This eagerly anticipated match between intense local rivals was played before a large crowd in Athboy at 5.30 on a wet Saturday evening .There was torrential rain most of the day but it had ceased somewhat just before kickoff time.Such was the crowd that the extremely affable and courteous Athboy officials had to cordon off the training pitch behind the Kells end of the pitch to avoid destruction of it and sinking of vehicles.Many had to leave their cars outside the grounds .
Ttrm deservedly came into this match as favourites for a multiplicity of reasons,mainly because of our injury crisis and the stumbling onwards nature of our campaign to date.There was also the fact that you don't know just how strong the other divisions are.Personally I was not over confident and turned down a fifty Euro bet earlier in he day,Bigger fool me.
We lined out as follows-.
Jennings
A.Newman Spongee Dempsy --Peanut.
Red. Swiss Marty Garry
Dempsey Liamie Kenneally Paddy
S.Coogan Lukie Martin M.Kane
Bomber Simon Carty A.Watters
Subs used. C.HarteJordan Martyn,S,Maguire,D.Mahon.
Considering the rain spilled for the previous 24 hours the pitch held up well.But the ball was like a bar of soap and it was slippy enough.
Watters played as a sweeper for us and the Trim Manager,former Dunderry player Maurice Power,set his team up likewise.There were two men only up front each side and the middle third of the pitch was choc a block with players.There was a plenitude of short passing in the cramped middle as both teams bode their time to let a long ball into the first inside forward to get a few feet on his opponent.The conditions didn't suit this type of play and a good few passes went astray at vital moments.On balance we were more adroit at the passing but still scores were as scarce as hen's teeth.After 20 minutes there were I think maybe just 5 points on the score board with feck all between the teams.
Inter County Referee Cormack Reilly did his job in full accord with the Eugene Magee school of abhorrence of even the threat of physical contact or manliness and flashed a black card on one of the Trim players which tilted the game very much in our favour.In a game of ballet with skiddy ball ,completely without rancour ,he flashed yellow cards at will and wrote copious notes all over the place ,interrupting the flow of play completely.Against both sides I might add.I have no doubt that he operated fully under the rules in what I don't recognize as Gaelic Football at all and I played all my active life.
Is there any chance at all that Hurling only Referees can be appointed to football matches in future,applying hurling rules only ,including the upcoming All Ireland replay ,in order to save the game of football before it is destroyed entirely.
Anyhow the turning point came when S,Coogan slipped his marker and with consummate skill and aplomb stuck the ball in the net ten minutes before the half time whistle.We were never again to be headed.
No one stood out above the other in the first half ,Coogan excepted,and we fought hard communally for every ball allover the pitch.Frankie Murphy was lording it at midfield and causing us problems but Liamie and Paddy did enough to keep us in contention.
We went in on a scoreline of 1-4 to 0-3.
After the break Trim whittled away at our lead and I was worried when they hauled us back to a lead of a point.And then following a freakish goal from a longish ball by Bomber all changed.In truth the Trim rearguard was susceptible to quick high ball.Bomber is a big lad and hard to handle and had the measure of his opponent all of the time and the handling of their goalie was somewhat suspect.
Buoyed by the change of fortune we forged ahead and Trim panicked.Where heretofore we were hitting wides our confidence soared and the points started to go over.Passes that were previously going astray started to find their mark and we grew in stature.
The converse happened with Trim.
You write Dunderry off at your peril and we won pulling up.
Scorers .Cougar 1-6 (5 frees),Bomber 1-1.Carty 0-1.Harte 0-1.
It is a tribute to our defense that Trim were confined to 0-7 in an hour's football.
On a personal level Eoin Kelly is a son in law of mine, a decent man and a Trim man through and through.No one has trained harder nor breached the pain barrier more than he in their cause.He is in the last chance saloon age wise and this may well have been his last appearance ,even on the bench.
I find it disrespectful to him not to have given him some playing time in this game and hope we in Dunderry would have the cop on to give any player we had in a similar position a run as a matter of respect.
Again this is none of my business but there you are.
As far as I know it is Ballinabrackey in the semi and then the winners of Walterstown and Saint Colmcilles in the Final.
Don't rule us out.The football Gods are with us.
The half seven Mass in Dunderry on Saturday was for Molly,Tommy and Joe Mc Cormack and the deceased members of the Mc Cormack family,Dunderry fanatics all.I missed the Mass as I was unwell but Finn who got it tswears that a cheer went up halfway.
I don't doubt him.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Dunderry Destiny Day Results.24/09/2016
Camogie.Boardsmill 3-8.Dunderry 0-8.
Mens Football.Dunderry 2-9.Trim 0-7.
In both cases the better teams won.
Stephen Coogan scored 1-6 0f the total football score.
