodbye to a child and grandchildren to the far side of the world ,a suicide or abortion induced by economic despair and the unspeakable distress of people being evicted from their homes as a direct result of Government policy and a series of broken promises on these issues.
And then to push workers who probably would be unemployed but for this work into the front line and shelter behind their employment as a reason to desist protest is disgusting in the extreme.
I mean how low and self pitying can these people get.
Because of the neglect of successive Governments to supply proper scanning machines,clot busting medication and doctors fit to make the call on its administration to Navan Hospital until 2010 I am severely disabled for life (lucky not to be dead) and can only walk as far as a well directed fart .
I have not yet been on any of the demonstrations.
With God's help I will be on the next one.
I remember Bertie describing someone as a "Mouth",a spake which true Dubs will understand fully but will not be so obvious to others outside the pale.
Well having heard the likes of Vincent Brown ,Aodhan O Riordan and Cathal Mac Coille ,to name but a few, bully,intimidate and ,in my opinion,maybe libel Paul Murphy on the national airwaves, I can say with conviction that they are nothing but mouthpieces for the Government.
You will notice the contempt that these people and the Government have for those who speak with a Dublin accent , how they belittle them and how contrastingly they suck up fawningly to those with the more cultured accents of their buddies and chums,whose views they think sacrosanct.
It reminds me of the two sides in the Smithfield showdown over the now defunct horse fair,where on the one side you had ordinary non privileged and poor Dubs and on the other the educated well off snobs who can afford horses and ponies ,modern spec stables and manicured lawns for their spoilt offspring.
No more horse fair and fuck the poor Dubs ,and seize their horses and enact legislation which ensures they can never aspire to what their better spoken and rich contemporaries take for granted.
Sure they are only scum and let them take heroin and with a bit of luck thy will became methadone zombies and that is much preferable to allowing them anywhere near a horse or pony ,God forbid.
And keep these unruly mob of bowsies in Tallaght well away from our fragrant Ministers and put our kind of people in there to give them second chance education,having made a hames of them the first time round and use this delayed benevolence as a stick with which to beat them as they legitimately protest.
And Aofhan O Riordan's linking of the protest in Tallaght with a bomb threat was totally despicable as was his claim of a gun threat against himself.
He and his buddies in Labour have bitten the hand that feeds them and are turning on their working class supporters .
And by the way the fact that adults were failed by their teachers and left illiterate the first time round is some indictment of the teachers profession of which himself,and the all of the gang of four are members,Tanaiste included.
Now I would get it fierce hard to vote for Paul Murphy and those of socialist leanings because of the way they push for the medieval murder of the defenceless unborn and the zealous disregard they have for the younger life of the three involved (surely the father ought have a say too ),but in this instance of standing by their constituents I have the height of admiration for their stance and refusal to be bullied and intimidated.
The Government has long tried to blacken the anti water charge movement by claiming that dissident terrorists and all manner of unsavoury people are involved and are using what happened here as an attempt to dissuade people to stay at home and stop protesting ,
And their supine media and craven journalistic friends are so far up their ..... that they will stop at nothing to help them.
To hear these stooges you would swear that it was a capital offence to have a megaphone and that if you sit down and block the passage of a car you should be deported.And that if someone else in a demonstration misbehaves the fault is communally shared.(Does this principle of communal blame attach to all Gardai on duty if one lets fly and half kills someone ?)And don't count on legislation to outlaw this not being rushed through the house,as was the legislation causing the furore ,on the sly and in a few minutes.
No wonder the people of Rossport who demonstrate against their nemeses are so pissed.
The pious platitudes that "I fully support the right to demonstrate"which is chanted like a mantra by the political elite when being lined up for fawning interview by their media chums is always followed by a "but" in which it becomes clear that what they really mean is that these protests should take place out of sight,nor against them or their buddies and somewhere else,maybe an abandoned warehouse for example.
And what is the touch of a water balloon compared to the heartbreak of a parent waving goodbye to a child and grandchildren to the far side of the world ,a suicide or abortion induced by economic despair and the unspeakable distress of people being evicted from their homes as a direct result of Government policy and a series of broken promises on these issues.
