Last week I encountered Dermot Stanley ,who I know,with his sister Frannie and another brother Kevin ,who I had heard about but not met before to my knowledge,
Frannie is in her mid seventies and was being lifted in her wheelchair by her lovely brothers up the steps in front of Dunderry Church into the Church.
She is unwell and they spent some days around the village of their birth renewing scenes long since left but never forgotten.
They visited Cellie Bennett nee Kelly who used babysit them maybe 70 years ago believe it or not.Gladly Cellie .who donated the Hanny Kelly perpetual Cup to the Club for Club man of the year .is i fine fettle.after a long life of luxury and leisure ---Not
Hard work brings its own rewards seemingly.
Frannie left Dunderry well over 50 years ago to serve her time to be a nurse in Dartford in Kent at the same time as Rose Tuite .nee Powderly .widow of the late Tommy of Tullaghanstown..
Both qualified,Rosie came home but Frannie settled in Dartford .married and had a family there and lives there to this day.
I know Rosie this long time and only met Frannie lately.They are both treasures and the finest of ambassadors for this part of the Country.
The Stanleys were always different and in keeping with this propensity Kevin is renewing his Marriage vows this year after a fifty year lapse because then no one could afford the fare to England to the wedding and now those who couldn't then attend have a better chance of going.
We often forget to pray for the well being of our emigrants .because being out of sight they are often out of mind, a matter we ought rectify for the future.
Really when you think about it emigration severely stunted the development of this Country and broke the hearts of millions,.a sad reflection on the lack of imagination and ability of civil society this last Century.
We wish all emigrants the very best and remember them with affection..
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Canadian Ambassador has done some service
Kevin Vickers is the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland ,a job he was appointed to in 2015.Before that he was a Sergeant at Arms to the Canadian House of Commons responsible for the safety and security of the building and its occupants.In that capacity he and a number of colleagues shot dead an armed and rampaging gunman who ran amok in the House of Commons .
Prior to that appointment he was a long serving member of the Mounted Police.So there is no doubt but that this guy is well versed in fighting crime and the arts of police work.
He is much decorated for his part in the shooting of the rampaging gunman and hid appointment as Ambassador may have been an additional sweetener for his decisive actions .
Now Canada is doing a great service for Ireland by taking in a substantial number of Irish people cut adrift from employment here by incompetent politicians and their equally inept advisers.
So I have nothing but admiration for that Country and its inhabitants .
Now a week ago this Government held a memorial day in Glasnevin Cemetery to honour those soldiers of the British Empire who died putting down an insurrection by the native Irish in 1916 to try and gain independence after the guts of a millennium of colonization ,oppression ,starvation ,deportation and unspeakable cruelty.
Yes the Blue shirt Government of Fine Gael and Labour sees no difference between those patriots who died in the cause of independence and those who who died denying them that independence. The mind boggles in disbelief .
Anyhow a protesting Irishman interrupted the ceremony by speaking out at nonsensical equal treatment of oppressor and oppressed and yer man Vickers grabbed him ,manhandled him and held him captive until the Gardai took him into custody.
These actions made headlines worldwide.
The service that Vickers did was to bring to a wider audience the sick minds of those who authorised the ceremony in the first place .
By the same logic we can now expect ceremonies to honour those of Cromwell troops who died in the sieges of Drogheda and Oldcastle ,all of whose inhabitants were put to the sword by Cromwell and his men.
Like wise we should have a ceremony in Dunderry at the 1798 plot honouring the Red Coats who died hunting down the rebels who ,hen routed from insurrection ,sought shelter here abouts and were killed like vermin.
No doubt we ought celebrate General Coote ,who from his Trim headquarters massacres unarmed civilians in Tullaghanogue,Kilbride and Philpotstown of this Parish .
And why stop there .Surely Enda can bring it closer to home by honouring Trevallion in Atherny and banning the Song lest it offend the spawn of the colonists.
On an international stage the Blueshirts might advise the Japanese to honour the deceased Americans who organized thy bombing of Hiroshima ,the Chinese those who died while perpetrating the rape of Nanking ,the Nazis who died enforcing genocide at the concentration camps .
I could go on and on.No doubt wholesome Heather Humphries ,who I recently heard boasting about the great job she had done in celebrating the Rising ,can make herself available for consultation internationally
Now to go back to Vickers,
Given the perverse nature of the ceremony he was at ,where the oppressor is valued equally ,if not more than the oppressed,he may have concluded that any Paddy opposing glorification of the Empire was persona non grata in Ireland and deserved to be kicked out of the ceremony.
