The under 14 footballers continued on their winning ways with a home victory last Tuesday evening.I wasn't sure whether they were playing and only saw a few minutes by accident.They are on a roll since being turfed out of the Championship for not fielding.Going well now,with only a few matches to play in the summer league.
In the B League I attended a very entertaining match between ourselves and Moynalvey in their ground.They are a very decent lot and the match was played in the best of spirits ,no dirt and loads of endeavour from both sides.The ref was Mick Ryan from Dunsany ,a man who referees club matches to County standards,in that he doesn't blow prissily nor oftenThe players responded well and I would say that all involved enjoyed themselves.We were short a few and deservedly lost.
Both sides were guilty of more than the normal number of stray passes ,but I would absolutely love to be able to do them myself at this stage.Lads play as long and as often as you can.
I was delighted to meet a former colleague at he game.Tempus definitevly fugits as we both had sons playing.Don't have the bragging rights this time.
The Feis Cup match against Skryne was played in the pitch last evening.This was the first match this year not presided over by John Brady ,who has had to take time out for personal reasons.Barry Sheridan and Con O Neill now carry the baton ,not a light load in this Parish ,where expectations to win the intermediate are high every year and where failure to do so is frowned on by the afficiandos.I know all about this,having walked the walk.They have a hard job of work ahead and I wish them and the players the very best.They and the players carry huge expectations and I have nothing but praise for the players who are in the field nearly every night ,especially the dual players.Those lucky enough to have work involving early starts and who have families to support must be suffering exhaustion between everything ,but I suppose that the physical exertion ameliorates the bubbling pressure this damned recession and austerity is imposing on all.
Conversely those with no jobs are under even more severe pressure trying to keep poverty from coming in the window and love going out the door.We live in hard times and unforgiving times.
Like the Moynalvey match the Carnaross ref,O Reilly did a great job and the players responded well.
It was an open game played in the best of spirits and not a dirty stroke and no mouthing either.A good few stray passes ,more so by us and although we were beaten by six points ,the match was contested to the end.
An unusual feature was that both sides had former greats and men capable of still contributing to the cause on the field.We had Darren Fay,thrice an All Star and twice an All Ireland senior winner and they had Trevor Giles who I think has also two All Irelands and a number of All Stars also,the exact number of which I don't know.There is nothing big headed about either of these men and nobody on either side was out to make a name for himself by tyrying to "do" them.Anyhow these boys can mind themselves and I was delighted for my eldest Evan in that he was equal to Giles his direct opponent as was the Skryne player who marked a rusty Fay,who has missed a lot of training sessions as he is studying hard to secure employment .GAA fame is no guarantee of employment in this County or Country.
Rumour has that the game keeper Fay intends to turn poacher and try his hand at full forward.Time will tell.
The Camogie Junior Team recently put Donaghmore 's second yeam to the sword ,a feat I missed and I hear they are swaying regurarly to the beat of the rumba to get fit.
This evening there was a post painting sponsorship and feed in the field and the Old folks committee is running a sponsored cycle to the bog also.
Any older readers I have may remember Pat Mc Elroy .a Corkonian who lived in Blanch and Who I befriended there.He won two senoir football championships with Summerhill in the late sixties /early seventies I think and would have played with the likes of Mattie Kerrigan.He was a member of a family of fourteen I am told and had eight of his own.His sisters child is young Gould who plays with Cork Footballers.He use work in Post and Telgraphs and was a thorough gentleman and a very brave man who fought his illness to the last.
I didn't make the funeral in Blanch on Thursday and Friday as I have my own medical problems,but my brothers did.Blanch was brought to a standstill as his coffin was carried through the village to the local Church and thousands followed it.There was a massive crowd from Cork there and his passing will long be remembered in Blanch .for the genuineness and friendliness of the huge attendance.
Ar dheas De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Finally those few of you away who suffer these ramblings should not be too homesick.The weather is brutal here
Slan go foill..
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend 30/06/2012.
Last week's winner puts us on a winning streak of one.Throwing caution to the wind today we are opting for Almanack in the 6.30 in the Curragh.Tommy Stack thinks a lot of this improving horse and the ground should suit.The odds will be good for this outsider.I am sorely tempted to put a fiver each way but wuill restrain myself to a fiver win to conform with the original plan of betting a fiver win each Saturday for a year and then taking stock.What a wimp.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Mulhuddard Grave Blessing 26/06/2012
Mulhuddard Cemetery was packed today,not a great day weatherwise,for the blessings of the graves.Daddy and Mammy are buried there as are many former buddies of the family and past friends from the neighbourhood and my only former Club,St.Brigids.Met George Brennan,Noel Tonge,Aidan English,Patsi Powell ,Ray Carty ,Bob O Leary ,Frank Russell ,Ellis Poynton and my own crowd,Cecil,Martin,Benjy,Barbra,John and the kids,Emily,Marie Brennan and Paul Norton and many more.Missed my good friends the Hughes from Blanch.and was well fed in Cecil's gaff.
The Hughes left early to update themselves on the result of the All Ireland Football Feile from Portlaoise where Brigids were in the Final.
They won and the team is coached by Keith Barr,who has a son playing.They are also Dublin under 14 Hurling Feile Champs.Some achievement and some advances from the times I played at that age there and subsequent years of involvement there.
Must try and encourage such vision and ambition here in Dunderry.
Cecil is up to his oxters in Erin go Brath and he tells me they are going well.I wish them all the luck in the world.
Can't let the occasion go without mentioning Tommy Tonge' judgement on the quality of pints of Guinnesss in the locality years ago ,when he opined in a discussion on the matter that "there is no such thing as a bad pint lads, just good ones and better ones.", but not in the pub that was so bereft of atmosphere that "it would be a great place to bring your mother in law on the way home from a funeral"
The Hughes left early to update themselves on the result of the All Ireland Football Feile from Portlaoise where Brigids were in the Final.
They won and the team is coached by Keith Barr,who has a son playing.They are also Dublin under 14 Hurling Feile Champs.Some achievement and some advances from the times I played at that age there and subsequent years of involvement there.
Must try and encourage such vision and ambition here in Dunderry.
Cecil is up to his oxters in Erin go Brath and he tells me they are going well.I wish them all the luck in the world.
Can't let the occasion go without mentioning Tommy Tonge' judgement on the quality of pints of Guinnesss in the locality years ago ,when he opined in a discussion on the matter that "there is no such thing as a bad pint lads, just good ones and better ones.", but not in the pub that was so bereft of atmosphere that "it would be a great place to bring your mother in law on the way home from a funeral"
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Secularists dumbstruck.
Imagine if over 100 children died while in the care of the Church this last decade and imagine if proper records were not kept.The secular high priests and priestesses would have organised lynching parties for all the clergy ,advocated the abolition of Catholicism entirely ,severed relations with the Vatican entirely and the bigoted media would have had a field day sneering at the men in frocks.
The circle of hate would be in full spite calling for heads on plates.
But now that secular Ireland has been found out the silence is deafening.
No incandescent Vinnie Boy,no belaboured Fergi ,no hectoring Colm,no D'orcy mouthing off,no pontificating Justine,no Enda belabouring his colleagues who presided over this atrocity,no atheist Tanaiste cutting off relations with his political brothers who headed the system of human destruction,no Aodhan nor David who pissed on Christian belief in favour of the secular,no secular Ruairi putting his anti Catholic head above the parapet,no Lisa rerouting her sneers from the men in dresses against her feminist and secular friends and no murmuring Marion on her broomstick.
O Caolan of Sinn Fein the only man to take responsibility for political ineptitude of the body politic.
What a shower.
Would you entrust you kids to the care of secular Ireland.?Be very careful what you will be railroaded into in the upcoming referendum.They want to get them sooner into what has been found to be the murder machine in all but name and thet will use this as a fig leaf to cover past ineptitude and future intrusion into family life,which they are deliberately destroying with austerity measures.
Watch the secular excuses and the fir and mna breaga parading their talents .
The circle of hate would be in full spite calling for heads on plates.
But now that secular Ireland has been found out the silence is deafening.
No incandescent Vinnie Boy,no belaboured Fergi ,no hectoring Colm,no D'orcy mouthing off,no pontificating Justine,no Enda belabouring his colleagues who presided over this atrocity,no atheist Tanaiste cutting off relations with his political brothers who headed the system of human destruction,no Aodhan nor David who pissed on Christian belief in favour of the secular,no secular Ruairi putting his anti Catholic head above the parapet,no Lisa rerouting her sneers from the men in dresses against her feminist and secular friends and no murmuring Marion on her broomstick.
O Caolan of Sinn Fein the only man to take responsibility for political ineptitude of the body politic.
What a shower.
Would you entrust you kids to the care of secular Ireland.?Be very careful what you will be railroaded into in the upcoming referendum.They want to get them sooner into what has been found to be the murder machine in all but name and thet will use this as a fig leaf to cover past ineptitude and future intrusion into family life,which they are deliberately destroying with austerity measures.
Watch the secular excuses and the fir and mna breaga parading their talents .
Drumbeat Dividend 23/06/2012
Try Sea Moon in the 3.05 at Ascot.And pray hard.
We have tipped 4 losers in a row.Time to break losing sequence.
We have tipped 4 losers in a row.Time to break losing sequence.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Dunderry V Kildalkey i.H.C.22/06/2012.
We were hammered by 3-11 to 0-9 by Kildalkey this evening in Boardsmill in a match where we looked very pedestrian,jaded and tired and where only Damian Bruton to some extent and Killian Minogue to a greater extent rose to the occasion.
Nothing went right for us and while not even one refereeing decision went our way ,we never rose above second gear and have only ourselves to blame.
It is hard to know what went wrong,but my own opinion is that the frequency of the training regime of the dual players and the frequency of matches is wearing down some of the players.
Kildalkey lost to Wolfe Tones and Kildalkey lost two of that team to the seniors.
The Wolfe Tones and other spectators will rightly have written us off.
Flange Mc Guinness,Junior Cahill and Gerry Mc Laughlin will have some job restoring morale and reshaping our campaign.
Yesterday evening I witnessed the slaughter of our Junior Camogie by Kildalkey in their grounds under incessant rain.So two horrific evenings from our point of view.
Its not that long since we could manage their best teams at this level no bother.
How things have changed.Must try and see what's in the water there.
Fuller report later.
Fifty years ago I heard an auld fella saying"The tramp walked through every village in Meath but he ran through Kildalkey".Well these last two days KIldalkey ran through us no bother and without breaking sweat..
We have to up our game and deliver .Jasus we are not that bad.
Nothing went right for us and while not even one refereeing decision went our way ,we never rose above second gear and have only ourselves to blame.
It is hard to know what went wrong,but my own opinion is that the frequency of the training regime of the dual players and the frequency of matches is wearing down some of the players.
Kildalkey lost to Wolfe Tones and Kildalkey lost two of that team to the seniors.
The Wolfe Tones and other spectators will rightly have written us off.
Flange Mc Guinness,Junior Cahill and Gerry Mc Laughlin will have some job restoring morale and reshaping our campaign.
Yesterday evening I witnessed the slaughter of our Junior Camogie by Kildalkey in their grounds under incessant rain.So two horrific evenings from our point of view.
Its not that long since we could manage their best teams at this level no bother.
How things have changed.Must try and see what's in the water there.
Fuller report later.
Fifty years ago I heard an auld fella saying"The tramp walked through every village in Meath but he ran through Kildalkey".Well these last two days KIldalkey ran through us no bother and without breaking sweat..
We have to up our game and deliver .Jasus we are not that bad.
Dunderry V Dunboyne I.H.C.2012. First Round.
Played in a Longwood pitch on Sunday June 2012 at 3.30 on a pitch that stood up well to torrential rain all day Saturday and earlier today .
Dunboyne Team per Georgie Hutton ,not a bad one in his day.
Paul Brady
Liam Kane Patsy O Connor Cormac Hutton
Brendan Sweeney Damian Buggle D.J. Carey
Danny Kane Gary Watters
Ronald Dunne Michael Reilly Ciaran Mc Kay
Joey Coftus!! Stephen Clynch Mark Finlay
Dunderry.
Chris Harrington
Davy Stephens (capt,) Davy Mc Cormack Darren Callaghan
Damian Bruton Ivan Mc Cormack Brendan Wright
Bomber Farrell Kevin Dowd
Killisan MInogue Evan Stephens Bob Doherty
Paddy Gorey Keith Callaghan Jordan Martin
First few minutes were tit for tat until a ground ball from Wright went to Martin who passed to Bomber .Point.Interplay between Bomber,Bruts ,Red and back to Bomber,who lets long into square is broken when Keith is blown .We earn line ball,which Minogue directs to Finn who points.Keith bears down on goal and is harried into a wide ("Good man Horse roars Hutton").Watters wins ball and lets in to square where Davy Mac and Wright take control and clear to half forwards where Carey collects and goes on his bike until Ivan intercepts to Finn to Ted.breaks to Wright .Fouled. Messy play ensues and Dunboyne earn a free which thy hit wide.Solid Dunboyne defending concedes a line ball to us ,which we fail to take advantage of and surrender possession to Danboyne who score a minor.Harry lands puck out on top of Bob ,who transfers to Keith ,whose rocket comes back off the crossbar .Martin collects and hits wide.Bomber wins puck out ,to Ted ,who lets in and Martin scores a cunning goal. .Shortly afterwards Watters rattles the crossbar .They over elaborate and hit wide.Finn hits wide.We break up another Dunboyne attack and ball ends with Ted,who hits wide.Bob takes fatherly point following good approach play from Finn and Martin. Ding dong play terminates with Ted conceding a free which Dunboyne take advantage of with a minor.Minogure earns a free which Keith blasts and Dunboyne save,Minogue retrieves and to Bob ,who hits wide.Watters is playing well but lacks support. Bob hits line ball wide.Ted to Gorey to Finn to Bob.Wide.Carey is a good player.Dunboyne conjure up a goal from nothing.Gorey to Bob.Wide.Watters is excelling. Dunboyne 8 takes a good point from a bad Dunderry clearance.Ivan takes a long distance free and points.1-4 to 1-3 to us. Gorey takes a good point from play.Keith is fouled and takes his point.Half time .1-6 to 1-3 in our favour.First half was even enough,though we never got out of third gear.We need to ratchet it up.
Ted wins throw in and to Martin.Wide.Tenacious defending by both sides over the next five minutes ,the highlight of which was a spectacular save from the Dunboyne net keeper from a Callaghabn bullet ends with a Bruton free and a move involving Finn,Keith and Gorey ends with a Gorey rocket to the net.Finn hits wide.Wright launches attack which ends up wide.Bob hits wide from a Wright delivery.A hurt Gorey makes way for Andy Coogan.Minogue hits wide.Dunboyne 15 is substituted.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne 10 gets marching orders.Coogan,Keith ,Finn.Wide.Minogue fouled.Keith scores minor from free.Dunboyne miss scorable chance.A sequence of Dunderry passes ends with a Keith point.Ivan points a seventy.Bomber hits wide.Dunboyne hit wide.Martin points from play.Bob points from play after good Dunderry interplay.Easy enough when Dunboyne are down a man.Joey Martin on.Jordan score a minor from play after a well coordinated move.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne poach a goal.Gilky is on and to Jordan.Point.Jordan hits wide.Keith rattles the net.Sprog clears and ball is worked to Andy.Wide.
We win 3-11 to 2-3.
We never got higher than fourth gear and hit 16 wides.but just as well as we won by a great margin.Against a better team we would rue so many misses.
