This was our first match of 2018,as far as I know.We have been training a while.Phil.Fay Jnr.is concentrating on the Meath Ladies Football,where his daughters are involved and has quit as a selector .His place is taken by Gary Newman as far as I know.Ted is still Manager and our Evan,Lee Mulligan and Declan Mahon are also selectors.
I think that a fourth Garry,Michael ,a son of the Bear's togged out as a sub today.T.J., Martin and Alan have given full service to us before emigrating.Martiin is back but the other pair are still abroad .Wouldn't it be great to see all four together again in the one Dundeery Team.
Played in Trim this morning on a great pitch there was a strong wind into which we played in the first half.
Only three of the last Senior Team Team to play in 2005 are on the present Panel.ie.Davy Jennings,Davy Mac and Kevin Bruton.There are four e new graduates to the Panel ,Ronan Brady ,Dermot Kelly Shane Heffernan and Jamie Leavy..Ronan is John's son,Diarmuid is Sean's son,Jamie is Timber's son and Shane is the son of a decent Limerick man ,who has four of them,one bigger than the other.
It is noticeable that the new guys are all strapping guys well over six feet tall.
Our senior County Football panellists,Conor Dempsey,Paddy Kenneally and Luke Martin were unable to play ,it was rumoured ,because of County commitments and injury .Darren Callaghan is rumoured to have retired.
Stephen Coogan is Captain and uniquely,Hurling Captain also.
Trim too were short 4 or 5 players due to County committments.
Team was
Jennings
A.Newman Davy Mac. A.Feeney.
Oisin Martin. O.Dempsey M.Kane.
L.Dempsey C.O.Shea.
R.Brady Bomber Farrell. Gooch Daly.
A,Watters S.Coogan D.Kelly.
Used during the game also were Shane Heffernan,and Jamie Leavy and a full list of the other subs are not yet to hand .
There was a fair bite in the game from the first whistle and plenty of short inter passing.We are fairly adept at this,probably a bit wiser than Trim at it.
Trim scored the first point but a surge of speed by Kane followed by some slick inter passing ended with Liamo rattling the onion bag.
And then Coogan repeated the dose.Looking good and against the gale too.
But WE died and Trim took over,scoring 7 points in succession without reply before the half time whistle shrilled
Half Time Us.2-0.Them 0-8.
O Shea was our best in the first half I thought,manning the breaches manfully.He is as strong as a young ass.
With the wind in our backs I thought we ought shade it in the second half.
Trim opened with an early point,but Googan with a free and Liamo with another goal and a point put us in the lead again.
Trim pulled back with another point before Kane and Coogan increased our lead with minors.Trim score another minor before another brace of points by Coogan from a free and a fifty put us well ahead but Trim refused to die bulging the net from play.
That left us a point up as Trim laid siege to our goal but our backs held out tenaciously to keep the lead in a tense final five minutes.
We won by 3-6 to 1-11 .
Our cause was greatly helped by Trim calling the influential Frankie Murphy ashore ,the one move you would make to help us to victory.Our mentors would hardly be so unwise.Inexplicable.
There was little between the teams,it was a good game overall and our debutantes did well.No fears there.Our substitutions were on the ball and this was probably the deciding factor in our win.
A fair display all round I thought.
When all our players are available for selection our mentors will have their work cut out.Nice problem to have.
That two intermediate teams could have 6 or 7 players on the County panel is extraordinary in my humble view.Maybe a good omen for both Clubs.
Sub's bench.J.Leavy,S.Heffernan,Jack Brady,M.Garry,Mick Garry,Jack Dempsey,Tomas Conroy,Kevin Bruton,Garrett Dooley,Dec.Mahon.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Do you trust women.
Somewhere there exists a cabal of people who want to kill preborn children at the behest of their mothers and these people think up trick questions to trap out the protectors of preborm children .They have thought up this question.
I heard the apparently fragrant Claire Byrne spring that question on the Liberal's favourite Cleric and serial panellist ,Brian Darcy yesterday.