He could usefully be unleashed around Summerhill and Sean Mc Dermott Street and its environs to sort the murderous mayhem being perpetrated,
Franny could give Troudeau a tinkle maybe.
Prior to that appointment he was a long serving member of the Mounted Police.So there is no doubt but that this guy is well versed in fighting crime and the arts of police work.
He is much decorated for his part in the shooting of the rampaging gunman and hid appointment as Ambassador may have been an additional sweetener for his decisive actions .
Now Canada is doing a great service for Ireland by taking in a substantial number of Irish people cut adrift from employment here by incompetent politicians and their equally inept advisers.
So I have nothing but admiration for that Country and its inhabitants .
Now a week ago this Government held a memorial day in Glasnevin Cemetery to honour those soldiers of the British Empire who died putting down an insurrection by the native Irish in 1916 to try and gain independence after the guts of a millennium of colonization ,oppression ,starvation ,deportation and unspeakable cruelty.
Yes the Blue shirt Government of Fine Gael and Labour sees no difference between those patriots who died in the cause of independence and those who who died denying them that independence. The mind boggles in disbelief .
Anyhow a protesting Irishman interrupted the ceremony by speaking out at nonsensical equal treatment of oppressor and oppressed and yer man Vickers grabbed him ,manhandled him and held him captive until the Gardai took him into custody.
These actions made headlines worldwide.
The service that Vickers did was to bring to a wider audience the sick minds of those who authorised the ceremony in the first place .
By the same logic we can now expect ceremonies to honour those of Cromwell troops who died in the sieges of Drogheda and Oldcastle ,all of whose inhabitants were put to the sword by Cromwell and his men.
Like wise we should have a ceremony in Dunderry at the 1798 plot honouring the Red Coats who died hunting down the rebels who ,hen routed from insurrection ,sought shelter here abouts and were killed like vermin.
No doubt we ought celebrate General Coote ,who from his Trim headquarters massacres unarmed civilians in Tullaghanogue,Kilbride and Philpotstown of this Parish .
And why stop there .Surely Enda can bring it closer to home by honouring Trevallion in Atherny and banning the Song lest it offend the spawn of the colonists.
On an international stage the Blueshirts might advise the Japanese to honour the deceased Americans who organized thy bombing of Hiroshima ,the Chinese those who died while perpetrating the rape of Nanking ,the Nazis who died enforcing genocide at the concentration camps .
I could go on and on.No doubt wholesome Heather Humphries ,who I recently heard boasting about the great job she had done in celebrating the Rising ,can make herself available for consultation internationally
Now to go back to Vickers,
Given the perverse nature of the ceremony he was at ,where the oppressor is valued equally ,if not more than the oppressed,he may have concluded that any Paddy opposing glorification of the Empire was persona non grata in Ireland and deserved to be kicked out of the ceremony.
He could usefully be unleashed around Summerhill and Sean Mc Dermott Street and its environs to sort the murderous mayhem being perpetrated,
Franny could give Troudeau a tinkle maybe.
Scandal of Club Match admission prices in Meath.
In my Blog on Dunderry V Pauls in the B Junior Football Championship I complained bitterly about the estimation price of E.8.00 charged into Bective for the match ,an outrageous fee.
The hammering of faithful Club fans financially has been further brought home to me by a father and grandfather of sons and grandsons who loves to support them.
Not in employment money is scarce.
Within 10 days recently he had to fork out a lot more than he can afford to support his son's teams and his grandson's team which was in a juvenile final.
This man spent many years managing juvenile club teams and drove his own car around the County transporting players .
Counts for nothing now.
The admission fee to the Terrace in Parnell Park for the forthcoming Dublin v Louth Leinster S,F.C.game is E.10.00.
I n the name of the Gaelic Game how can anyone charge E.8.00 for a Club Junior F.C.GAME.
A dose of reality is urgently called for.
The hammering of faithful Club fans financially has been further brought home to me by a father and grandfather of sons and grandsons who loves to support them.
Not in employment money is scarce.
Within 10 days recently he had to fork out a lot more than he can afford to support his son's teams and his grandson's team which was in a juvenile final.
This man spent many years managing juvenile club teams and drove his own car around the County transporting players .
Counts for nothing now.