This was a clean match and I was surprised the Dunboyne man saw red.I didn't see what happened.And a yellow was issued to one of ours for very little,as far as I could see.
We did enough to win .If Dunboyne have better players on their senior team than Watters and Carey they must be brilliant.
Dunboyne Team per Georgie Hutton ,not a bad one in his day.
Paul Brady
Liam Kane Patsy O Connor Cormac Hutton
Brendan Sweeney Damian Buggle D.J. Carey
Danny Kane Gary Watters
Ronald Dunne Michael Reilly Ciaran Mc Kay
Joey Coftus!! Stephen Clynch Mark Finlay
Dunderry.
Chris Harrington
Davy Stephens (capt,) Davy Mc Cormack Darren Callaghan
Damian Bruton Ivan Mc Cormack Brendan Wright
Bomber Farrell Kevin Dowd
Killisan MInogue Evan Stephens Bob Doherty
Paddy Gorey Keith Callaghan Jordan Martin
First few minutes were tit for tat until a ground ball from Wright went to Martin who passed to Bomber .Point.Interplay between Bomber,Bruts ,Red and back to Bomber,who lets long into square is broken when Keith is blown .We earn line ball,which Minogue directs to Finn who points.Keith bears down on goal and is harried into a wide ("Good man Horse roars Hutton").Watters wins ball and lets in to square where Davy Mac and Wright take control and clear to half forwards where Carey collects and goes on his bike until Ivan intercepts to Finn to Ted.breaks to Wright .Fouled. Messy play ensues and Dunboyne earn a free which thy hit wide.Solid Dunboyne defending concedes a line ball to us ,which we fail to take advantage of and surrender possession to Danboyne who score a minor.Harry lands puck out on top of Bob ,who transfers to Keith ,whose rocket comes back off the crossbar .Martin collects and hits wide.Bomber wins puck out ,to Ted ,who lets in and Martin scores a cunning goal. .Shortly afterwards Watters rattles the crossbar .They over elaborate and hit wide.Finn hits wide.We break up another Dunboyne attack and ball ends with Ted,who hits wide.Bob takes fatherly point following good approach play from Finn and Martin. Ding dong play terminates with Ted conceding a free which Dunboyne take advantage of with a minor.Minogure earns a free which Keith blasts and Dunboyne save,Minogue retrieves and to Bob ,who hits wide.Watters is playing well but lacks support. Bob hits line ball wide.Ted to Gorey to Finn to Bob.Wide.Carey is a good player.Dunboyne conjure up a goal from nothing.Gorey to Bob.Wide.Watters is excelling. Dunboyne 8 takes a good point from a bad Dunderry clearance.Ivan takes a long distance free and points.1-4 to 1-3 to us. Gorey takes a good point from play.Keith is fouled and takes his point.Half time .1-6 to 1-3 in our favour.First half was even enough,though we never got out of third gear.We need to ratchet it up.
Ted wins throw in and to Martin.Wide.Tenacious defending by both sides over the next five minutes ,the highlight of which was a spectacular save from the Dunboyne net keeper from a Callaghabn bullet ends with a Bruton free and a move involving Finn,Keith and Gorey ends with a Gorey rocket to the net.Finn hits wide.Wright launches attack which ends up wide.Bob hits wide from a Wright delivery.A hurt Gorey makes way for Andy Coogan.Minogue hits wide.Dunboyne 15 is substituted.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne 10 gets marching orders.Coogan,Keith ,Finn.Wide.Minogue fouled.Keith scores minor from free.Dunboyne miss scorable chance.A sequence of Dunderry passes ends with a Keith point.Ivan points a seventy.Bomber hits wide.Dunboyne hit wide.Martin points from play.Bob points from play after good Dunderry interplay.Easy enough when Dunboyne are down a man.Joey Martin on.Jordan score a minor from play after a well coordinated move.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne poach a goal.Gilky is on and to Jordan.Point.Jordan hits wide.Keith rattles the net.Sprog clears and ball is worked to Andy.Wide.
We win 3-11 to 2-3.
We never got higher than fourth gear and hit 16 wides.but just as well as we won by a great margin.Against a better team we would rue so many misses.
This was a clean match and I was surprised the Dunboyne man saw red.I didn't see what happened.And a yellow was issued to one of ours for very little,as far as I could see.
We did enough to win .If Dunboyne have better players on their senior team than Watters and Carey they must be brilliant.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Circle of hate .
It has long been my contention that despite the overwhelming majority of Citizens professing themselves to be Catholics ,a fact the latest consensus confirms , a tiny and disproportionate number of atheist and secular politicians ,journalists and media commentators have poisoned the mindset of many people against Catholicism by a continuous barrage of of anti Catholic bigotry at every available opportunity.
You know the people involved as well as I do.I call these people the circle of hate.
Very properly Religious who sexually abused children at any stage in the past have been tried in Court and properly sentenced.RTE has even gone so far as to accuse at least one innocent man of the heinous crime totally without foundation and it would make you wonder about the accuracy of anything they report.
Those against Catholicism are attacking the very nub of the Faith while maintaining secrecy in secular matters.There is little difference between the approach of this particular Government to the sanctity of the confessional and that of the most communist and totalitarian regimes in this respect.
The mantra was basically Secular Good and Catholic Evil.
Now boys you see how Secular society treated children under their charge this last decade.Over 100 avoidable deaths at least and gross negligence all over the place.And records missing or incomplete.Now imagine were we to go back fifty years.What numbers would be involved and what records would be available.Your guess is probably better than mine.Maybe thousands.
And these matters were presided over by secular politicians ,secular Judges and Secular civil servants and Secular Public Servants.
Already the members of the circle of hate are making excuses .Listen to the double standards of the circle members .Do you think that the witch hunt against Catholicism will be replicated against the Secular State Agents and the political leaders responsible for these deaths and do you think that the matter will be looked at back for fifty years.
This very imperfect Catholic knows full well that not even one prosecution of a politician nor any of the States agents will take place.
I await the outrage of the circle of hates devotees.
You know the people involved as well as I do.I call these people the circle of hate.
Very properly Religious who sexually abused children at any stage in the past have been tried in Court and properly sentenced.RTE has even gone so far as to accuse at least one innocent man of the heinous crime totally without foundation and it would make you wonder about the accuracy of anything they report.
Those against Catholicism are attacking the very nub of the Faith while maintaining secrecy in secular matters.There is little difference between the approach of this particular Government to the sanctity of the confessional and that of the most communist and totalitarian regimes in this respect.
The mantra was basically Secular Good and Catholic Evil.
Now boys you see how Secular society treated children under their charge this last decade.Over 100 avoidable deaths at least and gross negligence all over the place.And records missing or incomplete.Now imagine were we to go back fifty years.What numbers would be involved and what records would be available.Your guess is probably better than mine.Maybe thousands.
And these matters were presided over by secular politicians ,secular Judges and Secular civil servants and Secular Public Servants.
Already the members of the circle of hate are making excuses .Listen to the double standards of the circle members .Do you think that the witch hunt against Catholicism will be replicated against the Secular State Agents and the political leaders responsible for these deaths and do you think that the matter will be looked at back for fifty years.
This very imperfect Catholic knows full well that not even one prosecution of a politician nor any of the States agents will take place.
I await the outrage of the circle of hates devotees.
Muskateer gets a sickening blow.
Last Friday June 15th.2012 the Muskateers were in disarray.Carmel kept the flame burning .I was absent because of personal matters but the most decent of men ,Liam Dalton did not appear and you would just know that something was seriously amiss.And sadly it was.That very day his brother Paul,who was suffering from terminal cancer suddenly expired.
Just the previous Friday we had discussed the man and Liam had no notion of any impending disaster.Paul had spent many years in Australia ,whence he had returned about two years ago and had contacted cancer shortly afterwards.In latter weeks he was well cared for in a nursing home in Athboy and Liam was a regular visitor,as you would expect.
Our sympathies go to Liam,his 95 year old mother.extended family ,great neighbours and wide circle of friends ,who packed the Church in Robinstown and Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a hanam dilis.
Just the previous Friday we had discussed the man and Liam had no notion of any impending disaster.Paul had spent many years in Australia ,whence he had returned about two years ago and had contacted cancer shortly afterwards.In latter weeks he was well cared for in a nursing home in Athboy and Liam was a regular visitor,as you would expect.
Our sympathies go to Liam,his 95 year old mother.extended family ,great neighbours and wide circle of friends ,who packed the Church in Robinstown and Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a hanam dilis.
Death of Nora Coffey,Yellow Walls
Yesterday (Tuesday ), evening ,while his son Calvin was togging out for an under 14 Match in the pitch,Colin Coffey received the call to go urgently to the Mater Hospital ,where his mother Nora was a patient.The rest of the family ,save himself and his father Tim,were already up there and they immediately answered the call.We were quietly praying that it was a false alarm ,but it proved not to be as the Matriarch of this family ,who have embedded themselves in every aspect of community activity in the Parish ,expired peacefully shortly afterwards ,surrounded by her loving family.
Survived by her husband Tim,a legend and hero of the football fields of Meath in his heyday and still going strong when most his age would be relaxing by the fireside bright , her sons Peter,Colin ,Dessie and Dermot, daughters Eileen ,Paula and Bernie and a a large number of grandchildren ,this most decent of families have been and continue to be mainstays of Dunderry GAA Club,where Coffeys ,Brutons and Bonds represent the Club on the hurling and football fields of Meath week in week out and where Eileen (Bruton ) is still a member of the Executive and a great one at that.
It is a long time now since we cut our teeth mentoring under age hurling teams with which her three sons plied their hurling trade with the full encouragement of Tim.
Fearlessness is a trademark of the Coffeys and this trait was clearly inherited from Nora and Tim and her passing severs a historic link to the past and to times that ere undoubtedly tough in which they raised a family anyone would be proud of.
All Gaels ,neighbours and friends,relations and in=laws will mourn her passing and on behalf of myself and my family and the GAA and Caogie clubs in Dunderry,we offer our sincere sympathies and condolences.
Her mortal remains will lie in repose in Heffernan's Funeral Home in Trim from 3.00 P.M. next Friday,whence they will depart to arrive in Dunderry Church for 7.00 that evening.
Funeral; Mass on Saturday at 12.00 and burial immediately afterwards in Dunderrry Cemetery.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Survived by her husband Tim,a legend and hero of the football fields of Meath in his heyday and still going strong when most his age would be relaxing by the fireside bright , her sons Peter,Colin ,Dessie and Dermot, daughters Eileen ,Paula and Bernie and a a large number of grandchildren ,this most decent of families have been and continue to be mainstays of Dunderry GAA Club,where Coffeys ,Brutons and Bonds represent the Club on the hurling and football fields of Meath week in week out and where Eileen (Bruton ) is still a member of the Executive and a great one at that.
It is a long time now since we cut our teeth mentoring under age hurling teams with which her three sons plied their hurling trade with the full encouragement of Tim.
Fearlessness is a trademark of the Coffeys and this trait was clearly inherited from Nora and Tim and her passing severs a historic link to the past and to times that ere undoubtedly tough in which they raised a family anyone would be proud of.
All Gaels ,neighbours and friends,relations and in=laws will mourn her passing and on behalf of myself and my family and the GAA and Caogie clubs in Dunderry,we offer our sincere sympathies and condolences.
Her mortal remains will lie in repose in Heffernan's Funeral Home in Trim from 3.00 P.M. next Friday,whence they will depart to arrive in Dunderry Church for 7.00 that evening.
Funeral; Mass on Saturday at 12.00 and burial immediately afterwards in Dunderrry Cemetery.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 16/06/2012
We aim to break our duck by placing a fiver win on Dance and Dance in the 3.45 at York.Drops down in class after chasing home Side Glance at Epsom and ground and track should suit.And say a Hail Mary as well.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Wallace and fair weather friends
Unlike many former colleagues,who cost the Taxpayer hundreds of Millions in Tribunal fees to get to the truth,Mick Wallace has confessed to a false declaration in relation to the VAT liability of one of the Companies he was a director and shareholder of. One resumes that he did this because the publication of this fact by the Revenue Commissioners was imminent.It flows from this that the Revenue have already decided ,under their interpretation of their care and management powers ,that prosecution is not appropriate in the circumstances of this case.
Any attempt ,either by the Oireachtas or anyone else to reverse this decision amounts to interference in the exercise of Revenue powers and calls by opportunistic Ministers to to open the veil of secrecy with Revenue in his regard only and not in relation to their own areas of responsibility is not on.Every Government Department is actively touting for informers and the people informed on ,who may have their lives destroyed by such "Good Citizen " reports have just as much entitlement to know the identity of those informing on them as any Minister has to stick his or her nose into the exercise of Revenue of its duties with individual taxpayers.
If taxpayers feel that their confidential information furnished will not be treated in confidence then the system will fall apart.A result the promoters of the decommissioning of the confessional seal hope will befall Catholicism.
It is not that long ago since Ministers were diligent to remove from themselves any powers they had to decide such matters,presumably as they viewed it as inimical to their image.If they are unhappy with the Revenue all they have to do is to enact laws so that they ,the politicians can make these decisions in future cases.
But one assumes that as the three Revenue Commissioners are appointed by either the Taoiseach of the day or the Government of the day they have adequate faith in their appointees to do the proper and prudent thing in these matters.
Now the main issues that concern me are different than those opportunistic soundbites shouted from the high secular ground by a diverse spectrum of politicians who by their actions,or absence of them have reduced us to the status of beggar man of Europe and surrendered our sovereignty by incremental kow towing to the Reich and its satellites,of which we are now the most abject and spineless.
The public are so disillusioned that 50% of the electorate didn't even vote in the recent referendum surrendering more sovereignty and of the 50% that did vote only 60% voted in favour despite the active backing of the three biggest political parties in the Dail and the urgings of their friends in business,most of whom I imagine are hoping for a quid quo pro in return.
The most hypocritical and vociferous critics ,both in the media and in politics bases their rantings on the following facets:-
(1).He broke the law and is therefor unfit to be a member of the Dail.
(2)He lied in a declaration to Revenue and as a liar is not proper material for the job of T.D.
(3)His colleagues should have the authority to sack him.
Now I would have major problems with all these propositions.
There is no obligation on anyone to obey an unjust law in my view.The line that the secular law was sacrosanct was peddled by Hitler's Germany,Stalin's USSR,Mao 's China,Pol Pot's Cambodia,Japan's Hirohito and many more more recent regimes who have mass murdered their populaces and others.
I have no doubt that the principle of upholding of the law will be pushed by those Labour,Fine Gael and Fianna Fail T.D.'s who have sold out their electorate by endorsing the unjust and inequitable household charges,the septic tank charges and the plethora of disgraceful ,sneaky and oppressive laws they have enacted to get at decent people whatever way they can.
Believe me you ain't seen nothing yet.
To see where these incompetents have left us do a tour of Kells,Navan and Trim,taking in the industrial estates in the hinterland and imagine what the places will be like in five years when the Mines wind down.Now imagine what it would be like if the forty thousand who emigrated were kicked back home.
The trustee taxes of PAYE/PRSI and VAT are the biggest scam of all time,when viewed from a certain perspective.
VAT is not a just tax in any form .A millionaire pays the same amount on the goods or service as a pauper. The regime has been arranged to make every Registered person an unpaid collector of revenues for the State and imposes the most severe penalties and fines if the job is not done properly by that person.Actually the Collector General collects no VAT at all from unregistered persons.What it does is manage the real collectors.Every politician.judge and public servant knows full well that if the registered traders are not kept in line their salaries and pensions will dry up.Their victims are therefor whipped into line at every opportunity and this may explain the utterly severe sentences imposed by a political appointed judiciary on offenders of late.