"Do you trust women "she asked fluttering her eyelashes at him.Given that he is a trendy liberal priest appearing on a Television Station awash with anti Clerical bigots what could he say only "Yes"
This was a cowardly question by her and a cowardly answer by him,
What he should have said was that some people are trustworthy and some are not and women are no different than men in this regard.
And as the way God designed the procreation procedure is for a man to impregnate a woman and for her to carry the child to fruition in her womb t men too must have an equal right to decide on these maters.
I am quite sure that thee are many fathers out there who are devastated because their female partners chose to have an abortion without consulting them .
Just as there are many fathers out there that are glad it happened,
I heard the apparently fragrant Claire Byrne spring that question on the Liberal's favourite Cleric and serial panellist ,Brian Darcy yesterday.
"Do you trust women "she asked fluttering her eyelashes at him.Given that he is a trendy liberal priest appearing on a Television Station awash with anti Clerical bigots what could he say only "Yes"
This was a cowardly question by her and a cowardly answer by him,
What he should have said was that some people are trustworthy and some are not and women are no different than men in this regard.
And as the way God designed the procreation procedure is for a man to impregnate a woman and for her to carry the child to fruition in her womb t men too must have an equal right to decide on these maters.
I am quite sure that thee are many fathers out there who are devastated because their female partners chose to have an abortion without consulting them .
Just as there are many fathers out there that are glad it happened,
Michael Martyn drives nail into lives of unborn.
Michael Martin is the leader of Fiannna Fail,the first leader of that Party never to be Taoiseach.The membership of that PARTY and the Parliamentarians of that Party recently voted overwhelmingly to oppose any moves to kill the living unborn,
At his insistence a rule was brought in allowing freedom of conscience when voting either for or against the killing of preborn children inside that Party.
As leader he has a duty to reflect the majority views of his members.
By insisting on the freedom of conscience rule he set up a cocoon of safety for himself by coming out in favour of the killing of unborn children in recent days in the Dail without informing his Parliamentary colleagues or Party members in advance of his declaration..
He would nearly have you feeling sorry for him in describing the tortuous journey he travelled in making this decision and all the reading he did.
God help him.
Does he not realize how lucky he is in being able to consider the ethical problems involved and being able to read all this information .
If his vile turncoat activities result in legislation allowing the killing of the living preborn. they will not be able,on account of being denied the fundamental right to be born of making these ethical decisions or doing this reading because they will not exist.
THE king of the Fir Breaga and a disgrace to the Irish people.And I guess the death knell of Fianna Fail..
At his insistence a rule was brought in allowing freedom of conscience when voting either for or against the killing of preborn children inside that Party.
As leader he has a duty to reflect the majority views of his members.
By insisting on the freedom of conscience rule he set up a cocoon of safety for himself by coming out in favour of the killing of unborn children in recent days in the Dail without informing his Parliamentary colleagues or Party members in advance of his declaration..
He would nearly have you feeling sorry for him in describing the tortuous journey he travelled in making this decision and all the reading he did.
God help him.
Does he not realize how lucky he is in being able to consider the ethical problems involved and being able to read all this information .
If his vile turncoat activities result in legislation allowing the killing of the living preborn. they will not be able,on account of being denied the fundamental right to be born of making these ethical decisions or doing this reading because they will not exist.
THE king of the Fir Breaga and a disgrace to the Irish people.And I guess the death knell of Fianna Fail..
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Tubridy joins the Gallery of arseholes.
Earlier this week Ryen Tubridy gave his take on the overdue apology given by the Gardai to Johanna Hayes and her family for falsely accusing them of murdering a baby found in Caherciveen in Kerry in the early 1980.'s.
My memory of it went like this.
A baby was found which had been stabbed to death on the shoreline in Caherciveen .The local Gardai called in the Dublin based "Murder Squad",which specialized in solving murders, to help.
The Gardai trawled the County Kerry to identify any woman who had lost a child or given birth around that time.