Aoife Minogue scored all 8 points of our Camogie score.
Reports later.
We dare to dream in the football.Two more wins and we return home to Senior.I CAN NEARLY TASTE IT.
We have the rub of the green with us.
Mens Football.Dunderry 2-9.Trim 0-7.
In both cases the better teams won.
Stephen Coogan scored 1-6 0f the total football score.
Aoife Minogue scored all 8 points of our Camogie score.
Reports later.
We dare to dream in the football.Two more wins and we return home to Senior.I CAN NEARLY TASTE IT.
We have the rub of the green with us.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Saturday 24th Sept 2016.Destiny DAY for Dunderry Gaels.
The only team that Dunderry Gaels have at Senior Level is the Hurling Team ,which tells its own story.
Both the Intermediate Footballers and the Intermediate Camogie Ladies are facing their destiny on Saturday.
The Ladies field at 1.00 p.m.in Trim against Boardsmill in the Final.
History of sorts has already been made by this Team as we have never figured in an Intermediate Final before.
We did play at Senior level before ,I'd guess around 1989 when we got there by winning the Junior Championship,there being no Intermediate Championship at the time.
Boardsmill will be expecting to win this as all their home born players have transferred back from Trim to push their native Club over he line.
My perspective is different however.In 2009 an under 14 Dunderry Team beat Na Fianna in a B.final after a massive contest.Na Fianna have since established themselves as credible Senior contestants.
That Dunderry Team is the bedrock on which the present Team is built.Since then we have had a multitude of very successful underage teams and have produced many extremely talented players to augment those girls.
In fact it is a bit like Kilkenny hereabouts as on any given day you could meet several girls with All Ireland medals in the bag.
Although we are denied the services of Labaoise Martyn,Tara and Rebecca Scanlon and some others I would be surprised to say the least were we not to land the Laurels in this vital Final.
G.T.Troy, supremo in recent years, and our own selectors Evelyn Griffin and Tracey Fitzsimons carry a huge responsibility in their hands on Saturday to produce the goods and I have no doubt and a huge expectation they will select a winning team.
Oremus.
The Intermediate Football team play old adversaries Trim in Athboy at 5.30 I think in the quarter Finals of the Inter Football .
We have been unsuccessfully trying since 2005,when I was Manager,to return to Senior ranks.
Men of considerable experience ,some as inter county selectors, some who played that year ,have tried since to steer our footballers back to Senior and failed.
These included Tommy Dowd,Barry Callaghan ,Stephen O Rourke ,all of whom had a cut for a few years each and failed to advance .
In fact Sean Kelly had a cut at keeping us up prior to 2005 but threw his hat at it,so all of the guys who took the job on since 2005 have had the benefit of his considerable coaching nous.
This would include present Manager Kevin Dowd who recently managed the Hurlers back to Senior status and is trying for a double of sorts.Together with his backroom team of Mickey Molloy ,who was a neat wing back in his day,Lee Mulligan ,whose playing career was cut short by injury and fellow Dub.Paudie Brady .And of course former inspirational colossus Phil Fay,we have just about stumbled through from match to match.
Our cause hasn't been helped by the career ending injury to our Finn and the recent breakage ,as far as I know ,to Conor O Sheas ankle.Both these guys made huge contributions to getting us here in the first place.I don't know whether the injury Lukie Martyn got with the Meath Hurlers has fully mended.
I do know that there is always very little between Trim and ourselves in recent years.
I also have observed that the form of out two County men,Simon Carty and Paddy Kenneally is not of the standard I would expect from County men,and suspect that their confidence has been adversely affected by the lack of match practise the got with Meath .
However the few matches they got with Dunderry lately has brought noticeable improvement and this will need to be ratcheted up considerably if we are to win on Saturday.
Of course two men do not a team make and the ordinary less heralded club players who slog it out for the club all year around cannot be forgotten and it is to these we look for inspiration in the main.
Here's hoping.
Of course were things right there would be a double header of both matches at the one venue on Saturday.
Both the Intermediate Footballers and the Intermediate Camogie Ladies are facing their destiny on Saturday.
The Ladies field at 1.00 p.m.in Trim against Boardsmill in the Final.
History of sorts has already been made by this Team as we have never figured in an Intermediate Final before.
We did play at Senior level before ,I'd guess around 1989 when we got there by winning the Junior Championship,there being no Intermediate Championship at the time.
Boardsmill will be expecting to win this as all their home born players have transferred back from Trim to push their native Club over he line.
My perspective is different however.In 2009 an under 14 Dunderry Team beat Na Fianna in a B.final after a massive contest.Na Fianna have since established themselves as credible Senior contestants.