As I predicted some time ago the Government has broken the spirit of the Judiciary by not allowing them to fight against the wage reduction imposed for reasons of subjugation and the ordinary citizen is at a huge disadvantage when he takes on the State in matters affecting the health of the Exchequer..
The politicians know where their mullah comes from.And so do their buddies.
While there is some element of equity in the Income Tax and RSI system ,in that it takes into account the income level of the individual, Registered employers are also unpaid collectors for the State and my remarks in relation to VAT Registered persons have equal application.
The EU is dependant on contributions from each member State to exist so both the E.U. and each State have vested interests in imposing the severest penalties and conditions on these unfortunates.
Such is the burden of compliance on business in relation to these matters and the unending requirements of other State organs and quangos that you would want to be mad to go there and the reality is that it is impossible to be straight all the time.Any honest business person or civil servant would tell you this if pushed and it is long past time that these issues were addressed and simplified.If not the EU will die the death very shortly.
Secular law regards breach of tax law as the greatest crime.Similar to East Germany before the fall of the wall.Give all to Caesar and let God go to Hell is the secularists motto.And compassion has no place,only retribution.
Those individuals and organisations whose neglect impoverished the populace to the extent that it is impossible to satisfy all creditors from one's resources and leave no way out except to cheat are the real culprits here.And we know who they are.
In brief I do not believe that what Mick Wallace did in relation a Tax which I consider unjust is wrong ,particularly if,as appears to be the case ,there was no way he could meet the impossible demands of a multiplicity of demented creditors from resources that withered because of the gross neglect of the people regulating the Country.There but for the Grace of God go us all.
The Dail needs far more people drawn from the business community who know first hand the vicissitudes of business and to be lectured to by former teachers and the like ,who never created even one job and never employed anyone save the substitute they employ to preserve their pensions,is a bit rich.
Regarding the suitability for the Dail of people who lie, I 'd saythere would be very few qualified,maybe a few dozen in the Country.In my life so far I have only met one man who told me he never lied .
I do think however that anyone who tells another that he has hired a hit man to collect a debt,when it is untrue ,in order to scare a debtor ,is beneath contempt and should not be welcome in decent company,never mind the Dail.
There are very few circumstances where politicians should have the power to decide to unelect democratically elected deputies .Such a power would make them self perpetuating dictators and fascists.
Any attempt ,either by the Oireachtas or anyone else to reverse this decision amounts to interference in the exercise of Revenue powers and calls by opportunistic Ministers to to open the veil of secrecy with Revenue in his regard only and not in relation to their own areas of responsibility is not on.Every Government Department is actively touting for informers and the people informed on ,who may have their lives destroyed by such "Good Citizen " reports have just as much entitlement to know the identity of those informing on them as any Minister has to stick his or her nose into the exercise of Revenue of its duties with individual taxpayers.
If taxpayers feel that their confidential information furnished will not be treated in confidence then the system will fall apart.A result the promoters of the decommissioning of the confessional seal hope will befall Catholicism.
It is not that long ago since Ministers were diligent to remove from themselves any powers they had to decide such matters,presumably as they viewed it as inimical to their image.If they are unhappy with the Revenue all they have to do is to enact laws so that they ,the politicians can make these decisions in future cases.
But one assumes that as the three Revenue Commissioners are appointed by either the Taoiseach of the day or the Government of the day they have adequate faith in their appointees to do the proper and prudent thing in these matters.
Now the main issues that concern me are different than those opportunistic soundbites shouted from the high secular ground by a diverse spectrum of politicians who by their actions,or absence of them have reduced us to the status of beggar man of Europe and surrendered our sovereignty by incremental kow towing to the Reich and its satellites,of which we are now the most abject and spineless.
The public are so disillusioned that 50% of the electorate didn't even vote in the recent referendum surrendering more sovereignty and of the 50% that did vote only 60% voted in favour despite the active backing of the three biggest political parties in the Dail and the urgings of their friends in business,most of whom I imagine are hoping for a quid quo pro in return.
The most hypocritical and vociferous critics ,both in the media and in politics bases their rantings on the following facets:-
(1).He broke the law and is therefor unfit to be a member of the Dail.
(2)He lied in a declaration to Revenue and as a liar is not proper material for the job of T.D.
(3)His colleagues should have the authority to sack him.
Now I would have major problems with all these propositions.
There is no obligation on anyone to obey an unjust law in my view.The line that the secular law was sacrosanct was peddled by Hitler's Germany,Stalin's USSR,Mao 's China,Pol Pot's Cambodia,Japan's Hirohito and many more more recent regimes who have mass murdered their populaces and others.
I have no doubt that the principle of upholding of the law will be pushed by those Labour,Fine Gael and Fianna Fail T.D.'s who have sold out their electorate by endorsing the unjust and inequitable household charges,the septic tank charges and the plethora of disgraceful ,sneaky and oppressive laws they have enacted to get at decent people whatever way they can.
Believe me you ain't seen nothing yet.
To see where these incompetents have left us do a tour of Kells,Navan and Trim,taking in the industrial estates in the hinterland and imagine what the places will be like in five years when the Mines wind down.Now imagine what it would be like if the forty thousand who emigrated were kicked back home.
The trustee taxes of PAYE/PRSI and VAT are the biggest scam of all time,when viewed from a certain perspective.
VAT is not a just tax in any form .A millionaire pays the same amount on the goods or service as a pauper. The regime has been arranged to make every Registered person an unpaid collector of revenues for the State and imposes the most severe penalties and fines if the job is not done properly by that person.Actually the Collector General collects no VAT at all from unregistered persons.What it does is manage the real collectors.Every politician.judge and public servant knows full well that if the registered traders are not kept in line their salaries and pensions will dry up.Their victims are therefor whipped into line at every opportunity and this may explain the utterly severe sentences imposed by a political appointed judiciary on offenders of late.
As I predicted some time ago the Government has broken the spirit of the Judiciary by not allowing them to fight against the wage reduction imposed for reasons of subjugation and the ordinary citizen is at a huge disadvantage when he takes on the State in matters affecting the health of the Exchequer..
The politicians know where their mullah comes from.And so do their buddies.
While there is some element of equity in the Income Tax and RSI system ,in that it takes into account the income level of the individual, Registered employers are also unpaid collectors for the State and my remarks in relation to VAT Registered persons have equal application.
The EU is dependant on contributions from each member State to exist so both the E.U. and each State have vested interests in imposing the severest penalties and conditions on these unfortunates.
Such is the burden of compliance on business in relation to these matters and the unending requirements of other State organs and quangos that you would want to be mad to go there and the reality is that it is impossible to be straight all the time.Any honest business person or civil servant would tell you this if pushed and it is long past time that these issues were addressed and simplified.If not the EU will die the death very shortly.
Secular law regards breach of tax law as the greatest crime.Similar to East Germany before the fall of the wall.Give all to Caesar and let God go to Hell is the secularists motto.And compassion has no place,only retribution.
Those individuals and organisations whose neglect impoverished the populace to the extent that it is impossible to satisfy all creditors from one's resources and leave no way out except to cheat are the real culprits here.And we know who they are.
In brief I do not believe that what Mick Wallace did in relation a Tax which I consider unjust is wrong ,particularly if,as appears to be the case ,there was no way he could meet the impossible demands of a multiplicity of demented creditors from resources that withered because of the gross neglect of the people regulating the Country.There but for the Grace of God go us all.
The Dail needs far more people drawn from the business community who know first hand the vicissitudes of business and to be lectured to by former teachers and the like ,who never created even one job and never employed anyone save the substitute they employ to preserve their pensions,is a bit rich.
Regarding the suitability for the Dail of people who lie, I 'd saythere would be very few qualified,maybe a few dozen in the Country.In my life so far I have only met one man who told me he never lied .
I do think however that anyone who tells another that he has hired a hit man to collect a debt,when it is untrue ,in order to scare a debtor ,is beneath contempt and should not be welcome in decent company,never mind the Dail.
There are very few circumstances where politicians should have the power to decide to unelect democratically elected deputies .Such a power would make them self perpetuating dictators and fascists.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Dunderry Grave Blessings 2012
Dunderry CemeteryTwo Ceremonies.Saturday 7th July 7.30 P.M.Mass and Blessing after.
Sunday 8th July 11.00 A.M.Mass and blessing after.
Take your pick.
Churchtown Blessing.:Tuesday 10th July 7.30 P.M.
Retaine Blessing: Wednesday 11 th July at 7.30.P.M.
Clady Blessing :Weednesday 11th at 8.00P.M.
Kilcooley ;Wednesday 11th at 8.30 P.M..
Kilbride :Sunday 15th July ;Mass 7.00 P.M.Blessing after Mass.
Moyet:Tuesday 17th July 7.30.P.M.
Tullaghanogue:Tuesday 17th at 8.00 P.M..
Black Church.Thursday 19 th July 7.30.P.M.
Sunday 8th July 11.00 A.M.Mass and blessing after.
Take your pick.
Churchtown Blessing.:Tuesday 10th July 7.30 P.M.
Retaine Blessing: Wednesday 11 th July at 7.30.P.M.
Clady Blessing :Weednesday 11th at 8.00P.M.
Kilcooley ;Wednesday 11th at 8.30 P.M..
Kilbride :Sunday 15th July ;Mass 7.00 P.M.Blessing after Mass.
Moyet:Tuesday 17th July 7.30.P.M.
Tullaghanogue:Tuesday 17th at 8.00 P.M..
Black Church.Thursday 19 th July 7.30.P.M.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Colmcilles by a point.
Last Monday we were beat by Colmcilles from the Laytown/Bettystown area by a point in the A League.I missed the game but am told that we were well ahead until the last twenty minutes when we fell asunder.
As per usual we were short up to a half dozen panel members.Not saying we would have done any better.
Next Friday we play Na Fianna in the Inter Championship.Shit or bust for all involved.
As per usual we were short up to a half dozen panel members.Not saying we would have done any better.
Next Friday we play Na Fianna in the Inter Championship.Shit or bust for all involved.
Drumbeat Dividend for 09/06/2012
After the disasters of the past two weeks we are hoping to get back in the winning enclosure withVAN ELLIS in the 2.35 in Chester.Remains unexposed after four outings and his sole victory came in Dundalk last month.He is likely to force the pace under Joe Fanning and is great value at 6/1.
We need this one as the bookies are well ahead at this stage.My fiver is going on in any event.
We need this one as the bookies are well ahead at this stage.My fiver is going on in any event.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Living the dream at a fiver.
My grand kids are pure magic.One six year old has an imagination that knows no boundaries and spends much of his time in cartoon land,where we all know everything is possible and America speak is the norm.
On one of those balmy days last week,borrowed from the Caribbean,his mother invested a fiver in a marked down inflatable pool,maybe a foot across and six inches deep.She filled it with water and his lordship languidly lay down in it,Lidl sunglasses on his nose and pronounced "I'm living the dream."
Priceless.
On one of those balmy days last week,borrowed from the Caribbean,his mother invested a fiver in a marked down inflatable pool,maybe a foot across and six inches deep.She filled it with water and his lordship languidly lay down in it,Lidl sunglasses on his nose and pronounced "I'm living the dream."
Priceless.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 02/06/2012.
At the pin of our collars we are plumping for Beaten Up in the Coronation Cup at Newmarket.The favourite will be hard to beat but if he slips up William Haggis reports he has nothing at home to come up to the standard of Beaten Up.Should be about 5/1
Death of John Greally
Earlier this week I had the unpleasant task of attending the funeral of John Greally in Blanchardstown.While there really is no convenient time to die the mid forties really is far to young.And that was John's age,far too young to be found unexpectedly dead in his bed,to the great distress of his misfortunate mother,brothers Gerry and Michael and sister Anne and his nephews , nieces and a very wide circle of stunned friends.
Better known as the "bear"to his friends in St.Brigids,where I first met the extended family many moons ago,he was a prison officer by profession and his colleagues turned out in force to pay respects to what was clearly a well respected and admired work colleague.They had a guard of honour and a piper played his farewells.
There were as many people outside the Church as inside ,such was the respect and esteem in which he was held and he was buried in Mulhuddart alongside his father Mick who predeceased him by two years.His mother was distraught by the hammer blows rained down on her by the double burden of losing a husband and son so closely in time and by the un natural burden of being predeceased by a child.God help her.
The bear was a decent and straight man.His word was his bond.I have reason to know.This is no surprise as his father and mother were of similar trait and the apple never falls far from the tree.
I had the pleasure of playing football with both father and son.Both showed a determination in the tackle which would put the fear of God into the bravest opponent,the father more so than the son it must be said.
And while the father won All Irelands and represented Connaught in his day and John didn't ,he was nevertheless a solid and inspiring corner back at club level for Brigid's.
I would have to say that his father was one of the toughest men I ever played with and honest to his fingertips on the field of play.He served as Chairman of Brigids when it was dangerous to do so and steered the Club through some very choppy waters.
Ar dheis De go raibh anam dilis Eoin.
Better known as the "bear"to his friends in St.Brigids,where I first met the extended family many moons ago,he was a prison officer by profession and his colleagues turned out in force to pay respects to what was clearly a well respected and admired work colleague.They had a guard of honour and a piper played his farewells.
There were as many people outside the Church as inside ,such was the respect and esteem in which he was held and he was buried in Mulhuddart alongside his father Mick who predeceased him by two years.His mother was distraught by the hammer blows rained down on her by the double burden of losing a husband and son so closely in time and by the un natural burden of being predeceased by a child.God help her.
The bear was a decent and straight man.His word was his bond.I have reason to know.This is no surprise as his father and mother were of similar trait and the apple never falls far from the tree.
I had the pleasure of playing football with both father and son.Both showed a determination in the tackle which would put the fear of God into the bravest opponent,the father more so than the son it must be said.
And while the father won All Irelands and represented Connaught in his day and John didn't ,he was nevertheless a solid and inspiring corner back at club level for Brigid's.
I would have to say that his father was one of the toughest men I ever played with and honest to his fingertips on the field of play.He served as Chairman of Brigids when it was dangerous to do so and steered the Club through some very choppy waters.
Ar dheis De go raibh anam dilis Eoin.
Unexpected death of Dickin Conway
Word is just filtering through of the unexpected death of one of nature's gentlemen,Dick Conway of the Hill of Faughan.This is a further blow to the wider Conway clan as we had just buried his double first cousin Nell Gough,at whose wake I had met his sister Eileen.
Many older residents of Dunderry will remember Dickin well as he spent much of his youth around the area.He was a fanatical sportsman and I well remember kicking football with him in Jack Conway's field in my youth,.
One of my claims to fame is that I was on the Dublin under 21 football panel in 1971 ,when Dublin played Meath in Drogheda.Meath won in a match where Ken Rennicks gave a master display in a match that included such Dubs as David Hickey on the field,.
Dickin was there ,no doubt to support Ken,but spoke to me also ,a mere sub on the day.I have never forgotten this.
My abiding memory is that he was a good footballer and fielded with Dunderry when my uncle Tommy was over the Club.
Another good and kind man gone to his eternal rest.
Many older residents of Dunderry will remember Dickin well as he spent much of his youth around the area.He was a fanatical sportsman and I well remember kicking football with him in Jack Conway's field in my youth,.
One of my claims to fame is that I was on the Dublin under 21 football panel in 1971 ,when Dublin played Meath in Drogheda.Meath won in a match where Ken Rennicks gave a master display in a match that included such Dubs as David Hickey on the field,.
