Fergus Finlay ,on behalf of Barnardos ,of which he is Chief Executive and one supposes on a salary that way exceeds that of many of the families who his Charity cares for,has publicly pronounced that there should be a modest decrease in the children's allowance.I assume he has no qualifying children himself and even if he had he could do without the allowance.
The real world,in which I live ,has nothing in common with the type of nonsense he is spouting.Despite appearances this recession has destroyed nearly everybody,irrespective of the strata in society once occupied by them at the height of the boom.
Even the apparently wealthy haven't a bob to rub together,much less the coping classes.
As an upfront Labour man he must surely know that the country is awash with quangos and the addition of another one, to decide who is worthy of the fullest allowance and who is not, could only result in the further deprivation of those families most in need.
All he has to do is look at the queues at the Labour Exchanges every week and the obvious discomfort ofthose in line for their benefit.And at the number of children in State care who died well before their time ,while still in Sate care.
With the Government trying to downsize further its already stretched workforce does he really expect parents to go and beg for the money necessary to feed their children.
The overwhelming majority of people totally depend on this money to survive and provide a decent standard of living for the same children.
What should really concern him and others like him is the fact that over 76,000 people are voting with their feet every year and emigrating from the country his political mates are running for the benefit of the Troika.
Has he no conception of the hurt that a thirty year old,who wishes to marry and start a family,goes through when he or she realises that they have no chance here of ever getting a house,decent jobs nor raising children properly in this country and make the heart breaking decision to go to the far side of the world for that chance.
The sort of nonsense he is spouting will surely encourage them to stay ,would you say.
The highest emigration since the time of the famine,when another Empire ruled us,is indicative of the failure of all the politicos here and their blind adherence to the diktats of their latest masters ,against the interests of the people,just shows that the worst oppressors of the Irish are other Irish.just as in famine times ,when the Brits could not run us (into the grave and abroad),without the active co operation of fellow Irishmen and women.
Might I suggest that Banardos does itself no favours when it acts as an extension of the Labour Party and go about its business in a way more commensurate with its core function.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Dunderr V Wolfe Tones IHC Semi Final 6/10/2012.
At 4.30 in Trim our Hurlers play the Tones in the semi final,with Rathmoylan,who beat Clanna Gael well in the other semi ,awaiting the winners.We have already been beaten by the Tones in the group stages and nothing but a massive improvement on our performance that day will do tomorrow.
I hear that the Tones have secured the full commitment of their Rathkenny and indeed Gibbstown contingent of dual players and are confident of victory.
Tommy Dowd ,who was an integral part of our climb up the hurling ladder in the eighties and nineties ,and who is now a Tones man ,must have a dilemma as to who he will support.I like to think that his heart is still here.
In those years,when I played full back,there was a huge rivalry between the two teams and any match involving us was hugely contested.
I think we rose through the ranks with them on our coat tails,both entering the Senior ranks in the early nineties ,with us contesting a Senior Final Replay against Trim ,which we lost and they winning one soon after.
Both teams have slid back the ranks since and for us in any event this is the only competition we can possibly win this year at adult level.
History repeats itself and our Evan has been playing full back lately and I am proud to say that our Davy is Captain.
Junior and McLoughs and a younger Frog ,who were involved them times will remember what it takes and Flange Mc Guinness has a good few Championships under his belt,.so we need have no fears on the line.The players are made of the right stuff too and with a supreme effort and a rub of the green we are capable of prevailing.
Here's hoping.
As a sign of the times ,one man who won't be available tomorrow is Andy Coogan who has emigrated to Blighty in pursuit of work and ,I believe,romance.
We wish him well but would much prefer were he and his paramour able to pursue their romance and careers here.
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I hear that the Tones have secured the full commitment of their Rathkenny and indeed Gibbstown contingent of dual players and are confident of victory.
Tommy Dowd ,who was an integral part of our climb up the hurling ladder in the eighties and nineties ,and who is now a Tones man ,must have a dilemma as to who he will support.I like to think that his heart is still here.
In those years,when I played full back,there was a huge rivalry between the two teams and any match involving us was hugely contested.
I think we rose through the ranks with them on our coat tails,both entering the Senior ranks in the early nineties ,with us contesting a Senior Final Replay against Trim ,which we lost and they winning one soon after.
Both teams have slid back the ranks since and for us in any event this is the only competition we can possibly win this year at adult level.
History repeats itself and our Evan has been playing full back lately and I am proud to say that our Davy is Captain.
Junior and McLoughs and a younger Frog ,who were involved them times will remember what it takes and Flange Mc Guinness has a good few Championships under his belt,.so we need have no fears on the line.The players are made of the right stuff too and with a supreme effort and a rub of the green we are capable of prevailing.
Here's hoping.
As a sign of the times ,one man who won't be available tomorrow is Andy Coogan who has emigrated to Blighty in pursuit of work and ,I believe,romance.
We wish him well but would much prefer were he and his paramour able to pursue their romance and careers here.
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A little love does the trick.
Some time ago I asked for prayer for a number of Parishioners who were under the weather health wise.Some but not all have recovered,about which more anon.
Anyhow one of the persons involved ,a lady,who had to give in and go to hospital and is the sort of person who would be as comfortable there as a wild hare in a cage ,couldn't sleep at all when she began to recover.Despite every sleeping tablet prescribed she just couldn't enter the land of nod.
One night she informed her fellow patients that in her forty years of marriage she had never slept without her husband at her side and asked that he be brought in to stay by her side to see if she could sleep.
A message was got to him and in he came.He held her by the hand and said "Now,now don't be worrying Dear ,hould me hand and relax there won't be a bother on you.".And she did and was sound asleep within ten minutes.
Now the accursed stroke that struck me has a number of side effects,one of which is that I cry like a baby when I hear of such wonderful events,
As I write this I am blubbering like a baby,but like to think that even had I never got the stroke I would be likewise touched,
I know that a lot of people in exile read the Blog and ask that they continue to pray for two well known Parishioners who are entering the last furlong in the race of life and for whom the medical profession can offer little than the comfort of a pain free run in to the finishing line.
Living opposite the Church in Dunderry I see from time to time people drop in for a private prayer or whatever.Where ever you are you might do the same if you can or just pray for them where ever you are .
Anyhow one of the persons involved ,a lady,who had to give in and go to hospital and is the sort of person who would be as comfortable there as a wild hare in a cage ,couldn't sleep at all when she began to recover.Despite every sleeping tablet prescribed she just couldn't enter the land of nod.
One night she informed her fellow patients that in her forty years of marriage she had never slept without her husband at her side and asked that he be brought in to stay by her side to see if she could sleep.
A message was got to him and in he came.He held her by the hand and said "Now,now don't be worrying Dear ,hould me hand and relax there won't be a bother on you.".And she did and was sound asleep within ten minutes.
Now the accursed stroke that struck me has a number of side effects,one of which is that I cry like a baby when I hear of such wonderful events,
As I write this I am blubbering like a baby,but like to think that even had I never got the stroke I would be likewise touched,
I know that a lot of people in exile read the Blog and ask that they continue to pray for two well known Parishioners who are entering the last furlong in the race of life and for whom the medical profession can offer little than the comfort of a pain free run in to the finishing line.
Living opposite the Church in Dunderry I see from time to time people drop in for a private prayer or whatever.Where ever you are you might do the same if you can or just pray for them where ever you are .
Best sub ever.
The Muskateers were under pressure this last fortnight.I had and still have a horrid dose of somethinh in the throat and chest.I was smothered in phlegm when I could get it up ,alternating with the tubes around my throat closing in to the extent that I could hardly swallow.I had to give in and go to the Doctor and between tablets and a cough bottle am improving a little every day.The result was that I missed the six o clock vigil these last two Fridays.
Liam was so far from home that he copuldn't make it and Leo too was unavailable.
Every Team needs a good sub and Carmel alone kept the show on the road .
I have no doubt that her prayers floated straight to the Lord.
'Hon the Ladies.
Liam was so far from home that he copuldn't make it and Leo too was unavailable.
Every Team needs a good sub and Carmel alone kept the show on the road .
I have no doubt that her prayers floated straight to the Lord.
'Hon the Ladies.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Dividend for 29/9/2012
We pray that Beechdale Lad with jockey Tommy Tracey aboard will put an and to our losing streak.Jessica Harrington is a good trainer and we think the horse is worth a fiver win in the 3.35 in Navan.
Friday, September 28, 2012
A right fu...n Haverel.
My grandfather Paddy Mc Cormack was wont to call somebody he didn't hold in high esteem a right fecken haverel or words to that effect.I can remember him using the phrase in the 1960's and 1970's.As he was born in the 1880's no doubt he used the phrase well before the 1960's.I have checked the use of this word locally with people of my vintage(over three score) and most of them have solid memories of its use in their youth.It has fallen out of fashion hereabouts in latter years as has the word trollop which is seldom used nowadays.
I know from the context in which he used the word that it was far from complimentary but never considered what it meant until recently.
If you google it the seemingly accepted meaning of it is a fool or simpleton who never shuts his trap,or what in Dublin we used to call a "mouth".
An extremely knowledgeable brother of mine is convinced that it meant a badly castrated buck goat,while another trained mind who has an interest in these things is sure that it was slang Irish for a person who was gluttonous in the extreme ,as when a person who had stuffed his face with s food and drink would say "I made a right haverel of myself at dinner last night and have indigestion since".
The vehemence with which my grandfather used utter the word would rule out neither of the above meanings but the buck goat meaning holds the greatest appeal for me.
Can anybody throw any more light on the matter?
I know from the context in which he used the word that it was far from complimentary but never considered what it meant until recently.
If you google it the seemingly accepted meaning of it is a fool or simpleton who never shuts his trap,or what in Dublin we used to call a "mouth".
An extremely knowledgeable brother of mine is convinced that it meant a badly castrated buck goat,while another trained mind who has an interest in these things is sure that it was slang Irish for a person who was gluttonous in the extreme ,as when a person who had stuffed his face with s food and drink would say "I made a right haverel of myself at dinner last night and have indigestion since".
The vehemence with which my grandfather used utter the word would rule out neither of the above meanings but the buck goat meaning holds the greatest appeal for me.
Can anybody throw any more light on the matter?
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Suicide and the self employed.
Anybody who is self employed is fighting a losing battle against the stinginess of "our "Banks ,the austerity programme and the ocean of over regulation and multiplicity of State quangos and Government Departments.which take up disproportionate time and impose impossible conditions on these unfortunate people.Every one of these is trying to outdo the other in its zealousness to achieve preset targets and only the odd decent public servant with a modicum of commonsense makes the existence of the self employed normally bearable.
The powers theses quangos have is frightening and small traders haven't got the resources nor expertise to play them on a level playing field.All it takes is one contrary person to shut down your business and traders live in a permanent state of fear.
Unless the Government immediately keeps its promise to whittle away all this bureaucracy there is absolutely no hope of the employment numbers creeping back up as many small businesses are on the verge of shutting in the short term.
For a start there a should be a rule brought in which would limit the number of agencies who could visit any trader to a maximum of two per year and no more.This should be administratively possible.
The suicide rate amongst men is horrendous.I guess it is under reported.For example how would you know whether a one vehicle accident was accidental or deliberate , whether a man drowned himself or fell into the river or whether an unwitnessed death by machinery was accidental or deliberate.
Now back to the suicide rate amongst the self employed.
Within five miles of Dunderry six men I know of ,and I wouldn't know all the suicides within this radius ,had one thing in common,that is they were self employed.
I don't know what drove these men to take their own lives but strongly suspect that one or other of the agencies above were actively pursuing them or interacting with them..
It would be interesting to find out if our State is driving these people over the edge.
It wouldn't be too hard to find out.If the political will is there each Government and State Department ,Quango and Bank should be required to detail their involvement with the deceased in the run up to the suicide.
Will it happen.Probably not because there is no real will to do something about it other than to wring hands when opportune.
The powers theses quangos have is frightening and small traders haven't got the resources nor expertise to play them on a level playing field.All it takes is one contrary person to shut down your business and traders live in a permanent state of fear.
Unless the Government immediately keeps its promise to whittle away all this bureaucracy there is absolutely no hope of the employment numbers creeping back up as many small businesses are on the verge of shutting in the short term.
For a start there a should be a rule brought in which would limit the number of agencies who could visit any trader to a maximum of two per year and no more.This should be administratively possible.
The suicide rate amongst men is horrendous.I guess it is under reported.For example how would you know whether a one vehicle accident was accidental or deliberate , whether a man drowned himself or fell into the river or whether an unwitnessed death by machinery was accidental or deliberate.
Now back to the suicide rate amongst the self employed.
Within five miles of Dunderry six men I know of ,and I wouldn't know all the suicides within this radius ,had one thing in common,that is they were self employed.
I don't know what drove these men to take their own lives but strongly suspect that one or other of the agencies above were actively pursuing them or interacting with them..
It would be interesting to find out if our State is driving these people over the edge.
It wouldn't be too hard to find out.If the political will is there each Government and State Department ,Quango and Bank should be required to detail their involvement with the deceased in the run up to the suicide.
Will it happen.Probably not because there is no real will to do something about it other than to wring hands when opportune.
Shorthall does not make Fear Breaga list,
I disagree vehemently with Roisin' Shorthall's proposal to bar advertising by Drink's Companies of sporting events ,partly on the grounds that it has the potential to reduce sport to the level of the Pub trade,which is now on its knees,but mainly on the basis that the far more serious and fatal problems caused to society by the massive trade in illegal drugs is of more immediate and urgent concern.
I repeat that nobody is being murdered nor assaulted for the price of a drink nor a fag but murders for drugs and the addictions caused by them are commonplace .
Having said this I can only admire the principled stand that this "Old Labour"lady has taken on the issues dear to her heart and the delay in reforming the Health services.Along with her colleagues Shane Nulty, Tommy Bruen and Willie Penroser ,she has the courage of her convictions and did the right thing by resigning.Like them she is not on my Fear Breaga list.
It is no surprise to me that her Leader ,who was part of the Workers Party /Democratic Left rump which morphed so successfully into Labour Party and have effectively taken it over ,has like his former comrade Kathleen Lynch.thrown her to the wolves and chosen to back James Reilly instead.
Think about it.How many of this rump have become either Ministers ,mini Ministers ,Programme Managers etc.since the merger and work out how disproportionate the number is compared to the Old Labour people.
They seem to be in complete control and that is no jiggery pokery.
I repeat that nobody is being murdered nor assaulted for the price of a drink nor a fag but murders for drugs and the addictions caused by them are commonplace .
Having said this I can only admire the principled stand that this "Old Labour"lady has taken on the issues dear to her heart and the delay in reforming the Health services.Along with her colleagues Shane Nulty, Tommy Bruen and Willie Penroser ,she has the courage of her convictions and did the right thing by resigning.Like them she is not on my Fear Breaga list.
It is no surprise to me that her Leader ,who was part of the Workers Party /Democratic Left rump which morphed so successfully into Labour Party and have effectively taken it over ,has like his former comrade Kathleen Lynch.thrown her to the wolves and chosen to back James Reilly instead.
Think about it.How many of this rump have become either Ministers ,mini Ministers ,Programme Managers etc.since the merger and work out how disproportionate the number is compared to the Old Labour people.
They seem to be in complete control and that is no jiggery pokery.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Dunderry Minor's odessy ends. Loundes continues.
With Dublin winning the minor All Ireland Football final today the exciting journey taken by the three Dunderry lads,Stephen,Paddy and Alan comes to an end.Stephen started,Paddy came on and Alan ,although number 17 didn't get the nod.A good Dunderry judge of football told me some time ago that this was an exceptional Dublin Team and although Meath pegged the lead back to a point early in the second half,after a foul on Kenneally,Dublin surged into a lead they were never to surrender. They are worthy winners and very very few players get to play for their County ,never mind to an All Ireland ,so our lads can hold their heads up high.I know these fellas well enough to know that they will not get swelled heads ,as some have opined.