That Dunderry Team is the bedrock on which the present Team is built.Since then we have had a multitude of very successful underage teams and have produced many extremely talented players to augment those girls.
In fact it is a bit like Kilkenny hereabouts as on any given day you could meet several girls with All Ireland medals in the bag.
Although we are denied the services of Labaoise Martyn,Tara and Rebecca Scanlon and some others I would be surprised to say the least were we not to land the Laurels in this vital Final.
G.T.Troy, supremo in recent years, and our own selectors Evelyn Griffin and Tracey Fitzsimons carry a huge responsibility in their hands on Saturday to produce the goods and I have no doubt and a huge expectation they will select a winning team.
Oremus.
The Intermediate Football team play old adversaries Trim in Athboy at 5.30 I think in the quarter Finals of the Inter Football .
We have been unsuccessfully trying since 2005,when I was Manager,to return to Senior ranks.
Men of considerable experience ,some as inter county selectors, some who played that year ,have tried since to steer our footballers back to Senior and failed.
These included Tommy Dowd,Barry Callaghan ,Stephen O Rourke ,all of whom had a cut for a few years each and failed to advance .
In fact Sean Kelly had a cut at keeping us up prior to 2005 but threw his hat at it,so all of the guys who took the job on since 2005 have had the benefit of his considerable coaching nous.
This would include present Manager Kevin Dowd who recently managed the Hurlers back to Senior status and is trying for a double of sorts.Together with his backroom team of Mickey Molloy ,who was a neat wing back in his day,Lee Mulligan ,whose playing career was cut short by injury and fellow Dub.Paudie Brady .And of course former inspirational colossus Phil Fay,we have just about stumbled through from match to match.
Our cause hasn't been helped by the career ending injury to our Finn and the recent breakage ,as far as I know ,to Conor O Sheas ankle.Both these guys made huge contributions to getting us here in the first place.I don't know whether the injury Lukie Martyn got with the Meath Hurlers has fully mended.
I do know that there is always very little between Trim and ourselves in recent years.
I also have observed that the form of out two County men,Simon Carty and Paddy Kenneally is not of the standard I would expect from County men,and suspect that their confidence has been adversely affected by the lack of match practise the got with Meath .
However the few matches they got with Dunderry lately has brought noticeable improvement and this will need to be ratcheted up considerably if we are to win on Saturday.
Of course two men do not a team make and the ordinary less heralded club players who slog it out for the club all year around cannot be forgotten and it is to these we look for inspiration in the main.
Here's hoping.
Of course were things right there would be a double header of both matches at the one venue on Saturday.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Bruton's evidence on Jobstown incident telling.
If ever there was a location where Labour ,with it's policies supposedly designed to cater for the working classes and the less fortunate in Society ,ought thrive ,it is Jobstown in Tallaght.
The fact that the former Leader of the Labour Party and former Tanaiste is giving evidence with a view to securing a criminal conviction against a local youth for events surrounding a demonstration in protest against the Policies of the Government of which she lead as second in command is indicative of the massive gulf that existed between her and her fellow T.D.,and Senators and the type of people she claimed to represent.
I have long been of the view that the Labour Party has long since been hijacked by a self styled elitist intelligentsia ,who pay only lip service to real Labour ideals ,but self servingly use it to advance the Liberal agenda they so dearly love and adore.
They have been to the fore in advancing the notion that there is no difference in the marriage of a man to a woman and the situation where two persons of the same gender share sexual and other propensities,when there clearly is .
Likewise their eyes are bulging to attain a situation where the killing of the defenceless unborn becomes normal practise amongst all classes .One suspects that this would be more used amongst the academic classes who dictate policy to the working drones, as they are much cleverer than ordinary beings and bridle at the very thought that a God could exist who might be superior to themselves and the taking of life is therefor of no consequence.
The electorate wised up to this nonsense and decimated the Labour Party in the last election bringing its vote down to near the level of support it has amongst those pushing its Liberal Agenda ,but has not reached that nadir yet due to the traditional support of a declining core of true Labour supporters who haven't yet abandoned ship.
Id say that these few remaining supporters are watching avidly the evidence being given by Joan in the Court case against the youth involved involved and as the evidence she offers demonstrates the vast gulf in experience between herself and the academic and superior classes she habituates and that of ordinary decent working class and put upon people that She certainly does not represent.
The fact that the former Leader of the Labour Party and former Tanaiste is giving evidence with a view to securing a criminal conviction against a local youth for events surrounding a demonstration in protest against the Policies of the Government of which she lead as second in command is indicative of the massive gulf that existed between her and her fellow T.D.,and Senators and the type of people she claimed to represent.
I have long been of the view that the Labour Party has long since been hijacked by a self styled elitist intelligentsia ,who pay only lip service to real Labour ideals ,but self servingly use it to advance the Liberal agenda they so dearly love and adore.