Dickin was there ,no doubt to support Ken,but spoke to me also ,a mere sub on the day.I have never forgotten this.
My abiding memory is that he was a good footballer and fielded with Dunderry when my uncle Tommy was over the Club.
Another good and kind man gone to his eternal rest.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Death of Nell Gough.
Nell passed away earlier today 28/05/2012 in the loving bosom of her family.
House private until 2.30 P.M.tomorrow,Tuesday .
The removal will be on Wednesday to arrive in Dunderry Church at 12.00.
Burial immediately after to Dunderry Cemetery.
Lord have mercy on her soul.
House private until 2.30 P.M.tomorrow,Tuesday .
The removal will be on Wednesday to arrive in Dunderry Church at 12.00.
Burial immediately after to Dunderry Cemetery.
Lord have mercy on her soul.
The tinker's purse or the rat?
There is an old saying around here which goes "Among tinkers no one owns the purse".I first heard it used many years ago ,long before the prohibitionist and health Taliban destroyed the pubs of Ireland and put them to the sword,when six of us used meet every Friday evening for a few pints ,a smoke and a good chat.God be with the days.
Even then one or more of us might be shy in the money department ,while others might be carrying extra,having had a good week or whatever.Once the situation revealed itself,the lad going well covered the lad under pressure and everybody got the same amount of gargle ,no questions asked.
This was the custom among the travelling fraternity ,another institution our secular society has tried to put to the sword by enacting the petty laws barring camping by the roadside. Our lawmakers and their acoloyties would prefer the sight of ragworth and hogweed to humans.
Maybe the sense of community (which the E.U. has perhaps consciously dropped from its title )made such Christian values pertinent.Tinkers have a great sense of family and boozing buddies are broadly similar.
Certainly I never remember anyone talking of sub prime loan repayments or moral hazard in the context of the tinkers purse.
Everybody trusted everybody else to be honest and the attitude was that it was good to help out a neighbour and friend in hard times without undue investigation and without guarantees of institutional austerity and the levy of penal interest on the guy who was temporarily under pressure.
If a community of countries are mutually bound by common objectives there are no reasons why the "Tinkers Purse " principle cannot apply,Unless of course one wants to totally dominate the other and punish and humiliate it if it falls on hard times.
If it comes to that stage then the logical and honourable thing to do is to dissolve that Union ,not humiliate the the fella experiencing hard times by instituting permanent austerity on him,getting him to surrender even more sovereignty and to agree to be fined if he goes broke again.
Now Noona's remarks about not being pavilion members of the EU,being at the heart of it (Do ye take us for full ejits) and his sneering reference to a buddy under pressure ,Greece,as only being capable of contributing feta cheese to the cause ,displays a mindset which would never,ever allow him to even comprehend the rational of the tinkers purse.Nor to be a drinking buddy of mine.
Now to the Rat story.
Many years ago ago a mill owner was so plagued with rats that he could barely survive, such was the amount of grain they ate or destroyed.Cats ,terriers ,traps ,poison made no difference.The day was saved by a mountain man who trapped a dozen rats,and put them alive into an aerated barrel,without food or water.He returned in three weeks to find one sleek rat alive.This rat,the most cunning,fearsome ,vicious and determined of them all had killed and devoured the rest.
Let loose in the mill he soon cleared all rodents out ,as they soon got the message that he had developed a taste for rat flesh.Soon his influence spread to all the neighbouring mills.
You get the message?
Vote No says I.
Even then one or more of us might be shy in the money department ,while others might be carrying extra,having had a good week or whatever.Once the situation revealed itself,the lad going well covered the lad under pressure and everybody got the same amount of gargle ,no questions asked.
This was the custom among the travelling fraternity ,another institution our secular society has tried to put to the sword by enacting the petty laws barring camping by the roadside. Our lawmakers and their acoloyties would prefer the sight of ragworth and hogweed to humans.
Maybe the sense of community (which the E.U. has perhaps consciously dropped from its title )made such Christian values pertinent.Tinkers have a great sense of family and boozing buddies are broadly similar.
Certainly I never remember anyone talking of sub prime loan repayments or moral hazard in the context of the tinkers purse.
Everybody trusted everybody else to be honest and the attitude was that it was good to help out a neighbour and friend in hard times without undue investigation and without guarantees of institutional austerity and the levy of penal interest on the guy who was temporarily under pressure.
If a community of countries are mutually bound by common objectives there are no reasons why the "Tinkers Purse " principle cannot apply,Unless of course one wants to totally dominate the other and punish and humiliate it if it falls on hard times.
If it comes to that stage then the logical and honourable thing to do is to dissolve that Union ,not humiliate the the fella experiencing hard times by instituting permanent austerity on him,getting him to surrender even more sovereignty and to agree to be fined if he goes broke again.
Now Noona's remarks about not being pavilion members of the EU,being at the heart of it (Do ye take us for full ejits) and his sneering reference to a buddy under pressure ,Greece,as only being capable of contributing feta cheese to the cause ,displays a mindset which would never,ever allow him to even comprehend the rational of the tinkers purse.Nor to be a drinking buddy of mine.
Now to the Rat story.
Many years ago ago a mill owner was so plagued with rats that he could barely survive, such was the amount of grain they ate or destroyed.Cats ,terriers ,traps ,poison made no difference.The day was saved by a mountain man who trapped a dozen rats,and put them alive into an aerated barrel,without food or water.He returned in three weeks to find one sleek rat alive.This rat,the most cunning,fearsome ,vicious and determined of them all had killed and devoured the rest.
Let loose in the mill he soon cleared all rodents out ,as they soon got the message that he had developed a taste for rat flesh.Soon his influence spread to all the neighbouring mills.
You get the message?
Vote No says I.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Kells V Dunderry 26/05/2012
Was watching a cow to calve and missed the match.We drew .I had a good man there to take notes.Report in due course.
On the other hand I was watching a young hare ,which was oblivious to my presence ,while cow watching.
Brought to mind an old dirge I heard years ago.
"God made man and he made money,
God made the bee and he made honey,
God made the hare to lie in the grass,
And the divil made the greyhound to bite him in the arse."
On the other hand I was watching a young hare ,which was oblivious to my presence ,while cow watching.
Brought to mind an old dirge I heard years ago.
"God made man and he made money,
God made the bee and he made honey,
God made the hare to lie in the grass,
And the divil made the greyhound to bite him in the arse."
Friday, May 25, 2012
Dunderry Match results 25/26 May 2012.
The U 14 footballers hammered Dunsany in the Div 5 Shield Final last night.
The U 15 Camogie team were well beaten by Rathoath in the Top Tier Final tonight.
The U 18 footballers were beaten byClanna Gael in the Div.3 Final tonight.
With three members of the Meath Minor team on our side the latter was a shock result.
The U 15 Camogie team were well beaten by Rathoath in the Top Tier Final tonight.
The U 18 footballers were beaten byClanna Gael in the Div.3 Final tonight.
With three members of the Meath Minor team on our side the latter was a shock result.
Drumbeat Dividend for 26/05/2012.
Try Hermival at the Curragh in the 3.15 tomorrow Saturday.
I collected E15.00 last Saturday as I got last week's tip at 2/1 and am now playing with the bookies money .I am E.9.40 to the good on an investment of E.20.00.( 2 winners one second and an also ran.)
Caught on the wrong side of the track in the English Guineas at Newmarket ,Hermival was unlucky not to win,having won his group stage comfortably.
At 11/2 he is good enough to win in a field that is far from impressive.
Give it a lash.
I collected E15.00 last Saturday as I got last week's tip at 2/1 and am now playing with the bookies money .I am E.9.40 to the good on an investment of E.20.00.( 2 winners one second and an also ran.)
Caught on the wrong side of the track in the English Guineas at Newmarket ,Hermival was unlucky not to win,having won his group stage comfortably.
At 11/2 he is good enough to win in a field that is far from impressive.
Give it a lash.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
First day of Summer
Went up to the pitch last evening to give Jim Mitchell and Darren Yourell a hand with the under 14 footballers who are in a shield final this Thursday in Dunganny.
Truth to tell we were lucky to get a place to train.The pitch was chock a bloc with underage camogie players hosting a tournament,another camogie challenge against Trim,under 18 football training,and Senior hurlers and footballers training together as well as our training.
Not a cross word exchanged as everybody adjusted and tailored their needs according to the circumstances.
The under 14's didn't field in the first round of the championship and this is not good.That is why I volunteered to give a hand with them.These young lads are the potential stars of the future and deserve the best.
The numbers of children ,parents and adults present would do your heart good.
For the first time in a month there was a diminution in the harsh wind that has most farmers still foddering in the month of May,which is highly unusual.
Last week my daughter and her husband saw what they took to be a huge falcon hovering close to the village.They described it as bigger than a hen and smaller than a swan with a hooked beak and a massive wing span.Any ideas?
The previous evening was a bit of a bummer as both Dunderry and Rathoath turned up for a B League Div2 match but no referee.A huge disappointment and no match played.
It's hard to fathom why the GAA and the Government don't get together and devise a system for reward to address this type of thing.You would imagine with 450,000 unemployed one person would be available.
The under 14 camogie team fields in the final this Friday.
Beidh me ann.
Truth to tell we were lucky to get a place to train.The pitch was chock a bloc with underage camogie players hosting a tournament,another camogie challenge against Trim,under 18 football training,and Senior hurlers and footballers training together as well as our training.
Not a cross word exchanged as everybody adjusted and tailored their needs according to the circumstances.
The under 14's didn't field in the first round of the championship and this is not good.That is why I volunteered to give a hand with them.These young lads are the potential stars of the future and deserve the best.
The numbers of children ,parents and adults present would do your heart good.
For the first time in a month there was a diminution in the harsh wind that has most farmers still foddering in the month of May,which is highly unusual.
Last week my daughter and her husband saw what they took to be a huge falcon hovering close to the village.They described it as bigger than a hen and smaller than a swan with a hooked beak and a massive wing span.Any ideas?
The previous evening was a bit of a bummer as both Dunderry and Rathoath turned up for a B League Div2 match but no referee.A huge disappointment and no match played.
It's hard to fathom why the GAA and the Government don't get together and devise a system for reward to address this type of thing.You would imagine with 450,000 unemployed one person would be available.
The under 14 camogie team fields in the final this Friday.
Beidh me ann.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Fir Breaga in their element.
As predicted the up coming constitutional amendment is the perfect arena for the Fir and the Mna Breaga (best be careful not to upset the gonad brigade ) to sprout whatever comes into their heads,with little regard to the facts .
My approach to the matter is quite simple.I am a huge admirer of the 1937 Constitution.It was drafted by people who had just emerged from a millennium of subjugation under the world,s greatest Empire ever and who never wanted to be vassals again to anyone.
It should only be meddled with in the most extreme circumstances and should never in my view be changed to concede sovereignty so hard fought for to any other institution.
That the Attorney General had the conjoles to pronounce that a constitutional vote was called for shows the she is a brave and proper woman and that the passing of the the referendum would be a conceding of sovereignty to a foreign institution.
Now the political parties have in the past been more than happy to campaign for the conceding of many aspects of sovereignty to the European ideal..The question we have got to ask ourselves now is whether with 14.5% unemployment ,mass emigration ,increased levels of suicide ,and while increasingly living in fear we would now opt ,were we outside the E.U. to make ourselves a part of a Union that is in absolute chaos.A Union that has austerity as its focal point,where 50% youth unemployment is common in Greece,Spain ,Italy and Portugal,where there are riots in the streets ,where ordinary people are displaying alarm at the running of the club whenever they have the chance and where democratically elected politicians are blackmailed into conceding democratic control to unelected officials.
Whether thes issues are avoided by the yacht club brigade or those who wouldn't clear the shite of a sick chicken from the coop ,these issues dont go away.
I would say that we would not opt for membership of such a club,even pavilion membership..
The fact that the current Taoiseach can publicly be so nasty to a man regulated out of business after nearly thirty years by telling him to get a job,when 450,00 others can't and that his Minister of Finance can be so insulting of Greece ,the home of democracy,by reducing their worth to the level of a form of cheese tells its own story.
I happened to be at the removal of a former hospital companion of mine ,Jo Ging from Ballivor,this evening.
The Church was packed as you would expect for a man who lead such a decent ,worthy and compassionate life.We were for a long time in regular contact but I lost contact over changed phones and he only last week asked Vincie Rattigan to get me to contact him.Vincie delivered the message but I was so busy I put it on the long finger,a decision I will eternally regret and which just shows how unpredictable life is.
Any how the queue to offer sympathy was long and a former Fianna Fail minister was in it.The talk of him was "There's one of the people that put this country back forty years"Hard to disagree.His successors have added another ten years on to that without our consent and now want to make it permanent.
Our ancestors refused the soup to abandon principle.Surely we are brave enough to do likewise .
By the way attempts to say that we are at the "heart of Europe"is Fir Breagaspeak at its worst.Think about it.
My approach to the matter is quite simple.I am a huge admirer of the 1937 Constitution.It was drafted by people who had just emerged from a millennium of subjugation under the world,s greatest Empire ever and who never wanted to be vassals again to anyone.
It should only be meddled with in the most extreme circumstances and should never in my view be changed to concede sovereignty so hard fought for to any other institution.
That the Attorney General had the conjoles to pronounce that a constitutional vote was called for shows the she is a brave and proper woman and that the passing of the the referendum would be a conceding of sovereignty to a foreign institution.
Now the political parties have in the past been more than happy to campaign for the conceding of many aspects of sovereignty to the European ideal..The question we have got to ask ourselves now is whether with 14.5% unemployment ,mass emigration ,increased levels of suicide ,and while increasingly living in fear we would now opt ,were we outside the E.U. to make ourselves a part of a Union that is in absolute chaos.A Union that has austerity as its focal point,where 50% youth unemployment is common in Greece,Spain ,Italy and Portugal,where there are riots in the streets ,where ordinary people are displaying alarm at the running of the club whenever they have the chance and where democratically elected politicians are blackmailed into conceding democratic control to unelected officials.
Whether thes issues are avoided by the yacht club brigade or those who wouldn't clear the shite of a sick chicken from the coop ,these issues dont go away.
I would say that we would not opt for membership of such a club,even pavilion membership..
The fact that the current Taoiseach can publicly be so nasty to a man regulated out of business after nearly thirty years by telling him to get a job,when 450,00 others can't and that his Minister of Finance can be so insulting of Greece ,the home of democracy,by reducing their worth to the level of a form of cheese tells its own story.
I happened to be at the removal of a former hospital companion of mine ,Jo Ging from Ballivor,this evening.
The Church was packed as you would expect for a man who lead such a decent ,worthy and compassionate life.We were for a long time in regular contact but I lost contact over changed phones and he only last week asked Vincie Rattigan to get me to contact him.Vincie delivered the message but I was so busy I put it on the long finger,a decision I will eternally regret and which just shows how unpredictable life is.
Any how the queue to offer sympathy was long and a former Fianna Fail minister was in it.The talk of him was "There's one of the people that put this country back forty years"Hard to disagree.His successors have added another ten years on to that without our consent and now want to make it permanent.
Our ancestors refused the soup to abandon principle.Surely we are brave enough to do likewise .
By the way attempts to say that we are at the "heart of Europe"is Fir Breagaspeak at its worst.Think about it.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 19/05/2012
Last weeks tip finished second and we are down 60p over the three weeks having invested E.15.00 in total.
This week we are going for Thought Worthy in the 2.15 in Newmarket.
His trainer John Gosden has already said that he is his number one Derby candidate ,which is very interesting considering that he also has Fencing and Shantaram in the race.
