Caveat Emptor.

Before I forget about it entirely and forever I must pass on to ye how true this principle is, especially as it relates to the purchase and sculling of pints.
I knew this fella who in his teens spent some time as a part bar boy.
He was under the control of "Two times Tommy "so called because he used count in twos when taking stock going back to the start all of the time.
For example he would go like this when counting ",two ,two four,two ,four,six,two ,four,six ,eight and so on.".
He was rarely wrong in taking stock.
Anyhow there was a time when drinking pints of Guinness was a serious and enjoyable concern and was approached by some as a social and sociable endeavour.
Now Our Man was of such a nature and not only did he dress up in his second best clothes for drinking pints but he insisted that they be pulled by the Head Barman and not by any mere bar boy .Which irked our bar boy considerably Man would gladly order the pint from the bar boy with the caveat it had to be pulled by the Head Bar Man.
And so it went.Our Man drank Monday to Friday ,6 pints every evening and took Saturday off,to freshen up for Sunday's dozen from after Mass till teatime ,when he ate a light lunch .
Two Times was the Head Barman and had some sympathy for the bar boy and his humiliation.
He promised on the quiet to sort out Our Man and did so always on a Friday....last Pint.
He saved up the slops,those bits of beer skimmed from the top of the Pint as superfluous and slid into a tray out of sight of the punter.
It wouldn't be fit for human consumption but was great to move the bowels of constipated boar pigs and was much in demand for such.
The last Pint our Man got every Friday was three quarters slops wit a milky head to make it look good,
"Too good for the auld bollix "said Two Times."Yup"said the boy.
Our Man never associated his mildly upset stomach every Saturday wit anything other than "alcoholic constipation"which he put down to the lack of drink on Saturdays and the inability to Pass a Pub.
In Dunderry the craic never ends..

Underbelly of Blanchardstown.

I have written some articles on Blanchardstown and contributed to some forums always in a decent and humorous way.
Probably I have looked back through rose coloured lenses and omitted the ugly underbelly always viciously present and screened from view by lowly bred persons with cumulative chips on their puny and screwed up shoulders.
For my efforts I have been called a "Wanking Fucking Scumbag and a Fat Fuck that should lose weight."by some anonymous cowards whose comments would mirror their parents lack of breeding and decency.
All this stuff can be traced you know were I to report it to the Gardai.
I might yet so keep a look over your shoulders ,

U.21B.F.C.SEMI FINAL .Oldcastle 3-11.Dunderry 3-5

Played this Sunday morning at mid day in a sunny and mild Athboy pitch this match between traditional rivals was eagerly anticipated.
Would our guys hold their heads,keep their mouths shut ,concentrate on playing the sort of football they are capable of,or would the few bad apples we can have infect the rest of the team with their disruptive behaviour.
I was about five minutes late and scores were hard to come by.The teams were well matched physically and skill wise.Thirteen a side football is an enjoyable experience.I played it myself in my youth and loved it.It requires skill,athleticism and intelligence and gives great scope for creativity.
The biggest sin is stray passing ,closely followed by lack of concentration.
I had heard that there was some doubt about the availability of some of our guys.I didn't see Jamie Leavy nor Shane Gartland who played the last day and don#t know the story with them.' Team Lined out as follows;

                                                       Eoin Smith

Alex Walshe                                                                                     Aaron Feeney 

Stefan Clarke                           Conor Dempsey                              Tomas Conroy

                Mark Kane                                     Cianan Mc Kenna

Conor Daly                                 Oisin Martin                                Jack Brady


Luke Martin                                                                             Peter Casey.