Johann Hayes had given birth to a baby ,which she said had died ,and which she had buried on the family farm in Abbeydorney ,many miles from Caherciveen.She showed the burial place of the baby.
The Gardai and the State fingered her for the murder of the Caherciveen Baby even though blood tests conclusively proved that neither she nor her married lover could possibly be the parents of the Caherciveen baby.
They fell back on the most remote theory that she simultaneously had intercourse with two men and had given birth to twins with different fathers.
They got her to "confess" to the murder of the Caherciveen baby ,with no proof whatsoever save a "confession "by her which she maintained was extracted by undue duress .Other members of her family also "confessed "to that murder.
It was then clear,and it has been since clear that the prosecution was baseless and for this miscarriage of justice the State is now apologizing three decades later.
A Tribunal was set up to examine how this trumped charge was allowed to proceed and to examine the actions of the Gardai.
The tribunal personnel in the main did all they could to destroy the unfortunate lady but gave the Gardai and the other State personnel a relatively free ride.
Both the Judge ,all the legal personnel and the preponderance of the actors in the investigation were from that well heeled class from which Tubs springs ,yet he had the effrontery to blame the narrow mindedness of rural Ireland .and the implied morality of the yokels ,for the miscarriage of justice.
In truth the people of Abbeydorney ,which is as rural as it gets, knew well that a what was put forward by the State was bullshit and formed a cocoon of protection around the Hayes family and protected them from all outsiders.a cocoon they have in place to this day.
Not for the first time this condescending Arsehole let his bullshit liberal philosophy that he and his ilk champion slip out ,a philosophy that he and his privileged anti Catholic workmates spout regularly about those who live outside the Pale.
In this instance it was precisely his Dublin based bullies who did all in their power to destroy a brave and ho nourable woman.
If Tubs has any balls and I doubt it he should immediately profoundly apologize to the people of Abbeydorney and all rural dwellers for branding them as he did.
It is no surprise to me that the reinvestigation is focusing on the murder of the child and not on the actions of the Gardai.and the State apparatus.
For far too long now the Politicians and the Courts have turned a blind eye to the misbehaviour of some Gardai and let them away Scot free with unlawful activities.
The Morris Tribunal result,the industrial level of lying that produced over a million false breath tests,the wrongful prosecution of many thousands people for non payment of fixed charge notice,the persecution of decent whistle blowers who abhor wrongful behaviour and the personal experiences people see every day of wrongful abuse of power and the bullying of the populace by certain wrong Gardai does not arise by accident.
Its grandfather can be found in the treatment of Johann Hayes.
It seems to me that other convictions secured by the Gardai Unit who investigated the the Johanna Hayes case should also be examined to see if they too were tainted likewise.
Now we have certain people dumping on the Catholic Church for these abuses of State power.Particularly some by Church of Ireland commentators.and other non Catholic politicians and journalists..
Whether it is the loss of the tithes and their traditional access to and untrammeled minority rule of years ago they miss that THEY FEEL ENTITLES THEM TO DO THIS DON'T KNOW.
Certainly they are over represented in in the professions involving the Law.
I rarely have heard Catholic commentators dumping on Church of Ireland persons and practises but the opposite does not pertain.
Simon Harris is the Minister for Health.He is a disaster in this role .Up to 500 people are lying on trolleys each day during his watch and over a half million people are awaiting specialist appointments.
God only knows how many people will die during his watch as a result.
His tiny mind has tried to link the right to kill unborn babies to the Johann Hayes case amongst others. The Catholic Church had no hand act nor part in the misconduct of the actors in that case.It didn't kill anyone.
Maybe his logic is that if a child is deliberately killed in the womb it won't be there to clutter up his hospitals in later life.
I have heard it said by some that the events of the handling of the Abbeydornet case is a blight on us all.This of course is nonsense of the highest order.It is not "us all"they that had control of the Gardai and the entire State apparatus that perpetrated that cruelty and torture.It was the political establishmentand and the legal apparatus established by the politicians
There are those who are jumping on the bandwagon that it was purely misogynistic treatment of women that was the root cause of this disgraceful near miscarriage of Justice,
Wrong again.