And then to push workers who probably would be unemployed but for this work into the front line and shelter behind their employment as a reason to desist protest is disgusting in the extreme.
I mean how low and self pitying can these people get.
Because of the neglect of successive Governments to supply proper scanning machines,clot busting medication and doctors fit to make the call on its administration to Navan Hospital until 2010 I am severely disabled for life (lucky not to be dead) and can only walk as far as a well directed fart .
I have not yet been on any of the demonstrations.
With God's help I will be on the next one.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Tax dodging by the political classes.
One must admire the optimism and innocence of the gentleman in the civil service who sent particulars of alleged tax evasion by the rich and powerful to the Public Accounts Committee in the hope that it would be followed up.
As evidenced by the appointment of Liz O Donnell to the head of the RSA ,it matters not what Party you belong to ,rather what counts is what Club you fit into.
Now the politicians ,the judiciary and the top public servants are all part of the same Club and are locked together in an embrace of mutual entitlement and are like the dancers at Lanigan's ball "You step out and I'll step in again ".
The politicians appoint the judges and the politicians also appoint the top public servants and there is cross pollination inter Se.
And as they are inter dependant on each other there is little doubt that ,without being told to do so they cover each others backs.No need for a nod even ,a wink will do.
There are so many ways of running investigations into the sand and frustrating right thinking people that this cunning alliance are spoilt for choice.
You move a man here and swap a man there and place a woman yonder and keep at it until you get the person in situ who will do "the right thing ".
And you abolish a section here and appoint a new one there,all in the name of efficiency of course and transfer away supporting staff and heap as much shit as you can on the shoulders of the investigator until he gets the message and just gives up.
Or you bully him/her unmercifully ,break him and destroy him and force him to retire.
And when the guard changes you keep the new heads in the loop with a sneaky and discreet word fingering the man who won't take the soup.
And you go out of your way to reward those who help keep him down.
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that any meaningful investigation will be undertaken into these allegations.
You can make up the responses with fair accuracy at this early stage even "Fully investigate already ","insufficient evidence found to warrant reopening them ","they are sub judice ""a witch hunt against the dead "" breach of Revenue law to disclosing informal on individual cases ","entitled to the Amnesty "They happened too long ago ".
Take your pick .
As evidenced by the appointment of Liz O Donnell to the head of the RSA ,it matters not what Party you belong to ,rather what counts is what Club you fit into.
Now the politicians ,the judiciary and the top public servants are all part of the same Club and are locked together in an embrace of mutual entitlement and are like the dancers at Lanigan's ball "You step out and I'll step in again ".
The politicians appoint the judges and the politicians also appoint the top public servants and there is cross pollination inter Se.
And as they are inter dependant on each other there is little doubt that ,without being told to do so they cover each others backs.No need for a nod even ,a wink will do.
There are so many ways of running investigations into the sand and frustrating right thinking people that this cunning alliance are spoilt for choice.
You move a man here and swap a man there and place a woman yonder and keep at it until you get the person in situ who will do "the right thing ".
And you abolish a section here and appoint a new one there,all in the name of efficiency of course and transfer away supporting staff and heap as much shit as you can on the shoulders of the investigator until he gets the message and just gives up.
Or you bully him/her unmercifully ,break him and destroy him and force him to retire.
And when the guard changes you keep the new heads in the loop with a sneaky and discreet word fingering the man who won't take the soup.
And you go out of your way to reward those who help keep him down.
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that any meaningful investigation will be undertaken into these allegations.
You can make up the responses with fair accuracy at this early stage even "Fully investigate already ","insufficient evidence found to warrant reopening them ","they are sub judice ""a witch hunt against the dead "" breach of Revenue law to disclosing informal on individual cases ","entitled to the Amnesty "They happened too long ago ".
Take your pick .
Fine Gael/Labour don't know what truth is..
As the flood of evictions is turning into a tsunami rendolent of Cromwell's time I hark back to what Enda Kenny said on the subject in the pre election debate on RTE "I guarantee nobody will lose their homes. "Gilmore on behalf of Labour said "Head off the bailiffs ."
