The pillage and sack of Churchtown

Dot and Vincie or Vincie and Dot are 47 years together this year.Married for 47 years that is.Never
a night apart.Correction.She took bad a few years ago and was confined to Navan Hospital.She couldn't sleep .At all.Nothing worked .Sleeping pills had as much effect as smarties.She missed Vincie too much.Vincie himself hasn't slept for more than a half hour a day for over 40 years.The medics can't cure him nor explain how he keeps going.But he does,
And common sense eventually prevailed in the Hospital.A clever nurse called Vincie at nighttime and he held her hand and HE hushed her to sleep and off she dozed.
They have four kids Ellen Garry,Johnnie,Teresa and Hammer and grand kids aplenty,
They are senior pensioners now .Dot has had severe health problems this past six years.She is still awaiting resolution of her problems and some decent run at a fair quality of life.Doctors have come and doctors have gone as she is passed from one to another.
She was confined to her house day and night because of her condition  this last year but left it for one hour only last evening,about more of which anon.
Herself and Vincie are lifelong Pioneers and lifelong supporters of Dunderry GAA Club ,Camogie Club and most social organisation in the Parish,
I am not perfect at anything ,sums especially ,but would be fairly sure that the extended family collected upwards of a quarter million euros for the Club LOTTO this last decade..
Put simply there would be no GAA facilities in Dunderry but for them.They put in the hard hours and the time.
 It must be to the shame of some people who hide behind their electronic  gates and ignore their bell rings so as to avoid contributing the weekly E.2.00 Lotto, while concurrently sending their offspring to avail of Club facilities.
When the bingo was a big deal and great fundraiser here she was a huge supporter and there was no better man than Vincie to supervise the car parking and greet the exiting hordes with a catchphrase that ran"Any luck with the Bingo Mam "in an accent unique to him.
Of course the anti smoking Taliban and their political allies put an end to these outings for every auld wan and auld fella whose only pleasure in life was a game of bingo and a smoke by the anti smoking ban, transforming them into social outcasts akin to homeless refugees trying to get a gasp of a fag in the freezing rain and often bitter cold outside the halls,
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Mickey ,Vince's bachelor uncle on video in 2008 as I wished to record some of the Club history before men and women of his era disappeared altogether.
Well into his eighties at that stage it was clear he hadn't long to live.In fact he died three weeks after the interview.A lifelong smoker he was brainwashed into quitting them at that age despite the fact that he loved them so much that he asked for a smell of my tobacco pack.
What a pity it is that the same medical professionals aren't as prompt in treating seriously sick elderly patients  as they are in harranging them about smoking or the growing list of other pet hates that emerge.
Any how the point is that they minded Mickey at home until he died ,treating him like a King,concurrently minding a clatter of adoring grand kids so as their own kids could earn a living during working hours.
I wouldn't know the financial situation of the Rhattigans BUT  would surmise the they have no material wealth of any significance.Vincie was prior to retirement a road operative with Meath Council and Dot a full time housewife and minder of her children and now her grandchildren.Llike my own wife and millions of others her contribution to society when it comes  to pension provision is regarded as unworthy of entitlement unless she can prove she is practically a pauper,
Yep in the land where the writs of the bull dikes , the rabid feminists and the Jesus haters run wild , where the  Taoiseach on  who watch eviction has become common place and who has the temerity to lecture God's representative on earth, the mother who raises her children at home has the same statutory pension status as a dog .
But one thing I am sure of is that it was for  this family the  words decent ,noble ,caring,exemplary and truly Christian were  coined.
They have more nature in the nails of their little fingers than most have in entire bodies,
As I said earlier for one hour yesterday they left the house empty to see two of their grand daughters off to their Debs,
In that hour an unspeakable scumbag or bags broke into their humble house,stole every cent they could find and every valuable ,totally ransacked each and every room ,throwing valuable documentation like birth certs and such like all over the place,flittering all sort of underwear and over ware wheresoever they could find space ,emptying every wardrobe and press in the  house and turned beds and all the furniture they could lift head over heels.
I did not thinks it possible that this sort of hack could be wreaked in one hour,but seeing is believing.
To say they are devastate is an understatement.They are understandably wrecked at this dastardly invasion of privacy and wanton destruction.
I do know that the wider community owes them a huge debt of gratitude and strongly feel that anything that can be done to bring the perpetrators to justice should be done without compunction.
I personally feel that it is payback time to this family in the most appropriate manner acceptable to them.
Combined with the targeting of the graveyard for the theft of flowerpots the arrival of the post Christian multicultural Society so beloved of  the lefties and their ilk has come to Dunderry big time.
God help us.No one else will.
Oremus.
I know that the Rattigans would kill me for writing this but so in awe of their innate decency is mise that I HAD TO PUT PEN TO PAPER.
Nothing was recoverd and the thieves wore gloves.
As per fucking usual.
And to update the matter the thieves later threw on the roadside the more valueless trinkets for recovery and have not and will not be caught.They live in total fear and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Insurance Coimpany having seisin of the cover are doing their best to minimise their exposure.THIS IS WHAT THESE COMPANIES DO TO THOSE IT CAN BULLY INTO SUBMISSION IN POST CHRISTIAN MULTICULTURAL IRELAND WHERE THE CRONES WITH THE MOANS MISRULE . 

