The present graveyard in Dunderry was gifted by Pat Darcy deceased to the Parish when Father Flood was the Parish Priest.
This man was the father of John,Billy and Paddy all deceased .Cyril is the only living son and I understand that there was a short lived daughter Marcella,who died either at birth or shortly afterward.
Any house hunter will be acutely aware that it is nigh impossible to buy a house in the Parish .
As for building a house the number of hurdles that must be jumped are limitless and soul destroying.
As it is with the living so it is with the dead.
There are no more plots available in Dunderry graveyard and those with family plots in older graveyards find it nigh impossible to get a grave opened because of County Council Regulations relating to disturbing possible ancient relics.
One would think it great therefor were a Parishioner to donate more land for use as a graveyard.
Well Willie Darcy ,a grandson of the aforementioned Pat has offered a plot beside Retaine graveyard to Meath County Council For FREE and guess what.They are unwilling to accept this gift.
So soon you will have to bury your next of kin outside the Parish while these officious bureaucrats do all in their power to deny the decent folk of the Parish the possibility to be buried locally.
AND YOU WONDER WHY SUCH A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE FLED THIS COUNTRY OVER THE DECADES.
Surely thee is a limit to nonsense.Seemingly not.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Death of Anne Foley,Yellow Walls.
Anne Foley --nee Sherry--- from the Yellow Walls ,Dunderry has died unexpectedly in Navan Hospital.She survived her late husband Dermot by a number of years.
The best compliment I can pay them is to say that one was nicer and more decent than the other.
The same applies to their children Catherine,Noleen,Anne,Patricia,Valery and Patrick.
Catherine,Noleen and Patrick live locally and all the family are highly respected and as honest and decent as the day is long.
Dermot never lost his Kerry accent nor Anne her Meath one
.It is only a short time since Seamus and Eugene Smith and Sheila Bird and Mrs Tim Coffey from the Yellow Walls also passed away,so there is a massive loss of decency from that Townland.
Locals will know that her son Patrick had a misfortunate accident whilst a young child and that he requires constant care since and My God he got and gets it in spades from the entire family in the home place ,especially from Anne ,who carried the responsibility with dignity and good grace as indeed do the rest of the exemplary family .
She was one lovely and gracious lady from the very top drawer of humanity.
Her remains will be reposing in St.Joseph's Chapel of rest in Johnstown from 4.00 to 6.00 P.M. .tomorrow Wednesday 25 th October to arrive at Dunderry Church at 7.00 P.M.
Funeral Mass is at Noon on Thursday 26th October ,with burial in local graveyard afterwards.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
The best compliment I can pay them is to say that one was nicer and more decent than the other.
The same applies to their children Catherine,Noleen,Anne,Patricia,Valery and Patrick.
Catherine,Noleen and Patrick live locally and all the family are highly respected and as honest and decent as the day is long.
Dermot never lost his Kerry accent nor Anne her Meath one
.It is only a short time since Seamus and Eugene Smith and Sheila Bird and Mrs Tim Coffey from the Yellow Walls also passed away,so there is a massive loss of decency from that Townland.
Locals will know that her son Patrick had a misfortunate accident whilst a young child and that he requires constant care since and My God he got and gets it in spades from the entire family in the home place ,especially from Anne ,who carried the responsibility with dignity and good grace as indeed do the rest of the exemplary family .
She was one lovely and gracious lady from the very top drawer of humanity.
Her remains will be reposing in St.Joseph's Chapel of rest in Johnstown from 4.00 to 6.00 P.M. .tomorrow Wednesday 25 th October to arrive at Dunderry Church at 7.00 P.M.
Funeral Mass is at Noon on Thursday 26th October ,with burial in local graveyard afterwards.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Its beginning to make sense.
At a most enjoyable wedding yesterday I had time to think outside the box for a few minutes and absorb the concealed rage simmering within my breast.
Taking it in age order.
One guy at my table of pension age had over half his siblings living for decades in England ,some of them having died there.