Oldcastle took an early points lead and our game plan became clear.It was to get the ball speedily to Lukie who is a big guy ,a good man to win possession and well able to score.Oisin Martyn is a perpetual motion machine and an intelligent and unselfish player and has developed physically in recent years.
Alex Walsh is ,despite his small stature ,a brave and creative player and an incisive distributor of the ball.
We got two goals within a minute after 15 minutes due mainly to astute passing and intelligent layoffs from the aforementioned players.
Lukie was hauled down for a peno and Mc Kenna dispatched to the net with panache.Lukie followed up with a well taken goal himself shortly afterwords and I noted that theses scores were match changing  events.Then to cap it all Oisin followed on to a botched save by the Oldcastle goalkeeper to finish to the net.All our guys were on song and Oldcastle were clearly rattled and missed a number of easy point chances.
They did steady up somewhat and when the break came we led comfortably by 3-3 to 0-7 and deservedly so.
With little or no breeze we looked more likely to win than lose.
I am not saying that the other players we have ,other than the three I have mentioned ,are bit players.They most certainly are not and all contributed well to our well being in fact,putting it all on the line.
All we had to do was keep the head and the discipline and the mouths shut.
Actually we got only 0-3 in the second half and they got 3-4.Now the referee wasn't great but in fairness to him was the same to each side.And they had some fine players,Chances  they were spurning in the first half  started to find their range.
Bad habits tolerated by the Club in a small minority of our guys when they were not yet  teens resurfaced,encouraged in no small part from uncouth crowd shouting , and infected our responses.
Instead of steadying the ship and consolidating our lead some, but not all of our guys ,resorted to mouth play against theitr teammate's and whoever crossed their paths.
Oldcastle responded by chipping away at our lead and scored a good goal and a softish  one to draw level.
With the fat in the fire our response was not what was needed.We lost the initiative entirely and the plot also.
A harmless free for all developed on the far side of the pitch from me.No more than the man in the moon I couldn't see what happened.
The referee sorted it without sending anyone to the line,but Oldcastle continued to hold firm and played with more cohesion and authority.
After the bust up the umpires took a more proactive approach and one of our boys received line after an umpires intervention.
This totally unsettled us entirely and despite one of their guys getting line also they grew in a stature as we faded into our cocoons.
Instead of concentrating on football,as I heard Conor Dempsey urging us to do ,as the end approached ,enough of our guys stopped trying when a more spirited response was needed.
Barry Coffey and Mikie Dowdall came on too late to make a difference.
I was not impresses with the response of some of our guys when the chips were down and consider the lack of ambition of some of our players deplorable.
It is totalally unfair on those who week in and out bust a gut in the Club's interest.
We got some fine scores as follows;-Conroy 0-1.Mc Kenna 1-0.Pen.Kane 0-2 .1 FREE,Oisin 1-0,Lukie 1-2.

U21 f F.C Dunderry 3-10 Moynalty 2-10

There was severe ground frost on Saturday night but by 2.00 p.m. Sunday the Kilmainham Pitch was the finest and well fit to play on.
I don't know for sure but guess that Moynalty and ourselves draw from a similar population base.I do know that Paul Govern who now lives here is a Moynalty man and played with us for a few years.He was also a selector for a year or two I think.
Other than that our paths don't cross too often and in my time at least ,Dunderry have been the more prominent Club.
So I didn't know what to expect today.
 The team.

                                                             Eoin Smith,

Alex Walshe                                                                                   Jamie Leavy

Stefan Clarke                               Conor Dempsey   0-1                         Tomas Conroy 0-1

                       Cianan McKENNA                 Mark Kane 0-2  frees

Eoin Daly   0-3. 2.Frees                                     Oisin Martin   1-1                            Jack Brady 0-1

                  Luke Martin    1-1                                           Shane Gartland


Subs used.C. Harten,Aaron Feeney,Mickey Dowdall.