'Nuff said.
'Nuff said.
Friday, November 7, 2014
NCT Scam latest shakedown.
The extortioners masquerading as a Government are at it again to satisfy the bondholders and their European buddies.Needless to say the working middle and the unemployed rural are the target of these legalised Mafioso in yet another shakedown.
If you are stretched for money, and who is not ,with the obnoxious property tax ,attempted water tax,exorbitant TV licence fee,outrageous price of fags, scandalous State take on diesel and petrol ,inhuman levy of E100.00 for attending "our "hospitals as a last resort as an outpatient,oppressive level of motor tax,solid fuel carbon tax and replacement tax for the goods stolen by rampant and out of control criminals this Cromwellian Government is yet again dead set on criminalising and oppressing the unfortunate poor who dare to aspire to owning their own transport and doing their damnest to put and keep their cars on the road.
If you haven't the money to pay to repair your car and have the price of the test before the renewal date you will suffer three penalty point sand financial penalties.
This is yet another money grab directed against the less well off by the party of the ranchers and the refuge of the haverels.
No doubt our Frannie will give special training to her traffic corps on the necessity to target as many poor people as possible by camouflage themselves in the bushes and raising as much for the exchequer as possible.
Another handy source of income for a Government at war with its people.
And Lizzie the fragrant ,con jointed back into the golden circle of those living the life off taxpayers money ,will no doubt renew acquaintance with Leo the fiver and dream up newer and better ways to further impoverish the drones and blacken their names.
My stomach is turning.
If you are stretched for money, and who is not ,with the obnoxious property tax ,attempted water tax,exorbitant TV licence fee,outrageous price of fags, scandalous State take on diesel and petrol ,inhuman levy of E100.00 for attending "our "hospitals as a last resort as an outpatient,oppressive level of motor tax,solid fuel carbon tax and replacement tax for the goods stolen by rampant and out of control criminals this Cromwellian Government is yet again dead set on criminalising and oppressing the unfortunate poor who dare to aspire to owning their own transport and doing their damnest to put and keep their cars on the road.
If you haven't the money to pay to repair your car and have the price of the test before the renewal date you will suffer three penalty point sand financial penalties.
This is yet another money grab directed against the less well off by the party of the ranchers and the refuge of the haverels.
No doubt our Frannie will give special training to her traffic corps on the necessity to target as many poor people as possible by camouflage themselves in the bushes and raising as much for the exchequer as possible.
Another handy source of income for a Government at war with its people.
And Lizzie the fragrant ,con jointed back into the golden circle of those living the life off taxpayers money ,will no doubt renew acquaintance with Leo the fiver and dream up newer and better ways to further impoverish the drones and blacken their names.
My stomach is turning.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
My position onWater.
Water is totally essential for the sustenance of life.It falls from the skies and cannot be manufactured.Insofar as it is owned by anybody it is owned by all the people of Ireland.Whatever about assiting its distribution to everybody and everything depending on it in the country ,nobody has the right to appropriate it and decide who gets it and how much they get.
Given that politicians of every political hue,prodded on by an E.U.that is totally dysfunctional,have destroyed us and indeed the E.U.,it defies belief that they should decide to steal it from us and decide who gets what.
I wouldn't trust these guys and gals with minding a kitten ,never mind a commodity essential for life.
They should abandon this greedy grab ,revert to funding its delivery from central funding and try to rediscover the meaning of decency .
Given that politicians of every political hue,prodded on by an E.U.that is totally dysfunctional,have destroyed us and indeed the E.U.,it defies belief that they should decide to steal it from us and decide who gets what.
I wouldn't trust these guys and gals with minding a kitten ,never mind a commodity essential for life.
They should abandon this greedy grab ,revert to funding its delivery from central funding and try to rediscover the meaning of decency .
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Bittersweet victory in Dunderry.
There are no victories in Dunderry presently against crime.In the village in which I live,the local shop,the Church ,the Community Hall and the GAA Club have all been robbed ,the shop by knife holdup,the Church and Hall by stripping the roof of lead and brass and the GAA Club by the theft of heating oil.