Actually Dublin had a Meath man of impeccable breeding on their team.The man in question is Eric Loundes,son of Imelda Maguire of KIlmessan and John Loundes a true son of Dunboyne.They live in Mulhuddart ,just a stone's throw from the Meath/Dublin border and I have no doubt but had reasonable priced housing been available in Meath years ago that its Meath not Dublin he would be fielding with.
We lived in Mulhuddart when they settled there and if memory serves me right a Donegal man,Seamus Mc Anaw ,was a founding member and driving force in setting up Saint Peregrins GAA Club ,for which Eric and his brothers play and of which their father is Football Manager.Sean Stephens is my nephew and son of Teresa Maguire and a first cousin of Eric and played minor football for Meath in his day.
I'd say that thee is a little corner of Heaven ,where the hedge is being cut by Paddy Maguire ,their grandfather ,and where the linnets are singing in harmony and Paddy is saying"Be Janey .isn't it great all the same and we still have the minor Hurling Final Replay to look forward to."Isn't that right Mary "
Actually Dublin had a Meath man of impeccable breeding on their team.The man in question is Eric Loundes,son of Imelda Maguire of KIlmessan and John Loundes a true son of Dunboyne.They live in Mulhuddart ,just a stone's throw from the Meath/Dublin border and I have no doubt but had reasonable priced housing been available in Meath years ago that its Meath not Dublin he would be fielding with.
We lived in Mulhuddart when they settled there and if memory serves me right a Donegal man,Seamus Mc Anaw ,was a founding member and driving force in setting up Saint Peregrins GAA Club ,for which Eric and his brothers play and of which their father is Football Manager.Sean Stephens is my nephew and son of Teresa Maguire and a first cousin of Eric and played minor football for Meath in his day.
I'd say that thee is a little corner of Heaven ,where the hedge is being cut by Paddy Maguire ,their grandfather ,and where the linnets are singing in harmony and Paddy is saying"Be Janey .isn't it great all the same and we still have the minor Hurling Final Replay to look forward to."Isn't that right Mary "
Lynch lauding of Reilly a step too far.
To put things in perspective there was a claim that some years ago a mother of a very sick child was forced to hand over a ring from her finger as security because the doctor asked to treat her sick son didn't believe that he had a medical card ,which would entitle him to free medical attention.He worked for James Reilly's practice in North Dublin.He left some time afterwards.
Despite the media spin , as a Minister Reilly did attempt to cut back on carers time for the most severely handicapped people in the State to save money.This was only reversed when the very same people were forced to protest in all their obvious handicaps outside the Dail in the full glare of electronic and print media.Had they lain down passively like the rest of us there is little doubt that the cutbacks would have gone sneakily ahead as another knot on the whip of the austerity programme.
His fans were loud in praise of his achievements in cutting back the numbers in various in house hospital procedures and said so in the debate in the Dail on the no confidence motion .The flip side of this was revealed the day following the Dail debate when he reason why the in house figures improved became clear,that is because they virtually stopped taking in people to hospitals and over 340,000 out patients were waiting to be seen.Relative to the size of our population is this a Western European record. ?
In any event Kathleen Lynch was fulsome in her praise of her Boss the Minister.I have often wondered at the ability of the former Sinn Fein /Sinn Fein Workers Party/The Workers Party /Democratic Left/Labour members to change parties and colors so easily .As many faces as Big Ben some would say.They definitely have morphed from Dark Green to pink to Red.
After her support for the Fine Gael Minister I wonder if she will now morph chameleon like to Blue.She wouldn't be the first Labour minister to so do.
As a footnote I have no sympathy for Fianna Fail on these issues.As far as I am concerned their shameful neglect of Navan Hospital over their years in power ,when they failed for decades to supply clot busting medication there is despicable.Just how many deaths did this cause and just how many people wee left permanently disable as a result will never be known.
I m most firmly of the view that Fianna fail /Greens /Progressive Democrats put this country back forty years and since getting the reins of power this Fine Gael /Labour coalition have regressed us another 15 years.
Despite the media spin , as a Minister Reilly did attempt to cut back on carers time for the most severely handicapped people in the State to save money.This was only reversed when the very same people were forced to protest in all their obvious handicaps outside the Dail in the full glare of electronic and print media.Had they lain down passively like the rest of us there is little doubt that the cutbacks would have gone sneakily ahead as another knot on the whip of the austerity programme.
His fans were loud in praise of his achievements in cutting back the numbers in various in house hospital procedures and said so in the debate in the Dail on the no confidence motion .The flip side of this was revealed the day following the Dail debate when he reason why the in house figures improved became clear,that is because they virtually stopped taking in people to hospitals and over 340,000 out patients were waiting to be seen.Relative to the size of our population is this a Western European record. ?
In any event Kathleen Lynch was fulsome in her praise of her Boss the Minister.I have often wondered at the ability of the former Sinn Fein /Sinn Fein Workers Party/The Workers Party /Democratic Left/Labour members to change parties and colors so easily .As many faces as Big Ben some would say.They definitely have morphed from Dark Green to pink to Red.
After her support for the Fine Gael Minister I wonder if she will now morph chameleon like to Blue.She wouldn't be the first Labour minister to so do.
As a footnote I have no sympathy for Fianna Fail on these issues.As far as I am concerned their shameful neglect of Navan Hospital over their years in power ,when they failed for decades to supply clot busting medication there is despicable.Just how many deaths did this cause and just how many people wee left permanently disable as a result will never be known.
I m most firmly of the view that Fianna fail /Greens /Progressive Democrats put this country back forty years and since getting the reins of power this Fine Gael /Labour coalition have regressed us another 15 years.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Unbridled Joy
At 5.47 a.m.on Thursday last Liam Evan Stephens clocked in at 8 lb11 ounces.Mother Aoife is grand and Evan is fine also as is the new arrival.This completes the spine of a future football and hurling team.We have full and centre backs,two midfielders and centre and full forward.I am delighted.
The fact that there was a meteor shower around the time of his birth has been remarked on but we draw no special significance for the moment.
The fact that there was a meteor shower around the time of his birth has been remarked on but we draw no special significance for the moment.
Dividend for 22/9/2012
We had frost last night so we pick White Frost in the 5.15 at Ayr to break our losing streak.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Dunderry V Blackhall IHC 15/09/2012
Its Saturday evening and I head for the Showgrounds in Navan for the quarter final showdown between Blackhall and ourselves.Our Padraic, 5 years ,Evan's son comes with us with a complete set of gear,that is bag packed with boots ,knicks,socks boxers ,towel ,hurley and helmet.And ,which was never about in my day,deodorant for freshness afterwards.Isn't Evan's wife great all the same.Packing for husband and son.We have to persuade him to leave the gear in the car at the game as he won't be playing just yet.No problem.
The stile man on duty is at his highly civilised best and ensures a smooth entrance for me.Fair dues Dessie.The pitch is at its immaculate best and the weather is grand with a strong breeze blowing towards the clubhouse end.
The 4 .00 p.m. start caught me out somewhat and the game was on when I arrived.Against the wind we were level pegging at 3 points each.
Our quatrain of Flange,Junior,Mc Loughs and Frog lined them out as follows.
Doc
Sprog (Capt) Finn Red
Swiss Wright Ivo
Bomber O Shea
Martin Keith Geraghty
Gorey Baby Doc Spongy
Yes we do have monikers here but that does not make us Pikers as some Blackhall players taunted us.Not that we would mind fielding any Traveller eligible to play for us had we got them.I have heard this term of abuse used against Travellers ,but usually by certain low bred English bigots and not here before.Just goes to show that the spawn of the Tans thrives in some still.This sort of thing has no place in the game of the Gaels and the sooner it is culled from its supposed participants the better.And sad to relate similar abuse has spread to Camogie circles as I am aware that certain young players our Camogie sisters field were threatened at least once by the opposition before the ball was thrown in.Not good enough says I.
Well back to the game itself.
From the puck out after the levelling Blackhall point a series of line balls in our favour result with the ball eventually reaching Baby Doc who is blown up in possession,why I don't know.Some committed play from both sides ends with Blackhall taking a point from play.An inter passing move between O Shea and Ivo gets the ball to Martin who takes a fine point.
4 points apiece.
Finn breaks up a probing attack and delivers to o Shea who passes to Ivo ,whose long delivery breaks to Keith and he is blown up .The crowd are vociferous in their displeasure at the free for which no reason is apparent from the stand.The first of what will transpire to be many Blackhall breaks in play results when a gaggle of physios ,water boys and maors enter the field of play to treat a player who appears to be on death's door but miraculously recovers some minutes later.Blackhall land a long free in our goalmouth but we are awarded a free out.Square ball perhaps.Bomber catches our free and lets it into the forwards.Another free out to them.This clean but manly game is being riddled with frees.Blackhall play the tidier hurling and secure a point from play.Doc's puck out finds Geraghty ,who delivers to Martin who pulls the trigger but misses.Wide.Blackhall 10 gets a free ,not clear to me what for.Point.0-6 to 0-4 to Black hall. Spongy wins the ball and passes to Gorey who hits wide.Referee gives a free to Blackhall which they point and gives Bomber a yellow card.I am baffled.They miss. Blackhall water boy is on pitch again.These antics must distract players .Black hall attack is broken up by Sprog to Bomber to Ivo to Gorey to Baby Doc who splits the posts.
Ivo wins puck out and lets in low but it crosses the sideline.O Shea is fouled in possession and Ivo's free goes to Geraghty whose delivery is foiled by a fine block .Black hall earn a free which is an opportunity for another pitch invasion by a gaggle of Black hall physio ,water boys and selector.The dead arose eventually and in fine fettle played on.Free missed target and shortly afterward another more scorable one awarded ,which they pointed.They followed up with a wide from play.Keith catches the puck out and to Bob via Geraghty who is fouled.Happy days.Keith secures the point. 7 to 6 in their favour.Finn breaks up attack and clears under pressure.Blackhall regain possession and point from play.After some robust play Keith is clocked and gets a free.He needs attention .No free.We register a wide and half time whistle blows.
Early on Swiss and Wright changed positions and Spongy went to midfield.
We are two points down but have a strong wind to follow.We are in the hunt .
Minogue replaces Geraghty .Geraghty can consider himself unlucky.
Good defensive play by us force an overcarry by them but Keith misses the long distance free.Black hall hit wide under pressure from Sprog.Doc finds Minogue who hits wide.Gorey shoots wide. Martin takes a fine point from play.Keith atones and splits the posts..Minogue wins puck out with a long distance point following a foul on Bomber.Blackhall waterboy on pitch yet again.
Minogue wins puck out and transfers to Ivo to Martin who scores again.Another intrusion onto the pitch by a waterboy.
A clear Dunderry line ball is blatantly wrongly signalled the other way by three Blackhall officials and a linesman.The crowd howls its frustration.The ref,saw it and gives us the lineball.Successive frees concede by Gorey and d Ivo result in a further point to Blackhall.Wright is blown and they work a point from play.Spongy works ball to Baby.Wide.
Gallant defending forces Blackhall into another wide from play.Good interplay from Finn,Swiss Martin and Baby results in a Spongy point.A Blackhall player is on his back and Physio ,water boys and others invade the pitch.There is a long delay and the seemingly helpless player makes a miraculous recovery, trotting like a spring foal to his position.Mysteriously Martin gets a yellow.Nothing to do with the man on the ground.The crowd again howls in frustration.A scorable free is given against us and moved further in,about twenty yards I judge , but thankfully falls short.They work a point from play however.Another Blackhall player is down and on cue the gaggle of Blackhall officials et al. invade the pitch.When play eventually resumes and with the Blackhall player restored to full vigour ,Bomber secures possession and passes to Spongy who scores.Another unfathomable free is awarded against which Finn repulses twice at the cost of a lineball which they hit wide.Yet another mysterious free is awarded against us and yet again it is moved closer to goal .Everyone is baffled and Blackhall ride their luck and score.They could scarcely miss.Wright is replaced by Keenan.Keith fires over s free.12points each.O Shea off,Gilky on.Red is poled defending his lines but jumps straight up and Keenan hits the resultant free long and true into open ground ,where Spongy collects and is penalised for over carrying.It falls short and we get a free out.Only four minutes to go.Tension is palpable.Our long free lands in their 21 and they get another free out,After fierce defending ,particularly by Sprog and Swiss we concede a point.We are one down with two minutes normal to go.Gorey is fouled and Keith shows that Canning has a peer in Dunderry and levels.Announcement that a miserly three minutes extra time will be played.Seems inordinately short and is wrong.One break alone lasted that time.Blackhall score from play and Carty replaces Gorey.Gilky is fouled and Keith delivers yet again.Liam Dempsey replaces Baby Doc.
Time runs out.Draw game.Extra time.
Sprog wins the toss and elects to play against the wind.
Blackhall hit wide from throw in.And miss another scorable chance.We defend heroically and Blackhall spurn an open goal,Martin misses a scorable chance set up by the speedy Carty.Blackhall water boys on the pitch again.Blackhall full forward is grounded and this sparks another gaggle of Blackhall officials onto the field.The prone player miraculously jumps to life ,defying all the odds seemingly and is given a yellow card as is Finn.Spongy and Keenan slip and the ball rolls to Blackhall who score.They attack ,we repulse and they are awarded a seventy.n.Two Blackhall players lie down and five Black hall officials enter the field of play,This is joke.Eventually they convert the seventy.And refreshed score another from play.They are all over us.Martin scores from play having been set up by Keith.The excellent Carty is fouled and Keith delivers yet again.17 to 16 against us.Martin who was having the game of his life gets a second yellow and line.His opponent gets a yellow also.Most st undeserved and a thorn in Black halls side removed.Blackhall make it 18-16 and Baby Doc replaces Dempsey.Stays same after extra time.
A wild pull on the throw in gives us a scorable chance but ball falls short and as Spongy bends to pick it up he is shouldered in the back resulting in a free to them.I have never seen the like.Fin fields the free is fouled in turn and Blackhall introduce another sub.Finn then takes the free,which we secure and score .18 to 17 now.As is usual when we get up steam another Blackhall man is down,The usual multi peopled invasion happens and the player hops up the finest after a while.The umpire is consulted.They temporarily return to the sideline but the warterboy returns to the field without water,Play resumes and they get a free ,which Davy intercepts and is fouled.Ive scores from an impossible distance.There is hope.Under pressure Blackhall shoot wide from play.Another Blackhall man is down and five more Blackhall officials are on the pitch holding play up yet again.As per usual the apparently mortally wounded player resumes after a considerable time with no obvious impairment.Ball is worked to Baby who shoots wide.A tense period of ding dong play ensues and we score from play.WE concede a seventy ,which they shoot short and a free which they convert.19-19 with a conservative extra three minutes to go.All or nothing now.Desperation stakes.We shoot short to goalie and Bomber kicks wide.The Blackhall physio runs on to the pitch again but has to retreat as no one is down.WE are awarded a scorable free and two Blackhall players drop like slaughtered cattle ..where the free is.Now the physio is in sync with the action and re enters the field.Keith delivers yet again.Great stuff.
Another miraculous double recovery and play resumes we hold out.And the spirit of the game triumphs.Thanks be to God.
The referee was young and I would guess never hurled .It was impossible to guess when he would blow or who might get the free.This was for both sides but had we lost I might have had less charitable thoughts.He can only improve.
The continuous breakages in play caused by the incessant falling of Black hall players to the ground ,if orchestrated ,was an abuse of the rules.Not one apparently injured player failed to miraculously recover as far as I could see and some of the Blackhall officials spent as long on the field as some of thee players.They had ten substitutes and if so many of their players were in such delicate physical condition as to need constant physio attention its a wonder they didn't give the subs a chance.
Goalie and full backs are thriving and while Wright didn't reach the heights of our draw with Rathmoylan he is a good player .He will improve more and most importantly helped me calve a cow later that evening.Swiss is flying and Bomber is manning up nicely.O Shea had an off day by his standards due no doubt to his successful studies.Martin excelled,Keith is priceless and Geraghty did all that was expected from him,Davy Mac is at the height of his game and fulfills all high expectations we have of him,The full forward line did all they could but there is room for improvement there.Minogue,Carty and Gilkinson did well when introduced and Dempsey and Keenan contributed also.