Another guy of similar age had two sons living in the States and one in Sas.The States guys were working for another bloke from the Parish and they had recently been joined by another young lad from this Parish.UP to ten guys from this Parish socializes regularly in that part of the States .
I myself have IRISH relations under 35 living in France,Australia and Canada.
Over 100 yeas ago 8 of my grandfather's siblings emigrated to the States never to return.
During the wedding announcements congratulatory notices were read from as far away as California,Boston ,Dubai and Australia.
One wedding guest lives in Scotland ,as does her sister.Both are under 30.
A common theme running through our conversations was the living hell being experienced by relations of people needing serious heart surgery and their inability to get to the top of the huge queues and the fear that the sick would die before their turn for operations came.
I conclude that one generation of politicians is as bad as the other and that little has changed in real terms over the years.
Membership of the EU has not changed a thing and I don't see why people are so fired up about Brexit or remaining.
As far as I can see it makes no difference whether The Brits of the Europeans pull our strings.
We still are served the same shit.
Only The clowns running the circus change .The circus remains the same.
Possibly the only way to change things for the better is to do to politicians what an uncle of mine wanted to do to referees and that is to shoot a random one every Sunday.
It mightn't be fair but would surely sharpen up the rest
Taking it in age order.
One guy at my table of pension age had over half his siblings living for decades in England ,some of them having died there.
Another guy of similar age had two sons living in the States and one in Sas.The States guys were working for another bloke from the Parish and they had recently been joined by another young lad from this Parish.UP to ten guys from this Parish socializes regularly in that part of the States .
I myself have IRISH relations under 35 living in France,Australia and Canada.
Over 100 yeas ago 8 of my grandfather's siblings emigrated to the States never to return.
During the wedding announcements congratulatory notices were read from as far away as California,Boston ,Dubai and Australia.
One wedding guest lives in Scotland ,as does her sister.Both are under 30.
A common theme running through our conversations was the living hell being experienced by relations of people needing serious heart surgery and their inability to get to the top of the huge queues and the fear that the sick would die before their turn for operations came.
I conclude that one generation of politicians is as bad as the other and that little has changed in real terms over the years.
Membership of the EU has not changed a thing and I don't see why people are so fired up about Brexit or remaining.
As far as I can see it makes no difference whether The Brits of the Europeans pull our strings.
We still are served the same shit.
Only The clowns running the circus change .The circus remains the same.
Possibly the only way to change things for the better is to do to politicians what an uncle of mine wanted to do to referees and that is to shoot a random one every Sunday.
It mightn't be fair but would surely sharpen up the rest
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time for Catholics to leave Fine Gael.
Time was when Fine Gael was the Party of Conservative Catholicism.Take Liam Cosgrave as an example.Even though his father was the instigator of the murder of 4 jailed Republican for pure retaliatory reasons ,without the benefit of charge or trial of any description,he professed a deep Catholic Faith even to the extent of voting against the Bill of his own Party to liberise the availability of condoms.
I feel that he may have had a point in this as it seems certain that the plight of the children of lone parents is worse than that of the children of married parents and even divorced parents and the casual approach to sexual activity encouraged by the availability of condoms is an inevitable cause of the proliferation of one parent families.
One good thing about the change in values of this society however is that the supposed shame of producing children outside of wedlock is not what it was and many parents do not feel for example the necessity to emigrate to protect their secret children and have the support and courage to balls it out.
Nor do they feel the need to abort them thank God.
Anyhow back to the Blue shirts.
Not for the first time I heard a serial Fine Gael panellist from Louth named O Dowd slag off the Catholic Church for failing to ordain WOMEN into the priesthood and tie this fact into the rape of women vis a vis the serial riding of a guy called Weinfield ---hardly a Catholic name I suggest ---of Hollywood film stars.
This is not the first time I have heard this political non entity belittling Catholic teaching and I wonder what his beef with Catholics is.