The admission fee to the Terrace in Parnell Park for the forthcoming Dublin v Louth Leinster S,F.C.game is E.10.00.
I n the name of the Gaelic Game how can anyone charge E.8.00 for a Club Junior F.C.GAME.
A dose of reality is urgently called for.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
PRAY FOR PARISHIONERS
At least a half dozen well known people in village of Dunderry and its surrounds are under severe pressure health wise at the moment,Hard prayer is needed urgently,
Monday, May 23, 2016
My view on the Garda Commissioner actions.
When I was 18 years old I used organize a Disco in the old schoolhouse on Church Avenue in Blanchardstown for local GAA kids who were barred from entry in the hops in Castleknock Tennis Club because of their Blanch addresses.
Then as now I believed in the GAA ideal ,active participation in which has caused me substantial material loss over a lifetime ,but je ne regret rien.
Around that time in the early seventies there was a small Garda presence in Blanchardstown and most of the Country Guards who landed there played football and hurling with Saint Brigids of which I was a devoted member.
The Gardai I knew were all sound as I had been reared to believe.Until I saw what follows.
There used be a 6 foot wall in front of the Olld Shool house and a narrow entrance space no more than three feet wide in the wall in front of the door into the schoolhouse,so that you could only see what was happening on the road onto which the entrance opened at that point.What was going down either side of the entrance in the wall you could hear but not see unless you looked around the entrance.
One Saturday night after 11.00 p.m ,the closing time of the disco ,I finished the music for the night ,saw everybody out,turned the lights down and stayed behind for a sneaky fag.To all intents and purposes the building was empty.
I was startled to suddenly hear the agonized screams of a child somewhere to the side of the road entrance to the hall,so I creeped towards the entrance and looked at the source of the disturbance and boy did I get the shock of my life.
Maybe ten yards to the right of the school entrance there was and is a pathway then called the car road and now Mary Brennan Park I think ,which enabled a short cut from Church Road to the Main Street.It was poorly lit then.
What I clearly saw then was two Guards I knew kicking and beating the shite out of a young lad no more than 12 years of age.He was calling them Culchies and the more he did the more they beat him.He was a member of a local and poor family and to this day I AM ASHAMED OF MYSELF THAT I DID NOT INTERVENE.
The truth is that Iwas so shocked at what I thought were upstanding citizens behaving in such a thuggish manner that I was stuck to the spot as it were.
Like the coward I was really I waited until they went off and helped the brutalized young lad clean up his wounds and saw him home.
These guys have no idea that I SAW what they did to this day but one guy might wonder just why I, within GAA rules .lorried him out of it with a legitimate tackle .in a match a number of years later.
The point is that these two guys had two sides to their personality's, one reserved for people like me and another for people like the Skinner.
IT IS A LESSON i HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN.
Since then I have met many people in Public Service ,including the Gardai ,who were well reared and sound and a minority who are thuggish,sneaky and dishonorable and deceptive.
I have no doubt but that the whistle blowers are the well reared guys who have no moral option but to speak out,
I am not saying that the Garda Commissioner is one of the other type asI know nothing about her,but general;ly it should surprise no body that the possibility exists that people that attain high office can be cunning,deceptive and self serving.
What was it Charles said about Bertie.
Then as now I believed in the GAA ideal ,active participation in which has caused me substantial material loss over a lifetime ,but je ne regret rien.
Around that time in the early seventies there was a small Garda presence in Blanchardstown and most of the Country Guards who landed there played football and hurling with Saint Brigids of which I was a devoted member.
The Gardai I knew were all sound as I had been reared to believe.Until I saw what follows.
There used be a 6 foot wall in front of the Olld Shool house and a narrow entrance space no more than three feet wide in the wall in front of the door into the schoolhouse,so that you could only see what was happening on the road onto which the entrance opened at that point.What was going down either side of the entrance in the wall you could hear but not see unless you looked around the entrance.
One Saturday night after 11.00 p.m ,the closing time of the disco ,I finished the music for the night ,saw everybody out,turned the lights down and stayed behind for a sneaky fag.To all intents and purposes the building was empty.
I was startled to suddenly hear the agonized screams of a child somewhere to the side of the road entrance to the hall,so I creeped towards the entrance and looked at the source of the disturbance and boy did I get the shock of my life.
Maybe ten yards to the right of the school entrance there was and is a pathway then called the car road and now Mary Brennan Park I think ,which enabled a short cut from Church Road to the Main Street.It was poorly lit then.