The boys on the line made the right calls.
All in all we were lucky to win but Blackhall have only themselves to blame for losing.Ironically the continuous breaks in play may have done themselves more harm than good.
The stile man on duty is at his highly civilised best and ensures a smooth entrance for me.Fair dues Dessie.The pitch is at its immaculate best and the weather is grand with a strong breeze blowing towards the clubhouse end.
The 4 .00 p.m. start caught me out somewhat and the game was on when I arrived.Against the wind we were level pegging at 3 points each.
Our quatrain of Flange,Junior,Mc Loughs and Frog lined them out as follows.
Doc
Sprog (Capt) Finn Red
Swiss Wright Ivo
Bomber O Shea
Martin Keith Geraghty
Gorey Baby Doc Spongy
Yes we do have monikers here but that does not make us Pikers as some Blackhall players taunted us.Not that we would mind fielding any Traveller eligible to play for us had we got them.I have heard this term of abuse used against Travellers ,but usually by certain low bred English bigots and not here before.Just goes to show that the spawn of the Tans thrives in some still.This sort of thing has no place in the game of the Gaels and the sooner it is culled from its supposed participants the better.And sad to relate similar abuse has spread to Camogie circles as I am aware that certain young players our Camogie sisters field were threatened at least once by the opposition before the ball was thrown in.Not good enough says I.
Well back to the game itself.
From the puck out after the levelling Blackhall point a series of line balls in our favour result with the ball eventually reaching Baby Doc who is blown up in possession,why I don't know.Some committed play from both sides ends with Blackhall taking a point from play.An inter passing move between O Shea and Ivo gets the ball to Martin who takes a fine point.
4 points apiece.
Finn breaks up a probing attack and delivers to o Shea who passes to Ivo ,whose long delivery breaks to Keith and he is blown up .The crowd are vociferous in their displeasure at the free for which no reason is apparent from the stand.The first of what will transpire to be many Blackhall breaks in play results when a gaggle of physios ,water boys and maors enter the field of play to treat a player who appears to be on death's door but miraculously recovers some minutes later.Blackhall land a long free in our goalmouth but we are awarded a free out.Square ball perhaps.Bomber catches our free and lets it into the forwards.Another free out to them.This clean but manly game is being riddled with frees.Blackhall play the tidier hurling and secure a point from play.Doc's puck out finds Geraghty ,who delivers to Martin who pulls the trigger but misses.Wide.Blackhall 10 gets a free ,not clear to me what for.Point.0-6 to 0-4 to Black hall. Spongy wins the ball and passes to Gorey who hits wide.Referee gives a free to Blackhall which they point and gives Bomber a yellow card.I am baffled.They miss. Blackhall water boy is on pitch again.These antics must distract players .Black hall attack is broken up by Sprog to Bomber to Ivo to Gorey to Baby Doc who splits the posts.
Ivo wins puck out and lets in low but it crosses the sideline.O Shea is fouled in possession and Ivo's free goes to Geraghty whose delivery is foiled by a fine block .Black hall earn a free which is an opportunity for another pitch invasion by a gaggle of Black hall physio ,water boys and selector.The dead arose eventually and in fine fettle played on.Free missed target and shortly afterward another more scorable one awarded ,which they pointed.They followed up with a wide from play.Keith catches the puck out and to Bob via Geraghty who is fouled.Happy days.Keith secures the point. 7 to 6 in their favour.Finn breaks up attack and clears under pressure.Blackhall regain possession and point from play.After some robust play Keith is clocked and gets a free.He needs attention .No free.We register a wide and half time whistle blows.
Early on Swiss and Wright changed positions and Spongy went to midfield.
We are two points down but have a strong wind to follow.We are in the hunt .
Minogue replaces Geraghty .Geraghty can consider himself unlucky.
Good defensive play by us force an overcarry by them but Keith misses the long distance free.Black hall hit wide under pressure from Sprog.Doc finds Minogue who hits wide.Gorey shoots wide. Martin takes a fine point from play.Keith atones and splits the posts..Minogue wins puck out with a long distance point following a foul on Bomber.Blackhall waterboy on pitch yet again.
Minogue wins puck out and transfers to Ivo to Martin who scores again.Another intrusion onto the pitch by a waterboy.
A clear Dunderry line ball is blatantly wrongly signalled the other way by three Blackhall officials and a linesman.The crowd howls its frustration.The ref,saw it and gives us the lineball.Successive frees concede by Gorey and d Ivo result in a further point to Blackhall.Wright is blown and they work a point from play.Spongy works ball to Baby.Wide.
Gallant defending forces Blackhall into another wide from play.Good interplay from Finn,Swiss Martin and Baby results in a Spongy point.A Blackhall player is on his back and Physio ,water boys and others invade the pitch.There is a long delay and the seemingly helpless player makes a miraculous recovery, trotting like a spring foal to his position.Mysteriously Martin gets a yellow.Nothing to do with the man on the ground.The crowd again howls in frustration.A scorable free is given against us and moved further in,about twenty yards I judge , but thankfully falls short.They work a point from play however.Another Blackhall player is down and on cue the gaggle of Blackhall officials et al. invade the pitch.When play eventually resumes and with the Blackhall player restored to full vigour ,Bomber secures possession and passes to Spongy who scores.Another unfathomable free is awarded against which Finn repulses twice at the cost of a lineball which they hit wide.Yet another mysterious free is awarded against us and yet again it is moved closer to goal .Everyone is baffled and Blackhall ride their luck and score.They could scarcely miss.Wright is replaced by Keenan.Keith fires over s free.12points each.O Shea off,Gilky on.Red is poled defending his lines but jumps straight up and Keenan hits the resultant free long and true into open ground ,where Spongy collects and is penalised for over carrying.It falls short and we get a free out.Only four minutes to go.Tension is palpable.Our long free lands in their 21 and they get another free out,After fierce defending ,particularly by Sprog and Swiss we concede a point.We are one down with two minutes normal to go.Gorey is fouled and Keith shows that Canning has a peer in Dunderry and levels.Announcement that a miserly three minutes extra time will be played.Seems inordinately short and is wrong.One break alone lasted that time.Blackhall score from play and Carty replaces Gorey.Gilky is fouled and Keith delivers yet again.Liam Dempsey replaces Baby Doc.
Time runs out.Draw game.Extra time.
Sprog wins the toss and elects to play against the wind.
Blackhall hit wide from throw in.And miss another scorable chance.We defend heroically and Blackhall spurn an open goal,Martin misses a scorable chance set up by the speedy Carty.Blackhall water boys on the pitch again.Blackhall full forward is grounded and this sparks another gaggle of Blackhall officials onto the field.The prone player miraculously jumps to life ,defying all the odds seemingly and is given a yellow card as is Finn.Spongy and Keenan slip and the ball rolls to Blackhall who score.They attack ,we repulse and they are awarded a seventy.n.Two Blackhall players lie down and five Black hall officials enter the field of play,This is joke.Eventually they convert the seventy.And refreshed score another from play.They are all over us.Martin scores from play having been set up by Keith.The excellent Carty is fouled and Keith delivers yet again.17 to 16 against us.Martin who was having the game of his life gets a second yellow and line.His opponent gets a yellow also.Most st undeserved and a thorn in Black halls side removed.Blackhall make it 18-16 and Baby Doc replaces Dempsey.Stays same after extra time.
A wild pull on the throw in gives us a scorable chance but ball falls short and as Spongy bends to pick it up he is shouldered in the back resulting in a free to them.I have never seen the like.Fin fields the free is fouled in turn and Blackhall introduce another sub.Finn then takes the free,which we secure and score .18 to 17 now.As is usual when we get up steam another Blackhall man is down,The usual multi peopled invasion happens and the player hops up the finest after a while.The umpire is consulted.They temporarily return to the sideline but the warterboy returns to the field without water,Play resumes and they get a free ,which Davy intercepts and is fouled.Ive scores from an impossible distance.There is hope.Under pressure Blackhall shoot wide from play.Another Blackhall man is down and five more Blackhall officials are on the pitch holding play up yet again.As per usual the apparently mortally wounded player resumes after a considerable time with no obvious impairment.Ball is worked to Baby who shoots wide.A tense period of ding dong play ensues and we score from play.WE concede a seventy ,which they shoot short and a free which they convert.19-19 with a conservative extra three minutes to go.All or nothing now.Desperation stakes.We shoot short to goalie and Bomber kicks wide.The Blackhall physio runs on to the pitch again but has to retreat as no one is down.WE are awarded a scorable free and two Blackhall players drop like slaughtered cattle ..where the free is.Now the physio is in sync with the action and re enters the field.Keith delivers yet again.Great stuff.
Another miraculous double recovery and play resumes we hold out.And the spirit of the game triumphs.Thanks be to God.
The referee was young and I would guess never hurled .It was impossible to guess when he would blow or who might get the free.This was for both sides but had we lost I might have had less charitable thoughts.He can only improve.
The continuous breakages in play caused by the incessant falling of Black hall players to the ground ,if orchestrated ,was an abuse of the rules.Not one apparently injured player failed to miraculously recover as far as I could see and some of the Blackhall officials spent as long on the field as some of thee players.They had ten substitutes and if so many of their players were in such delicate physical condition as to need constant physio attention its a wonder they didn't give the subs a chance.
Goalie and full backs are thriving and while Wright didn't reach the heights of our draw with Rathmoylan he is a good player .He will improve more and most importantly helped me calve a cow later that evening.Swiss is flying and Bomber is manning up nicely.O Shea had an off day by his standards due no doubt to his successful studies.Martin excelled,Keith is priceless and Geraghty did all that was expected from him,Davy Mac is at the height of his game and fulfills all high expectations we have of him,The full forward line did all they could but there is room for improvement there.Minogue,Carty and Gilkinson did well when introduced and Dempsey and Keenan contributed also.
The boys on the line made the right calls.
All in all we were lucky to win but Blackhall have only themselves to blame for losing.Ironically the continuous breaks in play may have done themselves more harm than good.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
HSE drug warning compelling proof of my views on prohibitionists.
The recent warning of the dangers of a brown powder mix containing various drugs and the apparent fatal consequences of its ingestion lends considerable support to the views expressed by me in my recent article on the proposal to ban sponsorship by drinks companies.
A deceased friend of mine remarked some years ago that a pub we strayed into that had a funereal atmosphere "would be a great place to bring your mother in law to coming from a funeral",.
An entirely predictable consequence of making pubs places a substantial minority of people do not find appealing and of effectively emptying them by the introduction of draconian laws ,is to drive people to house parties where a everything goes.
Were the governance of pubs and drink driving laws relaxed to reasonable levels people would party there under some decent level of supervision and perhaps the deaths recently experienced might not have happened.
A deceased friend of mine remarked some years ago that a pub we strayed into that had a funereal atmosphere "would be a great place to bring your mother in law to coming from a funeral",.
An entirely predictable consequence of making pubs places a substantial minority of people do not find appealing and of effectively emptying them by the introduction of draconian laws ,is to drive people to house parties where a everything goes.
Were the governance of pubs and drink driving laws relaxed to reasonable levels people would party there under some decent level of supervision and perhaps the deaths recently experienced might not have happened.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Political establishment attacks pay packets of workers.
Tonight the Finance Minister casually mentioned that the tax attacking the ownership of residences which his political masters have instructed him and the other political kapos to impose on the populace will be deducted from your wage packet ,before you get your wages,And if you don't get wages but get for example a farm payment for producing cheap food it will be deducted from that payment by the process of attachment.
Not one politician nor trade union objected to the legislation introducing this sleight of hand when the legislation was passed by the Oireachtas.SO we can assume that all of them are in favour of further impoverishing ordinary decent working people.
At times like this I am in awe of the foresight and principles of those genuine Labour members who resigned on principle from the Party when the jigger pokers of the Sinn Fein/Sinn Fein the Workers Party/Workers Party/Democratic Left morphed into and took over the Labour Party.
Neither the Labour Party nor the Unions have the remotest concern for working people nor their pay packets and poor auld James Connolly must be revolving in his grave looking at the betrayal of the party he founded by his so called successors.
Remember that precisely the same collection machinery will be used for the household charge,the septic tank charge and the water charges and whatever other chicanery they dream up to torture us with.
If you know any ex Labour Party members who left over this betrayal go up to them,say sorry sir/madam for buying into the spin of the jigger pokers and shake their hands.
AS for Fine Gael.Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein,aren't you now real glad you voted for them.Look what they helped to foist on ye.
A further step in the continuing re subjugation of the Irish.
Not one politician nor trade union objected to the legislation introducing this sleight of hand when the legislation was passed by the Oireachtas.SO we can assume that all of them are in favour of further impoverishing ordinary decent working people.
At times like this I am in awe of the foresight and principles of those genuine Labour members who resigned on principle from the Party when the jigger pokers of the Sinn Fein/Sinn Fein the Workers Party/Workers Party/Democratic Left morphed into and took over the Labour Party.
Neither the Labour Party nor the Unions have the remotest concern for working people nor their pay packets and poor auld James Connolly must be revolving in his grave looking at the betrayal of the party he founded by his so called successors.
Remember that precisely the same collection machinery will be used for the household charge,the septic tank charge and the water charges and whatever other chicanery they dream up to torture us with.
If you know any ex Labour Party members who left over this betrayal go up to them,say sorry sir/madam for buying into the spin of the jigger pokers and shake their hands.
AS for Fine Gael.Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein,aren't you now real glad you voted for them.Look what they helped to foist on ye.
A further step in the continuing re subjugation of the Irish.
DUNDERRY V BOARDSMILL J.F.B.C. 6/9/2012
This match was played under lights in O Mahoney's side pitch in Navan.It must be one of the finest pitches in Ireland and the hurling wall beside it is something else.The Navan men manning the gate are among the most civil in the county,fair dues to them.Our own Phil Fay Junior is coaching the underage girls in football .His own daughter plays there.They tell me that the variety and excellence of his drills is something to behold.Our loss is Navan's gain.Maybe he would come to take over the Intermediate football in Dunderry next year.He might be THE MAN.
Ned Howley is coaching underage there as well.Another gain to Navan and loss to us.Maybe he would add to our coaching efforts here also.He is a good man.
With our Inter Football Team gone out of the Championship there was good support for the team ,including Club Director of Coaching Sean Kelly ,who was keeping absolutely schtum on his position vis a vis the Meath job.My own view is that if he is ever going to take it ,now is the time.Assuming the County Board wants him that is.
Bligh ,Hickey and Keaveney selected the following team.
James Mitchell
Kenny Fay Kevin Slattery Owen Dempsey
Davy Stephens Gary Newman J.P.Kenneally
Conor Farrell Liam Dempsey
Thomas Doherty Paul Bartley Alan Watters
Jordan Martin Trevor Conaty Paul Govern.
Sub used .Killian Minogue,Davy Gilkinson ,Paddy Gorey. Chris Fitzgerald
We hoped that this team would continue to entertain and surprise as they have done for the year to date and we opened with a miracle point from distance by Martin.Despite being marginally outplayed for the rest of the half we were unlucky to go in four points down at half time.
Rocked by the concession of a soft goal our spirits sagged and the writing looked to be on the wall. Luckily the players didn't share this view and commenced a spirited fightback making a compelling ding dong battle of it and hauling back a five point lead to two with minutes to go.
We had our chances to draw level but careless and lazy passing gave away hard earned possession on a number of occasions and must have broke the hearts of those players who put it on the line for the year ,not to mention the management team who also gave their all.
The concession of a penalty at the stroke of full time put the hat on it and we were beat by 2-12 to 2-7.
Goalkeeper backs and midfield were adequate and gave all they had.Slattery's experience stood him in good stead.Fay's speed and guts were somewhat diminished by the concession of frees but he remains pound for pound one of the classiest players in the Club.Dempsey was caught for pace a few times ,Stephens continued his good form despite the deployment of the Mill full forward to blunten his effectiveness,Newman was efficient and Kenneally had a good outing ,some stray passes excepted.