He would be better served by getting his buddies to treat those women of Ireland who devoted their time to rearing their children full time as equal citizens and granting them equal pensions to their sisters who worked outside the home..
Seemingly equality only applies if you are like his leader and prefer people of your own sex to that of the opposite sex and fix your public appearances to coincide with the nearest gay pride march.
But he is not the only Blueshirter to do his best to undermine Catholic teaching.
Another Senator called Noone is in the frame for blatantly promulgating the pro choice side over the pro life side by two members of the Oireachtas Committee she chairs on the issue of repealing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution ,which accords equal importance to the lives of unborn child and its mother,
The two members of the Committee are an Independent Dail member Mattie Mc Grath and a Senator Ronan Mullins and are so pissed that they are threatening to resign unless fair play is given.
Given that the Mistress of the National Maternity Hospital thinks so little of the lives of the ill unborn children entrusted to her care that she downplays the sanctity of their right to life at every opportunity and that a former Master is so hostile to the ownership of a Hospital by A Catholic Order of nuns that he regards their right to hold religious views ,ensure the practise of these views and their right to hold property in the same light as the framers of the Penal Laws ,one wonders whether the men and women of 1916 and the War of Independence fought in vain to throw off the yokes of Oppression by Masters and Mistresses and hostility to Catholicism .
Who the fuck are these condescending shites to decide what is appropriate or not.Maybe they believe that their titles entitle them to GOD status.Well not in my book.
The sneering hostility towards Catholicism was further aired on RTE by an academic called Crow on the Sean O Rourke show this week when she belittled the dress mode of Catholic Bishops when making the ridiculous claim that Catholicism was a parallel Government to the State in recent decades.
She ought consult her fellow legal academics on this issue and she would discover that Canon Law never held sway in this State.She will recognise them from the mortar boards, gowns and sashes they wear,
What is really worrying is that the State broadcaster would give unfettered air time to such a clear anti Catholic Bigot and that her remarks were allowed to air without contradiction.
And her sickening efforts to cloak her bigotry by contrasting well known Catholics such as Father Mc Verry.SisterStan etc to the men with the funny clothes--an old Brit thing of divide and conquer ---speaks for itself..She did learn well indeed .
Of course RTE have form in this regard..Didn't the taxpayer have to payout defamatory millions to a Priest they accused of fathering children he didn't father.
As is said hereabouts "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT".
But back to ther Blueshirts.
Bruton of the thousand acres uses every opportunity that comes his way to chip away at the use of Catholic ethos in Catholic Schools ,on the basis that State money cannot be used to further religious morals.
Firstly the State generates no money.It gathers it from the populace.85 per centage of the populace defines itself as Catholic.Despite the hostility towards Catholicism displayed by people like him and his ilk this 85 per cent must surely be entitled to have their ethos promulgated in the schools.
What is being promulgated by the anti Catholic brigade is that no religion is the same as the State position. This is a huge con.And it is time it was called out.
Then we have a Minister of Health ,who IS RESPONSIBLE for heading a hospital waiting list of over 700,000 in A COUNTRY OF LESS THAN 5 MILLION ,belittling a Catholic Bishop who dared question a medical programme he is responsible for.
I recently spent 24 hours in a corridor in an A and E.dept with a sick pensioner on a trolley along with many other elderly sick patients because the heroic staff were overworked and ill equipped facility wise to deal with the patients with the standard of care they deserve.
Were I Simon Harris I would hang my head in shame.
As for the Esquire from Enniskerry ,he will not rest until he has denuded Rural Ireland of people, bar the super rich like himself , and drives the few remaining inhabitants into total and absolute isolation .
T'WOULD SICKEN YOU ENTIRELY.
I feel that he may have had a point in this as it seems certain that the plight of the children of lone parents is worse than that of the children of married parents and even divorced parents and the casual approach to sexual activity encouraged by the availability of condoms is an inevitable cause of the proliferation of one parent families.