Dire Dunderry Dumped from I.F.C.by Castletown.

I t is one thing to be beaten by a superior team after giving your best shot at it,
It is another to come out with the white flag of surrender.And aside from the best efforts of the usual  veteran suspects and maybe three more recent arrivals this was the worst football championship display I   have seen in a decade.
We missed enough handy chances in the first half to be well set up for the second half instead of going in two points in arrears and spent as much of the second half as I could bear to watch passing the ball as near either corner flag as possible before either losing it altogether or simply giving it away and enabling  Castletown to come up the field and score at will,and drive the ball past an unprotected Jennings,
After the ceding of a third handy  Castletown  goal I, for the first time in my life,left an important Dunderry game to save myself emotional devastation.
We were beat 11 points I  am informed.From what I saw WE WERE LUCKY TO HOLD THEM  TO THIS.
It is no great shock to me that it has come to this.For up to a decade now we have been languishing in the  bottommost divisions of minor football and as I discovered  to my shock three years ago when I gave   a hand with an under 14 football team.Mmost of the better players never trained with Dundery but were the first selected  and any attempt by me to do even the most gentle training and insist on it as a prerequisite to selection was resisted in every way  by other mentors who considered basic qualities such as availability ,loyalty and team solidarity as quaint concepts.
The pigeons are now coming home to roost big time.
It is as simple as this .Some of the players pay baby sitters to mind their kids when their partners are working so as to attend training. Others think nothing of saving their money to go on gang holidays to the fleshpots of Europe and to hell with their team mates if there are vital matches to be played.
Unfortunately the attitude of casual disregard for the Club and its teammate's has seeped up from our Juvenile section.
God help us.

Death of Mona Travers formerly of Boyerstown.

I have just heard that Mona Travers ,formerly of Boyerstown and latterly of Navan has died.She was A Bishop before she married John Travers who predeceased her by a number of years.
Carol Callaghan,widow of Peter and mother of Ryan,Sean AND Nicola  is one of her daughters.
Her funeral Mass is at 1.00 p.m.tomorrow in Boyerstown Church.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis..

The little things that matter most

The eleven o clock Mass last Sunday in Dunderry was an anniversary Mass for Clement Daly of TULLAGHANSTOWN ,who is deceased a good while but whose memory obviously lives on in the minds and thoughts of his descendants.
On the way into the Church I  was called aside by Paddy Conway of Halltown who said to a fierce sprightly old gentleman that he would surely have known my mother Peggy Mc Cormack ,who I must clarify is long since dead having lived on this earth for 80 years odd.
Paddy himself is no spring chicken either.
The gent said that he knew all the Mc Cormacks having gone to school with them in Tullaghanstown or TULLAGHANSTOWN ACAMEDY OF EDUCATION as my uncles used call it in jest.
The school is long since gone and is commemorated nowadays in a plaque in the wall of the school in Dunderry..
I had to ask the man who he was and say to him that he was a fierce fresh man to have gone to school with my mother and her siblings .
He is Peter Daly the last survivor of that generation of Dalys and is the freshest man of 90 years I  have ever seen.
His memory is crystal clear and he could recall to this day the differing sounds of the axles and wheels of the horse and ass drawn drays and the identities of the owners thereof which enabled himself and his siblings to know who was heading to the bog to cut turf without looking out the window of their house in School or Daly's Lane,where they lived over 80 years ago.
This remarkable man has lived in Monghan for over 70 years and has a slight touch of a Monghan accent and looks certain to draw the centenary bounty  from the President and passionately loves his native shore.
He cast doubt on the story my uncles often recounted concerning the floods that flooded the bog cross in 1947 to a depth of 3  feet ,when a tramp travelling from Athboy to Navan mischievously enquired from a local man if this was a Port Town and was advised to ask the local man's bolo....,saying that never a curse word was spoken in Tullaghanstown in those days.
Yeah right.