Farrell was the better of the midfielders with Dempsey'lack of participation on the training field glimpsing through at times, one miracle long distance foot pass excepted.He has vision however but needs to up his fitness level to enable execution of his potential.
Despite glimpses of potential the forwards ,with the honourable exception of Bartley ,who ran till his legs gave way.cannot have been satisfied with their contributions.Bugle is an example to all who aspire to realise football potential.
I am not going to belittle them but they must know that effort must be matched by some element of carefulness when in possession.Carelessness in passing is not acceptable in any circumstances and the simple pass has no trump when all is said and done.
All in all this voyage was an interesting one and I was sad to see it come to an end.I wish the Mill all the best in the competition and would concede that they were the better team on the night.
As one whose football days are but a memory every single body who played for us on the night can up their games in the future and owe it to themselves to do so.
This should be their aim from this moment forth.Time stands still for no man and before ye know it the clock will have consigned ye to the sidelines of sporting life.
Make the best of it while time is on your side.
Ned Howley is coaching underage there as well.Another gain to Navan and loss to us.Maybe he would add to our coaching efforts here also.He is a good man.
With our Inter Football Team gone out of the Championship there was good support for the team ,including Club Director of Coaching Sean Kelly ,who was keeping absolutely schtum on his position vis a vis the Meath job.My own view is that if he is ever going to take it ,now is the time.Assuming the County Board wants him that is.
Bligh ,Hickey and Keaveney selected the following team.
James Mitchell
Kenny Fay Kevin Slattery Owen Dempsey
Davy Stephens Gary Newman J.P.Kenneally
Conor Farrell Liam Dempsey
Thomas Doherty Paul Bartley Alan Watters
Jordan Martin Trevor Conaty Paul Govern.
Sub used .Killian Minogue,Davy Gilkinson ,Paddy Gorey. Chris Fitzgerald
We hoped that this team would continue to entertain and surprise as they have done for the year to date and we opened with a miracle point from distance by Martin.Despite being marginally outplayed for the rest of the half we were unlucky to go in four points down at half time.
Rocked by the concession of a soft goal our spirits sagged and the writing looked to be on the wall. Luckily the players didn't share this view and commenced a spirited fightback making a compelling ding dong battle of it and hauling back a five point lead to two with minutes to go.
We had our chances to draw level but careless and lazy passing gave away hard earned possession on a number of occasions and must have broke the hearts of those players who put it on the line for the year ,not to mention the management team who also gave their all.
The concession of a penalty at the stroke of full time put the hat on it and we were beat by 2-12 to 2-7.
Goalkeeper backs and midfield were adequate and gave all they had.Slattery's experience stood him in good stead.Fay's speed and guts were somewhat diminished by the concession of frees but he remains pound for pound one of the classiest players in the Club.Dempsey was caught for pace a few times ,Stephens continued his good form despite the deployment of the Mill full forward to blunten his effectiveness,Newman was efficient and Kenneally had a good outing ,some stray passes excepted.
Farrell was the better of the midfielders with Dempsey'lack of participation on the training field glimpsing through at times, one miracle long distance foot pass excepted.He has vision however but needs to up his fitness level to enable execution of his potential.
Despite glimpses of potential the forwards ,with the honourable exception of Bartley ,who ran till his legs gave way.cannot have been satisfied with their contributions.Bugle is an example to all who aspire to realise football potential.
I am not going to belittle them but they must know that effort must be matched by some element of carefulness when in possession.Carelessness in passing is not acceptable in any circumstances and the simple pass has no trump when all is said and done.
All in all this voyage was an interesting one and I was sad to see it come to an end.I wish the Mill all the best in the competition and would concede that they were the better team on the night.
As one whose football days are but a memory every single body who played for us on the night can up their games in the future and owe it to themselves to do so.
This should be their aim from this moment forth.Time stands still for no man and before ye know it the clock will have consigned ye to the sidelines of sporting life.
Make the best of it while time is on your side.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Dunderry Football winds down for year.
On Thursday last the Junior B's were beaten by Boardsmill,bringing to an end the interest of this team in the competition.Report is cooking.
Clanna Gael have withdrawn from the I.F.C.so we get a walkover tonight in the fixture.
Sin sin.Where will our football addicts get their weekly fix now.
Not a great year,compounded by Billy Bligh stepping down as manager.
Only the hurlers left now.
Clanna Gael have withdrawn from the I.F.C.so we get a walkover tonight in the fixture.
Sin sin.Where will our football addicts get their weekly fix now.
Not a great year,compounded by Billy Bligh stepping down as manager.
Only the hurlers left now.
Dividend for 8/09/2012
After some frustration with last week's tip Richard Hannon's Strong Suit is fancied to prove himself a top sprinter on the quickening ground at Haydock in the 3.25.He is worth a fiver win we judge.Should be decent odds and the tipster is strong on this one.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Mainstream media bias in U.S.presidential election.
I have more than a passing interest in the U.S. presidential Elections.This is because 7 out of 10 of my maternal grandfather's siblings emigrated there between 1890 and 1920 and they have families over there.In addition many people I know of more recent vintage have been forced there by economic mismanagement in this country.I am well aware that many millions emigrated there during and after the famine years ,when the alternative was death by starvation in a country governed by an Empire on which the sun never set.America was good to us and I suppose we were good for America.
Many families here were kept going by emigrant remittances.
I have a curiosity about what happens there and I rely to a great extent for information on the Irish media both electronic and papers.I must say however that it seems to me that all the reporters are unashamedly biased towards the Democratic party In their coverage of the issues and the candidates .They put across the Republican side as gob shites and backwoodsmen and never cease to sneer at them.
This may be because the of the liberal convictions of the same reporters in matters of gay marriage,feminism ,anti unborn life,secularism and religious bigotry.
In order for us to form informed opinions on the Election a lot more balanced and objective reporting is needed.It surprises me that the reporting imbalance is not taken up by republican and fair minded Americans before now.
Many families here were kept going by emigrant remittances.
I have a curiosity about what happens there and I rely to a great extent for information on the Irish media both electronic and papers.I must say however that it seems to me that all the reporters are unashamedly biased towards the Democratic party In their coverage of the issues and the candidates .They put across the Republican side as gob shites and backwoodsmen and never cease to sneer at them.
This may be because the of the liberal convictions of the same reporters in matters of gay marriage,feminism ,anti unborn life,secularism and religious bigotry.
In order for us to form informed opinions on the Election a lot more balanced and objective reporting is needed.It surprises me that the reporting imbalance is not taken up by republican and fair minded Americans before now.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Proposal to bar drinks advertising in sport absurd.
The Prohibitionists that dominate all the main political parties have learned little from history.It is widely acknowledged that the failed American experiment with Prohibition did little but create and consolidate a well resourced criminal fraternity that persists to this day.
Already I would guess that the exorbitant prices charged for Motor fuel and cigarettes is creating a new smuggling elite as we speak.
Speaking plainly the most socially destructive social scourge in this country is that of heroin.Addicts must have their fixes daily and do rob their own mothers and anyone else they can to get the price of their next fix.Other drugs are nearly as addictive.If there are 30,000 such addicts robbing for their fixes each day and indeed twice a day you don't have to be a genius to work out the number of robberies resulting..Given that the stolen goods are fenced at way below their actual value the stolen property must be worth millions of Euro each day.
I have never heard of a person mugging another for the price of fags nor drink,but I have often come across people mugged or threatened for the price of a fix.
Yet the Authorities devote far more resources in fighting the legal pastimes of smoking and drinking than in the other more destructive areas of addiction.
For over 30% of the population having a drink and a smoke concurrently are a pleasurable past time.Michael Martin initiated a Taliban like Prohibition on smoking in Public Houses that signalled the death knell of the Public House in Ireland. All parties contributed to this and had no problem bullying thirty percent of the population.
There were three public houses in this Parish.Now there are two.A blind man could see that the trade of the remaining Pubs is way down on what it was.It is the same all over the country.
Between the smoking ban and the over zealous drink driving laws single and elderly people in rural Ireland have been turned into depressed recluses .
A more insidious by product of this is that house parties are on the increase.There is no knowing what goes on at these.At least in the pub there was some check on behaviour.I have little doubt but that there are those in the Prohibitionists Taliban that would only be too glad to patrol the private homes of everybody to impose their will.a la the Stasis.
The politicians that made a basket case of the country are proposing an increase in the price of drink and the banning of advertising by drinks companies to penalise all drinkers and sports fans.These are the same politicians that swore blind that all the proceeds of the National Lottery would be filtered back exclusively for sports and recreational needs.Yeah right,
By far the most social destruction in the Country was caused by the behaviour of the banks and the regulators etc.Think emigration,suicide depression, premature death,mental and actual illness,hunger ,and unending stress.
These institutions have given nothing only unremitting miseryA few pints or glasses of wine will give some little relief.
Leave the drinks companies and the millions of imbibers alone and ban advertising by the banks.
And don't fuck up the sporting organisations in the country the way ye did the entire country by sticking your unwanted oar in.
Rather run the health services in a way that doesn't involve depriving the old ,the disabled and the feeble of mind of essential services and stop killing them with neglect.
Already I would guess that the exorbitant prices charged for Motor fuel and cigarettes is creating a new smuggling elite as we speak.
Speaking plainly the most socially destructive social scourge in this country is that of heroin.Addicts must have their fixes daily and do rob their own mothers and anyone else they can to get the price of their next fix.Other drugs are nearly as addictive.If there are 30,000 such addicts robbing for their fixes each day and indeed twice a day you don't have to be a genius to work out the number of robberies resulting..Given that the stolen goods are fenced at way below their actual value the stolen property must be worth millions of Euro each day.
I have never heard of a person mugging another for the price of fags nor drink,but I have often come across people mugged or threatened for the price of a fix.
Yet the Authorities devote far more resources in fighting the legal pastimes of smoking and drinking than in the other more destructive areas of addiction.
For over 30% of the population having a drink and a smoke concurrently are a pleasurable past time.Michael Martin initiated a Taliban like Prohibition on smoking in Public Houses that signalled the death knell of the Public House in Ireland. All parties contributed to this and had no problem bullying thirty percent of the population.
There were three public houses in this Parish.Now there are two.A blind man could see that the trade of the remaining Pubs is way down on what it was.It is the same all over the country.
Between the smoking ban and the over zealous drink driving laws single and elderly people in rural Ireland have been turned into depressed recluses .
A more insidious by product of this is that house parties are on the increase.There is no knowing what goes on at these.At least in the pub there was some check on behaviour.I have little doubt but that there are those in the Prohibitionists Taliban that would only be too glad to patrol the private homes of everybody to impose their will.a la the Stasis.
The politicians that made a basket case of the country are proposing an increase in the price of drink and the banning of advertising by drinks companies to penalise all drinkers and sports fans.These are the same politicians that swore blind that all the proceeds of the National Lottery would be filtered back exclusively for sports and recreational needs.Yeah right,
By far the most social destruction in the Country was caused by the behaviour of the banks and the regulators etc.Think emigration,suicide depression, premature death,mental and actual illness,hunger ,and unending stress.
These institutions have given nothing only unremitting miseryA few pints or glasses of wine will give some little relief.
Leave the drinks companies and the millions of imbibers alone and ban advertising by the banks.
And don't fuck up the sporting organisations in the country the way ye did the entire country by sticking your unwanted oar in.
Rather run the health services in a way that doesn't involve depriving the old ,the disabled and the feeble of mind of essential services and stop killing them with neglect.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Dunderry I.F.C hopes run out of road.
With St.Michaels beating Syddan well this weekend our hopes of progress in the I.F.C.is over.Kaput.Its been a long year and a hard one on players and management.My heart goes out to them.This is the first time in a while that we failed to qualify.
I personally refuse to believe that there is not an I.F.C. in this group of players.The long serving ones have been in many playoffs ,always the bridesmaid but never the bride.Must be sickening.
The management should know that they are in good compny in failing to win outright.Even Tommy Dowd and Barry Callaghan ,multiple all Ireland winners both,couldn't bring home the laurels as managers .
Nevertheless I firmly believe that a Messiah is out there that can deliver. If not two.I have my own dream team.
One thing the club must do is to try and advance all teams at juvenile level up to grade one in all competitions within a maximum of three years.
We have one match to play in the I.F.C. against our near neighbours Clanna Gael.Like ourselves they ae playing for pride only at this stage.I will be attending the match this Saturday.
The burden of bringing home the football laurels rests on the shoulders of the Junior B team under Manager Billy Bligh and selectors Kevin Keaveney,Derek Hichey and Mickey Casey.
They play Boardsmill this Thursday in the quarter final in Navan.
Beidh me ann le cuineamh De.
I personally refuse to believe that there is not an I.F.C. in this group of players.The long serving ones have been in many playoffs ,always the bridesmaid but never the bride.Must be sickening.
The management should know that they are in good compny in failing to win outright.Even Tommy Dowd and Barry Callaghan ,multiple all Ireland winners both,couldn't bring home the laurels as managers .
Nevertheless I firmly believe that a Messiah is out there that can deliver. If not two.I have my own dream team.
One thing the club must do is to try and advance all teams at juvenile level up to grade one in all competitions within a maximum of three years.
We have one match to play in the I.F.C. against our near neighbours Clanna Gael.Like ourselves they ae playing for pride only at this stage.I will be attending the match this Saturday.
The burden of bringing home the football laurels rests on the shoulders of the Junior B team under Manager Billy Bligh and selectors Kevin Keaveney,Derek Hichey and Mickey Casey.
They play Boardsmill this Thursday in the quarter final in Navan.
Beidh me ann le cuineamh De.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Dividend for 01/09/2012
Tommy Stack and Wayne Lorton are in cracking form and their winning streak can continue with Mister Aviation in the 3.20 in KiIllarney.Should be about 3/1.The tipster is on a roll and it would be a foolish man who would go against him.After collecting E.82.00 last week I for win will chance a fiver win.Feck the expense.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Eviction of Target Express Employee.
I know nothing about Target Express,now in liquidation and its finances.I do know however that the exorbitant price of diesel and petrol ,the increasing levies of motor tax,the proliferates of tolls,the multiplicity of motoring offences and the heightening of the bar to get your van or lorry through the test has made the base cost of providing the service uneconomic.There is a Government Minister with control over each of theses areas and they have all ducked for cover blaming everybody bar themselves.
The Revenue states that it is not a lender of last resort.This is a fact,Nor is it a lender of first second,third ,fourth nor fifth resort.It is not a lender full stop.Our banks are supposed to be lenders,but they are exactly the same as the Revenue.ie.not lenders.Our Government is supposed to ensure that the banks lend and support employment.You see the result.
It is beyond comprehension that that the combined brains of the Government ,its highly paid advisers and all its civil and Public servants could not devise a way to keep these employees in work.It will cost many millions to keep them on the dole and their reduced spending power will result in further job losses.
This Government and its predecessors have given increasingly draconian powers to its State agents enabling them to bypass the Courts and keep their actions away from judicial supervision.
The power of attachment,whereby Revenue can go direct to your debtor and take from him the amount of money Revenue are owed was used in this case..In a nutshell Revenue can take from a businesses bank account money earmarked for employee wages,
Not only this but they can go to your employer and take your wages before you get them.Bet you didn't know that the Jigger Poker and the Blue Rinse Brigade put this legislation through,
This sly enactment enables Revenue to impound your wages if,for example you don't pay your property tax.
The poor man and his family facing eviction will derive poor comfort from the Liquidator's assurance that he will get his entitlements four months hence.By the way a Minister (Bruton) controls this too.
No doubt the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste will keep their solemn promises given in the Rte Debate pre election when they respectively said on the subject of eviction "Guarantee you wont lose your home "and "Head off the bailiffs".
They surely have and will keep their words on this most basic of human rights,Won#t they.
The Revenue states that it is not a lender of last resort.This is a fact,Nor is it a lender of first second,third ,fourth nor fifth resort.It is not a lender full stop.Our banks are supposed to be lenders,but they are exactly the same as the Revenue.ie.not lenders.Our Government is supposed to ensure that the banks lend and support employment.You see the result.