They have been to the fore in advancing the notion that there is no difference in the marriage of a man to a woman and the situation where two persons of the same gender share sexual and other propensities,when there clearly is .
Likewise their eyes are bulging to attain a situation where the killing of the defenceless unborn becomes normal practise amongst all classes .One suspects that this would be more used amongst the academic classes who dictate policy to the working drones, as they are much cleverer than ordinary beings and bridle at the very thought that a God could exist who might be superior to themselves and the taking of life is therefor of no consequence.
The electorate wised up to this nonsense and decimated the Labour Party in the last election bringing its vote down to near the level of support it has amongst those pushing its Liberal Agenda ,but has not reached that nadir yet due to the traditional support of a declining core of true Labour supporters who haven't yet abandoned ship.
Id say that these few remaining supporters are watching avidly the evidence being given by Joan in the Court case against the youth involved involved and as the evidence she offers demonstrates the vast gulf in experience between herself and the academic and superior classes she habituates and that of ordinary decent working class and put upon people that She certainly does not represent.
A hop,A skip and a Jump.
Like the corncrake,this expression of childish exhuberance is rarely witnessed these days.In my youth were your auld fella to give you six pence pocket money of a Sunday instead of the usual thruppence you would be hoppin,skippin and jumpin for yonks.It was a common enough sight then,not so much now.
I was therefor absolutely delighted to see a number of small grandchildren of ours hopping etc.,to their hearts content last Sunday for no particular reason other than pure bliss.
I was therefor absolutely delighted to see a number of small grandchildren of ours hopping etc.,to their hearts content last Sunday for no particular reason other than pure bliss.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
The American Presidential Race.
Aside from the shape of her genitals ,which she pushes at every opportunity ,there is nothing else to recommend Hillary Clinton.The attitude of all of the Irish Media.which is female dominated and is in general that of an uncritical cheerleader for Hillary ,may be summed up by a spake from a female journalist, who is a part of the feminist rent a panellist coterie, who described Trump as" a misogynist pig."
Imagine the politically correct furore that would burst out were any man to describe Saint Hillary as a man hating sow.
Trump has grafted into the working class and non privileged and unrepresented white populace who are despised by the College educated and privileged professional classes who live longer,get better health treatment and really don't give a fiddlers fuck about their less fortunate compatriots as they have proved time and time again.
My guess is that ,unless he is assassinated,he will win.
Were I voting I would have regard to whose hands are more covered in blood than the other.Obama and Clinton have had their hands on the levers of power for yonks.Just how many deaths they have sanctioned and are responsible for is any one's guess.
Trump has no blood on his hands.Fact.
Imagine the politically correct furore that would burst out were any man to describe Saint Hillary as a man hating sow.
Trump has grafted into the working class and non privileged and unrepresented white populace who are despised by the College educated and privileged professional classes who live longer,get better health treatment and really don't give a fiddlers fuck about their less fortunate compatriots as they have proved time and time again.
My guess is that ,unless he is assassinated,he will win.
Were I voting I would have regard to whose hands are more covered in blood than the other.Obama and Clinton have had their hands on the levers of power for yonks.Just how many deaths they have sanctioned and are responsible for is any one's guess.
Trump has no blood on his hands.Fact.
President Higgins doesn't walk the walk.
I listened to the Sean O Rourke Show during the week.There exists a gushing Blueshirt Seanad nominee Seanator called Mary Louise O Donnell.I say gushing because she is capable of spouting soliloquy of many minutes duration without pausing for breath at all and joining the breathless oral thrusts by copious usage of the conjunction "And.."
During the pro gramme she described in her usual breathless soliloquy the splendour of Aras AN UACHTARAN,the Vice Regal Lodge from the times of Empire in all its splendid glory,pausing now and again to say it was not opulent.
Of course this is arrant nonsense .It is opulence at its height and to deny it is foolish no matter how gushing you happen to be.
Now I see that The President is yet again interfering in political matters which do not fall within his remit.Had he wished to influence Government Policy as a real legislator he should have run yet again for the Dail on his Labour ticket.Perhaps he had the foresight to realize that the electorate had had enough of his Party's betrayal of working people's needs and he would be walking the plank into political obscurity ,like most of his colleagues, come the next election.
In any event he made the astute decision to continue to live high on the taxpayer hog in considerable opulence in the Aras ,whist sniping all the time from the sidelines at measures that he deems to be in amicable to the downtrodden..
All this verbal garbage from the President ,while he continues to be waited on hand and foot like the French Royalty prior to the Revolution sticks in my craw.