The theft from farmers of tractor diesel is now routine and CCTV offers no protection as the thieves wear balaclavas and unremarkable clothes and work away with immunity.
They have even begun to steal metal gates that owners install to protect their properties.
And that is only the people with balaclavas.
A Government at war with its people are skimming from the top extortionate fees from people who successfully house themselves and are trying to appropriate to themselves the very source of life itself,water , and decide who should have it and who should not.
This same Government ,vassals of its European overlords and totally in trall to them ,see nothing wrong with dipping its claws into the wage packets of its citizens ,evicting them from their houses,and allowing venture capitalist sharks to sweep up poor performing mortgages for a song and evict the destitute people from their homes and resettle vast tracts of Ireland by selling it off for a song.
Not to mention the deportation of at least two generations of our population to the other side of the world.
Simultaneously every sneaky cut they can get away with is being slyly implemented and every charge they can get away with increasing is being multiplied.
Instead of protecting its populace the Gardai and all other State agencies are shooting the compliant fish in the barrel by hiding in the bushes and doing them out of as much as they can manage by virtue of fines,inspections ,impossible regulations and every wheeze they can think up.
This Government has out Cromwelled Cromwell.
They have jeopardised Christmas.They have killed hope.Unless you are rich you have no business getting sick.If you are elderly you live in constant fear.Nearly all the elderly I know have been robbed at least once.
The only reason the two pubs here have not been done yet is that they are not worth doing.They are only shadows of their former selves as the tumbleweeds drift down the street most of the time.
And I haven't heard of one thief being caught nor brought to justice.
Government T.D.'s are about as useful in protecting the populace against hardship as performing seals standing on their heads waving their back flippers in the air whilst having its mate throw a bucket of iced water over them and boasting that they had completed the ice bath challenge.
Before the Vincent Brown school of sneering at Catholic values became de rigeur for the printed and electronic media and the liberal ignorant there was far less crime hereabouts and nationwide.
My uncle Paddy used cycle down to Mass every Sunday and go for a few very enjoyable pints with his friends afterwards,leaving the bike outside the pub until he needed it.He did this for decades,never having learned to drive a car.
And of course one day he went out after a few and it was gone,stolen.
He was raging and enquired who stole it .Confidential information came back who had done so and where it was.
So Paddy,who could drive a tractor, drove down to the house in question ,went to the shed,brushing aside those who tried to stop him,broke down the door,got his bike and out to the tractor with him,amid the howling protests of the thieves that he had invaded their privacy,not that he was worried.
HE tied the bike to the back of the tractor and headed for home,in the process having to reverse the tractor.
As he did so the bike fell off and he reversed over it destroying it.
A bittersweet victory for a man who refused to be victimised .
Fair dues to him.When he wasn't fishing he was mending his nets.
It behoves us all to do the same.
The theft from farmers of tractor diesel is now routine and CCTV offers no protection as the thieves wear balaclavas and unremarkable clothes and work away with immunity.
They have even begun to steal metal gates that owners install to protect their properties.
And that is only the people with balaclavas.
A Government at war with its people are skimming from the top extortionate fees from people who successfully house themselves and are trying to appropriate to themselves the very source of life itself,water , and decide who should have it and who should not.
This same Government ,vassals of its European overlords and totally in trall to them ,see nothing wrong with dipping its claws into the wage packets of its citizens ,evicting them from their houses,and allowing venture capitalist sharks to sweep up poor performing mortgages for a song and evict the destitute people from their homes and resettle vast tracts of Ireland by selling it off for a song.
Not to mention the deportation of at least two generations of our population to the other side of the world.
Simultaneously every sneaky cut they can get away with is being slyly implemented and every charge they can get away with increasing is being multiplied.
Instead of protecting its populace the Gardai and all other State agencies are shooting the compliant fish in the barrel by hiding in the bushes and doing them out of as much as they can manage by virtue of fines,inspections ,impossible regulations and every wheeze they can think up.
This Government has out Cromwelled Cromwell.
They have jeopardised Christmas.They have killed hope.Unless you are rich you have no business getting sick.If you are elderly you live in constant fear.Nearly all the elderly I know have been robbed at least once.