What I clearly saw then was two Guards I knew kicking and beating the shite out of a young lad no more than 12 years of age.He was calling them Culchies and the more he did the more they beat him.He was a member of a local and poor family and to this day I AM ASHAMED OF MYSELF THAT I DID NOT INTERVENE.
The truth is that Iwas so shocked at what I thought were upstanding citizens behaving in such a thuggish manner that I was stuck to the spot as it were.
Like the coward I was really I waited until they went off and helped the brutalized young lad clean up his wounds and saw him home.
These guys have no idea that I SAW what they did to this day but one guy might wonder just why I, within GAA rules .lorried him out of it with a legitimate tackle .in a match a number of years later.
The point is that these two guys had two sides to their personality's, one reserved for people like me and another for people like the Skinner.
IT IS A LESSON i HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN.
Since then I have met many people in Public Service ,including the Gardai ,who were well reared and sound and a minority who are thuggish,sneaky and dishonorable and deceptive.
I have no doubt but that the whistle blowers are the well reared guys who have no moral option but to speak out,
I am not saying that the Garda Commissioner is one of the other type asI know nothing about her,but general;ly it should surprise no body that the possibility exists that people that attain high office can be cunning,deceptive and self serving.
What was it Charles said about Bertie.
Loads to do.
I have a long list of Tributes to do,a long list of GAA Match reports to write up,much to say on the perpetual persecution of the inhabitants of rural Ireland by the authorities ,including the active connivance of Government Departments in making families homeless ,the joke that is the Government's handling of the Garda Commissioner's activities and the despair that Fianna Fail's support of Ministers and Juniors ,some of whom you wouldn't put in charge of a bee hive.
Not to mention the vile pagan /Atheist,hereafter to be called the Patheist ,influence on society via the media,academia,the Presidency and the so called leftist politician s.
I need your prayer to give me the time and inspiration to attend to these tasks.
Last but not least any society that bans homeless people from using the public roadside seek shelter on ,.especially a society that saw mass evictions during a relatively recent famine when millions died of hunger and without shelter ,does not deserve to survive ans is purely patheistic in law.
Not to mention the vile pagan /Atheist,hereafter to be called the Patheist ,influence on society via the media,academia,the Presidency and the so called leftist politician s.
I need your prayer to give me the time and inspiration to attend to these tasks.
Last but not least any society that bans homeless people from using the public roadside seek shelter on ,.especially a society that saw mass evictions during a relatively recent famine when millions died of hunger and without shelter ,does not deserve to survive ans is purely patheistic in law.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Tribute to Vincent Clarke,Dunderry.
Around Dunderry we have known for some time that Vincent was under severe pressure health wise..He had lung cancer as far as I know and had a lung or part of it removed some time ago.In his eighties the wise decision was made not to have further surgery nor too intrusive treatment.
As was his wont the first Dunderrian Dub,his wife Vera being the second,Maureen Yourell being third and mise a poor fourth,Vincent motored on in good humour despite his failing health and never became downbeat after his prognosis .
I have never seen him flustered and he continued in this vein right up to the end of his well lived life.
He was the real thing as far as Dubs go, being either from the Liberties or Ormond Square as far as I know --himself and his wife Vera had both historic areas covered --and was a part of what was Dublin in the rare old times and never lost his Dublin accent nor his love for the city,
Don't know how he came to live in Dunderry but he and his family took to it like a duck to water and I never heard of him expressing any interest to live elsewhere.
Last week our AOIFE ,who is involved with a group of musicians who play from time to time in hospitals and nursing homes, happened to be in Navan Hospital and at the request of his family played solo renditions of Raglan Road and Amazing Grace for him as he lay waiting the Call from the Man above.I understand that things got very emotional and we knew that his time was short.
And so it came to pass.
Vincent and Vera ,as far a I know met through the Legion of Mary and 11 children were born to them of which 10 survive to this day.I don't know them all but do know most of them and they are bang on to a man and a woman.
He was a master welder and could turn his gifted hands to any task.Just as well as raising the spondulocks to feed ,clothe and support such a large brood cannot have been an easy task but raise them he did and he did it well.
Of course he wasn't alone in this and God only knows how Vera managed to stretch his wages to meet every bodies needs.
Now while Vincent and Vera became especially devout in latter years ,hosting Prayer Groups and being especially devoted to Mary ,they were by no means crawthumpers entirely and when money and circumstance allowed ,which admittedly wasn't often ,knew how to let rip on a minor scale and as the brood took flight had a jar or two.But always very demurely.