This horse has loads of potential and can burst the bubble of favourite Noble Mission.
This is our strongest fancy and should end up at odds of 3/1.
This week we are going for Thought Worthy in the 2.15 in Newmarket.
His trainer John Gosden has already said that he is his number one Derby candidate ,which is very interesting considering that he also has Fencing and Shantaram in the race.
This horse has loads of potential and can burst the bubble of favourite Noble Mission.
This is our strongest fancy and should end up at odds of 3/1.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Heart breaking scum thrive in "New"Ireland.
The amoral spawn of the ill bred lineage of a mongrel sub species of our so called multicultural society continue to thrive and prey on the decent and good in this Parish .
Last Sunday ,while the decent citizenry of the Parish and further afield were enjoying the fruits of the volunteers of the Fair Day extravaganza in Dunderry ,the beneath contempt parasitic low lives that share the same air that we breathe were at the only "work" they are capable of,that is they were desecrating and robbing the empty house of a decent married man and woman and their three infant children.
They stole their wedding bands rings,the engagement ring ,the children's Christening,Communion and Confirmation bracelets,the cameras,boxes containing saved coins and anything easily carried.They defiled family photographs ,memorial cards and up scuttled every room in the house.
They went through all the drawers in each room,scattering underwear and over wear everywhere,threw mattresses aside and broke the locks on every press and cupboard in the house.
In this instance there were more than the normal amount of locks and clasps on account of the tender years of the children and special circumstances.Everything ruined and violated.
Yep this trash have now a triple to their credit in that they have robbed three generations of the one family within six months,granny ,child and grandchildren.
Welcome to secular Europe where the atheists continue to push for the exclusion of the morality of religion from our Schools.Yep ,to say "thou shall not steal "in the schools of the secularists will be forbidden perhaps.
The Gardai were out in force in the Village during the fair.The kindred spirits of the housethieves were picking a pocket or two.And the Gardai were on the job.They can't be everywhere.
I will bet you this though.In any District Court in Meath next week the bulk of the cases will be public order offences ,speeding offences or other car related offences,all of which are readily detectable.There will be few ,if any ,people caught for theft and such like .
Cut backs you know.
A sure the poor hoors of thieves have no money and know no better and aren't we all feeling the pinch in this recession.God help them.
Yes we are going to institutionalise austerity ,force the emigration of our own,take in all comers from our Europe and whinge when our turn comes.
Time to wake up ,look after our own and tell Europe and its 'philes to go to hell.
Last Sunday ,while the decent citizenry of the Parish and further afield were enjoying the fruits of the volunteers of the Fair Day extravaganza in Dunderry ,the beneath contempt parasitic low lives that share the same air that we breathe were at the only "work" they are capable of,that is they were desecrating and robbing the empty house of a decent married man and woman and their three infant children.
They stole their wedding bands rings,the engagement ring ,the children's Christening,Communion and Confirmation bracelets,the cameras,boxes containing saved coins and anything easily carried.They defiled family photographs ,memorial cards and up scuttled every room in the house.
They went through all the drawers in each room,scattering underwear and over wear everywhere,threw mattresses aside and broke the locks on every press and cupboard in the house.
In this instance there were more than the normal amount of locks and clasps on account of the tender years of the children and special circumstances.Everything ruined and violated.
Yep this trash have now a triple to their credit in that they have robbed three generations of the one family within six months,granny ,child and grandchildren.
Welcome to secular Europe where the atheists continue to push for the exclusion of the morality of religion from our Schools.Yep ,to say "thou shall not steal "in the schools of the secularists will be forbidden perhaps.
The Gardai were out in force in the Village during the fair.The kindred spirits of the housethieves were picking a pocket or two.And the Gardai were on the job.They can't be everywhere.
I will bet you this though.In any District Court in Meath next week the bulk of the cases will be public order offences ,speeding offences or other car related offences,all of which are readily detectable.There will be few ,if any ,people caught for theft and such like .
Cut backs you know.
A sure the poor hoors of thieves have no money and know no better and aren't we all feeling the pinch in this recession.God help them.
Yes we are going to institutionalise austerity ,force the emigration of our own,take in all comers from our Europe and whinge when our turn comes.
Time to wake up ,look after our own and tell Europe and its 'philes to go to hell.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Tipster has nightmare day
Our Davy had a bad day today,He was close in the tip .The horse came second.The third time it came second.In retrospect this was probably the bet to call .Maybe he is destined to come second in perpetuity??
Then three goals winged their way past him this evening.Not blaming him but not a happy punter.
Then three goals winged their way past him this evening.Not blaming him but not a happy punter.
Dunderry V Kilmaimham Div 2 A League 12/5/2012.
My late uncles used say when Dunderry were bad in football that they "shit on the traces".I didn't get this until they explained to me that in the days when the horse was king,a horse not made of the right stuff would shit on the chains (traces )attaching him to the dray rather than go the extra mile when a pullable weight was aboard .i.e.he would give up the ghost without a decent fight.
I will say no more than Dunderry shit on the traces today when going down to a game Kilmainham team in our neighbours pitch in Rathcairn.Three second half goals in a five minute spell kick started them to a well deserved victory.
We were bet five points .
'Nuff said.
I will say no more than Dunderry shit on the traces today when going down to a game Kilmainham team in our neighbours pitch in Rathcairn.Three second half goals in a five minute spell kick started them to a well deserved victory.
We were bet five points .
'Nuff said.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for Sat.12/5/2012.
Last week's nomination paid me E.14.40 for a fiver win.Not bad .E.9.40 up on the day ,E.4.40 up on the successive Saturdays and only 60 cents of my own money needed to cover tomorrows bet of a fiver.
Feeling adventurous we are going for a fiver on Shantaram in the 3.10 in Lingfield tomorrow .
Has yet to win a race but has shown huge potential in both starts ,particularly last time out when narrowly denied.
Well drawn and the impressive William Buick in the saddle,Shanatram has the ability to win this Derby trial and will be fancy odds too.
Yep I'll chance a fiver win.
Feeling adventurous we are going for a fiver on Shantaram in the 3.10 in Lingfield tomorrow .
Has yet to win a race but has shown huge potential in both starts ,particularly last time out when narrowly denied.
Well drawn and the impressive William Buick in the saddle,Shanatram has the ability to win this Derby trial and will be fancy odds too.
Yep I'll chance a fiver win.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
U 15 Camogie Boardsmill 2-4.Dunderry 4-2
This semi-final was played tonight in Boardsmill on a pitch that held up well to the prevaling conditions .No rain during the match for a change.That long serving knight of the whistle Christy Rispin took charge .As Boardsmill is in Trim Parish and as several adult Boardsmill players ply their trade with the Trim Senior team,despite Boardsmill having their own adult team,(don't ask),it was probably unfair on him to ask him to officiate at the fixture. With the exception of denying Dunderry a clear line ball he did a fair job enough.
This was a ding dong battle between two evenly matched teams,which kept the large attendance on their toes right up to the final whistle.The lead alternated from the throw in,from which the Mill scored a goal' right up to the final whistle ,by which time Dunderry were deservedly in front.
A tactical change was made pre match which ,for the first time this year ,saw the thus far dominant midfield partnership of Minogue and Mc Donagh broken up ,with the latter sited on the forty,Stenson drafted to the middle and Scanlan to half back.
It worked to a point with Mc Donagh scoring a first half goal and the teams went in even steven at half time. 2-0 Dunderry 1-3 The Mill.
After the break Mc Donagh and Scanlan swopped positions and the ship steadied somewhat better in a half full of character and vim by both sides.We added 2-2 and they only managed 1-1and as the fella says its whats on the scoreboard at the end that matters.
This was a brave ,courageous and spirited performance by a well drilled ,disciplined and fiercely determined team which will not accept defeat.As far as I know the Mill are the bogey team of Dunderrry in this grade and the victory was all the sweeter for that fact.
From 1 to 15 we gave it loads and this was a victory for team spirit above all.I will not pick out one above the other ,as all gave all they had and they have a lot.
Boardsmill were no slouches either and can be proud of their honest and determined endeavours.
Tracey Coady,Evelyn Barry Murphy and Hugh Daly can be proud of their girls.
Now is not the time to get carried away as there is no silverware on the table yet but with a ratcheting up of the tempo and another push in the courage department the final can be won.So we pray.
Team. Tara Fleming
Aoife O Shea Blaithnid Keyes Michelle Smith
Aine Coogan Labaoise Martyn Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Anna Stenson
Isobel Varley Aisling Mc Donagh Cara Woods
Niamh Daly Anna Byrne Megan Doherty
Subs.Ciara Casserly for Niamh Daly
Holly Keenan for Megan Doherty
Rachel Keaveney,Hazel Carty,Rachel Brennan and Sinead O Farrell.
This was a ding dong battle between two evenly matched teams,which kept the large attendance on their toes right up to the final whistle.The lead alternated from the throw in,from which the Mill scored a goal' right up to the final whistle ,by which time Dunderry were deservedly in front.
A tactical change was made pre match which ,for the first time this year ,saw the thus far dominant midfield partnership of Minogue and Mc Donagh broken up ,with the latter sited on the forty,Stenson drafted to the middle and Scanlan to half back.
It worked to a point with Mc Donagh scoring a first half goal and the teams went in even steven at half time. 2-0 Dunderry 1-3 The Mill.
After the break Mc Donagh and Scanlan swopped positions and the ship steadied somewhat better in a half full of character and vim by both sides.We added 2-2 and they only managed 1-1and as the fella says its whats on the scoreboard at the end that matters.
This was a brave ,courageous and spirited performance by a well drilled ,disciplined and fiercely determined team which will not accept defeat.As far as I know the Mill are the bogey team of Dunderrry in this grade and the victory was all the sweeter for that fact.
From 1 to 15 we gave it loads and this was a victory for team spirit above all.I will not pick out one above the other ,as all gave all they had and they have a lot.
Boardsmill were no slouches either and can be proud of their honest and determined endeavours.
Tracey Coady,Evelyn Barry Murphy and Hugh Daly can be proud of their girls.
Now is not the time to get carried away as there is no silverware on the table yet but with a ratcheting up of the tempo and another push in the courage department the final can be won.So we pray.
Team. Tara Fleming
Aoife O Shea Blaithnid Keyes Michelle Smith
Aine Coogan Labaoise Martyn Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Anna Stenson
Isobel Varley Aisling Mc Donagh Cara Woods
Niamh Daly Anna Byrne Megan Doherty
Subs.Ciara Casserly for Niamh Daly
Holly Keenan for Megan Doherty
Rachel Keaveney,Hazel Carty,Rachel Brennan and Sinead O Farrell.
Monday, May 7, 2012
GAA must clarify stance on referendum.
I have been involved in the GAA for over 50 years.Never in that time has it taken sides on party political matters.Brendan Halligan's claim implies that it is taking the "Yes" side and supporting the aims of an "Alliance "he ,Brian Cody,Pat Gilroy ,Conor Counihan and Christy Cooney .Pat Cox et al are involved in..There has been no meeting in my Club on the matter,nor as far as I know has there been any County Board nor Central Council meeting on the matter.Nor should there be.
The GAA would immediately want to come out and clarify its position if it is not to be seen as the patsy of this alliance of the exes ie.ex member of PDs,ex MEP,ex Secretary of Labour Party,ex president of GAA,etc.
If it doesn't and allows the impression to go out that it is taking sides in this campaign it may soon find that it has an awful lot of Ex active members,who would disagree vehemently with the aims of this Alliance and the statement of Mr Halligan implying GAA support for its aims.
These GAA personalities should also make it perfectly clear that the views they hold are solely personal views and have nothing to do with the GAA.
The GAA would immediately want to come out and clarify its position if it is not to be seen as the patsy of this alliance of the exes ie.ex member of PDs,ex MEP,ex Secretary of Labour Party,ex president of GAA,etc.
If it doesn't and allows the impression to go out that it is taking sides in this campaign it may soon find that it has an awful lot of Ex active members,who would disagree vehemently with the aims of this Alliance and the statement of Mr Halligan implying GAA support for its aims.
These GAA personalities should also make it perfectly clear that the views they hold are solely personal views and have nothing to do with the GAA.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Second Norse invasion of Moymet underway.
I see that Philip Cahill of Moymet and promiment member of Dunderry Gaa Club has Christened his son Evan Philip Curt Norstrom Cahill.
Mother must be Scandanavian.
Presumably he will be more Irish than the Irish themselves.And highly literate.
Mother must be Scandanavian.
Presumably he will be more Irish than the Irish themselves.And highly literate.
A League Div2.Dunderry V Rathkenny.
Just home from a very entertaining game between two evenly matched teams in the pitch this morning at the very civilised time of 12.00,which allowed adequare time for attendance at 11.00 Mass and tay after.
The Mass was the anniversary (11 th. it seems) for Phil Clarke ,the deceased wife of Joe Clarke of this Parish.
She was a Martin from Kilbride and her Mass was celebrated by her Priest brother,who you could tell is a true son of the soil.
Everything interlinks in its own way and Seamus Brady informed me of something I didn't know and that was that their father was a secretary of the GAA Club for many years.I know now why my uncle Tommy Mc Cormack ,a serious GAA man,thought so much of Martins the Solicitors.Sure they are one and the same Martins and an integral part of the wider GAA family.
We won by two points in a well contested game refereed by new publican Joey Curley to inter county standards.He wasn't impressed by players acting the goat and feigning injury.Others please copy.After all it is supposed to be a man's not a cissies game.
Both teams gave it loads and the result could have gone either way.I suppose we deserved to win.
Darren Fay and Donal Curtis are far from bet.
Dunderry.
D.Jennings
D.Callaghan J.Kelleher E.Dempsey
G.Newman D.Fay E.Stephens
P.Callaghan D.Callaghan
A.Newman I.Mc Cormack A.Coogan
S.Carty B.Doherty A.Newman
Sub Used.Keith Callaghan.
Subs unused.Davy Stephens,Michael Keaveney.
The Mass was the anniversary (11 th. it seems) for Phil Clarke ,the deceased wife of Joe Clarke of this Parish.
She was a Martin from Kilbride and her Mass was celebrated by her Priest brother,who you could tell is a true son of the soil.
Everything interlinks in its own way and Seamus Brady informed me of something I didn't know and that was that their father was a secretary of the GAA Club for many years.I know now why my uncle Tommy Mc Cormack ,a serious GAA man,thought so much of Martins the Solicitors.Sure they are one and the same Martins and an integral part of the wider GAA family.
We won by two points in a well contested game refereed by new publican Joey Curley to inter county standards.He wasn't impressed by players acting the goat and feigning injury.Others please copy.After all it is supposed to be a man's not a cissies game.
Both teams gave it loads and the result could have gone either way.I suppose we deserved to win.
Darren Fay and Donal Curtis are far from bet.
Dunderry.
D.Jennings
D.Callaghan J.Kelleher E.Dempsey
G.Newman D.Fay E.Stephens
P.Callaghan D.Callaghan
A.Newman I.Mc Cormack A.Coogan
S.Carty B.Doherty A.Newman
Sub Used.Keith Callaghan.
Subs unused.Davy Stephens,Michael Keaveney.
Dividend Tipster Reprieved.
Resident tipster has had issue of P45 postponed as a result of Camelot's win yesterday .The pressure is now on to repeat the dose.Is he up to it?Time and five days will tell.Some say he is a better goalie than tipster.He is a good goalie.If he tips as many winners as he stops shots I will be well satisfied.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
The three mustardeers persist.
