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.
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