Just think of the Guilford four and Binmingham 6,where innocent men were stitched by a corrupt police force and State apparatus and later exonerated.
This was in the U.K. and we were no different .
All these guys were men,not women and I am certain that had I time to research the convictions secured here in that ERA I am sure I could come up with more.
The same political parties that ran the show then are now presiding over a State where criminals and non criminals are murdered on a weekly if not a daily basis.
It is no wonder that they are still trying to divert responsibility from themselves to "all of us ".
And by the way I accept that the Serpent tempted certain so called Catholics to his side in the past.Satan plys a sly game.
Satans suipreme triump will surely be Starte killing of the deferceless ouborn
My memory of it went like this.
A baby was found which had been stabbed to death on the shoreline in Caherciveen .The local Gardai called in the Dublin based "Murder Squad",which specialized in solving murders, to help.
The Gardai trawled the County Kerry to identify any woman who had lost a child or given birth around that time.
Johann Hayes had given birth to a baby ,which she said had died ,and which she had buried on the family farm in Abbeydorney ,many miles from Caherciveen.She showed the burial place of the baby.
The Gardai and the State fingered her for the murder of the Caherciveen Baby even though blood tests conclusively proved that neither she nor her married lover could possibly be the parents of the Caherciveen baby.
They fell back on the most remote theory that she simultaneously had intercourse with two men and had given birth to twins with different fathers.
They got her to "confess" to the murder of the Caherciveen baby ,with no proof whatsoever save a "confession "by her which she maintained was extracted by undue duress .Other members of her family also "confessed "to that murder.
It was then clear,and it has been since clear that the prosecution was baseless and for this miscarriage of justice the State is now apologizing three decades later.
A Tribunal was set up to examine how this trumped charge was allowed to proceed and to examine the actions of the Gardai.
The tribunal personnel in the main did all they could to destroy the unfortunate lady but gave the Gardai and the other State personnel a relatively free ride.
Both the Judge ,all the legal personnel and the preponderance of the actors in the investigation were from that well heeled class from which Tubs springs ,yet he had the effrontery to blame the narrow mindedness of rural Ireland .and the implied morality of the yokels ,for the miscarriage of justice.
In truth the people of Abbeydorney ,which is as rural as it gets, knew well that a what was put forward by the State was bullshit and formed a cocoon of protection around the Hayes family and protected them from all outsiders.a cocoon they have in place to this day.
Not for the first time this condescending Arsehole let his bullshit liberal philosophy that he and his ilk champion slip out ,a philosophy that he and his privileged anti Catholic workmates spout regularly about those who live outside the Pale.
In this instance it was precisely his Dublin based bullies who did all in their power to destroy a brave and ho nourable woman.
If Tubs has any balls and I doubt it he should immediately profoundly apologize to the people of Abbeydorney and all rural dwellers for branding them as he did.
It is no surprise to me that the reinvestigation is focusing on the murder of the child and not on the actions of the Gardai.and the State apparatus.
For far too long now the Politicians and the Courts have turned a blind eye to the misbehaviour of some Gardai and let them away Scot free with unlawful activities.
The Morris Tribunal result,the industrial level of lying that produced over a million false breath tests,the wrongful prosecution of many thousands people for non payment of fixed charge notice,the persecution of decent whistle blowers who abhor wrongful behaviour and the personal experiences people see every day of wrongful abuse of power and the bullying of the populace by certain wrong Gardai does not arise by accident.
Its grandfather can be found in the treatment of Johann Hayes.
It seems to me that other convictions secured by the Gardai Unit who investigated the the Johanna Hayes case should also be examined to see if they too were tainted likewise.
Now we have certain people dumping on the Catholic Church for these abuses of State power.Particularly some by Church of Ireland commentators.and other non Catholic politicians and journalists..