It is beyond comprehension that that the combined brains of the Government ,its highly paid advisers and all its civil and Public servants could not devise a way to keep these employees in work.It will cost many millions to keep them on the dole and their reduced spending power will result in further job losses.
This Government and its predecessors have given increasingly draconian powers to its State agents enabling them to bypass the Courts and keep their actions away from judicial supervision.
The power of attachment,whereby Revenue can go direct to your debtor and take from him the amount of money Revenue are owed was used in this case..In a nutshell Revenue can take from a businesses bank account money earmarked for employee wages,
Not only this but they can go to your employer and take your wages before you get them.Bet you didn't know that the Jigger Poker and the Blue Rinse Brigade put this legislation through,
This sly enactment enables Revenue to impound your wages if,for example you don't pay your property tax.
The poor man and his family facing eviction will derive poor comfort from the Liquidator's assurance that he will get his entitlements four months hence.By the way a Minister (Bruton) controls this too.
No doubt the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste will keep their solemn promises given in the Rte Debate pre election when they respectively said on the subject of eviction "Guarantee you wont lose your home "and "Head off the bailiffs".
They surely have and will keep their words on this most basic of human rights,Won#t they.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Dunderry's loss is Australia's gain.
Ownie Mc Cormack,Aran Scannell and Yvonne Dooley ,all of this Parish ,emigrated to Australia this week.They were joined by Michelle Mc Girr,Ownie's girlfriend ,a native of Kilmessan.All the Parish and I am sure their parents, some of whom have other children abroad,mourn this modern day flight of the Earls.
These most decent of people were fully involved in all aspects of communal and sporting activity in the Parish and GAA Club since childhood and are grafters of the highest calibre.They will be joining the multitude of other emigrants of their age group abroad who have fled this rapidly declining and visibly wilting corner of rural Ireland ,where work is non existent and the daily oppression of decent people continues unabated. They will be joining their peers from Cortown,who can field more footballers in Brisbane than Cortown and Ultans ,where 9 of the 15 starters of their recent winning championship team have emigrated.
All these people are more than anxious for work and I know that many of their enmigrant peers are working their socks off in and for the benefit of their adopted countries.
How the fir and mna breags in the ruling political classes and the acolytes who canvassed for them can show themselves in public is beyond me.Clearly they have no shame whatsoever.
Personally I wish these latest emigrants the very ,very best of luck and know they will prosper and hope they adjust quickly.Ironically they have a great chance of settling in quickly as so many of their peers are there to welcome them with open arms.
Go neiri an bothar libh.
These most decent of people were fully involved in all aspects of communal and sporting activity in the Parish and GAA Club since childhood and are grafters of the highest calibre.They will be joining the multitude of other emigrants of their age group abroad who have fled this rapidly declining and visibly wilting corner of rural Ireland ,where work is non existent and the daily oppression of decent people continues unabated. They will be joining their peers from Cortown,who can field more footballers in Brisbane than Cortown and Ultans ,where 9 of the 15 starters of their recent winning championship team have emigrated.
All these people are more than anxious for work and I know that many of their enmigrant peers are working their socks off in and for the benefit of their adopted countries.
How the fir and mna breags in the ruling political classes and the acolytes who canvassed for them can show themselves in public is beyond me.Clearly they have no shame whatsoever.
Personally I wish these latest emigrants the very ,very best of luck and know they will prosper and hope they adjust quickly.Ironically they have a great chance of settling in quickly as so many of their peers are there to welcome them with open arms.
Go neiri an bothar libh.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Cork/Donegal.Sinful pleasure.
The Mini Minister for Jiggery Pokery,Stick it to the Unemployed and Force them to Emigrate,The Pursuer of the grandchildren of the man they want to force top himself and the Man known as the cold bloode death bed enforcer will not be dictated to by Catholic Prelate in Ireland.At a push he may lobby ,but only just. No the only Dictator they bow to is their new God,her of the femme gonad ,whisper her name Merkel.Yes they chant ,we inherited this.And yes we will appease her,down to the last inhabitant .Let the pet jornos and econs argue about the shape of the latest knot on the lash,but merco says the knot must be lashed on the bleeding backs of the locals.And yes her wish is their command.
Now the Kapos are awaiting dictating fom Merco on how to profit from the almost carnal pleasure the the slave race deerived from their very own game of football between Donegal and Cork last Sunday.Such pleasures should be denied to these sub cultures and ways must devised to entirely block them out less they become too uppity and rise agsainst the blue rinse and red rose brigade
And let no man nor woman ever argue again that a leader of conviction and character makes no difference.
Mc Guinness and Counihan ,I adore ye.Never let yer names be sullied by lining out with any version of the Kapos.Stand by your peoples.
Now the Kapos are awaiting dictating fom Merco on how to profit from the almost carnal pleasure the the slave race deerived from their very own game of football between Donegal and Cork last Sunday.Such pleasures should be denied to these sub cultures and ways must devised to entirely block them out less they become too uppity and rise agsainst the blue rinse and red rose brigade
And let no man nor woman ever argue again that a leader of conviction and character makes no difference.
Mc Guinness and Counihan ,I adore ye.Never let yer names be sullied by lining out with any version of the Kapos.Stand by your peoples.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
DUNDERRY DELIVERS ON THE DOUBLE
As I have been predicting anything is possible for this improving and lucky Meath Minor Football Team.In the last outing Stephen Coogan scored a last gasp goal to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat,Today Paddy Kenneally finished to the net the goal that ensured Meath's victory,Not only that but he won a line ball that led to the penalty in which he was intricately involved that resulted in Meath's penultimate goal.To term him an impact sub would be an understatement in terms of his involvement today ,
All in Dunderry are hugely proud of our lads involvement in this team and their exploits to date and will be willing them on in the Final.Dublin or Kerry await.I,d say Dublin,but there are no such things as certainties these days in this grade,
Being a reasonably honest man I cannot let the occasion go without commenting on the standard of refereeing in this game.It was absolutely scandalous.I usually do not comment on how referees do ,but after the comical performance in the Meath /Louth Leinster Final two years ago ,you would imagine that the GAA would appoint to an All Ureland under 18 semi final a team of officials and a referee who had a passing acquaintance with the rules of the game.
Were I a Mayo man and I am not ,I would say ,we were rode out of the game as wrong decision after wrong decision was made against them in the last ten minutes.
Apologists saying that Mayo were the authors of their own defeat due to missed chances are way off the mark,Missing scorable chances is no excuse for this type of behaviour.It may well be the last time that some of these Mayo players get on the field on such an occasion and will leave a fierce sour taste in the mouth for the rest of their lives.
Were the roles reversed I am sure that many in Meath would have much legitimate comment to make.
In this instance I think that the GAA should apologise to the Mayo players foe what happened.,
This is not to take away from the Dunderry lads ,nor young Sullivan and O Coilean,whose dads I greatly admire nor anyone in the Meath setup.
Despite all the present day coaching and assessment of referees I genuinely have to say that in general over my fifty years involved the men from years ago were far better than their present day brethern and performed on average far better.I genuinely cannot recall such bad perfirmances years ago.It may be that the men then were more motivated by idealism to the Gaelic game .
As one who was twice floored while refeering in Meath ,once in underage hurling and secondly in Junior Camogie and who never took a penny I make this proposition with some trepidation.
All in Dunderry are hugely proud of our lads involvement in this team and their exploits to date and will be willing them on in the Final.Dublin or Kerry await.I,d say Dublin,but there are no such things as certainties these days in this grade,
Being a reasonably honest man I cannot let the occasion go without commenting on the standard of refereeing in this game.It was absolutely scandalous.I usually do not comment on how referees do ,but after the comical performance in the Meath /Louth Leinster Final two years ago ,you would imagine that the GAA would appoint to an All Ureland under 18 semi final a team of officials and a referee who had a passing acquaintance with the rules of the game.
Were I a Mayo man and I am not ,I would say ,we were rode out of the game as wrong decision after wrong decision was made against them in the last ten minutes.
Apologists saying that Mayo were the authors of their own defeat due to missed chances are way off the mark,Missing scorable chances is no excuse for this type of behaviour.It may well be the last time that some of these Mayo players get on the field on such an occasion and will leave a fierce sour taste in the mouth for the rest of their lives.
Were the roles reversed I am sure that many in Meath would have much legitimate comment to make.
In this instance I think that the GAA should apologise to the Mayo players foe what happened.,
This is not to take away from the Dunderry lads ,nor young Sullivan and O Coilean,whose dads I greatly admire nor anyone in the Meath setup.
Despite all the present day coaching and assessment of referees I genuinely have to say that in general over my fifty years involved the men from years ago were far better than their present day brethern and performed on average far better.I genuinely cannot recall such bad perfirmances years ago.It may be that the men then were more motivated by idealism to the Gaelic game .
As one who was twice floored while refeering in Meath ,once in underage hurling and secondly in Junior Camogie and who never took a penny I make this proposition with some trepidation.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Dunderry W/O Drumree fail to field
Yesterday evening,as foul an evening as you could experience,our under 18 Camogie team travelled to Batterstown to play Drumree.Wasted journey however as Drumree failed to field.We got a walkover.Fair dues to our mentors and players.
Drumbeat Div for 25/8/2012
Time Up at 16/1 in 3.05 at York tomorrow is good value for a fiver each way.Last time out in Goodwood he was hampered and with William Buick on board should finish in the first three.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
What goes around comes around.
Its Thursday 23 August 2012,as miserable and as wintry an evening as you could imagine.On top of which I am coming down with something so my mood matches the weather.
Anyhow 1947 was a fierce bad year weather wise.It rained incessantly and all around here was flooded.My uncles told me that the Clady river burst its banks and Mrs King' house which was beside the river at the extremity of the Curragh boreen was swamped and her life was saved by my uncle Tommy who carried her on his back as far as Seamin Herbert's house,where the flood waters ended.
It rises in the bog at Tullaghanstown and it also burst its banks there.There was 2 to 3 feet of water on the road at the cross and it took a brave man to wade through.
The story goes that a tramp was making his way from Athboy to Navan through the cross when he met a local."Excuse me sir,is this a seaport town " he smirked.The reply directed him to "ask me gateaux"or words to that effect.
Fast forward to the present day.The O.P.W.is mending a bridge over the same river on my land in Meadstown.And let me say that four more decent,competent and pleasant men you could not meet in a long week's walk.These men are never unplugged.
Anyhow the water is at most two feet deep where they are working.There is a sign up saying "DeepWater"with a lifebuoy attached.I understand they are lucky not to be forced to wear life jackets.
Health and Safety reasons seemingly.
How prophetic was that tramp in 1947 and would anyone wonder why this over regulated country and continent is fecked.This is the law,com padre.
Anyhow 1947 was a fierce bad year weather wise.It rained incessantly and all around here was flooded.My uncles told me that the Clady river burst its banks and Mrs King' house which was beside the river at the extremity of the Curragh boreen was swamped and her life was saved by my uncle Tommy who carried her on his back as far as Seamin Herbert's house,where the flood waters ended.
It rises in the bog at Tullaghanstown and it also burst its banks there.There was 2 to 3 feet of water on the road at the cross and it took a brave man to wade through.
The story goes that a tramp was making his way from Athboy to Navan through the cross when he met a local."Excuse me sir,is this a seaport town " he smirked.The reply directed him to "ask me gateaux"or words to that effect.
Fast forward to the present day.The O.P.W.is mending a bridge over the same river on my land in Meadstown.And let me say that four more decent,competent and pleasant men you could not meet in a long week's walk.These men are never unplugged.
Anyhow the water is at most two feet deep where they are working.There is a sign up saying "DeepWater"with a lifebuoy attached.I understand they are lucky not to be forced to wear life jackets.
Health and Safety reasons seemingly.
How prophetic was that tramp in 1947 and would anyone wonder why this over regulated country and continent is fecked.This is the law,com padre.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Russians unlikely upholders of respect for religion.
The circle of hate, that in this country hates all things Catholic ,is but one such cog of a worldwide machine that adores militant secularism and feels an entitlement to tramp all over the rights and feelings of believers,particularly Christians.
In Ireland a cohort of disbelievers are set to legislate against the sanctity of confession and have cut off diplomatic relations with the Vatican.A week hardly passes without the theft of religious artifacts from Catholic and Christian Churches.The heads of various pet organisations which are State funded or have Charitable status miss no opportunity to stick the boot in.Catholics and indeed all Christians should bear these insults in mind when the collection boxes of these organisations are rattled in our faces.
Russia is a huge country.Members of the Pussy Riot deliberately choose Moscow's Christ the the Saviour Cathedral wearing balaclavas ,short skirts and tights and put on a show ,which was later spliced with lewd lyrics and the refrain "Put Putin Out" .made sacrilegious remarks about the Virgin Mary and broad cast on the Internet.
If these actions do not show total disrespect for the beliefs of billions of Christians worldwide I don't know what does.
The defendants further mocked their trial by constantly giggling and rolling their eyes when sentence was announced.A yes sure this is great craic entirely they clearly feel.
Can nobody see any similarity between this blatant disrespect of Christian's and their institutions and the brutalisation of Jews and their institutions less less than 60 years ago.Well I for one can.
I take my hat off to the female judge who found them guilty of religious hatred,,of committing a grave violation of public order and displaying disrespect for society,and am surprised at the leniency of the two year sentence.
Wasn't Sean Quinn Junior sent to six months for disrespecting effectively only one judge (the Court )and these people disrespected billions of believers with malice aforethought.The sentence was disproportionately short in my view.
European and U,S,sources have predictably denounced the verdicts as being too harsh.Presumably they think it fine to behave like this and were it to happen in their jurisdictions it would be treated as just a bit of gas and high jinks.
On a recent visit to a local Court I witnessed a defendant/with the urgings of the Gardai, having his sentence increased by six months because he shouted profanities at a Garda in Court.. By this standard what would the Pussy Patrol have got for their in Court behaviour ?
The E.U and the USA and NATO supported the anti Qaddafi side in the Libyan Civil War and are now supporting the anti State side in Syria.Many many people have died because of this support and neutral NGOs say torture and murder by both sides are commonplace.
It would better serve these spokespeople to address these issues than to poke their noses into the misdeeds of the Pussy Patrol.
All they are achieving is the elevation of Russia into the unlikely role of modern defenders of freedom of religious practise and respect for its followers and institutions.
In Ireland a cohort of disbelievers are set to legislate against the sanctity of confession and have cut off diplomatic relations with the Vatican.A week hardly passes without the theft of religious artifacts from Catholic and Christian Churches.The heads of various pet organisations which are State funded or have Charitable status miss no opportunity to stick the boot in.Catholics and indeed all Christians should bear these insults in mind when the collection boxes of these organisations are rattled in our faces.
Russia is a huge country.Members of the Pussy Riot deliberately choose Moscow's Christ the the Saviour Cathedral wearing balaclavas ,short skirts and tights and put on a show ,which was later spliced with lewd lyrics and the refrain "Put Putin Out" .made sacrilegious remarks about the Virgin Mary and broad cast on the Internet.
If these actions do not show total disrespect for the beliefs of billions of Christians worldwide I don't know what does.
The defendants further mocked their trial by constantly giggling and rolling their eyes when sentence was announced.A yes sure this is great craic entirely they clearly feel.
Can nobody see any similarity between this blatant disrespect of Christian's and their institutions and the brutalisation of Jews and their institutions less less than 60 years ago.Well I for one can.
I take my hat off to the female judge who found them guilty of religious hatred,,of committing a grave violation of public order and displaying disrespect for society,and am surprised at the leniency of the two year sentence.
Wasn't Sean Quinn Junior sent to six months for disrespecting effectively only one judge (the Court )and these people disrespected billions of believers with malice aforethought.The sentence was disproportionately short in my view.
European and U,S,sources have predictably denounced the verdicts as being too harsh.Presumably they think it fine to behave like this and were it to happen in their jurisdictions it would be treated as just a bit of gas and high jinks.