For the benefit of our overseas readers Eoin Smith is the son of Patricia Smith and Flange Farrelly.Jamie Leavy is Timber's son,his ma is a daughter of Paddy Kavanagh who refeered an All Ireland and Mary Lawless of Lawlesses Cross.Alex Walshe,child of rabid Dublin supporters , is a Dub.in exile from the Black Road.Stefan Clarke is the son of Stephen and Anne who live in Kilcooley.At least one of his parents,I am unsure which ,is from Moynalty I   think.Conor is Dermot ,the Judges,son.Tomas Conroy is the Son of Tommy from Lambay and his mother is a Curran.Cianan Mc Kenna is from Robinstown and I think his father played with them before they gave it up.Mark Kane is from Robinstown and his Da also played with them too.It is a fact that his Firm Ashleaf Furniture sponsored Robinstown in 1986 and sponsored a sign for us in 2016.Eoin Daly is one of the sons of Dan Daly and Rose Loughran from Robinstown.Oisin Martin is the son of Gerry ,a Slane native now happily living amongst us.Jack Brady is the son of Paudi,a Blanchie in exile here like myself.I met his mother only brirfly and she too is from my part of the coiuntryLukie is the son of Galway expat Gus and Olive Feeney.
Shane is Kevin Brady's son from the Black Road and there for a cousin of my own.I don't know his Ma but if he is anything to go by she must be a great one.
I don't know young Harten that well..Aaron is the son of Tommy Feeney and his mother is member of the Sugsie Kennedy clan of Trim ,Gaels par excellence.And Mickey Dowdall is a member of the Dowdall family whose patriarch is the the most rabid Brit supporter we have and whose attention to detail is of enormous help to me.
Now you have it all.
I was 5 minutes late and we were behind by 1-1 to 0-1 at that stage.To be truthful both teams were evenly matched skill wise and physically conditioned.We probably held the edge on combination play ,the more experienced guys having the wiser and more calm interplay .By half time we had drawn level and looked the surer bet to prevail on  SCORELINE OF 1-5 TO 1-5.
like Ireland against the All Blacks yesterday MOYNALTY dominated the second half  but wasted chance after chance to pull away.We on the other hand harvested well the few breaks into opposition territory and we made and banked enough scores to see us through.
Goals win matches and probably the second half one scored by Lukie with half the opposition hanging out of him was the decisive score of the second half.Nor could you exclude the improbable save made by OWEN SMITH who denied a certain goal to Moynalty during a ten minute period in the second half when we were under siege .
Another similarity we had with the Irish Rugby Team yesterday was that there was far too much speech play from a small number of our players to the referee.
Against better opposition these guys would be better employed letting their football do their talking.
The team remains on track to be the only team at adult level in the Club at can win a championship this year.
This was a good game right up to the final whistle.

Four Parishes hammer Dunderry in under 21 Hurling

Tonight in Dunganny the Blackhall/Drumree combination absolutely hammered Dundery in the under 21 Hurling.
Blackhall is a combination of Batterstown and Kilcloon.Drumree includes Dunshaughlin.
Our lads did their best but the opposition had too many good players for us to manage.
Poor Lukie Martin was ridden bareback by about three players every time he got possession.How he stuck it I don't know.
Were Pat Gannon,one of the best hurling referees in Meath,to apply he letter of the law half of the opposition would be put to the line for serial saddling.
Not only did they beat us pulling up they easily won the mouthing at the Referee contest both on thr field and sideline.A number of their players just can't keep their mouths shut and one only got line.
Former Dunderry Player Kit Doyle is a selector.
Kit used let his hurling do his talking.Presumably he will inculcate this message in  his charges before their next Match.
Our guys gave it all they had in the tank.No shame and I AM PROUD OF THEM.
More to follow.

Dunddry Team.

                                                   Eoin Smith.

Aaron Feeney                                                                                 Tomas Conroy.

Mickey Dowdall                           Conor Dempsey                           Killian Leonard.

                                 Luke Martin                      Jamie Leavy

Alan Casey                                Stefan Clarke                                       Peter Casey

 John Moran                                                                                 Alex Walsh.

Subs used.Adam Keenan and Cathal Ryan.

It never ceases to amaze me that the top table of the GAA  so cravenly follow Sean Kelly in the betrayal of the ASSOCIATION by kow towing to the Rugby heads by making available our hard earned grounds to those self same professional Bodies who are in competition with us for the minds and hearts of our youth.
In this PARISH at least two of our schools are being targeted by these people to the detriment of our native games.
By the craven granting of our grounds to further glorify and promote the game of Rugby these people are sending out the unmistakable signals that Rugby is the game to follow no problem.
It would serve them better to for example address the huge lacuna in the promotion of hurling in  the large swathe of the County Meath where it takes four Parishes housing tens of thousands of people to field 13 players.
You don#t see Tesco handing over their stores to Dunnes to advance Dunnes.Why should the GAA actively promote their opposition.
What next...Ireland's Call at our games instead of Amhran na Fianna.
With all the the feelings I can muster and defter spending  A half century promoting the GAMES OF THE Gaels I  strongly disassociate myself from this betrayal.

Sean O Rourke a total ignoramus.

In fairness to O Rourke he broadcast this morning an interview he did with the President in waiting of the USA on his visit to Ireland some years ago to open the Hotel he had bought in Co.Clare.
Such a condescending, insulting ,biased , racist....anti American and anti white heterosexual ....and just plain ignorant interview would be hard to find anywhere in the civilized world.
He is not alone in the Repeatedly Threatening Everybody Station in this.
Those female political  reporters are clearly miffed at Trumph's win and at every opportunity whistle through their overbite teeth how the fascist bullies holding various cities in the USA to ransom are there because of Trump's victory,implying it is his fault,
Of course Gandhi foresaw their ilk many moons ago when he said"First they ignore you.Then they laugh at you.Then they fight you.Then you win,"
O Rourke and his fellow travellers and sneers have some way to go yet.
As for Enda a very public humble pie swallow and apology is needed in the Interest of our Country.