Whether it is the loss of the tithes and their traditional access to and untrammeled minority rule of years ago they miss that THEY FEEL ENTITLES THEM TO DO THIS DON'T KNOW.
Certainly they are over represented in in the professions involving the Law.
I rarely have heard Catholic commentators dumping on Church of Ireland persons and practises but the opposite does not pertain.
Simon Harris is the Minister for Health.He is a disaster in this role .Up to 500 people are lying on trolleys each day during his watch and over a half million people are awaiting specialist appointments.
God only knows how many people will die during his watch as a result.
His tiny mind has tried to link the right to kill unborn babies to the Johann Hayes case amongst others. The Catholic Church had no hand act nor part in the misconduct of the actors in that case.It didn't kill anyone.
Maybe his logic is that if a child is deliberately killed in the womb it won't be there to clutter up his hospitals in later life.
I have heard it said by some that the events of the handling of the Abbeydornet case is a blight on us all.This of course is nonsense of the highest order.It is not "us all"they that had control of the Gardai and the entire State apparatus that perpetrated that cruelty and torture.It was the political establishmentand and the legal apparatus established by the politicians
There are those who are jumping on the bandwagon that it was purely misogynistic treatment of women that was the root cause of this disgraceful near miscarriage of Justice,
Wrong again.
Just think of the Guilford four and Binmingham 6,where innocent men were stitched by a corrupt police force and State apparatus and later exonerated.
This was in the U.K. and we were no different .
All these guys were men,not women and I am certain that had I time to research the convictions secured here in that ERA I am sure I could come up with more.
The same political parties that ran the show then are now presiding over a State where criminals and non criminals are murdered on a weekly if not a daily basis.
It is no wonder that they are still trying to divert responsibility from themselves to "all of us ".
And by the way I accept that the Serpent tempted certain so called Catholics to his side in the past.Satan plys a sly game.
Satans suipreme triump will surely be Starte killing of the deferceless ouborn
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The good people.
Today was a day from hell hereabouts.The chill factor alone would knock you over.There was hateful slanting rain that cut to the bone and the leaden sky was so dark and threatening that it would depress you.Outdoor livestock were huddled against the wind and rain seeking shelter against the elements.
In these conditions I had to head to Trim.
Now the hair is long and untidy and I wasn't dressed the best.I walk funny as a result of a stroke endured in 2009 and with the aid of a walking stick and progress is slow.I suppose I looked as miserable as I felt.
To my amazement a very able lady of my own age, I would guess ,approached me and offered me a two Euro piece to buy myself a cup of tea and get in out of the cold.I thanked her kindly and declined.
It might have been a case of mistaken identity but there again it may not have been.
Certainly the milk of human nature still flows strongly in some.
God bless her.
I also was lucky enough to meet Pat Conway from Halltown ,who was a great friend of my uncles Joe and Tommy as a child and often helped them at the farming.
He is home for the Christmas from the States ,never lost has accent and never aged a day in twenty years.A decent guy and a huge loss to Ireland and Dunderry,which as I told someone was founded the day after God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.
In these conditions I had to head to Trim.
Now the hair is long and untidy and I wasn't dressed the best.I walk funny as a result of a stroke endured in 2009 and with the aid of a walking stick and progress is slow.I suppose I looked as miserable as I felt.
To my amazement a very able lady of my own age, I would guess ,approached me and offered me a two Euro piece to buy myself a cup of tea and get in out of the cold.I thanked her kindly and declined.
It might have been a case of mistaken identity but there again it may not have been.
Certainly the milk of human nature still flows strongly in some.
God bless her.
I also was lucky enough to meet Pat Conway from Halltown ,who was a great friend of my uncles Joe and Tommy as a child and often helped them at the farming.
He is home for the Christmas from the States ,never lost has accent and never aged a day in twenty years.A decent guy and a huge loss to Ireland and Dunderry,which as I told someone was founded the day after God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.
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