On a recent visit to a local Court I witnessed a defendant/with the urgings of the Gardai, having his sentence increased by six months because he shouted profanities at a Garda in Court.. By this standard what would the Pussy Patrol have got for their in Court behaviour ?
The E.U and the USA and NATO supported the anti Qaddafi side in the Libyan Civil War and are now supporting the anti State side in Syria.Many many people have died because of this support and neutral NGOs say torture and murder by both sides are commonplace.
It would better serve these spokespeople to address these issues than to poke their noses into the misdeeds of the Pussy Patrol.
All they are achieving is the elevation of Russia into the unlikely role of modern defenders of freedom of religious practise and respect for its followers and institutions.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend 18/08/2012.
With last week's tip coming in second and having drawn E.22.50 for the previous week's winner,we are opting this week for Mount Athos in the 2.30 at Newbury.He has won both his starts this year and with Ryan Moore on board can win this Group 3 at odds of about 3/1
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Prayer needed.
It is hard to like everybody.God commands us Christians to love our enemies.A hard road to follow.I suppose we all think that our friends are the best.It is easy to pray for our friends but to pray for our enemies it is far more difficult.And as for strangers ,well that is a far remoter proposition.
I don't quite know how to put this without naming the people involved but it will be easy for me to pray for a number of Parishioners who are poorly at the moment because I know them.It is far harder for people to pray for Dunderry Parishioners they don't know and who could do with God's help.
Nevertheless I am asking all who make a hit on this blog,no matter where in the world they live to say a prayer for a number of sick parishioners from this neck of the woods .
These poor feckers are ill,in strange surroundings and more likely than not very scared.Say a prayer for them.Please.
This sinner will.
I don't quite know how to put this without naming the people involved but it will be easy for me to pray for a number of Parishioners who are poorly at the moment because I know them.It is far harder for people to pray for Dunderry Parishioners they don't know and who could do with God's help.
Nevertheless I am asking all who make a hit on this blog,no matter where in the world they live to say a prayer for a number of sick parishioners from this neck of the woods .
These poor feckers are ill,in strange surroundings and more likely than not very scared.Say a prayer for them.Please.
This sinner will.
Dunderry Inter Football clinging to Rim.
Last Saturday was deemed "D Day" for our Inter Footballers and the Management Team as they faced Na Fianna in the group stages in a vital match..I opined it was a "shit or get off the pot" occasion, as I expected the winners to advance and the losers to face a further year in the grade,there being no relegation to Junior this year .Indeed it would be a very sad state of affairs were a proud club like us reliant on a technicality ,like the absence of relegation this year , to avoid the drop to Junior.
Well we were beaten by a point in a match of high quality where the result was in doubt right up to the end.And believe it or not we are still clinging to the rim of that pot by our fingertips.It has transpired were we to beat Clanna Gael by a sufficient margin in the next match and were both Syddan and Fianna to continue on their winning ways then we could hang in there.It is far from ideal that the future is not solely in our own hands.However the dream still lives.
I missed the match myself,as I suspect did any farmer who was trying to salvage hay in the one window of opportunity that presented itself this year.We had four days of reasonable weather to try and salvage hay for the first time this miserable summer and were clinging to the rim also ,trying to get the stuff baled on Saturday evening before the weather broke that night.My men were delayed due to technical difficulties with the baler and it was near midnight before they landed instead of the seven o clock start scheduled and the once fit hay was bailed damp with dew and is heating.I have it under cover and am hoping that it won't heat too much.It is typical of this summer that the worst day for rain and weather is today and it had to be covered were it not to be lost entirely.
I am reminded of the "Cat"and his spake that he was making hay and history in the month of November and from seven to twelve on Saturday was seething that I could not do substantial physical work because of the stroke I suffered.Were I able I would have cocked it and gathered up a crew to do it with me.
Even there the Cat would have had an advantage in the help stakes ,he having a "double barrel" to my single.
Such is life.
Back to the match itself.I have spoken to several people who were in attendance and have got so many differing versions as to who played well and who didn't ,that I am not going to say much,except that we were beaten on a scoreline of 0-17 to 1-13.
All say this is a good Fianna team ,so therefor we cannot be too bad.
The starting team was.
Davy Jennings
Evan Stephens John Kelleher Davy Mc Cormack
Damian Clarke Darren Fay Alan Garry
Peadar Callaghan David Callaghan
Simon Carty Ivan Mc Cormack Seamus Harte
Paddy Kenneally Keith Callaghan Stephen Coogan
Introduced .Darren Callaghan,Bob Doherty.
This was probably the first time this year that the selectors had a near full deck to deal from so now they know who is fit for the fray and who is not and whose presence boosts team morale and whose does not.
I understand that this was a very tactical game and that our team was placed to counteract their two man full forward line and to curb the threat of Queeney .I hear it worked to the extent that you would not pick him out.However I believe that his brother at midfield was outstanding.Hard to win ,isn't it ?
Well we were beaten by a point in a match of high quality where the result was in doubt right up to the end.And believe it or not we are still clinging to the rim of that pot by our fingertips.It has transpired were we to beat Clanna Gael by a sufficient margin in the next match and were both Syddan and Fianna to continue on their winning ways then we could hang in there.It is far from ideal that the future is not solely in our own hands.However the dream still lives.
I missed the match myself,as I suspect did any farmer who was trying to salvage hay in the one window of opportunity that presented itself this year.We had four days of reasonable weather to try and salvage hay for the first time this miserable summer and were clinging to the rim also ,trying to get the stuff baled on Saturday evening before the weather broke that night.My men were delayed due to technical difficulties with the baler and it was near midnight before they landed instead of the seven o clock start scheduled and the once fit hay was bailed damp with dew and is heating.I have it under cover and am hoping that it won't heat too much.It is typical of this summer that the worst day for rain and weather is today and it had to be covered were it not to be lost entirely.
I am reminded of the "Cat"and his spake that he was making hay and history in the month of November and from seven to twelve on Saturday was seething that I could not do substantial physical work because of the stroke I suffered.Were I able I would have cocked it and gathered up a crew to do it with me.
Even there the Cat would have had an advantage in the help stakes ,he having a "double barrel" to my single.
Such is life.
Back to the match itself.I have spoken to several people who were in attendance and have got so many differing versions as to who played well and who didn't ,that I am not going to say much,except that we were beaten on a scoreline of 0-17 to 1-13.
All say this is a good Fianna team ,so therefor we cannot be too bad.
The starting team was.
Davy Jennings
Evan Stephens John Kelleher Davy Mc Cormack
Damian Clarke Darren Fay Alan Garry
Peadar Callaghan David Callaghan
Simon Carty Ivan Mc Cormack Seamus Harte
Paddy Kenneally Keith Callaghan Stephen Coogan
Introduced .Darren Callaghan,Bob Doherty.
This was probably the first time this year that the selectors had a near full deck to deal from so now they know who is fit for the fray and who is not and whose presence boosts team morale and whose does not.
I understand that this was a very tactical game and that our team was placed to counteract their two man full forward line and to curb the threat of Queeney .I hear it worked to the extent that you would not pick him out.However I believe that his brother at midfield was outstanding.Hard to win ,isn't it ?
Friday, August 10, 2012
Drumbeat Div.for 11/8/2012.
Fully restored to the bosom of his family after his temporary absence,the tipster advises "Go for Jet Away in the 2.55 in Haydock.Same colours as Frankel ,not as good but should be good enough to win a poor group 3."
Who am I to disagree.
Who am I to disagree.
Dunderry 1-10 Walterstown 0-9 JFBC. 9/8/2012
Bligh's babes committed grand larceny tonight in a nail biting match played in a well appointed Bective pitch before an attendance who stayed right to the end.
The REAL troika hereabouts are Billy Bligh,Derek Hickey and Kevin Keaveney who run the second string footballers in Dunderry.Bligh is to Dunderry what Mick O Dwyer is to Kerry.The undisputed King.In my view he would make an outstanding director of football not only for the Club but also for the County.Derek and Kevin are no daws either.They know their football.They are coaxing good results from a mix um gathering of lads on the way up,lads on the way down and lads who are in their comfort zone.
After a light drizzle which the forecasters had promised last weekend for next Sunday but not for today and which had many in the attendance who dropped meadows yesterday questioning the forecaster's genealogy ,the match pitch was damp but not overly slippy and the battle began in near ideal conditions.
Dunderry Team.
James Mitchell
Kenny Fay Kevin Slattery Eoin Dempsey
Davy Stephens Gary Newman J.P.Kenneally
Conor Farrell Liam Dempsey
Paul Bartley Thomas Doherty Alan Watters
Darren Blaney Trevor Conaty Jordan Martin .
We started well scoring 1-3 in the first 10 minutes.The goal was a sloppy affair.Conaty beat his man and launched a well directed scud towards the goalmouth trying ,I would say, for a point.The greasy ball fell short and the goalie fumbled it,allowing it to cross the line before he could retrieve it.Trevor will claim it and well entitled to.Bothy teams played a nice brand of intelligent football and the play was devoid of dirt entirely.There was little clean fetching around the midfield area where the four tall combatants denied each other clean catches and the ball broke often.They had a few speed merchants who were hard to handle but we stuck manfully to our task,helped in no small measure by their inaccuracy from both placed and open play balls.
We failed to register for the last fifteen minutes of the half and were glad to go in two points up on the scoreline 1-3 to 0-4.
Our knowledgeable supporters were looking with trepidation to the second half .
They needn't have worried as we started with a bang,registering two quick points in succession.Fully deserved I might say and this put us back in the driving seat.Then they proceeded to play their best football,gradually hauling us back and they went in front by a point with seven minutes to go.
Then we awoke from our stupor and rattled off four points to win by two.
They are a good team and must wonder how they left this behind.But as I said ,we are no daws either and even if a pass or two did go astray,we hammered home the nail when it mattered.
Slatts was brilliant and Gary "Rudolph"Newman was impressively aggressive.Our Davy (Sprog )
gave a masterclass in wing back play and the other backs stuck manfully to their tasks.
Mitchell was steady in goal and the midfielders broke even steven.just about.
Bartley (Bugle) is awful sporty for a man near forty and nearly everything was channelled through him. Slight indecision crept in a few times but all in all he gave his direct opponent a torrid time.I still regret his refusal to give football a full go in 2005 when I was manager.He could have made a difference.
As a unit the forwards played an unselfish game and the speedy Mattin kicked at least one superb point in the last five minutes.They never gave up the chase,rightly as it transpired.
As the bemused Walterstown players and mentors trooped off at the end I swear to God I saw Bligh and co.doing a little hop ,skip and jump.
No gold medals yet but the dream lives on.
Jack Devine at ninety is as avid a supporter as you could get and left with a wry smile on his face. If he hasn't seen it all by now who has ?
The dynamic duo over the Intermediate team were in attendance and were in animated discussion.The fate of the Inter.Team lies in their hands and Fianna will be no pushovers.Its shit or get off the pot time now.We wish them and the team luck tomorrow evening in Boardsmill.
The REAL troika hereabouts are Billy Bligh,Derek Hickey and Kevin Keaveney who run the second string footballers in Dunderry.Bligh is to Dunderry what Mick O Dwyer is to Kerry.The undisputed King.In my view he would make an outstanding director of football not only for the Club but also for the County.Derek and Kevin are no daws either.They know their football.They are coaxing good results from a mix um gathering of lads on the way up,lads on the way down and lads who are in their comfort zone.
After a light drizzle which the forecasters had promised last weekend for next Sunday but not for today and which had many in the attendance who dropped meadows yesterday questioning the forecaster's genealogy ,the match pitch was damp but not overly slippy and the battle began in near ideal conditions.
Dunderry Team.
James Mitchell
Kenny Fay Kevin Slattery Eoin Dempsey
Davy Stephens Gary Newman J.P.Kenneally
Conor Farrell Liam Dempsey
Paul Bartley Thomas Doherty Alan Watters
Darren Blaney Trevor Conaty Jordan Martin .
We started well scoring 1-3 in the first 10 minutes.The goal was a sloppy affair.Conaty beat his man and launched a well directed scud towards the goalmouth trying ,I would say, for a point.The greasy ball fell short and the goalie fumbled it,allowing it to cross the line before he could retrieve it.Trevor will claim it and well entitled to.Bothy teams played a nice brand of intelligent football and the play was devoid of dirt entirely.There was little clean fetching around the midfield area where the four tall combatants denied each other clean catches and the ball broke often.They had a few speed merchants who were hard to handle but we stuck manfully to our task,helped in no small measure by their inaccuracy from both placed and open play balls.
We failed to register for the last fifteen minutes of the half and were glad to go in two points up on the scoreline 1-3 to 0-4.
Our knowledgeable supporters were looking with trepidation to the second half .
They needn't have worried as we started with a bang,registering two quick points in succession.Fully deserved I might say and this put us back in the driving seat.Then they proceeded to play their best football,gradually hauling us back and they went in front by a point with seven minutes to go.
Then we awoke from our stupor and rattled off four points to win by two.
They are a good team and must wonder how they left this behind.But as I said ,we are no daws either and even if a pass or two did go astray,we hammered home the nail when it mattered.
Slatts was brilliant and Gary "Rudolph"Newman was impressively aggressive.Our Davy (Sprog )
gave a masterclass in wing back play and the other backs stuck manfully to their tasks.
Mitchell was steady in goal and the midfielders broke even steven.just about.
Bartley (Bugle) is awful sporty for a man near forty and nearly everything was channelled through him. Slight indecision crept in a few times but all in all he gave his direct opponent a torrid time.I still regret his refusal to give football a full go in 2005 when I was manager.He could have made a difference.
As a unit the forwards played an unselfish game and the speedy Mattin kicked at least one superb point in the last five minutes.They never gave up the chase,rightly as it transpired.
As the bemused Walterstown players and mentors trooped off at the end I swear to God I saw Bligh and co.doing a little hop ,skip and jump.
No gold medals yet but the dream lives on.
Jack Devine at ninety is as avid a supporter as you could get and left with a wry smile on his face. If he hasn't seen it all by now who has ?
The dynamic duo over the Intermediate team were in attendance and were in animated discussion.The fate of the Inter.Team lies in their hands and Fianna will be no pushovers.Its shit or get off the pot time now.We wish them and the team luck tomorrow evening in Boardsmill.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Chinks of Light dispel Tumbleweeds in Dunderry
Hard work,decency,talent and application bring their own rewards.Bit like prayer really.Never wasted.Take this as read from an unholy Joe.
This August Bank Holiday weekend the grafting classes here defied the odds and withered the tumble weeds at germination.
Not once,not twice but thrice.and counting.
First we have three lads,Christy Coogan,paddy Kenneally and Alan Garry on the Meath Minor Football panel.
On Sunday evening they beat a good Tyrone team by the minimum due to a last minute goal by Stephen Coogan,who played start to finish at full forward.He had an exceptional first half scoring four points from play.That he is here at all is a minor miracle in itself.His father Christy emigrated to America in the hungry eighties where he met Denise O Reardon ,whose family had also emigrated there from Cork.They hooked up there and drawn by the irresistible lure of the soil returned to rear their family here.I would say that they were economically disadvantaged in relocating here,but like all true children of the soil are rooted in a community they love with a passion.
Alan Garry has two brothers in exile in Australia,two hard working goosons who would gladly work here were the economic gobshites who destroyed this countryeven half competent..He has cousins and uncles all over the globe.He is proudly carrying a family GAA tradition on his capable shoulders.He wasn't called into action on Sunday but as a team is only as good as its panel this is still an honour.
Paddy Kenneally was introduced as a sub on the forty in the second half .He played well after a thundering welcome onto the pitch from his opponent.His Kerry father will take some consolation from this victorty and I would say it will help sooth the pain of Kerrys defeat to Donegal.This family ,who are relatively recent arrivals to the Parish choose Dundery as their base brecause of its grounded application of the Gaelic ehtos.
Meath meet Mayo next and have realistic expectations of advancing.According to my source ,who was at the game and has been at them all,this is a good and improving team and can go the whole hog .Dublin are exceptional I am told ,but hey Kerry were bet in the Senior and Meath are improving by the new time.Everything is possible.