Vincent wasn't a GAA man.The constraints of space in central Dublin make it more suitable for soccer and this was his sport of choice.He was instrumental in forming the now defunct soccer team in Dunderry and the soccer jersey was presented as a gift during the Funeral Mass in a packed Church last Thursday.
This didn't stop his sons Vincent Junior,aka China and Damien a.k.a.Swiss ,excelling at hurling and football and Olivia also swung a caman with menace in her youth.
His two grand daughter Danielle and Kate are fine Camogie players too as I well know ,having trained them in the dark arts as is a grandson Garry who also played hurling with Dunderry.
Swiss is still a fine footballer and was good enough to represent his County ,an achievement of which his father was extremely proud as he quietly confirmed to me many times.And why wouldn't he be.
Don't have first hand knowledge of the sporting prowess of his older children as they were past their sporting primes when I moved to Dunderry to live but no doubt they were cut from the same cloth.
I have lived in Dundeerry since 1986 and in all that time have never heard a wrong word said against Vincent Clark and have personally found him and Vera and their entire flock to have been above reproach and the essence of decency.
I was glad to see that a minutes silence was observed this evening before the League match against Ballinagree in his honour in the Pitch.
We sympathize with his wife,siblings .children ,grand children , great grand children and all his relative and friends in their great sorrow.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a Anam Dilis,
As was his wont the first Dunderrian Dub,his wife Vera being the second,Maureen Yourell being third and mise a poor fourth,Vincent motored on in good humour despite his failing health and never became downbeat after his prognosis .
I have never seen him flustered and he continued in this vein right up to the end of his well lived life.
He was the real thing as far as Dubs go, being either from the Liberties or Ormond Square as far as I know --himself and his wife Vera had both historic areas covered --and was a part of what was Dublin in the rare old times and never lost his Dublin accent nor his love for the city,
Don't know how he came to live in Dunderry but he and his family took to it like a duck to water and I never heard of him expressing any interest to live elsewhere.
Last week our AOIFE ,who is involved with a group of musicians who play from time to time in hospitals and nursing homes, happened to be in Navan Hospital and at the request of his family played solo renditions of Raglan Road and Amazing Grace for him as he lay waiting the Call from the Man above.I understand that things got very emotional and we knew that his time was short.
And so it came to pass.
Vincent and Vera ,as far a I know met through the Legion of Mary and 11 children were born to them of which 10 survive to this day.I don't know them all but do know most of them and they are bang on to a man and a woman.
He was a master welder and could turn his gifted hands to any task.Just as well as raising the spondulocks to feed ,clothe and support such a large brood cannot have been an easy task but raise them he did and he did it well.
Of course he wasn't alone in this and God only knows how Vera managed to stretch his wages to meet every bodies needs.
Now while Vincent and Vera became especially devout in latter years ,hosting Prayer Groups and being especially devoted to Mary ,they were by no means crawthumpers entirely and when money and circumstance allowed ,which admittedly wasn't often ,knew how to let rip on a minor scale and as the brood took flight had a jar or two.But always very demurely.
Vincent wasn't a GAA man.The constraints of space in central Dublin make it more suitable for soccer and this was his sport of choice.He was instrumental in forming the now defunct soccer team in Dunderry and the soccer jersey was presented as a gift during the Funeral Mass in a packed Church last Thursday.
This didn't stop his sons Vincent Junior,aka China and Damien a.k.a.Swiss ,excelling at hurling and football and Olivia also swung a caman with menace in her youth.
His two grand daughter Danielle and Kate are fine Camogie players too as I well know ,having trained them in the dark arts as is a grandson Garry who also played hurling with Dunderry.
Swiss is still a fine footballer and was good enough to represent his County ,an achievement of which his father was extremely proud as he quietly confirmed to me many times.And why wouldn't he be.
Don't have first hand knowledge of the sporting prowess of his older children as they were past their sporting primes when I moved to Dunderry to live but no doubt they were cut from the same cloth.
I have lived in Dundeerry since 1986 and in all that time have never heard a wrong word said against Vincent Clark and have personally found him and Vera and their entire flock to have been above reproach and the essence of decency.
I was glad to see that a minutes silence was observed this evening before the League match against Ballinagree in his honour in the Pitch.