The only reason the two pubs here have not been done yet is that they are not worth doing.They are only shadows of their former selves as the tumbleweeds drift down the street most of the time.
And I haven't heard of one thief being caught nor brought to justice.
Government T.D.'s are about as useful in protecting the populace against hardship as performing seals standing on their heads waving their back flippers in the air whilst having its mate throw a bucket of iced water over them and boasting that they had completed the ice bath challenge.
Before the Vincent Brown school of sneering at Catholic values became de rigeur for the printed and electronic media and the liberal ignorant there was far less crime hereabouts and nationwide.
My uncle Paddy used cycle down to Mass every Sunday and go for a few very enjoyable pints with his friends afterwards,leaving the bike outside the pub until he needed it.He did this for decades,never having learned to drive a car.
And of course one day he went out after a few and it was gone,stolen.
He was raging and enquired who stole it .Confidential information came back who had done so and where it was.
So Paddy,who could drive a tractor, drove down to the house in question ,went to the shed,brushing aside those who tried to stop him,broke down the door,got his bike and out to the tractor with him,amid the howling protests of the thieves that he had invaded their privacy,not that he was worried.
HE tied the bike to the back of the tractor and headed for home,in the process having to reverse the tractor.
As he did so the bike fell off and he reversed over it destroying it.
A bittersweet victory for a man who refused to be victimised .
Fair dues to him.When he wasn't fishing he was mending his nets.
It behoves us all to do the same.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
The "Cruiser "school of journalism.
In a certain part of this country there live many inter related families of O Neills (not their real names ).To differentiate one from the other nick names are locally used.One family employed for generations on the roads by the Local Authority have a reputation for swinging the lead,as it were and are called the O Neill "stand idles".
When Nationalists in the North were under attack,being burned out by the RUC and the British and Unionist Bigots,.ably stoked up by Arch Bigot,Ian Paisley and murdered in the streets,aside from sending Paddy Hillery to the United Nations for help(,he was laughed out of it ),the then Taoiseach of this country made his famous speech ,while sitting down ,that we would not stand idly by.
But he,did,we did and the "stickies" in the main ran away leading to the rechristening of the words IRA to Irish Ran Away.
The vacuum was filled by the Provisional IRA which took up arms to defend the Nationalist population and did so successfully for decades until the peace process.
I hadn't the courage to join up.I stood idly by,a" stand idler",as were all the political parties down here.
Not only this but the Fine Gael/Labour government ,introduced legislation prohibiting anyone from the Republican movement putting the Republican viewpoint over on the airwaves.
The Cruiser ,a Labour man, was the most enthusiastic proponent of this policy of censorship.
The stickies and their fellow "runawayers " were well embedded in the media and spun their own brand of cowardice..
Only one journalist out of the thousand's who plied their trade those days broke ranks and allowed a limited reportage of the Provisional view.
Hus name was Kevin O Kelly and for his courage he was prosecuted.
So in all the years that the repressive legislation operated only one decent man broke ranks.
Only one man with the balls and conviction to stand up for free speech and go against the herd.
Now fast forward to the claims of Joe Cahill's niece that she was raped and that a so called kangaroo court ,composed of IRA members insulted /demeaned her etc .,principally it seems by putting her in a room with her alleged rapist.
Am I missing something or is it not the case that when an accused rapist is put on trial in a non kangaroo court ,as in this country, that both alleged rapist and alleged victim are in the same courtroom.during the trial.
But the most depressing thing about the whole scene is the ganging up of the journalist herd,whipped up by a Taoiseach trying to make political capital out of a misfortunate woman's predicament and kept going by a certain type of tight lipped feminist devoid of reason ,trying to make out that they are entitled to make judgement in the kangaroo court of public opinion on those they clearly despise.
That's right ,the stand idlers and their followers yet again betraying the standards they claim to uphold but in reality don't give a fuck about.
The Cruiser must have thought the Second coming had arrived,God rest him.