Methinks he should lead by example and live all of the time the more modest lifestyle of Hermit and apply the massive amounts of money he receives to the use of those he keeps blathering about.
Then he would have my respect.
During the pro gramme she described in her usual breathless soliloquy the splendour of Aras AN UACHTARAN,the Vice Regal Lodge from the times of Empire in all its splendid glory,pausing now and again to say it was not opulent.
Of course this is arrant nonsense .It is opulence at its height and to deny it is foolish no matter how gushing you happen to be.
Now I see that The President is yet again interfering in political matters which do not fall within his remit.Had he wished to influence Government Policy as a real legislator he should have run yet again for the Dail on his Labour ticket.Perhaps he had the foresight to realize that the electorate had had enough of his Party's betrayal of working people's needs and he would be walking the plank into political obscurity ,like most of his colleagues, come the next election.
In any event he made the astute decision to continue to live high on the taxpayer hog in considerable opulence in the Aras ,whist sniping all the time from the sidelines at measures that he deems to be in amicable to the downtrodden..
All this verbal garbage from the President ,while he continues to be waited on hand and foot like the French Royalty prior to the Revolution sticks in my craw.
Methinks he should lead by example and live all of the time the more modest lifestyle of Hermit and apply the massive amounts of money he receives to the use of those he keeps blathering about.
Then he would have my respect.
Muskateers Carmel and Leo 42 years married.
The Friday Rosary we started all those years ago continues.Liam has just finished painting the Church .It is resplendent.Because it was closed as a result these last few weeks we pray on the bench Flanagan's side of the Church at 6.00 p.m. on Fridays.We get some strange looks.
Carmel and Liam were 42 years married last Friday.She was chuffed.She said Leo was resting and couldn't make it.I was too polite to inquire whether he was resting after exerting himself in honour of the day or whether he was gathering strength to later savour the occasion.
From the fervour of her prayer I would say the latter.
I will have to stop this.Not very Holy I must say.
Oremus.
Carmel and Liam were 42 years married last Friday.She was chuffed.She said Leo was resting and couldn't make it.I was too polite to inquire whether he was resting after exerting himself in honour of the day or whether he was gathering strength to later savour the occasion.
From the fervour of her prayer I would say the latter.
I will have to stop this.Not very Holy I must say.
Oremus.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Bittersweet weekend in Dunderry.
Alan Brady's wake in the Funeral Home in Johnstown attracted massive crowds on Friday evening.As did his burial in Dunderry graveyard on Saturday morning.Although I was unable to attend his funeral Mass in Navan on Saturday I expect that it too was overflowing.For such a private man he has some send off.
Later on Saturday I attended the inter camogie semi final between O Mahony's and Boardsmill because my daughter Mags is captain and full back of O Mahonys.Floss Fay's daughter ,another Dunderrian ,also plays midfield.Boardsmill won handily and they are on a roll as their Junior Team also won the Junior Final earlier in the day.Seemingly all the former Trim players who are natives of Boardsmill have transferred home and they are gunning for success.
I was happy with the performance of both ladies and Mags although approaching veteran status is well able for it.
Later my own Club Dunderry played Trim in the other Inter.Camogie Semi Final.I had seen ourselves playing Trim earlier in the year and we hockeyed them so I gave it a miss on the assumption that we would repeat the dose.I was wrong as the match went to extra time and we were lucky to pluck victory out in the end.
The final should be a classic .
In the afternoon three of our lads Conor Dempsey and Lukie Martyn both of whom started and Aaron Feeney,a first cousin of Lukie .who was a sub., played with Meath against Mayo in the B UNDER 21 Hurling Final in Thurles and won .Well done all.
A huge Dunderry contingent went to Thurles the second time in a row,as many also went there to cheer on Timber Leavy's son in the B Minor All Ireland last Saturday .Unfortunately they lost
It is great to see so many from Dunderry going regularly to the Home of Hurling.
It seems that we gave A Walk over to St.Michael's in the adult B League later in the day.I don't know whether the clash with the Thurles match had anything to do with this,but it is a sad fact that this is not the first time that our second team failed to field this year.
For many years we fielded three adult football teams and two adult hurling teams .
We are now getting it hard to field two only football teams and have only one hurling team.This is compounded by our failure to field either a Minor football or Hurling Team for the first time in decades.
Clearly the Club structures need to be examined to identify the reasons for this unsatisfactory state of affairs.
My own assessment is that the Juvenile Club for a number of years has failed abysmally in its primary function of spreading and inculcating club loyalty and the promotion of the games within its own sphere and has failed to ensure a flow of youngsters into the Club proper.
I know that great work is being done at the younger age groups and that we have a small number of promising lads between 16 and 21 years but there is a lacuna in this age group as far as I can see.