We sympathize with his wife,siblings .children ,grand children , great grand children and all his relative and friends in their great sorrow.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a Anam Dilis,
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Dunderry 1-12 St.Pauls 2-6 JFB CH.
Played in a deserted Bective on 14th inst .this match most definitely didn't have the tension that matches between these teams had in the 1970's when competition between the Clubs was at an all time high..
Then thousands would have attended the matches to savour the craic.
Perhaps the organisers of the match last week thought that the old tmes had returned and that people were willing to pay 8 hard earned Euros in memory of times gone bye.
Yes this was the admission fee to see a Junior B football match.
Maybe the people who set the fee at this level believe all this shit about the recovery lifting all boats and perhaps they are operating under the illusion that that the few followers and supporters Dunderry have left these days are willing to do without the necessities of life to pay such an outrageous admission fee to follow their team..
Well they are wrong.Never again will I go to such a match at such a fee.This is an insult to genuine supporters and will see to it that future matches are played to empty stadiums.If this type of overcharging nonsense is persisted with soon no one will go there at all.
Bective was in fine fettle.
TEAM WAS.
Dooley.
Kenny Fay Seamus Harte Gary Newman
Fitzie J.Martin Shane Maguire
Bob Doherty Declan Mahon
Gilkie Ted Darren Conroy
Jack Brady Thomas Doherty k.Slattery
Came in ,K,Bruton,Sprog Stephens,M. Casey
There was no rancour at all in the match and referee Ennis from Longwood had it handy,Nothing to blow up for.The first half was tit for tat and a point separated the teams at half time .
The second half was more lively as Manager Goff and assistant Leavy freshened up the team and made some positional changes and we took complete control.Pauls launched a late surge and nearly caught us on the hop but we just about held out.
The number 8 was surely in vogue on the night.The excessive entrance fee was E.8 .00.And Grainne Dowd was training three gasuns togged out in full Dunderry gear,.her own two and Liam Rattigan ,all of whom wore the number 8 on their backs,on the sideline before the match started,.
And Pat Goff didn't have to don the number 8 ON THIS OCCASION TO MAKE UP A TEAM,which feat he had to repeat since against OLDCASTLE IN THE LEAGUE ,WHEN WE AGAIN FAILED TO MUSTER THe REQUISITE NUMBER OF BODIES ,AT THIS LEVEL.
Actually Pat can't have been a million miles away from playing against Pauls in the seventies ,when I think of it.
Disgracefully for the first time in two decades and despite the major increase in population ,we are bereft of Minor Teams in Dundrry this year. .An absolute disaster and those past Officers responsible ought hang their heads in shame.
A look at the age profile of this team is instructive in this regard.
Lucky enough three gasuns mentioned above and their team mates brought home the under 12 laurels since.
Then thousands would have attended the matches to savour the craic.
Perhaps the organisers of the match last week thought that the old tmes had returned and that people were willing to pay 8 hard earned Euros in memory of times gone bye.
Yes this was the admission fee to see a Junior B football match.
Maybe the people who set the fee at this level believe all this shit about the recovery lifting all boats and perhaps they are operating under the illusion that that the few followers and supporters Dunderry have left these days are willing to do without the necessities of life to pay such an outrageous admission fee to follow their team..
Well they are wrong.Never again will I go to such a match at such a fee.This is an insult to genuine supporters and will see to it that future matches are played to empty stadiums.If this type of overcharging nonsense is persisted with soon no one will go there at all.
Bective was in fine fettle.
TEAM WAS.
Dooley.
Kenny Fay Seamus Harte Gary Newman
Fitzie J.Martin Shane Maguire
Bob Doherty Declan Mahon
Gilkie Ted Darren Conroy
Jack Brady Thomas Doherty k.Slattery
Came in ,K,Bruton,Sprog Stephens,M. Casey
There was no rancour at all in the match and referee Ennis from Longwood had it handy,Nothing to blow up for.The first half was tit for tat and a point separated the teams at half time .
The second half was more lively as Manager Goff and assistant Leavy freshened up the team and made some positional changes and we took complete control.Pauls launched a late surge and nearly caught us on the hop but we just about held out.
The number 8 was surely in vogue on the night.The excessive entrance fee was E.8 .00.And Grainne Dowd was training three gasuns togged out in full Dunderry gear,.her own two and Liam Rattigan ,all of whom wore the number 8 on their backs,on the sideline before the match started,.