One good thing about the change in values of this society however is that the supposed shame of producing children outside of wedlock is not what it was and many parents do not feel for example the necessity to emigrate to protect their secret children and have the support and courage to balls it out.
Nor do they feel the need to abort them thank God.
Anyhow back to the Blue shirts.
Not for the first time I heard a serial Fine Gael panellist from Louth named O Dowd slag off the Catholic Church for failing to ordain WOMEN into the priesthood and tie this fact into the rape of women vis a vis the serial riding of a guy called Weinfield ---hardly a Catholic name I suggest ---of Hollywood film stars.
This is not the first time I have heard this political non entity belittling Catholic teaching and I wonder what his beef with Catholics is.
He would be better served by getting his buddies to treat those women of Ireland who devoted their time to rearing their children full time as equal citizens and granting them equal pensions to their sisters who worked outside the home..
Seemingly equality only applies if you are like his leader and prefer people of your own sex to that of the opposite sex and fix your public appearances to coincide with the nearest gay pride march.
But he is not the only Blueshirter to do his best to undermine Catholic teaching.
Another Senator called Noone is in the frame for blatantly promulgating the pro choice side over the pro life side by two members of the Oireachtas Committee she chairs on the issue of repealing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution ,which accords equal importance to the lives of unborn child and its mother,
The two members of the Committee are an Independent Dail member Mattie Mc Grath and a Senator Ronan Mullins and are so pissed that they are threatening to resign unless fair play is given.
Given that the Mistress of the National Maternity Hospital thinks so little of the lives of the ill unborn children entrusted to her care that she downplays the sanctity of their right to life at every opportunity and that a former Master is so hostile to the ownership of a Hospital by A Catholic Order of nuns that he regards their right to hold religious views ,ensure the practise of these views and their right to hold property in the same light as the framers of the Penal Laws ,one wonders whether the men and women of 1916 and the War of Independence fought in vain to throw off the yokes of Oppression by Masters and Mistresses and hostility to Catholicism .
Who the fuck are these condescending shites to decide what is appropriate or not.Maybe they believe that their titles entitle them to GOD status.Well not in my book.
The sneering hostility towards Catholicism was further aired on RTE by an academic called Crow on the Sean O Rourke show this week when she belittled the dress mode of Catholic Bishops when making the ridiculous claim that Catholicism was a parallel Government to the State in recent decades.
She ought consult her fellow legal academics on this issue and she would discover that Canon Law never held sway in this State.She will recognise them from the mortar boards, gowns and sashes they wear,
What is really worrying is that the State broadcaster would give unfettered air time to such a clear anti Catholic Bigot and that her remarks were allowed to air without contradiction.
And her sickening efforts to cloak her bigotry by contrasting well known Catholics such as Father Mc Verry.SisterStan etc to the men with the funny clothes--an old Brit thing of divide and conquer ---speaks for itself..She did learn well indeed .
Of course RTE have form in this regard..Didn't the taxpayer have to payout defamatory millions to a Priest they accused of fathering children he didn't father.
As is said hereabouts "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT".
But back to ther Blueshirts.
Bruton of the thousand acres uses every opportunity that comes his way to chip away at the use of Catholic ethos in Catholic Schools ,on the basis that State money cannot be used to further religious morals.
Firstly the State generates no money.It gathers it from the populace.85 per centage of the populace defines itself as Catholic.Despite the hostility towards Catholicism displayed by people like him and his ilk this 85 per cent must surely be entitled to have their ethos promulgated in the schools.
What is being promulgated by the anti Catholic brigade is that no religion is the same as the State position. This is a huge con.And it is time it was called out.
Then we have a Minister of Health ,who IS RESPONSIBLE for heading a hospital waiting list of over 700,000 in A COUNTRY OF LESS THAN 5 MILLION ,belittling a Catholic Bishop who dared question a medical programme he is responsible for.
I recently spent 24 hours in a corridor in an A and E.dept with a sick pensioner on a trolley along with many other elderly sick patients because the heroic staff were overworked and ill equipped facility wise to deal with the patients with the standard of care they deserve.