My personal view is that the separate existence of the Juvenile section is not a good thing and that the Adult club ought fully subsume it now..In brief two GAA Clubs within the one Parish is not on and is failing to work properly.
Later on Saturday evening a fund raiser was held in Horan's to replenish the funds of the Lourdes Fund,which is used to help fund ill people to go to Lourdes.
As a former recipient of help from this source we supported this function as best we could ,as did a sizable and generous crowd from the Parish.This fund was established I think around the time of Peter Smith's death and its informal directors are Tommy Farrelly,Gus Martin,Deirdre Mc Cormack,Eileen Bruton and Catherine Foley.
A good night was had all round and I would guess a fair few bob raised.
On Sunday morning I went to the A league match against Bective in our pitch.There was a dreadful cross wind which made good football difficult ...Our Finn ,Lukie Martyn...injured in the U21 Hurling,Conor Dempsey and a number of other injured people were not available to start.
Basically it was a dreadful match with scores at a premium and it wasn't until the last quarter that it opened up.Bective kept trying to walk the ball into the goal but our guys had the experience and cuteness to capitalize, turn over the ball and counter attack to advantage.
We won by 3---4 to 0--7 as far as I can remember and reached our first target of promotion back to Div.2 Football,which is where we must be to make progress in years to come.
And the under 10 hurlers won the shield in a hurling blitz in Dunganny and our Padraigh played ,Proud as punch is mise.
And to cap the sweetness our grand daughter Aisling Mc Donagh dropped me in a burger from Supermacs ,cooked by herself , on her last day of this job before she returns to Maynooth on Monday I think.
She was not available for the Trim match on SATURDAY because she had to work unfortunately or fortunately depending how you look at it.
As if we didn't have enough injuries, word has just filtered through that Conor O SHEA broke his ankle in the match against Bective.
God help us all.
Later on Saturday I attended the inter camogie semi final between O Mahony's and Boardsmill because my daughter Mags is captain and full back of O Mahonys.Floss Fay's daughter ,another Dunderrian ,also plays midfield.Boardsmill won handily and they are on a roll as their Junior Team also won the Junior Final earlier in the day.Seemingly all the former Trim players who are natives of Boardsmill have transferred home and they are gunning for success.
I was happy with the performance of both ladies and Mags although approaching veteran status is well able for it.
Later my own Club Dunderry played Trim in the other Inter.Camogie Semi Final.I had seen ourselves playing Trim earlier in the year and we hockeyed them so I gave it a miss on the assumption that we would repeat the dose.I was wrong as the match went to extra time and we were lucky to pluck victory out in the end.
The final should be a classic .
In the afternoon three of our lads Conor Dempsey and Lukie Martyn both of whom started and Aaron Feeney,a first cousin of Lukie .who was a sub., played with Meath against Mayo in the B UNDER 21 Hurling Final in Thurles and won .Well done all.
A huge Dunderry contingent went to Thurles the second time in a row,as many also went there to cheer on Timber Leavy's son in the B Minor All Ireland last Saturday .Unfortunately they lost
It is great to see so many from Dunderry going regularly to the Home of Hurling.
It seems that we gave A Walk over to St.Michael's in the adult B League later in the day.I don't know whether the clash with the Thurles match had anything to do with this,but it is a sad fact that this is not the first time that our second team failed to field this year.
For many years we fielded three adult football teams and two adult hurling teams .
We are now getting it hard to field two only football teams and have only one hurling team.This is compounded by our failure to field either a Minor football or Hurling Team for the first time in decades.
Clearly the Club structures need to be examined to identify the reasons for this unsatisfactory state of affairs.
My own assessment is that the Juvenile Club for a number of years has failed abysmally in its primary function of spreading and inculcating club loyalty and the promotion of the games within its own sphere and has failed to ensure a flow of youngsters into the Club proper.
I know that great work is being done at the younger age groups and that we have a small number of promising lads between 16 and 21 years but there is a lacuna in this age group as far as I can see.
My personal view is that the separate existence of the Juvenile section is not a good thing and that the Adult club ought fully subsume it now..In brief two GAA Clubs within the one Parish is not on and is failing to work properly.
Later on Saturday evening a fund raiser was held in Horan's to replenish the funds of the Lourdes Fund,which is used to help fund ill people to go to Lourdes.
As a former recipient of help from this source we supported this function as best we could ,as did a sizable and generous crowd from the Parish.This fund was established I think around the time of Peter Smith's death and its informal directors are Tommy Farrelly,Gus Martin,Deirdre Mc Cormack,Eileen Bruton and Catherine Foley.
A good night was had all round and I would guess a fair few bob raised.