Myself,Liam and Leo continue our Friday Vigil at 6.00 in Dunderry Church.Five decades as bearla and ceann amhain as Gaeilge.Doesn't seem to be doing much good as anti Catholic bile is spewed up all over the place and the sectarian Caesars continue to attack each other,threaten us if we don't vote the way they want ,cosy up to the banks and drive more and more people into despair.
God works in mysterious ways however and maybe those who work to destabilise religion will not succeed and maybe we won't go the way of the religion free panacea they lust after.
If Bin Laden in his bunker could suss out what is going down here ,we ourselves would be blind not to see it.Maybe our eyes will now be opened.So I pray.
Remember the parable of the mustard seed and how little apples grow again.And remember the spake about two and three people gathering in His name.
Maybe,just maybe He will consider us worthy of his grace.
God works in mysterious ways however and maybe those who work to destabilise religion will not succeed and maybe we won't go the way of the religion free panacea they lust after.
If Bin Laden in his bunker could suss out what is going down here ,we ourselves would be blind not to see it.Maybe our eyes will now be opened.So I pray.
Remember the parable of the mustard seed and how little apples grow again.And remember the spake about two and three people gathering in His name.
Maybe,just maybe He will consider us worthy of his grace.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 5/5/2012.
The last horse tipped finished ninth and my fiver is now lining a bookie's crombie overcoat pocket.I have had downsizing discussions with my resident tipster but the redundancy rules for severance payments have put me in the same basket as every other small employer in Ireland i.e.I will have to go bankrupt before I let him go.
Camelot in the 3.10 Newmarket tomorrow Saturday ,has been the apple of Aidan O Brien's eye for some time now and his recent works has been excellent according to well placed sources.
Will be hard to beat and is tentatively suggested as being worth a small punt.
But remember always that there is many's a slip between the cup and the lip.
Camelot in the 3.10 Newmarket tomorrow Saturday ,has been the apple of Aidan O Brien's eye for some time now and his recent works has been excellent according to well placed sources.
Will be hard to beat and is tentatively suggested as being worth a small punt.
But remember always that there is many's a slip between the cup and the lip.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Anti Catholic Posse sticking boot in.
Those bitterly opposed to Catholicism are having a field day and clamoring to stick the boot in at every opportunity.The atheist wing of Labour of course leads the posse and is using the situation to soften up the populace for the suppression of Catholicism by legislating against the inviolability of confession and for the inculcation of atheism in schools,despite the wishes of the parents,who are the primary educators of their children.If these people get their way they will supplant parents as the primary educators of their children and implement a secular ethos to replace the ethos of choice of their parents.
This has already started with the proposal to criminalise parents for smoking in their cars with children aboard and the proposal to dehumanise smokers is not at all dissimilar to the initial dehumanising of religions in Hitlers Germany.
As I predicted some time ago the attacks on Churches have already begun with the theft of religious objects increasingly common and at least one Priest was blatantly lied about by the State broadcaster.Atheist journalists,anti Catholic publishers and a small group of so called experts get inordinate and unfair air time to present a biased and inaccurate slant on matters relating to Catholicism.
Despite their best efforts they must be raging that the overwhelming religion of the population remains Catholicism,as stated in the recent census returns.Expect the politicos to ratchet up the anti Catholic rhetoric in the coming days to cloak their own shortcomings and divert attention from their beytrayal of ordinary people.
I worry whether people who are in positions of responsibility for so overwhelming a Catholic populace and who are so violently anti Catholic are capable of objectively and fairly executing their duties.
Certainly at times like these the masks slip off and the hatred of all things Catholic shines through.
These priests and other purported Catholics who have issues with the rules of their vocation would want to make their minds up and stop sending mixed messages to the laity.All they are achieving is the weakening of the Catholic religion and in so doing are handing ready made ammunition to the opponents of my religion.You would imagine that they would be preparing for resistance to the breaking of the confessional seal rather than finding fault with their co-religionists.
As I said before nearly all their concerns can be addressed by joining the Church of Ireland or forming a Church of Ireland mark 2.
It really amuses me to hear the heads of the political parties and assorted politicians, including those who term themselves practicing Catholics and particularly those who have changed the colours of their political skins in chameleon fashion as the circumstances suited their ambitions,,moralising on the Bishop,s purported lack of action when they themselves have succeeded in placing 450,000 people on the dole,forcing 70,000 people to emigrate each year,surrendered our economic independence after less than 100 years,driven the suicide rate to unprecedented heights and set up secular processes which ,when subject to tribunal scrutiny ,were found to be utterly corrupt in their decisions and by the members of their own parties
The Cardinal broke no law.
Yes these are the boys to give lectures.
That Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are singing from the same hymn sheet is no surprise.As the Vincent Brown Show debate on the latest referendum shows they are indistinguishable and they really should merge and be done with it.
Martin Mc Guinness and Sinn Fein have long been in conflict with the Catholic Church for the minds and hearts of the Catholic population in the North ,so it is no surprise that he should join the posse. And the SD.L.P had to follow suit to get on the band wagon.
Both he and the ex-official Sinn Fein members of Cabinet would want to clear their minds on the issues of reporting criminality .What they want to do now is consider whether the same reasoning they used in relation to the Cardinal can be used against them if they have knowledge of crimes in the past,or if they omitted to report possible crime to the police,even if they reported it to their superiors..And remember the Cardinal committed no crime.
And indeed the members of all the other parties may have knowledge of corrupt behaviour during their lifetimes by former colleagues.Do the decent thing now and go to the Gardai,even if they reported these matters to their political bosses and they failed to act on them.
And the leaders of both parties in Government have a golden opportunity now to release all serving and retired civil and public servants from their oaths of secrecy and allow them to make public all past actions of politicians and others which may smell of criminality,even if they reported them upwards and didn't check if appropriate action was taken.
They can set the example we need and abolish the 30 years secrecy rule on state papers and publish the contents of cabinet meetings in the immediate aftermath of them taking place.
Transparency all round I say.
I will not be holding my breath.
One set of standardfs for Catholics and another far less rigorous set for everybody else.What else is new?
This has already started with the proposal to criminalise parents for smoking in their cars with children aboard and the proposal to dehumanise smokers is not at all dissimilar to the initial dehumanising of religions in Hitlers Germany.
As I predicted some time ago the attacks on Churches have already begun with the theft of religious objects increasingly common and at least one Priest was blatantly lied about by the State broadcaster.Atheist journalists,anti Catholic publishers and a small group of so called experts get inordinate and unfair air time to present a biased and inaccurate slant on matters relating to Catholicism.
Despite their best efforts they must be raging that the overwhelming religion of the population remains Catholicism,as stated in the recent census returns.Expect the politicos to ratchet up the anti Catholic rhetoric in the coming days to cloak their own shortcomings and divert attention from their beytrayal of ordinary people.
I worry whether people who are in positions of responsibility for so overwhelming a Catholic populace and who are so violently anti Catholic are capable of objectively and fairly executing their duties.
Certainly at times like these the masks slip off and the hatred of all things Catholic shines through.
These priests and other purported Catholics who have issues with the rules of their vocation would want to make their minds up and stop sending mixed messages to the laity.All they are achieving is the weakening of the Catholic religion and in so doing are handing ready made ammunition to the opponents of my religion.You would imagine that they would be preparing for resistance to the breaking of the confessional seal rather than finding fault with their co-religionists.
As I said before nearly all their concerns can be addressed by joining the Church of Ireland or forming a Church of Ireland mark 2.
It really amuses me to hear the heads of the political parties and assorted politicians, including those who term themselves practicing Catholics and particularly those who have changed the colours of their political skins in chameleon fashion as the circumstances suited their ambitions,,moralising on the Bishop,s purported lack of action when they themselves have succeeded in placing 450,000 people on the dole,forcing 70,000 people to emigrate each year,surrendered our economic independence after less than 100 years,driven the suicide rate to unprecedented heights and set up secular processes which ,when subject to tribunal scrutiny ,were found to be utterly corrupt in their decisions and by the members of their own parties
The Cardinal broke no law.
Yes these are the boys to give lectures.
That Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are singing from the same hymn sheet is no surprise.As the Vincent Brown Show debate on the latest referendum shows they are indistinguishable and they really should merge and be done with it.
Martin Mc Guinness and Sinn Fein have long been in conflict with the Catholic Church for the minds and hearts of the Catholic population in the North ,so it is no surprise that he should join the posse. And the SD.L.P had to follow suit to get on the band wagon.
Both he and the ex-official Sinn Fein members of Cabinet would want to clear their minds on the issues of reporting criminality .What they want to do now is consider whether the same reasoning they used in relation to the Cardinal can be used against them if they have knowledge of crimes in the past,or if they omitted to report possible crime to the police,even if they reported it to their superiors..And remember the Cardinal committed no crime.
And indeed the members of all the other parties may have knowledge of corrupt behaviour during their lifetimes by former colleagues.Do the decent thing now and go to the Gardai,even if they reported these matters to their political bosses and they failed to act on them.
And the leaders of both parties in Government have a golden opportunity now to release all serving and retired civil and public servants from their oaths of secrecy and allow them to make public all past actions of politicians and others which may smell of criminality,even if they reported them upwards and didn't check if appropriate action was taken.
They can set the example we need and abolish the 30 years secrecy rule on state papers and publish the contents of cabinet meetings in the immediate aftermath of them taking place.
Transparency all round I say.
I will not be holding my breath.
One set of standardfs for Catholics and another far less rigorous set for everybody else.What else is new?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Another witch hunt against Catholic Cardinal.
I know of no animal that abuses its young and cannot even comprehend how any human being can abuse children and I think it an abomination.Nevertheless there must be some objective and fair comment relating to the current controversy surrounding Cardinal Brady as a result of
the BBC programme on certain matters.
The head of Barnardo's charity has rubbished the actions of the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Because he himself was seemingly abused as a youth ,as he has stated publicity,does not make him any more qualified than a non abused person to objectively judge the actions of Cardinal Brady at the time.Nor is the lady who was similarly abused and is wheeled out regularly by the media any more qualified to make an objective judgement than anyone who wasn't abused.
In fact it could be argued that they are less capable of being objective because of their past experiences.
I spent thirty years in the civil service and that organisation has within it a hierarchy similar to every other bureaucracy whereby decisions are made at specified levels within the organisation.I imagine that newspapers,the police ,the DPP ,the Courts , every political party and RTE are precisely the same.
Certainly Barnardos and the organisation the critical lady leads are prime examples of these structures as Fergus Finlay and she , and they alone, are wheeled out when important matters are in the limelight.Not the note takers nor those lower in status than the decision makers .
You might as well blame the note taker in court for the inaction or wrong decision of the judge with responsibility for the decision as to try and blame Cardinal Brady for the subsequent failure of the decision maker in this case ,a dead bishop ,who is not here to defend himself ,for his failure to act.
Now if there is proof that Cardinal Brady knew then that the Bishop did s.f.a with the information so assiduously presented to the Bishop by the then Father Brady, then he would have a case to answer.
There is no evidence that there is such evidence and if Fergus Finlay or anyone else has such evidence let them produce it.
Now the attempted destruction of the character of Father Reynolds by the promulgation of a blatant lie by the State Broadcaster has been discussed in a number of forums on the airwaves.Any programme I have seen inevitably has the view impliedly presented by anti Catholic panellists that even if this did happen it was somehow understandable in the context of proved abuse by other religious.
I am not saying that either Fergus Finlay or the lady referred to above have these views ,but do feel that many who are antagonistic to religion are using this as a form of payback because their journalistic colleagues were caught out in the Father Reynolds case.
the BBC programme on certain matters.
The head of Barnardo's charity has rubbished the actions of the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Because he himself was seemingly abused as a youth ,as he has stated publicity,does not make him any more qualified than a non abused person to objectively judge the actions of Cardinal Brady at the time.Nor is the lady who was similarly abused and is wheeled out regularly by the media any more qualified to make an objective judgement than anyone who wasn't abused.
In fact it could be argued that they are less capable of being objective because of their past experiences.
I spent thirty years in the civil service and that organisation has within it a hierarchy similar to every other bureaucracy whereby decisions are made at specified levels within the organisation.I imagine that newspapers,the police ,the DPP ,the Courts , every political party and RTE are precisely the same.
Certainly Barnardos and the organisation the critical lady leads are prime examples of these structures as Fergus Finlay and she , and they alone, are wheeled out when important matters are in the limelight.Not the note takers nor those lower in status than the decision makers .
You might as well blame the note taker in court for the inaction or wrong decision of the judge with responsibility for the decision as to try and blame Cardinal Brady for the subsequent failure of the decision maker in this case ,a dead bishop ,who is not here to defend himself ,for his failure to act.
Now if there is proof that Cardinal Brady knew then that the Bishop did s.f.a with the information so assiduously presented to the Bishop by the then Father Brady, then he would have a case to answer.
There is no evidence that there is such evidence and if Fergus Finlay or anyone else has such evidence let them produce it.
Now the attempted destruction of the character of Father Reynolds by the promulgation of a blatant lie by the State Broadcaster has been discussed in a number of forums on the airwaves.Any programme I have seen inevitably has the view impliedly presented by anti Catholic panellists that even if this did happen it was somehow understandable in the context of proved abuse by other religious.
I am not saying that either Fergus Finlay or the lady referred to above have these views ,but do feel that many who are antagonistic to religion are using this as a form of payback because their journalistic colleagues were caught out in the Father Reynolds case.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Kilmessan v Dunderrry U15 Camogie 27/4/2012
On one of the most bitterly cold,windy evenings I have ever seen towards the end of April ,when you wouldn't even put a milk bottle outside,the young ladies of Dunderry and Kilmessan battled out a one sided contest in a Kilmessan pitch that held up remarkably well despite the incessant rain that stung to the bone both during and for a few days before the game.
Such was the ferocity of the stinging rain that the referee had to abandon proceedings for a while to allow the elements to abate to a state that would allow the contest to resume in conditions approaching normality.
Make no mistake about it both teams are composed of hardy women and how they managed to even hold on to their hurleys ,much less exhibit the array of skills and fortitude on display was laudable .
Dunderry were the more mature,skillful and focused team and ,it seemed to me,had a considerate advantage in age and physicality over their opponents ,who seemed years younger on average.
Dunderry were never thoubled and in the time I was there Kilmessan didn't even register a wide ,never mind a score.
As far as I could count the combined Dunderry midfield registered about 6 goals and 5 points and this gives an indication of the mastery of our girls over the misfortunate opposition..
As you would expect Kilmessan were game to the end ,but were simply outgunned on this occasion.
I have managed teams over the years that got similar hidings and you just have to shrug it off and work damnable hard to get up to scratch ,as I have no doubt Kilmessan will do.
The final scoreline was 9 -8 to nil.
Team.
Aoife o Shea
Anna Stenson Blaithnid Keyes Aine Coogan.
Isobel Varley Michelle Smyth Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Aisling Mc Donagh
Cara Woods Labhaise Martyn Anna Byrne
Ciara Casserly Tara Fleming Niamh Daly.
Replacements.Niamh Keaveney,Rachel Brennan,Hazel Carty.
The bandwagon rolls on and next up is the semifinal against Boardsmill next Tuesday I think.
This match will be the real test of this team and there is no reason why ,with the necessary self belief that this team should have by now,we should not prevail.
It will go to the wire and Dunderry's famous fighting spirit and defiance ought to see them through.So we pray.
I know that some of my readers are abroad and have left here many years ago.To help match the girls to the people they may have grown up with the following may help:-Aoife O Shea is Evelyn Gallagher's daughter,Aine is Christy's,Aisling is Terry's,Ciare is Joe Cassey's grand daughter,Niamh is Kevin's and Hazel is Declan's.