And Pat Goff didn't have to don the number 8 ON THIS OCCASION TO MAKE UP A TEAM,which feat he had to repeat since against OLDCASTLE IN THE LEAGUE ,WHEN WE AGAIN FAILED TO MUSTER THe REQUISITE NUMBER OF BODIES ,AT THIS LEVEL.
Actually Pat can't have been a million miles away from playing against Pauls in the seventies ,when I think of it.
Disgracefully for the first time in two decades and despite the major increase in population ,we are bereft of Minor Teams in Dundrry this year. .An absolute disaster and those past Officers responsible ought hang their heads in shame.
A look at the age profile of this team is instructive in this regard.
Lucky enough three gasuns mentioned above and their team mates brought home the under 12 laurels since.
Friday, May 6, 2016
Vicious Face book campaign hsas inevitable result.
For some time now a vicious and dangerous campaign has been mounted against one the most decent and long established families in the Parish over the shooting of a dog or dogs on the land of the family on which land there were livestock.
I don't know the ins and outs of the incident but the Mulligan family have been abused horribly on the Internet by so called neighbours and many more who have jumped on the bandwagon of verbal abuse.
Inevitably this ridicule bore fruit when the house wall ,cobbles and gates of the Mulligan House on the Meadstown Road was splashed with scarlet paint over the weekend.
I don't know who did this but this a new low for this Parish .
To make it worse a few neighbours trying to clear up the mess were taunted by a female motorist who mocked them by saying she would gladly treat the criminal who did this to a drink for his or her actions..
The lowest of the low and the planting of bad blood for generations.
This will fester.
I don't know the ins and outs of the incident but the Mulligan family have been abused horribly on the Internet by so called neighbours and many more who have jumped on the bandwagon of verbal abuse.
Inevitably this ridicule bore fruit when the house wall ,cobbles and gates of the Mulligan House on the Meadstown Road was splashed with scarlet paint over the weekend.
I don't know who did this but this a new low for this Parish .
To make it worse a few neighbours trying to clear up the mess were taunted by a female motorist who mocked them by saying she would gladly treat the criminal who did this to a drink for his or her actions..
The lowest of the low and the planting of bad blood for generations.
This will fester.
Dunderry now Meath Capital of Fir Breaga
This last week the Village of Dunderry has about 6 extra inhabitants who don't move at all and to the uninitiated who believe in the undead are fairly scary.Life size figures both male and female are tied to assorted uprights and lie on public benches absolutely unmoving.Nearest to me is the Colander girl......the top of her head is a colander.She resides opposite Horans pub door and she is in risk of attack by some boozed up love hungry bachelor who has a hunger for women and whose eye sight is shot
Being made from straw she might not feel distressed but you never know,
Around the corner near the school a huge jockey is astride a tiny rocking horse and outside Geraghtys a stout straw man faced in plastic like the rubber bandits lies on a bench sleeping off an excess of stout.
Outside the GAA Club an attractive camogie player swings her caman.
I don't know whether those who dreamt up the scary crow competition which will take place during the Fair on Sunday drew inspiration from my Fir Breaga ...the Irish for SCARE CROW.. from my articles in Dunderryderumbeat.com whereby I have described various public figures who broke their word as scarecrows....false men ....but there is no doubt that the manufacture of these straw beings has caught on hereabouts .
The imaginations of Dunderrians is limitless and I expect a big entry in the competition on Sunday.
As most of the Fir Breaga I have identified over the years are politicians of various hues and as I don't wish to offend people I won't be entering an exhibit but my kids and grandchildren will.
A good day is promised and you should come if ye can.
Being made from straw she might not feel distressed but you never know,
Around the corner near the school a huge jockey is astride a tiny rocking horse and outside Geraghtys a stout straw man faced in plastic like the rubber bandits lies on a bench sleeping off an excess of stout.
Outside the GAA Club an attractive camogie player swings her caman.
I don't know whether those who dreamt up the scary crow competition which will take place during the Fair on Sunday drew inspiration from my Fir Breaga ...the Irish for SCARE CROW.. from my articles in Dunderryderumbeat.com whereby I have described various public figures who broke their word as scarecrows....false men ....but there is no doubt that the manufacture of these straw beings has caught on hereabouts .
The imaginations of Dunderrians is limitless and I expect a big entry in the competition on Sunday.
As most of the Fir Breaga I have identified over the years are politicians of various hues and as I don't wish to offend people I won't be entering an exhibit but my kids and grandchildren will.
A good day is promised and you should come if ye can.
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