I am no Prove nor fellow traveller.While I do admire those who did not stand idly by,I find their policy on murdering the unborn,which they share with all the establishment parties and the assorted Socialist strays,abhorrent and intend to stand against them all in the next election.
So help me God.
When Nationalists in the North were under attack,being burned out by the RUC and the British and Unionist Bigots,.ably stoked up by Arch Bigot,Ian Paisley and murdered in the streets,aside from sending Paddy Hillery to the United Nations for help(,he was laughed out of it ),the then Taoiseach of this country made his famous speech ,while sitting down ,that we would not stand idly by.
But he,did,we did and the "stickies" in the main ran away leading to the rechristening of the words IRA to Irish Ran Away.
The vacuum was filled by the Provisional IRA which took up arms to defend the Nationalist population and did so successfully for decades until the peace process.
I hadn't the courage to join up.I stood idly by,a" stand idler",as were all the political parties down here.
Not only this but the Fine Gael/Labour government ,introduced legislation prohibiting anyone from the Republican movement putting the Republican viewpoint over on the airwaves.
The Cruiser ,a Labour man, was the most enthusiastic proponent of this policy of censorship.
The stickies and their fellow "runawayers " were well embedded in the media and spun their own brand of cowardice..
Only one journalist out of the thousand's who plied their trade those days broke ranks and allowed a limited reportage of the Provisional view.
Hus name was Kevin O Kelly and for his courage he was prosecuted.
So in all the years that the repressive legislation operated only one decent man broke ranks.
Only one man with the balls and conviction to stand up for free speech and go against the herd.
Now fast forward to the claims of Joe Cahill's niece that she was raped and that a so called kangaroo court ,composed of IRA members insulted /demeaned her etc .,principally it seems by putting her in a room with her alleged rapist.
Am I missing something or is it not the case that when an accused rapist is put on trial in a non kangaroo court ,as in this country, that both alleged rapist and alleged victim are in the same courtroom.during the trial.
But the most depressing thing about the whole scene is the ganging up of the journalist herd,whipped up by a Taoiseach trying to make political capital out of a misfortunate woman's predicament and kept going by a certain type of tight lipped feminist devoid of reason ,trying to make out that they are entitled to make judgement in the kangaroo court of public opinion on those they clearly despise.
That's right ,the stand idlers and their followers yet again betraying the standards they claim to uphold but in reality don't give a fuck about.
The Cruiser must have thought the Second coming had arrived,God rest him.
I am no Prove nor fellow traveller.While I do admire those who did not stand idly by,I find their policy on murdering the unborn,which they share with all the establishment parties and the assorted Socialist strays,abhorrent and intend to stand against them all in the next election.
So help me God.
Dunderry beat Clanna Gael in u 21 Hurling .1/11/2014
Today was a brutal winter's day,the sort of day on which you would think twice about putting even a milk bottle out.The game was played nevertheless and we scraped home by three points.I had to get out of the car to see the game and ended up like a drowned rat and the paper on which I recorded the action melted in the rain so I haven't the exact score.When I get it I will put it up.(2-8 to 1-8)
But before I get to this game I want to hark back to the previous game against KIllyion which was played last weekend and which we won comfortably enough.
Now last weekend was just a hop skip and jump from the won Intermediate Final and severe and hard celebrating had been had during the week immediately preceding the Killion game.
As long as I have known them Killion are a serious hurling outfit and if you beat them you do beat someone.We don't do it too often.
So I was interested to gauge how we would respond to a hard contest .
I could nearly feel the backwash of stale beer from some of our guys.But youth is great.Without over exerting themselves our guys displayed a confidence in their own ability which comes from long practice ,familiarity and the confidence that winning brings.They played with confidence ,aplomb and threw the ball around so effectively that it really didn't matter who scored because the over riding thing was the teamwork.
These guys are skillful,confident ,brave and united.
All the guys who played on the Intermediate team the previous weekend were on their game and exuded an authority that was infectious and I concentrated on watching the performance of those who didn't get the start the previous weekend.
And I was impressed.
Alan Casey kept a mean goal.His puck outs were on the spot and he is not lacking in confidence.He may be the real thing.