The other girls and their families are more recent arrivals and we are blessed to have such fine people in our midst.
Just goes to show how things change in such a short time.
Such was the ferocity of the stinging rain that the referee had to abandon proceedings for a while to allow the elements to abate to a state that would allow the contest to resume in conditions approaching normality.
Make no mistake about it both teams are composed of hardy women and how they managed to even hold on to their hurleys ,much less exhibit the array of skills and fortitude on display was laudable .
Dunderry were the more mature,skillful and focused team and ,it seemed to me,had a considerate advantage in age and physicality over their opponents ,who seemed years younger on average.
Dunderry were never thoubled and in the time I was there Kilmessan didn't even register a wide ,never mind a score.
As far as I could count the combined Dunderry midfield registered about 6 goals and 5 points and this gives an indication of the mastery of our girls over the misfortunate opposition..
As you would expect Kilmessan were game to the end ,but were simply outgunned on this occasion.
I have managed teams over the years that got similar hidings and you just have to shrug it off and work damnable hard to get up to scratch ,as I have no doubt Kilmessan will do.
The final scoreline was 9 -8 to nil.
Team.
Aoife o Shea
Anna Stenson Blaithnid Keyes Aine Coogan.
Isobel Varley Michelle Smyth Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Aisling Mc Donagh
Cara Woods Labhaise Martyn Anna Byrne
Ciara Casserly Tara Fleming Niamh Daly.
Replacements.Niamh Keaveney,Rachel Brennan,Hazel Carty.
The bandwagon rolls on and next up is the semifinal against Boardsmill next Tuesday I think.
This match will be the real test of this team and there is no reason why ,with the necessary self belief that this team should have by now,we should not prevail.
It will go to the wire and Dunderry's famous fighting spirit and defiance ought to see them through.So we pray.
I know that some of my readers are abroad and have left here many years ago.To help match the girls to the people they may have grown up with the following may help:-Aoife O Shea is Evelyn Gallagher's daughter,Aine is Christy's,Aisling is Terry's,Ciare is Joe Cassey's grand daughter,Niamh is Kevin's and Hazel is Declan's.
The other girls and their families are more recent arrivals and we are blessed to have such fine people in our midst.
Just goes to show how things change in such a short time.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Death of Noel Morris
O Wednesday of this week the mortal remains of Noel Morris ob. 21/4/2012 were interred in the family plot in Dunderry graveyard after the funeral Mass in Robinstown.A native of Bective, Noel lived in Dunderry for many years with his partner Lorraine Mc Guinness and children Graham,Kirsty and Hayleigh.He was a mechanic par excellence ,especially for diesel vehicles,lorries being his speciality and could walk into any job in Ireland which involved repair of these vehicles.
It is not that long since his father died and was buried in the same grave and Noel's death at such a young age so soon after his father's brings into sharp focus the fragility and shocking uncertainty that life holds for all God's peoples.
If ever a man worked hard he did.He was a good provider for his family as long as he was able to work.And ironically it was probably this dedication to his trade that done him in.I met him last at his father's funeral and he did not look well at all.He told me he was taking huge doses of steroids to enable him breathe as he suffered from COPD ,I think it is called.Basically his lungs were shot as a result of exposure to asbestos dust from the brake linings of the thousands of lorries which he passes through his hands over a busy but all too short lifetime.
He was aware that the future was not too bright then but neither he nor me thought at the time that it would be so short.He was fairly accepting of his fate at that stage but there is no convenient time to die.
That he endeared himself to he people of Dunderry is indisputable as his grave was dug in ancient Dunderry tradition by local people including Tommy Farley,Banana Reilly,Terry Mc Donagh,the Lord Mayor and Jimmy Smith and Johnny Coogan in the most torrential rain and biting wind seen this many a day.
This weather persisted until his internment but did not diminish the huge crowd that turned up in the graveyard to pay their final respects and bid him adieu.
His brothers,sister ,in laws ,ex partner and children were there in strength despite the inclement elements ,which were so bad that the gravediggers had to hold on to the awning which was supplied to keep the priest and main mourners dry ,to stop it blowing away.
I know that his daughter Kirsty was very attached to him and we missed her from the Camogie these.last few months ,due to the care and attention she so lavished on him.
Noel was a member of a long established GAA family ,his father having been a founder member of Bective GAA Club and all his family including his wide circle of in laws and his children have and continue to grace the Association.
Graham was a good footballer and hurler for Dunderry .Kirsty and Hayleigh play Camogie.I trained and mentored them for many years and found them well mannered,brave and skillful as you would expect as their mother was no slouch herself on the field of play ,having only recently retired from the Camogie team ,of which she was captain for one year.His nephew Danny Morris is one of our most promising juvenile hurlers along with being a boxer of note.
Fate plays cruel tricks on people as the Doyle connection to the family was very recently struck by the tragic and most premature death of a young man on the cusp of manhood.
To Noel and all those close to him we send our condolences and sympathy.
Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
It is not that long since his father died and was buried in the same grave and Noel's death at such a young age so soon after his father's brings into sharp focus the fragility and shocking uncertainty that life holds for all God's peoples.
If ever a man worked hard he did.He was a good provider for his family as long as he was able to work.And ironically it was probably this dedication to his trade that done him in.I met him last at his father's funeral and he did not look well at all.He told me he was taking huge doses of steroids to enable him breathe as he suffered from COPD ,I think it is called.Basically his lungs were shot as a result of exposure to asbestos dust from the brake linings of the thousands of lorries which he passes through his hands over a busy but all too short lifetime.
He was aware that the future was not too bright then but neither he nor me thought at the time that it would be so short.He was fairly accepting of his fate at that stage but there is no convenient time to die.
That he endeared himself to he people of Dunderry is indisputable as his grave was dug in ancient Dunderry tradition by local people including Tommy Farley,Banana Reilly,Terry Mc Donagh,the Lord Mayor and Jimmy Smith and Johnny Coogan in the most torrential rain and biting wind seen this many a day.
This weather persisted until his internment but did not diminish the huge crowd that turned up in the graveyard to pay their final respects and bid him adieu.
His brothers,sister ,in laws ,ex partner and children were there in strength despite the inclement elements ,which were so bad that the gravediggers had to hold on to the awning which was supplied to keep the priest and main mourners dry ,to stop it blowing away.
I know that his daughter Kirsty was very attached to him and we missed her from the Camogie these.last few months ,due to the care and attention she so lavished on him.
Noel was a member of a long established GAA family ,his father having been a founder member of Bective GAA Club and all his family including his wide circle of in laws and his children have and continue to grace the Association.
Graham was a good footballer and hurler for Dunderry .Kirsty and Hayleigh play Camogie.I trained and mentored them for many years and found them well mannered,brave and skillful as you would expect as their mother was no slouch herself on the field of play ,having only recently retired from the Camogie team ,of which she was captain for one year.His nephew Danny Morris is one of our most promising juvenile hurlers along with being a boxer of note.
Fate plays cruel tricks on people as the Doyle connection to the family was very recently struck by the tragic and most premature death of a young man on the cusp of manhood.
To Noel and all those close to him we send our condolences and sympathy.
Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Dunderry Championship results tonight.
IFC v Syddan,won 12points to 9
J Camogie V Trim.Draw.
Last Thursday u15 CAmogie V Kilmessan.Won pulling up.
Unfortunately missed Junior CAmogie as on same time as football.
reports later.
J Camogie V Trim.Draw.
Last Thursday u15 CAmogie V Kilmessan.Won pulling up.
Unfortunately missed Junior CAmogie as on same time as football.
reports later.
Aldi.Never again.
Those who know me will be familiar with my disabilities suffered from a severe stroke in July 2009.I walk with a noticable limp,have lost the ability to lift the front of my left foot up to facilitate walking and have very limited use of my left arm and hand.The limp is noticable and the keeping of the left hand in the belly pocket of a hoodie whilst walking with a walking stick would leave only an amadan in doubt that I am either disabled or alternatively a good actor.
I have resat my driving test and passed it and am competent to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission with a ball on the wheel .I now drive such a car ,an automatic Nicra with a ball on the wheel and it gives me great independence.
Today I drove the car with the missus on board to Aldi in Navan to do the weekly shopping,about £150.. worth.Aldi was partly chosen because of a recent promotion of disability products and I wanted some.
I have good days and bad days health wise and spirit wise.Generally it takes huge effort to walk any distance and I realise if I don't make the effort my ability to walk will be lost and that is one eventuality I want to postpone as long bas possible.Use it or lose it.
Today was a glass half empty day and I parked in one of the three disabled spaces outside Aldi.Herself went in to do the shopping and I rolled down the car window to read the paper.My concentration was brutally broken by the aggressive loud and threatening voice of a male who put his face practically against mine shouting "This space is for disabled drivers ,get out of there".I shock I said I am disabled ,to which he said "You have no sign up "before disappearing.(I admit I never got a sign.).He could see through the open window the ball on the steering wheel and the automatic geaerchangs and if he wanted the walking stick.
Still in a state of shock and as the individual involved never identified himself nor wore any identifiable tag nor uniform as far as I could see,I reasoned that such ignorance could not belong to any person employed by the Store and maybe an aggressive customer was trying to take his frustrations on a helpless victim.To address this I got out of the car and saw the individual in question getting into a white van with lettering a on the side some distance away.I shouted to him to wait and made my way to him.I said that I was disabled as he could see and resented being spoken to like that and asked him his name .He refused to give it,said that he worked for a car park management company ,told me to read the sign which said that a permit must be displayed and threatened to clamp the car if I didn't move it.
I invited him to do so if that was his policy and again asked his name,which he refused to give.He jumped into his van and left the car park.The name of the Car Park management firm is NCPS.
.I afterwards checked the other cars in the reserved spaces .Only one of the three had a disabled sticker.
Rarely have I encountered such aggressive hatefulness and never again will we shop at either Aldi nor any shop employing this company.
This will be my protest.
I have resat my driving test and passed it and am competent to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission with a ball on the wheel .I now drive such a car ,an automatic Nicra with a ball on the wheel and it gives me great independence.
Today I drove the car with the missus on board to Aldi in Navan to do the weekly shopping,about £150.. worth.Aldi was partly chosen because of a recent promotion of disability products and I wanted some.
I have good days and bad days health wise and spirit wise.Generally it takes huge effort to walk any distance and I realise if I don't make the effort my ability to walk will be lost and that is one eventuality I want to postpone as long bas possible.Use it or lose it.
Today was a glass half empty day and I parked in one of the three disabled spaces outside Aldi.Herself went in to do the shopping and I rolled down the car window to read the paper.My concentration was brutally broken by the aggressive loud and threatening voice of a male who put his face practically against mine shouting "This space is for disabled drivers ,get out of there".I shock I said I am disabled ,to which he said "You have no sign up "before disappearing.(I admit I never got a sign.).He could see through the open window the ball on the steering wheel and the automatic geaerchangs and if he wanted the walking stick.
Still in a state of shock and as the individual involved never identified himself nor wore any identifiable tag nor uniform as far as I could see,I reasoned that such ignorance could not belong to any person employed by the Store and maybe an aggressive customer was trying to take his frustrations on a helpless victim.To address this I got out of the car and saw the individual in question getting into a white van with lettering a on the side some distance away.I shouted to him to wait and made my way to him.I said that I was disabled as he could see and resented being spoken to like that and asked him his name .He refused to give it,said that he worked for a car park management company ,told me to read the sign which said that a permit must be displayed and threatened to clamp the car if I didn't move it.
I invited him to do so if that was his policy and again asked his name,which he refused to give.He jumped into his van and left the car park.The name of the Car Park management firm is NCPS.
.I afterwards checked the other cars in the reserved spaces .Only one of the three had a disabled sticker.
Rarely have I encountered such aggressive hatefulness and never again will we shop at either Aldi nor any shop employing this company.
This will be my protest.
Drumbeat Dividend for Saturday 28/4/2012.
Try a fiver on Baby Shine in the 5.05 in Punchestown tomorrow.
This English raider will love the ground and the trip and chased home the superb Smogsig last time in Aintree.This represents a big step down in grade.
But always remember that there's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Will be praying for divine assist tonight at Vigil.
This English raider will love the ground and the trip and chased home the superb Smogsig last time in Aintree.This represents a big step down in grade.
But always remember that there's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Will be praying for divine assist tonight at Vigil.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Gaelgoiri Laimbe anseo 75 bliain.
The 1930's in Ireland were tough times.I have heard my ancestors discuss them and they have made it clear that there wasn't a bob stirring because Dev. had refused to pay the Land Commission Annuities to the Brits and they had retaliated by slapping prohibitive levies on the import of livestock to Britain ,which commodity then as now was the one thing we could produce in abundance.Brave man compared to what we have now.
Not only was money scarce but food also.And genteel poverty was rampant.In fact my mother ,having read Angela's Ashes,thought very little of Frank Mc Court for belittling his own people because of their poverty ,when nearly everybody else was also that way but would not shame their people and country by broadcasting it.
I have heard people saying that they had to survive on crab apples in the period between the spuds running out and the emergence of the new praities.My uncle Paddy worked at the building of the "White Man's Grave",more civilly known as Dalgan Park and so called because the wages paid at the construction of same in the thirties was twice the usual rate , people were treated worse than slaves and a good few died during construction.In later years Paddy remarked that "if the foremen there during his time there were not in hell there's no such fu..... place."
Nevertheless the job was much sought after and I heard that on the first day that Pat Rattigan sallied forth on his bike to work there his mother Biddy.who lived beside the Mc Cormack's called worriedly into them at dusk because Pat wasn't home and she feared he might have been killed.They all waited together for him on the boirin until he eventually turned up.
This was Pat's second job,his first one having been with Captain Eccles ,who lived in Phipherstown House and for whom Pat spent six months driving a horse and dray to collect farm machinery borrowed from the Captain ,but which the borrowers "forgot" to return.
In the thirties Dev organised a grant for farmers to clean their ditches.The grant was 2 shillings and six pence a perch and farmers sublet it out at half the grant rate to the unlanded .Dinner was thrown in and the common practise was for the farmer's family to eat at the dinner table in the middle of the kitchen and the workers to eat at a side table at the wall of the kitchen.
Even between the workers there was discrimination as I have heard that a man of the road,who lived in Horan's shed, called Mc Keown (I think he is buried in Dunderry Cemetery ) made the comment when he was served one herring to everybody elses two " Mam.wheres its companion".
In such times in 1937 De Velera had the decency and found the money to bring thirteen families from Connemara to Lambay,in Kilbride of this Parish.Irish was and still is the working language of these households.
Each family was supplied with a house on twenty five acres,two cows,a horse and cart,chickens ,hens and a cockrel,to be polite.I presume that they had to pay Land Commission Annuities to the Government.
Well last weekend the arrival of the families in our midst was celebrated well.A dinner dance was held on Saturday night in the Aras in Rathcarn and Mass was said in Irish in Kilbride at three on Sunday by Father Noel Hornick .I was at that Mass ,which was packed to capacity and a member of each family contributed something to the ceremony.In my own case my granddaughter Aisling Mc Donagh ,whose father Terry is the son of Tommo (R.I.P.) and Mary ,read a lesson and I am as proud as punch of her as her Irish is fluent.