Sickening double standards of Secularist.

I watched the one sided debate on the Late Show overseen by a sneering and condescending Ryan Tubridy who wore his wimpish colours on his sleeve and did all in his power to talk down both to a  to a guest and us ,who pay his wages through our Licence fees.
The guest supported the election of Trump in the American election,as did the American electorate .
She was consistently sneered at and belittled by Tubridy and a simpering female guest who makes a habit of lecturing all and sundry as a serial panellist ,voicing her anti male vitriol ,called Collette Brown.
She seemingly attends the Kings Inns and mustn't yet have done the part of the course teaching manners as she continuously interrupted ,with Tubridy's ignorant connivance ,any contributions which disagreed with her own sad views.
In this she is at one with the feminist /secular media ,both electronic and paper based ,who get every call of importance totally wrong,deride,talk down and mock those whose views they constantly sneer at and are democrats only if the results of elections and referrenda suit their agendas.
As far as I can see the vast majority of political contributors,panellist and deplorable so called journalists working for RTE....Repeatedly Threatening Everybody ...are  ad idem in promoting the murder of the unborn ,deriding Religious practise,promoting homosexual practise and values ,sneering at white native heterosexual values and those who appreciate them as naturally superior to the alternatives.
And of course all the papers are top heavy with biased and condescending journalists and editors who push the secularist agenda at every opportunity ,particularly the female ones who totally expect to say whatever they want about men and sulk and scream like the spoilt and spiteful wains they are when they are responded to in like fashion..
For example there is a female h journalist called Alison O  Connor,A SERIAL PANELLIST AND LOUDMOUTH .who before the American election called the present President of the USA  a misogynist pig.
Can you imagine just how she would squeal were any man to call her a man hating and penis envy auld sow..
Now Tubridy and his ilk have made much play of the use of the word "pussy "by Trump in a private male context years ago,which content was released on tape by a sneaky and underhand  Trump opponent who wasn't man enough to take  his beating.
Hillary,whose own husband rode everything female that moved when he was able expressed shock and awe that such a word would privately be bandied around.
Given the choice I'd say she would rest easier in her retirement were her husband just to have grabbed another woman's privates rather than engage in much more intimate sexual practises.
Similarly the wimp Tubridy says he is aghast that anyone should use the pussy word in private conversation and wonders how he would explain it to his daughters.
Maybe he is such a bookworm that he is not aware the there is a whole world of porn available on the Internet and that that precise word is probably the most used and violated organ on it.
How he is going to protect his daughters from this is something he would want to figure out sooner rather than later.And to blame Trump is arrant nonsense.
It is no surprise that the people who most wanted the banning of censorship and the publication are of course the self same secularists who now feign shock at the grooming of wider society by the publication of material of a sexual nature.
Just a few years ago the antics of the "pussy rioters "as they flashed their tits at all and sundry and violated Churches all over the place ,were widely reported in all the media outlets including RTE and presently the death of Leonard Cohen is being widely lamented by ALL AND SUNDRY.
Leonard celebrates  far more female interaction than grabbing pussy in his songs .
Of course the antics of the Pussy Rioters and the songs of Cohen are far more hip and acceptable to the secularist know all and feminist academics and not a word from then nor their wimpish and academic co travellers either then nor now.
But dare a male heterosexual white man to have  have mentioned it nearly a decade ago and all hell breaks loose.
Talking of Hell I hope that the millions of pre born children who died unnecessarily because of the grooming of the populace by secularist and rabid feminist with the assistance of Devilish medics and evil judges and lawyers are stokers of the fires of Hell and are granted grace by God to keep these fires going on those whose persuasion and assistance resulted in their deaths.
I exclude from this those women brainwashed into doing these deeds by these dastardly persons.
And finally it never ceases to amaze me just how the man haters and their ilk continuously get away with defining what a real man is and does.
What would they know about  it.
Fortunately the American electorate is not yet pussy whipped enough to accept all this bullshit without a fight.
And so they have chosen.
Of course the Hillary fascists,so used to killing the defenceless unborn without opposition are just unable to accept that their day is gone and that the election is not going to be rerun to suit them.
Hopefully they will discover that persons of their own age will put up more fight than the defenceless unborn whose blood spilling they miss totally.
Justice demands they be rounded up and given spades and shovels to dig that wall.
Should soften their coughs.
AND  I BELIEVE THAT ABORTION IS PUSHED AND POPULARIZED  BY THE ELITE TO ENSURE THAT THE LESS FORTUNATE WILL NEVER HAVE THE NUMBERS TO EVICT SAID ELITE FROM THEIR COMFORTABLE AND SNUG STATIONS IN LIFE.
It's an awful pitythat those who claim to represent the poor as so blinkered that they can't see  this and by their support of abortion perpetuate the status quo.
Of course when you sup with the Devil you need a long spoon.aAnd they are plentiful.