The presence of our lads on the team leaves a warm glow in Dunderry hearts all over the world not only here.There are toasts being raised in Australia,America,England and even the United Arab Emirates .
Secondly the high profile sports man,T.V.and print pundit,School master and famed All Ireland winner ,Colm O Rourke ,has found time, at no cost to the Club, to put our lads through their paces this(Monday) evening,Not one person in Dunderry would make little of him for supporting the Quinn family last week ,nor would anyone here sniggeringly nor sneeringly refer to Quinn as the "son of Brian" and sneer at Quinn nor O Rourke as was done by some of the gob shites on Charlie Bird's radio show on Sunday.Conversely we would pray that someone of Quinn's stature would come to create jobs to stop the advance of the tumbleweeds.Some of these commentators are beginning to sound like the comic character Judge Dread incapable of sprouting anything other than the "The law is the Law."They were saying the same at the time of Jesus.Around here we "get "Sean Quin and Colm O Rourke,even our own blue shirts. We also"get" Sean Boylan ,another man who backed the Quinns ,and would be equally honoured were he to show his face here again.
Finally the Club organised a barn dance last evening in Geraghty's shed.Truth to tell money is fierce scarce around here with everybody,even those lucky enough to have State jobs.Those who could afford a mini blast supported the outing in numbers enough to make it a success in today;s terms.The upside for those who like a jar is that they get a buzz now after about two drinks such is their lack of practise due to the lack of cash.Great for the punter Id say but not so good for the publican.
But those who went made the best of it.
All in all a glimpse at the rainbow.
P.S.Val Andrews who managed Louth and Cavan is a grandson of John Newman ,after whom the pitch in Bohermeen is named.His daughter is Val's mother and her brother James played football with Dunderry at the same time as my uncles Joe and Paddy.John is buried in the Black Church in Meadstown,Dunderry .
Another Dunderry disciple you might say.
This August Bank Holiday weekend the grafting classes here defied the odds and withered the tumble weeds at germination.
Not once,not twice but thrice.and counting.
First we have three lads,Christy Coogan,paddy Kenneally and Alan Garry on the Meath Minor Football panel.
On Sunday evening they beat a good Tyrone team by the minimum due to a last minute goal by Stephen Coogan,who played start to finish at full forward.He had an exceptional first half scoring four points from play.That he is here at all is a minor miracle in itself.His father Christy emigrated to America in the hungry eighties where he met Denise O Reardon ,whose family had also emigrated there from Cork.They hooked up there and drawn by the irresistible lure of the soil returned to rear their family here.I would say that they were economically disadvantaged in relocating here,but like all true children of the soil are rooted in a community they love with a passion.
Alan Garry has two brothers in exile in Australia,two hard working goosons who would gladly work here were the economic gobshites who destroyed this countryeven half competent..He has cousins and uncles all over the globe.He is proudly carrying a family GAA tradition on his capable shoulders.He wasn't called into action on Sunday but as a team is only as good as its panel this is still an honour.
Paddy Kenneally was introduced as a sub on the forty in the second half .He played well after a thundering welcome onto the pitch from his opponent.His Kerry father will take some consolation from this victorty and I would say it will help sooth the pain of Kerrys defeat to Donegal.This family ,who are relatively recent arrivals to the Parish choose Dundery as their base brecause of its grounded application of the Gaelic ehtos.
Meath meet Mayo next and have realistic expectations of advancing.According to my source ,who was at the game and has been at them all,this is a good and improving team and can go the whole hog .Dublin are exceptional I am told ,but hey Kerry were bet in the Senior and Meath are improving by the new time.Everything is possible.
The presence of our lads on the team leaves a warm glow in Dunderry hearts all over the world not only here.There are toasts being raised in Australia,America,England and even the United Arab Emirates .
Secondly the high profile sports man,T.V.and print pundit,School master and famed All Ireland winner ,Colm O Rourke ,has found time, at no cost to the Club, to put our lads through their paces this(Monday) evening,Not one person in Dunderry would make little of him for supporting the Quinn family last week ,nor would anyone here sniggeringly nor sneeringly refer to Quinn as the "son of Brian" and sneer at Quinn nor O Rourke as was done by some of the gob shites on Charlie Bird's radio show on Sunday.Conversely we would pray that someone of Quinn's stature would come to create jobs to stop the advance of the tumbleweeds.Some of these commentators are beginning to sound like the comic character Judge Dread incapable of sprouting anything other than the "The law is the Law."They were saying the same at the time of Jesus.Around here we "get "Sean Quin and Colm O Rourke,even our own blue shirts. We also"get" Sean Boylan ,another man who backed the Quinns ,and would be equally honoured were he to show his face here again.
Finally the Club organised a barn dance last evening in Geraghty's shed.Truth to tell money is fierce scarce around here with everybody,even those lucky enough to have State jobs.Those who could afford a mini blast supported the outing in numbers enough to make it a success in today;s terms.The upside for those who like a jar is that they get a buzz now after about two drinks such is their lack of practise due to the lack of cash.Great for the punter Id say but not so good for the publican.
But those who went made the best of it.
All in all a glimpse at the rainbow.
P.S.Val Andrews who managed Louth and Cavan is a grandson of John Newman ,after whom the pitch in Bohermeen is named.His daughter is Val's mother and her brother James played football with Dunderry at the same time as my uncles Joe and Paddy.John is buried in the Black Church in Meadstown,Dunderry .
Another Dunderry disciple you might say.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Dunderry favourite Nevin nails it.
The foresight of the GAA Club in backing winners is sometimes frightening.The star of our fight night against Trim ,John Joe Nevin (see earlier blog on the matter )has delivered where it counts. Gold and Silver beckons.Only the best for the best.
Investigative journalism at its best.
If you want to see the nadir of puke journalism read an article by Valerie Hanley in today's The Irish Mail.On the front page the question is posed "Is Mountjoy really the place for a little girl Mrs Quinn?"
"Shock as child visits Sean Quinn Junior "it further trumpets.
On page thirteen it leads "Little girl in tow,Quinns visit Sean in jail."
Reading down the article we learn that "a little girl ,her brown curly hair tied in pigtails is the picture of innocence."She is referred to as "Maresa"and "little Maresa"
Accompanying the article is a picture of picture of three adults holding the hand of a child ,with only her face blacked out ,of about four years of age.This child is portrayed as "Maresa".
The "shock " referred to by the report is that the child was brought to Mountjoy to visit Sean Quinn.
Conversely I find it shocking that any so called newspaper should stoop so low as to exploit the innocence of a young girl to attempt to sell newspapers.I am appalled that another woman should so arrogantly and heartlessly exploit the visit to denigrate those who brought her on the visit.I am disappointed ,but not surprised ,that the privacy of an innocent child should be so readily disregarded and flaunted for the world to see for monetary gain.
Marisa,s parents ought keep this article and give it to Maresa so that she can take appropriate action against Valerie Hanley when she is of the age.
If Valerie Hanley has children of her own,and I severely doubt this ,I would ask her if she would like published the image and description of her four year old child to sell newspapers.
I would also ask the secular sisterhood to outright condemn such actions by one woman against another much younger but "innocent" woman and pose the question whether such actions advances the notion of gender politics.i.e. that anyone should be favoured for election because of the shape of their gonads.
All women are caring me arse.
I cannot understand how journalists in the same stable,Joe Brolly for example, can continue to work for such a rag,which will never pollute my house again.
"Shock as child visits Sean Quinn Junior "it further trumpets.
On page thirteen it leads "Little girl in tow,Quinns visit Sean in jail."
Reading down the article we learn that "a little girl ,her brown curly hair tied in pigtails is the picture of innocence."She is referred to as "Maresa"and "little Maresa"
Accompanying the article is a picture of picture of three adults holding the hand of a child ,with only her face blacked out ,of about four years of age.This child is portrayed as "Maresa".
The "shock " referred to by the report is that the child was brought to Mountjoy to visit Sean Quinn.
Conversely I find it shocking that any so called newspaper should stoop so low as to exploit the innocence of a young girl to attempt to sell newspapers.I am appalled that another woman should so arrogantly and heartlessly exploit the visit to denigrate those who brought her on the visit.I am disappointed ,but not surprised ,that the privacy of an innocent child should be so readily disregarded and flaunted for the world to see for monetary gain.
Marisa,s parents ought keep this article and give it to Maresa so that she can take appropriate action against Valerie Hanley when she is of the age.
If Valerie Hanley has children of her own,and I severely doubt this ,I would ask her if she would like published the image and description of her four year old child to sell newspapers.
I would also ask the secular sisterhood to outright condemn such actions by one woman against another much younger but "innocent" woman and pose the question whether such actions advances the notion of gender politics.i.e. that anyone should be favoured for election because of the shape of their gonads.
All women are caring me arse.
I cannot understand how journalists in the same stable,Joe Brolly for example, can continue to work for such a rag,which will never pollute my house again.
P.L.C.Founder Cracks it.
Rumour has it that the founder of the P.L.C.,who was in self imposed exile,deep in cider land,has resurrected his campaign of anarchy,is again tattooing inanimate objects which offend his finely attuned sensibilities and has cracked his way back to web land.Like James Bond,this secret agent has been shaken and severely stirred.This mine of information relays his cracked messages from his lair via his trusty lieutenant and confidant Bar the Book.
We are ecstatic at this earth shattering news.
We are ecstatic at this earth shattering news.
Football quarter Finals.
I have watched all these on the telly.My reaction so far is as follows:-
None of the Armagh tradesmen have been able to recreate the splendour of endeavour and delivery of their sole All Ireland victory plotted so well by Big Joe.Neither Geezer nor Mc Nulty have delivered.Bulking up and getting superbly fit is only half the battle.Like the Irish Rugger boys,when they meet true class they have consistently failed to deliver.Kildare have reached their plateau and must look elsewhere if they are to progress.
Laois will advance further .Until they reach the standard of Kildare probably. But like them they will have to look elsewhere to achieve greatness.This is a pity as they have some of the most natural players in the country.
Dublin were lucky.They play a grand brand of football and in full flow are a joy to watch.I feel they were lucky to beat Kerry last year and also think that winning the All Ireland this year is the only way to dispel these doubts.The job ahead is a tough one and will be hard to complete .
Mayo are still a work in progress.Their brand of football is their own and is free from cynicism.They are lacking a few hard men and will win nothing until they find them.
Down are just not good enough.They haven't enough good players.
Cork have been consistently the best team in the country these last five years and have the best ,the biggest and the strongest panel of players I have seen in years.They have underachieved .
Kerry have peaked and back to the drawing board.They will have to rebuild for the next few years.
Donegal are something else and combine a fine team ethic with some very talented individuals skilled in the arts of football.The team that beats them will win the All Ireland.
I can't stand Sinead O Connor but her song "Nothing compares to You"sums up perfectly the atmosphere generated at Croke Park yesterday at the finishing stages of the Kerry/Donegal game.All GAA people get this.The carcass pickers just don't.
I am drooling at the prospect of the Cork/Donegal game.Bring it on baby.Dublin and Mayo has it charms too ,but is a mere teaser to the main offering.
What titillating prospects await us.
None of the Armagh tradesmen have been able to recreate the splendour of endeavour and delivery of their sole All Ireland victory plotted so well by Big Joe.Neither Geezer nor Mc Nulty have delivered.Bulking up and getting superbly fit is only half the battle.Like the Irish Rugger boys,when they meet true class they have consistently failed to deliver.Kildare have reached their plateau and must look elsewhere if they are to progress.
Laois will advance further .Until they reach the standard of Kildare probably. But like them they will have to look elsewhere to achieve greatness.This is a pity as they have some of the most natural players in the country.
Dublin were lucky.They play a grand brand of football and in full flow are a joy to watch.I feel they were lucky to beat Kerry last year and also think that winning the All Ireland this year is the only way to dispel these doubts.The job ahead is a tough one and will be hard to complete .
Mayo are still a work in progress.Their brand of football is their own and is free from cynicism.They are lacking a few hard men and will win nothing until they find them.
Down are just not good enough.They haven't enough good players.
Cork have been consistently the best team in the country these last five years and have the best ,the biggest and the strongest panel of players I have seen in years.They have underachieved .
Kerry have peaked and back to the drawing board.They will have to rebuild for the next few years.
Donegal are something else and combine a fine team ethic with some very talented individuals skilled in the arts of football.The team that beats them will win the All Ireland.
I can't stand Sinead O Connor but her song "Nothing compares to You"sums up perfectly the atmosphere generated at Croke Park yesterday at the finishing stages of the Kerry/Donegal game.All GAA people get this.The carcass pickers just don't.
I am drooling at the prospect of the Cork/Donegal game.Bring it on baby.Dublin and Mayo has it charms too ,but is a mere teaser to the main offering.
What titillating prospects await us.
Muskateers go al fresco.
Friday last the Church was locked when the musketeers turned up.The regular sacrosanct was on her holidays and her replacement closed up shop in the early afternoon.Not to be deterred the troupe took up position on the school wall beside the Grotto and proceeded apace.A few double takes were made by passers by who expecting to see a youngsters taking perhaps a sly smoke there saw instead three old farts partaking in the secularist crime of praying.
And we prayed for the release of our tipster.It worked.He was sprung on Saturday with a winning tip .
Interestingly the sun shone throughout our prayers and it kept shining even though it rained a little.Perhaps a sign of things to come.
The omens are encouraging.
Firstly I read that Maeve Binchy ,who was what I think an agnostic,was received in a Catholic Church on her own instructions.What you might call an each way bet in a one horse field.
Secondly I read that that most vituperate of anti Catholic commentators vincent brown attended the funeral in the Church.How can such a supposedly principled man swallow his principles and even enter a Church after continuously spouting such derogatory things about the Faith.
Thirdly the crowds attending Mass here are slowly on the increase.
Fourthly another Christening after Mass today.
Fifthly there is a strong probability that the tumbleweeds will be put to flight tonight for the GAA Barndance in Geraghty's shed.
Here's to Con Houlihan ,who my friend Joe remembers meeting in Navan a number of years ago, in a restaurant of course.Not.His drink that day was brandy and milk.The milky brand kid?
And we prayed for the release of our tipster.It worked.He was sprung on Saturday with a winning tip .
Interestingly the sun shone throughout our prayers and it kept shining even though it rained a little.Perhaps a sign of things to come.
The omens are encouraging.
Firstly I read that Maeve Binchy ,who was what I think an agnostic,was received in a Catholic Church on her own instructions.What you might call an each way bet in a one horse field.
Secondly I read that that most vituperate of anti Catholic commentators vincent brown attended the funeral in the Church.How can such a supposedly principled man swallow his principles and even enter a Church after continuously spouting such derogatory things about the Faith.
Thirdly the crowds attending Mass here are slowly on the increase.
Fourthly another Christening after Mass today.
Fifthly there is a strong probability that the tumbleweeds will be put to flight tonight for the GAA Barndance in Geraghty's shed.
Here's to Con Houlihan ,who my friend Joe remembers meeting in Navan a number of years ago, in a restaurant of course.Not.His drink that day was brandy and milk.The milky brand kid?
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Tipster resurfaces at last
Released from his self imposed exile,the Tipster sent me the following text today "The Fugue in the 3.15 in Goodwood is really fancied today and with Richard Hughes up and William Buisk picking the favourite Izzi Top to win ,the time to back him is now.Give it a lash Daithi."
"P.S.I am sending this from Ballyconnell,where I have been imprisoned alongside Sean Kelly ghost since last weekend.Could not break through the wall of the lies pedalled by the mainstream media about Sean Kelly's presence here and the fog of smugness and veil of snickering by the carcass pickers and their secular cohorts."
Like Sean Quinn I took a punt on the tip.It won.Unfortunately I could not share it with you as it came too late.Had it lost I would not have blamed ye for my mortgage arrears.As I own Anglo and the other banks I went in ,said I own you and asked for a fiver.The teller is still laughing at me.All the way from the bank you might say.
All these populist shites spouting that we own the banks should see can they even got a fiver from their banks.Guess not.