On Sunday morning I went to the A league match against Bective in our pitch.There was a dreadful cross wind which made good football difficult ...Our Finn ,Lukie Martyn...injured in the U21 Hurling,Conor Dempsey and a number of other injured people were not available to start.
Basically it was a dreadful match with scores at a premium and it wasn't until the last quarter that it opened up.Bective kept trying to walk the ball into the goal but our guys had the experience and cuteness to capitalize, turn over the ball and counter attack to advantage.
We won by 3---4 to 0--7 as far as I can remember and reached our first target of promotion back to Div.2 Football,which is where we must be to make progress in years to come.
And the under 10 hurlers won the shield in a hurling blitz in Dunganny and our Padraigh played ,Proud as punch is mise.
And to cap the sweetness our grand daughter Aisling Mc Donagh dropped me in a burger from Supermacs ,cooked by herself , on her last day of this job before she returns to Maynooth on Monday I think.
She was not available for the Trim match on SATURDAY because she had to work unfortunately or fortunately depending how you look at it.
As if we didn't have enough injuries, word has just filtered through that Conor O SHEA broke his ankle in the match against Bective.
God help us all.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Death of Alan Brady ,native of Black Road,Robinstown,Navan.
Alan 's mother and mine,both called Peggy ,were first cousins,their mothers, both Mallons, having been sisters.
Alan was reared on the Black Road in Robinstown and had a garage there until recently when he retired due to a turn he suffered while golfing.As far as I knew he recovered well from the turn but retired anyway being of the age ...66 I believe.
I had no idea he wasn't well and his death came as a complete shock to all here.
It is true for Alan and the wider Brady family that life threw many hurtful and sad hurdles before them but they kept on going regardless and put a brave face on it.
I know that he was a keen golfer in Royal Tara as we share a number of mutual friends but as as far as I can see he was an intensely private person generally.
He lived in Navan and is reposing at the Chapel of Rest in Old Johnstown from 5.00 to 9.00 p.m.today Friday 9/9/2016 with Funeral Mass tomorrow in St.Mary's Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.and burial afterward in Dunderry Cemetery.
To his surviving wife Margaret ,his children Lisa and David,his brother James,a regular fixture around Dunderry ,his sisters Anne,Nuala,and Rosaleen,other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Alan was reared on the Black Road in Robinstown and had a garage there until recently when he retired due to a turn he suffered while golfing.As far as I knew he recovered well from the turn but retired anyway being of the age ...66 I believe.
I had no idea he wasn't well and his death came as a complete shock to all here.
It is true for Alan and the wider Brady family that life threw many hurtful and sad hurdles before them but they kept on going regardless and put a brave face on it.
I know that he was a keen golfer in Royal Tara as we share a number of mutual friends but as as far as I can see he was an intensely private person generally.
He lived in Navan and is reposing at the Chapel of Rest in Old Johnstown from 5.00 to 9.00 p.m.today Friday 9/9/2016 with Funeral Mass tomorrow in St.Mary's Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.and burial afterward in Dunderry Cemetery.
To his surviving wife Margaret ,his children Lisa and David,his brother James,a regular fixture around Dunderry ,his sisters Anne,Nuala,and Rosaleen,other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
A boy of few words.
"Did you talk to Charlie today"."Nooo.""And did you talk to Tom and Blath today""Noo but thay talked to me".
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Something stinks to High Heaven re Apple appeal by Government.
I am so outraged by the Government's refusal to abide by the EU Ruling that 13 billion plus interest is due to our State and therefor us that I am nearly speechless.
Let us recap for a minute.The political pygmies who misrule us had no difficulty sticking us with a debt of 64 billion to bail out the German and French Banks and the Euro and made no appeal whatsoever bur rolled over like puppy dogs to put us in the mire and reintroduce homelessness ,child poverty ,suicide and forced an entire generation to emigrate.
Having conspired to poke one of our eyes out with a stick and half blinded us they are now completing the job by rejecting a refund of 19 billion due to us by Apple.
I have many times compared the main political parties to Oliver Cromwell in their contempt of the populace and I make no apology for this.
Compared to Dev. who in the 1930's refused to hand over the Land Commission annuities to the Brits they are pygmy shoneens ,who have gotten so used to persecuting us that it is routine at this stage.
Not only are our so called leaders rejecting billions legitimately due to us but the Revenue,with Government approval are refusing to accept payment of taxes due if made by Cheque.
Such arrogance just sucks and it amazes me that frustrated taxpayers don't band together and just refuse outright to pay any more taxes until this arrogance is checked.
Probably the reason is that this and previous Governments have handed such draconian powers to Revenue that nearly everybody lives in total fear of them.
As things stand Revenue can go into your bank account and grab whatever they decide is owed without any judicial over sight ,in the process more often than not preferring themselves to your mortgage holder and putting you on the side of the road.Likewise they can invalidate your insurance and health insurance by emptying out your account and leaving nothing to pay your premiums.