The original arrivals increased and multiplied well and a fierce crowd turned up.There has been much intermarrying of the Lambay people with other families in the parish and they are contributing much to the community.Terry was a staunch GAA man for Dunderry Club and County and is training the under six hurlers ,where his son Cormac excels.Aisling is an outstanding camogie player and Tomas Conroy is a hurler of note and a good footballer too.The Currans,O Learies ,Conries and Martins ,Joe ,Patsy ,Domo,Damien,Michael , the Grogans and the Griffins,Joe,Evelyn and kids Joe ,the exceptionally talented camogie player Julieanne and Pearse ,to name but a few have all made massive contributions to the GAA here and wider afield.And my dead friend John Conroy enticed five hundred euro membership from everybody in Lambay to help build the Clubhouse ,when money was needed.
Two household names from that neck of the woods ,namely former Labour T.D. Frank Mc Loughlin and T.V.personality Blaithin Coffey and her sisters were at Mass .Yes they are both Lambay people from Kilbride and Dunderry Parish people.
For the record the people from the West landed in Lambay two years after the people landed in Rathcairn as the houses were built later.
And as a matter of record the GAA pitch in Rathcairn was put there by the contributions of both Lambay and Rathcairn people in days gone by.
I have had the pleasure of drinking,socialising ,falling out with and falling in again with some of thee people of Lambay and very much appreciate the enriching values and customs they have shared with us.And yes Missus I will pay you back the Two Euro you loaned me to put on the plate last Sunday.
A resounding congratulations to all involved and a pleasure to be there.
Not only was money scarce but food also.And genteel poverty was rampant.In fact my mother ,having read Angela's Ashes,thought very little of Frank Mc Court for belittling his own people because of their poverty ,when nearly everybody else was also that way but would not shame their people and country by broadcasting it.
I have heard people saying that they had to survive on crab apples in the period between the spuds running out and the emergence of the new praities.My uncle Paddy worked at the building of the "White Man's Grave",more civilly known as Dalgan Park and so called because the wages paid at the construction of same in the thirties was twice the usual rate , people were treated worse than slaves and a good few died during construction.In later years Paddy remarked that "if the foremen there during his time there were not in hell there's no such fu..... place."
Nevertheless the job was much sought after and I heard that on the first day that Pat Rattigan sallied forth on his bike to work there his mother Biddy.who lived beside the Mc Cormack's called worriedly into them at dusk because Pat wasn't home and she feared he might have been killed.They all waited together for him on the boirin until he eventually turned up.
This was Pat's second job,his first one having been with Captain Eccles ,who lived in Phipherstown House and for whom Pat spent six months driving a horse and dray to collect farm machinery borrowed from the Captain ,but which the borrowers "forgot" to return.
In the thirties Dev organised a grant for farmers to clean their ditches.The grant was 2 shillings and six pence a perch and farmers sublet it out at half the grant rate to the unlanded .Dinner was thrown in and the common practise was for the farmer's family to eat at the dinner table in the middle of the kitchen and the workers to eat at a side table at the wall of the kitchen.
Even between the workers there was discrimination as I have heard that a man of the road,who lived in Horan's shed, called Mc Keown (I think he is buried in Dunderry Cemetery ) made the comment when he was served one herring to everybody elses two " Mam.wheres its companion".
In such times in 1937 De Velera had the decency and found the money to bring thirteen families from Connemara to Lambay,in Kilbride of this Parish.Irish was and still is the working language of these households.
Each family was supplied with a house on twenty five acres,two cows,a horse and cart,chickens ,hens and a cockrel,to be polite.I presume that they had to pay Land Commission Annuities to the Government.
Well last weekend the arrival of the families in our midst was celebrated well.A dinner dance was held on Saturday night in the Aras in Rathcarn and Mass was said in Irish in Kilbride at three on Sunday by Father Noel Hornick .I was at that Mass ,which was packed to capacity and a member of each family contributed something to the ceremony.In my own case my granddaughter Aisling Mc Donagh ,whose father Terry is the son of Tommo (R.I.P.) and Mary ,read a lesson and I am as proud as punch of her as her Irish is fluent.
The original arrivals increased and multiplied well and a fierce crowd turned up.There has been much intermarrying of the Lambay people with other families in the parish and they are contributing much to the community.Terry was a staunch GAA man for Dunderry Club and County and is training the under six hurlers ,where his son Cormac excels.Aisling is an outstanding camogie player and Tomas Conroy is a hurler of note and a good footballer too.The Currans,O Learies ,Conries and Martins ,Joe ,Patsy ,Domo,Damien,Michael , the Grogans and the Griffins,Joe,Evelyn and kids Joe ,the exceptionally talented camogie player Julieanne and Pearse ,to name but a few have all made massive contributions to the GAA here and wider afield.And my dead friend John Conroy enticed five hundred euro membership from everybody in Lambay to help build the Clubhouse ,when money was needed.
Two household names from that neck of the woods ,namely former Labour T.D. Frank Mc Loughlin and T.V.personality Blaithin Coffey and her sisters were at Mass .Yes they are both Lambay people from Kilbride and Dunderry Parish people.
For the record the people from the West landed in Lambay two years after the people landed in Rathcairn as the houses were built later.
And as a matter of record the GAA pitch in Rathcairn was put there by the contributions of both Lambay and Rathcairn people in days gone by.
I have had the pleasure of drinking,socialising ,falling out with and falling in again with some of thee people of Lambay and very much appreciate the enriching values and customs they have shared with us.And yes Missus I will pay you back the Two Euro you loaned me to put on the plate last Sunday.
A resounding congratulations to all involved and a pleasure to be there.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Media demonisation of Catholics continues.
Not content with trying to destroy the character of a brave Catholic priest and having to apologise abjectly for failure to tell the truth about the man, the Irish media in the person of another atheist Ray Darcy seeks to blame Catholicism "For in so many ways fucking up this country".
An indicator of his mindset can be gauged from his profound apology for use of the word "fuck"and his cowardly attempt to differentiate between Catholics like his mother and the Hierarchy in refusing to do the manly thing and apologise for the latest outburst of media bigotry .
Even atheists must know that the Hierarchy is an intricate part of the Catholic religion.
It is no surprise to me that another like minded sneer of similar ilk,Ian O Doherty of the Irish Independent declarers to be a like minded fellow fellow traveller.
An indicator of his mindset can be gauged from his profound apology for use of the word "fuck"and his cowardly attempt to differentiate between Catholics like his mother and the Hierarchy in refusing to do the manly thing and apologise for the latest outburst of media bigotry .
Even atheists must know that the Hierarchy is an intricate part of the Catholic religion.
It is no surprise to me that another like minded sneer of similar ilk,Ian O Doherty of the Irish Independent declarers to be a like minded fellow fellow traveller.
100 year smoker on the button.
In his 2007 book"Beyond the Pale",Donal Hickey recounts the story of Anna Bourke of Clare,who at the age of five score still enjoyed her smoke and tipple.This farmers widow and mother of ten had it sussed and was more perceptive than all the academics ,commentators ,economists and financial know alls in the Country put together.
"Money is too easy to earn now.Some can't handle it.it's only leading to trouble."
This was at the height of the Celtic Tiger.
Hard to beat education in the University of Life.
I don't know whether this lady is still alive .I hope she is.
Of course were she to get sick and have to go to Hospital now the Health Taliban and schoolyard bullies would deny her a smoke in the grounds of many Hospitals and humiliate her for smoking."For her own good."
Arrogant fascists.
"Money is too easy to earn now.Some can't handle it.it's only leading to trouble."
This was at the height of the Celtic Tiger.
Hard to beat education in the University of Life.
I don't know whether this lady is still alive .I hope she is.
Of course were she to get sick and have to go to Hospital now the Health Taliban and schoolyard bullies would deny her a smoke in the grounds of many Hospitals and humiliate her for smoking."For her own good."
Arrogant fascists.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Davy's Drumbeat Dividend
Dunderry has had a horse named after it .Remember Dundoire.The horse racing bug and interest in all things equine soared as a result.The place is choc a bloc with tipsters.But read my article "Johnny F Roe",which illustrates the point that the experts know sweet f.a .when it comes down to it.
Anyhow,starting next Friday I will be putting a fiver on one horse in the following week.The horse will be nominated by a shy tipster who plays in goals for the first football team.And the chosen bet will be nominated on this blog.
Dang the expense.
Anyhow,starting next Friday I will be putting a fiver on one horse in the following week.The horse will be nominated by a shy tipster who plays in goals for the first football team.And the chosen bet will be nominated on this blog.
Dang the expense.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Meath vote on Banty.
"A prophet is never appreciated in his own land."Never was this spake more applicable than last night where the Meath Clubs snubbed for the second time the services of the man who has given a lifetime of service to the GAA in the services of Dunboyne ,Meath ,Leinster and Ireland.Sean Boylan is the most successful Manager ever produced by Meath,in terms of All Irelands .Leinsters ,production of All Stars and the respectability brought to Meath football,which is now at an all time low.
That the services of Banty ,who remains in place on a vote of 43 to 31 against,because of the two thirds rule,when everybody knows that if he was defeated Sean would take over is reminiscent of the heave orchestrated against him a number of years ago by certain Clubs in the County.
And we see where that got Meath Football.Sean is some decent man to overlook this first snub and again put his head on the line when his County needed him.
The vote was by secret ballot and one can only hope that those Clubs whose members he made into household names had the decency to vote for him.We in Dunderry don't forget and place huge importance on loyalty and hard work.
Rumour has it that the vote was not really about Banty and Sean but was an attempt to get at the County Board by certain individuals and clubs who have various axes to grind.Personally I have always found Barney Allen,Cyril Craven and indeed Fintan Ginnity to be thoroughly honourable and totally dedicated G.A. A.men and those other members of the executive I know are also fierce sound.Not to mention that they have devoted a huge part of their lives to the Association for its advancement.
Very few Counties have the equivalent of Dunganny for example and Parc Tailteann is not a bad asset to have.
Admittedly there are some worrying developments afoot,including the inability of such areas of population density as Ashbourne and Dunboyne to field an under 16 hurling teams, I was told by our mentors when Dunderry defeated their combined team lately.But this is hardly Barney's fault and the forum to address this is the AGM each year when all voluntary officers put their jobs on the line,not in a confidence vote on the future of the current Meath Football Manager.
Already Barry Callaghan and Liam Harnan resigned from Banty's management team shortly after joining it.I don't know the reasons why.
Maybe their Chrystal balls showed a probable future in Division 3 of the League.Who knows.
One thing is certain is that It is long past backs to the wall time for Banty and his team.
Now is the time to shit or get off the pot.
That the services of Banty ,who remains in place on a vote of 43 to 31 against,because of the two thirds rule,when everybody knows that if he was defeated Sean would take over is reminiscent of the heave orchestrated against him a number of years ago by certain Clubs in the County.
And we see where that got Meath Football.Sean is some decent man to overlook this first snub and again put his head on the line when his County needed him.
The vote was by secret ballot and one can only hope that those Clubs whose members he made into household names had the decency to vote for him.We in Dunderry don't forget and place huge importance on loyalty and hard work.
Rumour has it that the vote was not really about Banty and Sean but was an attempt to get at the County Board by certain individuals and clubs who have various axes to grind.Personally I have always found Barney Allen,Cyril Craven and indeed Fintan Ginnity to be thoroughly honourable and totally dedicated G.A. A.men and those other members of the executive I know are also fierce sound.Not to mention that they have devoted a huge part of their lives to the Association for its advancement.
Very few Counties have the equivalent of Dunganny for example and Parc Tailteann is not a bad asset to have.
Admittedly there are some worrying developments afoot,including the inability of such areas of population density as Ashbourne and Dunboyne to field an under 16 hurling teams, I was told by our mentors when Dunderry defeated their combined team lately.But this is hardly Barney's fault and the forum to address this is the AGM each year when all voluntary officers put their jobs on the line,not in a confidence vote on the future of the current Meath Football Manager.
Already Barry Callaghan and Liam Harnan resigned from Banty's management team shortly after joining it.I don't know the reasons why.
Maybe their Chrystal balls showed a probable future in Division 3 of the League.Who knows.
One thing is certain is that It is long past backs to the wall time for Banty and his team.
Now is the time to shit or get off the pot.
Eviction scenes evocative of Famine times.
The newspapers today are full of scenes of the forcible eviction of an elderly couple from their family home.Thanks be to God the matter was witnessed by journalists and recorded on video,so that this barbaric and shameful practise,implemented in our name can receive the opprobrium it so richly deserves.The harrowing scenes involving the forcible eviction of an elderly couple by both female and male bailiffs is an indictment of our society and will conjure up for most people the vision of bailiffs accompanied by Redcoats putting poverty stricken people from their homes because of failure to pay rent.
Substitute Gardai for Redcoats and little has changed.At least then we could blame the Landlords for having recourse to the law,which was enacted for the benefit of the landlords and was used as an instrument of oppression .
Now we have no excuse.Now our Banks,which are ashamed to use their former names,and blew out money like confetti,are the motivators in this savagery,the Courts which facilitate it are our Courts,The Sheriffs who do it are appointed by our politicians,the Bailiffs who do the manhandling,male and female apparently are employed by our Sheriffs and the Gardai who are there to enforce the law are there in the same capacity as the redcoats.And our legislators preside over the whole sorry spectacle.
In this particular case the money involved is big.But the principle remains the same.It is only a matter of degree.There are thousands of people who through sickness ,unemployment or other circumstances ,caused in the main by the failure of the self same banks and State regulators ,find themselves unable to pay their debts.
And the precise same thing can happen to them.Don't think it won't happen to you.If the creditor wants it will.
I am personally aware that it has happened to local authority tenants ,including single mothers ,who for lack of funds or emergency cannot pay the rent.
In February 2011 I published an article in my blog"Policy on evictions and repossessions of domestic dwellings",which recorded the answers given by the party leaders on the Pat Kenny interview on 14/2/2011on the issue.
The answers given were :-
E.Kenny."Guarantee you won't lose your home."
E.Gilmore."Head off the bailiffs."
M.Martin."Increase mortgage interest relief and in no circumstances take the roof from over their heads"
G.Adams."No evictions in Ireland."
J.Gormley."Don't take roof from over their heads."
Empty vessels is right.
This is the reality of austerity and all turkeys should vote for more.
Substitute Gardai for Redcoats and little has changed.At least then we could blame the Landlords for having recourse to the law,which was enacted for the benefit of the landlords and was used as an instrument of oppression .
Now we have no excuse.Now our Banks,which are ashamed to use their former names,and blew out money like confetti,are the motivators in this savagery,the Courts which facilitate it are our Courts,The Sheriffs who do it are appointed by our politicians,the Bailiffs who do the manhandling,male and female apparently are employed by our Sheriffs and the Gardai who are there to enforce the law are there in the same capacity as the redcoats.And our legislators preside over the whole sorry spectacle.
In this particular case the money involved is big.But the principle remains the same.It is only a matter of degree.There are thousands of people who through sickness ,unemployment or other circumstances ,caused in the main by the failure of the self same banks and State regulators ,find themselves unable to pay their debts.
And the precise same thing can happen to them.Don't think it won't happen to you.If the creditor wants it will.
I am personally aware that it has happened to local authority tenants ,including single mothers ,who for lack of funds or emergency cannot pay the rent.
In February 2011 I published an article in my blog"Policy on evictions and repossessions of domestic dwellings",which recorded the answers given by the party leaders on the Pat Kenny interview on 14/2/2011on the issue.
The answers given were :-
E.Kenny."Guarantee you won't lose your home."
E.Gilmore."Head off the bailiffs."
M.Martin."Increase mortgage interest relief and in no circumstances take the roof from over their heads"
G.Adams."No evictions in Ireland."
J.Gormley."Don't take roof from over their heads."
Empty vessels is right.
This is the reality of austerity and all turkeys should vote for more.
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