"P.S.I am sending this from Ballyconnell,where I have been imprisoned alongside Sean Kelly ghost since last weekend.Could not break through the wall of the lies pedalled by the mainstream media about Sean Kelly's presence here and the fog of smugness and veil of snickering by the carcass pickers and their secular cohorts."
Like Sean Quinn I took a punt on the tip.It won.Unfortunately I could not share it with you as it came too late.Had it lost I would not have blamed ye for my mortgage arrears.As I own Anglo and the other banks I went in ,said I own you and asked for a fiver.The teller is still laughing at me.All the way from the bank you might say.
All these populist shites spouting that we own the banks should see can they even got a fiver from their banks.Guess not.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Circle of hate targets the Quinns.
I have long since satisfied myself that a circle of hate,consisting of mainly atheist journalists , spiteful feminista, pet commentators and some politicians have devoted considerable time and energy into demonising all things Catholic at every opportunity . These exact same media luvvies are now being wheeled out to do down the Quinn family at every opportunity ,despising not only the Faith of the Quinns but also their Nationalist,Parochial and GAA roots.Figure out who they are for yourself.
These spawn of the squaddies despise all things connected to Nationalist Ireland and are seeking to destroy and stamp out those who do not fit neatly into the professional carcass picker classes to which they owe allegiance.In particular they despise those who they fear as being the very fabric of society.
Just to get this in perspective.The Quinns did not cause the property boom that destroyed not only Ireland,but also Spain,Italy,France,Portugal.Malta ,Greece and Cyprus.Nor did they cause the Banks Europe wide to totally destroy the Economies of Europe.Nor did they press gang the Regulators and the Politicians into causing the greatest economic catastrophe since the Second World War.
They certainly didn't foist an ill thought out Euro currency on some European Union countries.The geniuses who did are still winging it hourly.
The actions of the Bank That efuses to say its name and the spin generated by its admirers would nearly convince you that the whole thing is down to one family and the blood curling cries for revenge,particularly from a few screeching female journos,who never created even one job ,is disgusting.
I averred to their treatment in my article "Croppie lie down"As far as I can see they are being targeted in an effort to blacken their names and impoverish them in advance of the action they are taking for being allegedly induced into an illegal scheme by Anglo Irish Bank.
I have no doubt that Judge Kelly is a man of probity but cannot see, ,in view of the comments he has already made about the Quinns ,how they can ever get fair play in any Irish Court.I am also shocked at the extent of the Court's powers and the tactics employed by the former Anglo.Targetting his children ,his wife ,his in laws and his grandchildren are tactics we would condemn from Somali pirates and has no place in a modern democracy.
As for the gutter press.These vultures feasted on the advertisements during the property boom,embellished the wares advertised beyond all reason and reaped huge financial benefit.Publishing photos of people in jail and rejoicing in reporting that the Quinns must now apply for nappy money for their children is a new low,even for a profession that never investigated its own proprietors and their vast wealthy and whose English cousins tapped the phones of the dead.And saw no wrong in it.
The people who rallied to support the Quinns were totally within their rights and the divide and conquer tactics of a Fine Gael Party who has its tentacles all over the GA will soon force the real Gaa men into the open.Watch this space.
These spawn of the squaddies despise all things connected to Nationalist Ireland and are seeking to destroy and stamp out those who do not fit neatly into the professional carcass picker classes to which they owe allegiance.In particular they despise those who they fear as being the very fabric of society.
Just to get this in perspective.The Quinns did not cause the property boom that destroyed not only Ireland,but also Spain,Italy,France,Portugal.Malta ,Greece and Cyprus.Nor did they cause the Banks Europe wide to totally destroy the Economies of Europe.Nor did they press gang the Regulators and the Politicians into causing the greatest economic catastrophe since the Second World War.
They certainly didn't foist an ill thought out Euro currency on some European Union countries.The geniuses who did are still winging it hourly.
The actions of the Bank That efuses to say its name and the spin generated by its admirers would nearly convince you that the whole thing is down to one family and the blood curling cries for revenge,particularly from a few screeching female journos,who never created even one job ,is disgusting.
I averred to their treatment in my article "Croppie lie down"As far as I can see they are being targeted in an effort to blacken their names and impoverish them in advance of the action they are taking for being allegedly induced into an illegal scheme by Anglo Irish Bank.
I have no doubt that Judge Kelly is a man of probity but cannot see, ,in view of the comments he has already made about the Quinns ,how they can ever get fair play in any Irish Court.I am also shocked at the extent of the Court's powers and the tactics employed by the former Anglo.Targetting his children ,his wife ,his in laws and his grandchildren are tactics we would condemn from Somali pirates and has no place in a modern democracy.
As for the gutter press.These vultures feasted on the advertisements during the property boom,embellished the wares advertised beyond all reason and reaped huge financial benefit.Publishing photos of people in jail and rejoicing in reporting that the Quinns must now apply for nappy money for their children is a new low,even for a profession that never investigated its own proprietors and their vast wealthy and whose English cousins tapped the phones of the dead.And saw no wrong in it.
The people who rallied to support the Quinns were totally within their rights and the divide and conquer tactics of a Fine Gael Party who has its tentacles all over the GA will soon force the real Gaa men into the open.Watch this space.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Dunderry V Round Towers u 14 .F. 30/7/2012.
Every so often something happens to lift the spirit in times of misery .And God knows we need these uplifts to sustain the spirit.This Summer League Final played in Dunderry last Monday evening defied the elements in that it was a stray day borrowed from a real summer and it helped dispel the eerie silence and despair that is strangling "Tumbleweed Ireland" as I write.Don't mind the pet journalists ,economic commentators and spin merchants ,fir breaga all,Ireland is spiralling rapidly to the point of no return.
It is only the community spirit and stoic stubborness of the Fior Volunteers in the GAA that is keeping the show on the road in rural Ireland.
On Monday the pride of Dunderry,Robins town and Kilbride took on their counterparts from Drumbaragh and Kilmainham,under the banner of Round Towers.Rural parishes all and you would know it.The only nasties I heard were from people whose accents and sentiments betrayed their non rural roots.Thankfully they were lone voices in a sea of appreciation.
This Dunderry team had the worst of bad starts to the season ,conceding a walk over in the championship and being expelled as a result.Just didn't work on the day for mentors Jim Mitchell and Darren Yourell.The latter is new to the GAA scene and has had a baptism of fire.Jim is an older hand and at the start of the year was looking forward to a well earned sabbatical.Some chance.
I stuck my oar in after the championship debacle and am trying to impart some of the lifetime experience into the gosoons.
Its a quare set up but it works.
We won out in the Shield ,are qualified for the final stages of the sevens and last Monday Round Towers stood in our way.They had beaten the Pats the only team to beat us,so we knew we were up against it.But then so were they.
Both teams were well supported in our Pitch for the battle.
Like all small villages we never have a team on the cusp of the age.Our players ranged in size from the tiny to the tall and all stages in between.We don't do fear ,ever ,and even the smallest don't have it.The bigger lads are maelstroms of raging hormones and like all lads of that age ever born ,know everything.Well seemingly so.Takes a firm hand and loads of diplomacy for which I would be renowned!!I'd say Jim and Darren would be better equipped in this area.
We were without the services of Danny Morris ,one of the better players in the county.A surfeit of hormones recently.He was there cheering on ,as you would expect.
Dunderry team ;-
Ronan Brady
Mark Lynch Jamie (Timber ) Leavy
Shane (Gunner) Gartland Tomas O Conaire Calvin Coffey
Alexandros (Ali) Mairtinas Conor (Tipp ) Mc Kenna
Oisin Martin Jamie Darcy Kevin Clynch
Diarmuid O Ciorrain Eoin Smyth
Subs used.ShamusO Neill, Liam Lenin O Ciorrain,Adam Keenan.
Older readers will recognise some names who here for generations.Ronan is a son of John and grandson of Seamus,the third generation to play for the Club.Jamie's father Tommy and grandfather Paddy Kavanagh played also.Shane Gartland is Kevin' Brady's son son and his father and uncle Tommy played in the Parish.I think his grandfather Tommy did as well.Tomas is Tommy's son from Lambay also a fine footballer in his day and a first cousin of the Curran's through his mother.Calvin is Colin's son and a grandson of the legendary Tim.Ali is a recent arrival,of south African descent I think.He has it in spades as does Mark Lynch ,a quiet man and good footballer ,who gets on with the job with a minimum of fuss.Conor also excels at the garrison game and premiership trials beckon.Oisin 's father Gerry excelled with Slane and Meath and the son is following in his footsteps.Jamie is following in the footsteps of his grandfather Billy and uncles Paddy and Brian and has already wore the county colours in the small ball game.Kevin's family have been at the heart of sport here since the time of his grandfather Billy and Eoin is following in the sporting footsteps of his mother Trish and her sisters and brothers .flange is bursting with pride and the Lord mayor and Rose are delighted.Diarmuid and Liam are sons of Colm and a good Galway woman and are good footballers,no surprise as I hear their father showed great promise but preferred the sales ring in Trim Mart,alas.Shamus has a heart of a Lion and even if a bit small at the moment has all the attributes needed .His Daddy Donal is a big man and I would say Seamus has some sprouting to do Adam is a son of Tommy and Breda Gough and the genes for greatness are there.
These guys are a work in progress.They have made rapid advances this year,playing with courage,conviction and no little skill.They now totally get the team ethic and back each other up.We have worked on free taking and would expect 100% accuracy within 35 yards and the odd fifty to be pointed.They get the necessity of back tracking when beaten and the craic of placing hands on hips when beaten is now defunct.They play an intelligent brand of football.With only one solo and one hop allowed on a full sized pitch in this competition they realise that giving the ball away is a no-no.They don't give up.
A young lad refereed the match.He did good enough.Certainly wasn't biased.He drew the ire of both sets of supporters only occasionally .Good enough for a tight well contested match ,which this was.
The teams were evenly matched in both skills,commitment and tenacity.Good hard honest football with few mistakes.They opened with a bang,two goals and a point up before we knew where we were.Our boys didn't panic and clawed our way back by half time.We probably shaded the second half but lost concentration half way through.and it took a supreme effort to kick the equalising point on the cusp of the final whistle.Either side could rue the draw as both had missed scorable chances.The attendance was enraptured.encouragement all round.Both sides were tired after a huge effort.
We marshalled our forces for the two ten minute periods of extra time.
Like a cobra we struck.Three goals and two points in the first ten minutes.Shock and awe.Half way there.
While we conceded a goal in the second period they had no way back.
Finished on a scoreline of 5-11 to 4-6.
Great day at the office.Hard luck Round Towers.
Personally I was totally enraptured ,a fact that didn't escape our Paudi ,who at four years of age shouted his heart out for Dunderry and met the teasing of our Carina and her opposition buddies with the dirtiest looks a imaginable.Takes after his Tipp Granny.
Take a well earned bow all involved.
It is only the community spirit and stoic stubborness of the Fior Volunteers in the GAA that is keeping the show on the road in rural Ireland.
On Monday the pride of Dunderry,Robins town and Kilbride took on their counterparts from Drumbaragh and Kilmainham,under the banner of Round Towers.Rural parishes all and you would know it.The only nasties I heard were from people whose accents and sentiments betrayed their non rural roots.Thankfully they were lone voices in a sea of appreciation.
This Dunderry team had the worst of bad starts to the season ,conceding a walk over in the championship and being expelled as a result.Just didn't work on the day for mentors Jim Mitchell and Darren Yourell.The latter is new to the GAA scene and has had a baptism of fire.Jim is an older hand and at the start of the year was looking forward to a well earned sabbatical.Some chance.
I stuck my oar in after the championship debacle and am trying to impart some of the lifetime experience into the gosoons.
Its a quare set up but it works.
We won out in the Shield ,are qualified for the final stages of the sevens and last Monday Round Towers stood in our way.They had beaten the Pats the only team to beat us,so we knew we were up against it.But then so were they.
Both teams were well supported in our Pitch for the battle.
Like all small villages we never have a team on the cusp of the age.Our players ranged in size from the tiny to the tall and all stages in between.We don't do fear ,ever ,and even the smallest don't have it.The bigger lads are maelstroms of raging hormones and like all lads of that age ever born ,know everything.Well seemingly so.Takes a firm hand and loads of diplomacy for which I would be renowned!!I'd say Jim and Darren would be better equipped in this area.
We were without the services of Danny Morris ,one of the better players in the county.A surfeit of hormones recently.He was there cheering on ,as you would expect.
Dunderry team ;-
Ronan Brady
Mark Lynch Jamie (Timber ) Leavy
Shane (Gunner) Gartland Tomas O Conaire Calvin Coffey
Alexandros (Ali) Mairtinas Conor (Tipp ) Mc Kenna
Oisin Martin Jamie Darcy Kevin Clynch
Diarmuid O Ciorrain Eoin Smyth
Subs used.ShamusO Neill, Liam Lenin O Ciorrain,Adam Keenan.
Older readers will recognise some names who here for generations.Ronan is a son of John and grandson of Seamus,the third generation to play for the Club.Jamie's father Tommy and grandfather Paddy Kavanagh played also.Shane Gartland is Kevin' Brady's son son and his father and uncle Tommy played in the Parish.I think his grandfather Tommy did as well.Tomas is Tommy's son from Lambay also a fine footballer in his day and a first cousin of the Curran's through his mother.Calvin is Colin's son and a grandson of the legendary Tim.Ali is a recent arrival,of south African descent I think.He has it in spades as does Mark Lynch ,a quiet man and good footballer ,who gets on with the job with a minimum of fuss.Conor also excels at the garrison game and premiership trials beckon.Oisin 's father Gerry excelled with Slane and Meath and the son is following in his footsteps.Jamie is following in the footsteps of his grandfather Billy and uncles Paddy and Brian and has already wore the county colours in the small ball game.Kevin's family have been at the heart of sport here since the time of his grandfather Billy and Eoin is following in the sporting footsteps of his mother Trish and her sisters and brothers .flange is bursting with pride and the Lord mayor and Rose are delighted.Diarmuid and Liam are sons of Colm and a good Galway woman and are good footballers,no surprise as I hear their father showed great promise but preferred the sales ring in Trim Mart,alas.Shamus has a heart of a Lion and even if a bit small at the moment has all the attributes needed .His Daddy Donal is a big man and I would say Seamus has some sprouting to do Adam is a son of Tommy and Breda Gough and the genes for greatness are there.
These guys are a work in progress.They have made rapid advances this year,playing with courage,conviction and no little skill.They now totally get the team ethic and back each other up.We have worked on free taking and would expect 100% accuracy within 35 yards and the odd fifty to be pointed.They get the necessity of back tracking when beaten and the craic of placing hands on hips when beaten is now defunct.They play an intelligent brand of football.With only one solo and one hop allowed on a full sized pitch in this competition they realise that giving the ball away is a no-no.They don't give up.
A young lad refereed the match.He did good enough.Certainly wasn't biased.He drew the ire of both sets of supporters only occasionally .Good enough for a tight well contested match ,which this was.
The teams were evenly matched in both skills,commitment and tenacity.Good hard honest football with few mistakes.They opened with a bang,two goals and a point up before we knew where we were.Our boys didn't panic and clawed our way back by half time.We probably shaded the second half but lost concentration half way through.and it took a supreme effort to kick the equalising point on the cusp of the final whistle.Either side could rue the draw as both had missed scorable chances.The attendance was enraptured.encouragement all round.Both sides were tired after a huge effort.
We marshalled our forces for the two ten minute periods of extra time.
Like a cobra we struck.Three goals and two points in the first ten minutes.Shock and awe.Half way there.
While we conceded a goal in the second period they had no way back.
Finished on a scoreline of 5-11 to 4-6.
Great day at the office.Hard luck Round Towers.
Personally I was totally enraptured ,a fact that didn't escape our Paudi ,who at four years of age shouted his heart out for Dunderry and met the teasing of our Carina and her opposition buddies with the dirtiest looks a imaginable.Takes after his Tipp Granny.
Take a well earned bow all involved.
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