Dunderry triumph over Ballivor in u 21 football.

Last night in Dunganny was the most miserable,hateful and despicable night weather wise I have ever experienced.
The rain sliced into the body,the icy wind cut into the flesh and your glasses would need wipers to see through the spills.
It is a greet tribute to the lads who togged out for Dunderry in the game against Ballivor therefor that they took to the field and  stayed there.I m glad to see that  some of them have ballsed up these last few years..
I think little of those eligible to play who made the choice not to make themselves available.In the most important and unique chance the hurlers got to play Bennetsbridge a number of years ago some people also choose not to be available ..This is not good enough
 David Newman who travelled home from America seven times to play the year we won the Senior Football championship sets the acceptable standard in availability and this should be aspired to  by all involved.
Anyhow those who defied the conditions to stay and play did the Club proud and at half time led by 2-12 to 1-2 with the assistance of a gale force wind and driving rain.
When we got another goal after the half time whistle I  couldn't stick it any longer and bolted for home.Our Finn who stood for the duration informed me that we won handy.
There will be harder tests.
 We won by 4-15 to 2-8 in the end and this is a fair reflection of what I witnessed myself during my stay there
The team

                                  Owen Smith

        Alex Walshe                          Tomas Conroy

Stefan Clarke       Oisin Martin  0-1               Jamie Leavy

                         Conor Mc Kenna           Lukie Martin 1-3

Eoghan Daly 0-1      Mark Kane  0-4.3 frees           Mickey Dowdall  1-0

           Peter Casey                         Jack Brady 1-5

Introduced, .S Gartland  1-0,C.Coffey,A.Casey.                        .
We must have a record number of selectors for a Dunderry team.
Garret Dooley is Manager.Selectors are Stephen O Rourke,Eric Murray,Trevor Conaty,Paddy Darcy and Paddy Gorey as far as I know...between two and three  players per selector.
Moynalty is up next in football.
I know that a number of players who did play have the talent to make it at a higher level..
The question is whether they have they the attitude,dedication and determination to do so.
The next match will tell its own story.

A Tinkers Tale

Last Friday night I had to give a miss to the Dunderry Div.3 League Final against Syddan to attend a class reunion at which guys I hadn't met for 40 years were present.
The do was held in Brady;s in Dunboyne,a great pub as it turned out.As I was parking outside the pub a very pregnant tinker woman came to me and told me that her cousin had committed suicide ,was being received into Dunboyne Church and she had no money to get home to Maynooth.,Could I give her the fare.
Always a sucker for a hard luck case I  gave her a tenner.
I watched her and saw her hand it to a guy hidden in a doorway who promptly went into an off licence and buy wine with it.
Well fuck you said I.Never again.
The following morning I had to go to Dublin and decided to get the Dublin bus from Navan,On the way to the bus stop I had to stop to take a stone out of my shoe.Those who know me well would know that I am fairly disabled after a stroke and have very limited mobility.
I  had to find a shop front and sit down on the cill to put my leg sideways to remove my shoe and remove the stone.I was getting it hard to put the shoe back on and fasten the Velcro to move on.
And the only person to stop and fix me up was another tinker."See ya soon Daithi"said he,
Well fuck me pink.

Burial of Ashes of Seamus Smith.

When I went to the Church for 11.00 a.m. Mass on Sunday it was full of Smiths .It dawned on me that it must have been time for the burial of his Ashes,as he had gone to a Crematorium instead of the graveyard after his funeral Mass.
And so it turned out to be.
A good crowd went down to the graveyard after Mass including me fein.
For the record the ceremony is precisely the same for the burial of ashes as it is for remains.
May God have mercy on his soul.