Were I Simon Harris I would hang my head in shame.
As for the Esquire from Enniskerry ,he will not rest until he has denuded Rural Ireland of people, bar the super rich like himself , and drives the few remaining inhabitants into total and absolute isolation .
T'WOULD SICKEN YOU ENTIRELY.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Glad day for Dundrrry Camogie.
The first ever Intermediate Camogie All Ireland Medal came to Dunderry yesterday ,when Aoife Minogue played a significant role in Meath's defeat of Cork in replayed final in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.
It is never easy to beat Cork in anything GAA and it is a noticeable scalp for Meath Camogie.
It seems a long time now since John Davis and for a while his son,took over as team manager and in that time .Meath have clawed their way up the ranks.
As president and founder member of the Club I couldn't be prouder.
All those who kept the Camogie going in years gone bye and those currently at the helm should take a bow.
We hope that Meath will make their mark at Senior level now that they have got there.
Claire Coffey ,whose mother is descended from Aggie Commons from Betaghstown and resides in Baconstown was team captain.
Her father Matt is a friend ,except on match days when our Clubs oppose each other.
No doubt Aoife gets her hurling genes from her Beaumount mother Miriam.
It is never easy to beat Cork in anything GAA and it is a noticeable scalp for Meath Camogie.
It seems a long time now since John Davis and for a while his son,took over as team manager and in that time .Meath have clawed their way up the ranks.
As president and founder member of the Club I couldn't be prouder.
All those who kept the Camogie going in years gone bye and those currently at the helm should take a bow.
We hope that Meath will make their mark at Senior level now that they have got there.
Claire Coffey ,whose mother is descended from Aggie Commons from Betaghstown and resides in Baconstown was team captain.
Her father Matt is a friend ,except on match days when our Clubs oppose each other.
No doubt Aoife gets her hurling genes from her Beaumount mother Miriam.
Sad day for Dunderry
The old FAS logo was decommissioned some years ago.This probably was because there were investigations into how it was run at nationakl level and renaming it was peobably the best way of making people forget how badly tarnished it had become.
Anyhow there has been a Fas Scheme or its equivalent since before I came to live here in 1986.
The people who worked in it over the years looked after the GAA grounds ,the grass cutting around the Churches and the graveyards and tidied up around the Hall.
Father Heany ,the PP at the time it was set up ,was the Sponsor of the Scheme and its unbroken run from then to date was brought to an end by the current PP Father Hornick ,who I suppose has decided that he has not the resources to properly oversee it.
Not only has the former FAS Scheme come to an end but Parochial ownership of the Local Hall came to an end a few months ago.
At that time the GAA Club,which over a decade ago were prepared to pay E.70,000.00 to buy it and whose plans were thwarted by the objections of a vociferous minority ,were not interested in buying it.
Needless to say the people who then objected were not recently willing to themselves take it on.
It strikes me that as a community we are regressing and that despite the relatively significant growth in population and apparent prosperity.
This is sad.
Anyhow there has been a Fas Scheme or its equivalent since before I came to live here in 1986.
The people who worked in it over the years looked after the GAA grounds ,the grass cutting around the Churches and the graveyards and tidied up around the Hall.
Father Heany ,the PP at the time it was set up ,was the Sponsor of the Scheme and its unbroken run from then to date was brought to an end by the current PP Father Hornick ,who I suppose has decided that he has not the resources to properly oversee it.
Not only has the former FAS Scheme come to an end but Parochial ownership of the Local Hall came to an end a few months ago.
At that time the GAA Club,which over a decade ago were prepared to pay E.70,000.00 to buy it and whose plans were thwarted by the objections of a vociferous minority ,were not interested in buying it.
Needless to say the people who then objected were not recently willing to themselves take it on.
It strikes me that as a community we are regressing and that despite the relatively significant growth in population and apparent prosperity.
This is sad.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)