Also without judicial over sight they can send a Revenue Sheriff to sequester all your assets.
All this draconian legislation has been put on the books by all the political partied by vote in the Oireachtas in Bills signed by successive Presidents who really don't give a fiddlers fuck about ye when all is said and done.
Cromwell himself didn't have such wide ranging powers,hanging drawing and quartering apart.Probably some squirt is working on its reintroduction.
And one thing puzzles me about these Revenue Rulings over APPLE's LIABILITY TO CORPORATION TAX and it is this.
Revenue are all the time vigilant to close off loopholes the exploitation of which result in significant Revenue loss.You b can be sure for example that were a loophole to emerge that would result in a few millions loss of PAYE in a year that emergency legislation would be passed to close the loophole off.
Now the question I have is why did it take from 1991 to recently to close off this loophole where billions were left untouched by taxation.
And remember that the EU judgment just references tax due for ten years back from the start of the investigation which I think was initiated just two tears ago.How much are we talking about were we to go back to 1991.And how much in IDA Grants and other State aid.
Now Apples 37 year marriage to the Irish people......I DID NOT TAKE VOWS FOR ONE........ survived many political groupings.That is why the leaders of the political groupings .....he has many political wives male mostly from his marriage ,are bending over backwards to accommodate Mr Cooke .
They have sold us out again,hook,line and sinker.
The more skittish wives are of course hiding behind the skirts of the Revenue Commissioners and talk in cliches about red herrings and Trojan horses and whatever you are having yourself and naturally talk of further reports and investigations to hide their disgraceful disregard of the more needy and put upon citizens still on their knees.
Let us recap for a minute.The political pygmies who misrule us had no difficulty sticking us with a debt of 64 billion to bail out the German and French Banks and the Euro and made no appeal whatsoever bur rolled over like puppy dogs to put us in the mire and reintroduce homelessness ,child poverty ,suicide and forced an entire generation to emigrate.
Having conspired to poke one of our eyes out with a stick and half blinded us they are now completing the job by rejecting a refund of 19 billion due to us by Apple.
I have many times compared the main political parties to Oliver Cromwell in their contempt of the populace and I make no apology for this.
Compared to Dev. who in the 1930's refused to hand over the Land Commission annuities to the Brits they are pygmy shoneens ,who have gotten so used to persecuting us that it is routine at this stage.
Not only are our so called leaders rejecting billions legitimately due to us but the Revenue,with Government approval are refusing to accept payment of taxes due if made by Cheque.
Such arrogance just sucks and it amazes me that frustrated taxpayers don't band together and just refuse outright to pay any more taxes until this arrogance is checked.
Probably the reason is that this and previous Governments have handed such draconian powers to Revenue that nearly everybody lives in total fear of them.
As things stand Revenue can go into your bank account and grab whatever they decide is owed without any judicial over sight ,in the process more often than not preferring themselves to your mortgage holder and putting you on the side of the road.Likewise they can invalidate your insurance and health insurance by emptying out your account and leaving nothing to pay your premiums.
Also without judicial over sight they can send a Revenue Sheriff to sequester all your assets.
All this draconian legislation has been put on the books by all the political partied by vote in the Oireachtas in Bills signed by successive Presidents who really don't give a fiddlers fuck about ye when all is said and done.
Cromwell himself didn't have such wide ranging powers,hanging drawing and quartering apart.Probably some squirt is working on its reintroduction.
And one thing puzzles me about these Revenue Rulings over APPLE's LIABILITY TO CORPORATION TAX and it is this.
Revenue are all the time vigilant to close off loopholes the exploitation of which result in significant Revenue loss.You b can be sure for example that were a loophole to emerge that would result in a few millions loss of PAYE in a year that emergency legislation would be passed to close the loophole off.
Now the question I have is why did it take from 1991 to recently to close off this loophole where billions were left untouched by taxation.
And remember that the EU judgment just references tax due for ten years back from the start of the investigation which I think was initiated just two tears ago.How much are we talking about were we to go back to 1991.And how much in IDA Grants and other State aid.
Now Apples 37 year marriage to the Irish people......I DID NOT TAKE VOWS FOR ONE........ survived many political groupings.That is why the leaders of the political groupings .....he has many political wives male mostly from his marriage ,are bending over backwards to accommodate Mr Cooke .
They have sold us out again,hook,line and sinker.
The more skittish wives are of course hiding behind the skirts of the Revenue Commissioners and talk in cliches about red herrings and Trojan horses and whatever you are having yourself and naturally talk of further reports and investigations to hide their disgraceful disregard of the more needy and put upon citizens still on their knees.
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