Dylan Keenan at corner back has all the skills ,is as brave as a bull and has a voice like rhino in heat .He just needs to speed up one step in five to achieve his full potential .Aaron Feeney is a great bit of stuff and has it all also in skills and in the liathroidi department,He is a little raw but improves with every outing.
Cathal Ryan had a very impressive debut at this level and serialising his true potential.A bit raw but ballsy .
Stefan Clarke had a great game too and is a pleasure to watch.If he was a horse I'd say he has no vices.
Simon Carty ,better noted as a footballer,has the speed of a gazelle ,no little skill,pluck aplenty and an eye for the ball second to none.Needs a bit more practice.
And Stephen Coogan we all know has it all too but probably would benefit from a bit more hurling.
Now in the Killlion match the more established lads didn't get out of second gear and it was up to the guys above to take on the game,and in the second half particularly Killion threw caution to the wind and went for it gig time.
Our boys stood their ground ,weathered the storm comfortably and became came made men in the process
Won by six points I think
Mc Cabe,Leonard and Mikey got a run late on and slotted right in.
Today we lined out as on the last day.
Casey
Dempsey Keenan
Ryan Wright Feeney
Lukie Martyn (0-5.)(3f) O Shea
Clarke Moran -0-2 Carty
Walshe 1-0 Coogan 1-1
Sub used. P.Mulligan for Ryan.
I was uplifted when I saw Stephen Masterson appear to referee the game.Serious players deserve serious referees
And this was a serious test.That there is no love lost between the teams is no longer in doubt after this game.Clanns were men on a mission.They are teak tough and physically intimidating and went about their work with a vengeance in horrible conditions for hurling.But our guys didn;t flinch and meet them head on.Nothing soft, but I did think that Lukie was unfairly targeted and hit the far side of acceptably in the first fifteen minutes by a variety of opponents.Not sporting and a very tolerant Masterson put an end to it after he was ploughed out of it shamefully after he had parted with the sliotar,The Yellow card did the trick , the intimidation stopped and teak tough hurling ensued.
Alex came up trumps yet again ,rattling the net yet again past former Dunderry player Ciaran Fitsimons ,who stopped a few outrageous bullets over the hour,And then Coogan scored a minor to put us four up before they scored a point.
The game was slugged out for the first thirty minutes in a downpour,with scores as scarce as hen's teeth until the halftime whistle at which we led by 1-4 to 0-4 and deservedly so I thought
After the restart Coogan came good and did what he was threatening for some time.He got possession,left half of Athboy in his wake and bulged the net with a shot that Fitzsimons didn't even see,And we followed up with a point.Goals win matches they say and we ought have made more of our lead.
Athboy ,like a wounded bull just wouldn't lie down and die and came at us in waves .and clawed their way back into the game putting sufficient points over the bar to reduce our lead to five points with eight minutes to go ,when they too rattled the onion bag.
There often develops a certain flow to a game and in these final minutes the force was with Clanns.All the decisions went their way but the back line ,Keenan and Dempsey in particular held their nerve and when Lukie pointed on the cusp of time we all breathed a sigh of relief.
Overall we played well against a highly motivated and strong team,but only rarely hit top gear,sometimes over elaborating when a simpler approach would have yielded richer dividends.
I don't know who we play in the final but I do know that we have to up our game for it and get out of cruise mode.
Minogue and Timber have their work cut out.
Next up is the little matter of dehorning the Kilkenny bull in our own backyard on 16th .
Bring it on says I.
I pray O Farrell and Bligh create history and bring the match to Dunderry.
Leinster Council are you listening ?
But before I get to this game I want to hark back to the previous game against KIllyion which was played last weekend and which we won comfortably enough.
Now last weekend was just a hop skip and jump from the won Intermediate Final and severe and hard celebrating had been had during the week immediately preceding the Killion game.
As long as I have known them Killion are a serious hurling outfit and if you beat them you do beat someone.We don't do it too often.
So I was interested to gauge how we would respond to a hard contest .
I could nearly feel the backwash of stale beer from some of our guys.But youth is great.Without over exerting themselves our guys displayed a confidence in their own ability which comes from long practice ,familiarity and the confidence that winning brings.They played with confidence ,aplomb and threw the ball around so effectively that it really didn't matter who scored because the over riding thing was the teamwork.
These guys are skillful,confident ,brave and united.
All the guys who played on the Intermediate team the previous weekend were on their game and exuded an authority that was infectious and I concentrated on watching the performance of those who didn't get the start the previous weekend.
And I was impressed.
Alan Casey kept a mean goal.His puck outs were on the spot and he is not lacking in confidence.He may be the real thing.
Dylan Keenan at corner back has all the skills ,is as brave as a bull and has a voice like rhino in heat .He just needs to speed up one step in five to achieve his full potential .Aaron Feeney is a great bit of stuff and has it all also in skills and in the liathroidi department,He is a little raw but improves with every outing.
Cathal Ryan had a very impressive debut at this level and serialising his true potential.A bit raw but ballsy .
Stefan Clarke had a great game too and is a pleasure to watch.If he was a horse I'd say he has no vices.
Simon Carty ,better noted as a footballer,has the speed of a gazelle ,no little skill,pluck aplenty and an eye for the ball second to none.Needs a bit more practice.
And Stephen Coogan we all know has it all too but probably would benefit from a bit more hurling.
Now in the Killlion match the more established lads didn't get out of second gear and it was up to the guys above to take on the game,and in the second half particularly Killion threw caution to the wind and went for it gig time.
Our boys stood their ground ,weathered the storm comfortably and became came made men in the process
Won by six points I think
Mc Cabe,Leonard and Mikey got a run late on and slotted right in.
Today we lined out as on the last day.
Casey
Dempsey Keenan
Ryan Wright Feeney
Lukie Martyn (0-5.)(3f) O Shea
Clarke Moran -0-2 Carty
Walshe 1-0 Coogan 1-1
Sub used. P.Mulligan for Ryan.
I was uplifted when I saw Stephen Masterson appear to referee the game.Serious players deserve serious referees
And this was a serious test.That there is no love lost between the teams is no longer in doubt after this game.Clanns were men on a mission.They are teak tough and physically intimidating and went about their work with a vengeance in horrible conditions for hurling.But our guys didn;t flinch and meet them head on.Nothing soft, but I did think that Lukie was unfairly targeted and hit the far side of acceptably in the first fifteen minutes by a variety of opponents.Not sporting and a very tolerant Masterson put an end to it after he was ploughed out of it shamefully after he had parted with the sliotar,The Yellow card did the trick , the intimidation stopped and teak tough hurling ensued.
Alex came up trumps yet again ,rattling the net yet again past former Dunderry player Ciaran Fitsimons ,who stopped a few outrageous bullets over the hour,And then Coogan scored a minor to put us four up before they scored a point.
The game was slugged out for the first thirty minutes in a downpour,with scores as scarce as hen's teeth until the halftime whistle at which we led by 1-4 to 0-4 and deservedly so I thought
After the restart Coogan came good and did what he was threatening for some time.He got possession,left half of Athboy in his wake and bulged the net with a shot that Fitzsimons didn't even see,And we followed up with a point.Goals win matches they say and we ought have made more of our lead.
Athboy ,like a wounded bull just wouldn't lie down and die and came at us in waves .and clawed their way back into the game putting sufficient points over the bar to reduce our lead to five points with eight minutes to go ,when they too rattled the onion bag.
There often develops a certain flow to a game and in these final minutes the force was with Clanns.All the decisions went their way but the back line ,Keenan and Dempsey in particular held their nerve and when Lukie pointed on the cusp of time we all breathed a sigh of relief.
Overall we played well against a highly motivated and strong team,but only rarely hit top gear,sometimes over elaborating when a simpler approach would have yielded richer dividends.
I don't know who we play in the final but I do know that we have to up our game for it and get out of cruise mode.
Minogue and Timber have their work cut out.
Next up is the little matter of dehorning the Kilkenny bull in our own backyard on 16th .
Bring it on says I.
I pray O Farrell and Bligh create history and bring the match to Dunderry.
Leinster Council are you listening ?
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