Death of John Darcy

John Darcy of Ballardin,Dunderry,(beside the football pitch )died last night Sunday 16/08/2015 after a short illness aged,as far as I know,79 years,.
John was a decent man and spent some years in a nursing home in Kells ,a place he enjoyed living in.
Newer residents would know him from his frequent visits in his wheelchair to the village on days of clement weather when he would park around Flanagans Shop and talk to old friends who passed by.
Generally he was brought here and back to Kells by his good and loyal friend Mickey Flanagan.
I knew John well.He was a nice guy and I will do a more detailed tribute after his burial,which I believe will be on Wednesday.
To all his relatives I extend my deepest condolences.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
His funeral Mass is in Dunderry Church at 11.00 a.m.Wednesday 19/8/2015 with funeral to local cemetery afterwards.

A lesson learned,forgotten and relearned.

I have been distracted of late,snowed under with a huge volume of work,as busy as a bee and have not published a blog for ages.
For those who follow my blogs on the adult Dunderry matches,I have a backlog to put up and will start soon.
I have a number of tributes to do for deceased friends both in Dunderry and Blanch in the most bizarre of years and have much to say on the present Government who have done more to reinstate the Landlord system in Ireland than any other administration since Cromwell cleared the three provinces to Connaught and murdered half the population because they were Catholic.
And it is sad to see that the Labour Party shares his hatred of Catholicism and is threatening to attack the right of religious freedom and the fundamental right of Christians to educate their children in schools with a religious ethos.
They and their ilk are more interested in murdering preborn indigenous Irish in the womb so that they can dilute the Christian ethos of our people and reduce our numbers and  replace us with East European stock who regard abortion as a form of birth control  .
Don't get me started.
As the fella said "when I wasn't fishing O I was mending my nets."
And when strangers say to you "I wish to have a conversation about..." it would serve you well to remember that that was the opening line of the serpent when he induced Eve to bite the forbidden fruit and led to man's banishment from the garden of Eden.
Anyhow to the lesson mentioned in the title.
In my middle teens a lifetime ago I worked for a summer break from school with a potato wholesaler as a lorry helper.
My job was to lug bags of spuds onto a lorry from the farmer suppliers and from the lorry back to the storage shed.In addition I had to load them onto the lorry each morning and unload them from the lorry to the customers who were supplied all around the city and county of Dublin.
Hard work but sure I was well able for it.
A new lorry driver joined the firm and I  was put working with him.Seemed to be a nice guy.
Every morning he would be first into work and would have the lorry loaded before I or anybody else arrived in work.
He would do the deal and I did the grunting throwing the spuds off and often bringing them up five flights of stairs.He collected payment and handed it over at day's end.
Nice and all as he was he only lasted a month.
And here is why .
We used deliver to a small supermarket.The owner noticed our driver lifting small items like disposable razors on a regular basis, a matter I never copped nor suspected.These were not worth much but he informed our boss ,who decided to do a count of the number of bags in the store the night before the mornings when the spuds would be loaded.by our man.
Any how it transpired that our man was selling about ten sacks of spuds each and every day and pocketing the money.
The lesson I learned from this is that if a person is dishonest in little things he will more than likely be dishonest in bigger things.
To my discredit I had forgotten this but have relearned it and chastise myself for forgetting it.
Human nature never changes.

Cromwell's Blueshirt Successors Rock on.

It's a  great little country for business promotion and to mind our sick and indigent isn't it  And Inda keeps his word to head off the bailiff's at the pass and protect the family home .And Joanie looks after those in need.And Leo  the lip does his bit for the sick .Of course they do!!!
In our circles and within roaring distance of our Church ,which the actors hereafter mentioned often attended ,these  shameful  events recently transpired.
They are a married couple with children.
Some years ago he approached a Bank with a proposal to start his own modest business .The Bank said fine and advanced a relatively  modest sum  to that end.He had a small mortgage and they took a second charge on their house  to secure the loan.
And he gave it diddy and burst a gut to make a success of it.All grand so far.
AND THEN ONE OF HIS FAMILY GOT A SERIOUS AND DEBILITATING ILLNESS REQUIRING LONG PERIODS OF HOSPITALISATION AND CONSTANT  CARE WHEN AT HOME.
And he had to either let her die like a dog or care for her full time.
And he did the right thing and did and still cares for her.
And the repayments stopped.
And the BANK and the legal eagles at the bank's behest effectively evicted them from their family home.
Yep the entire family including the sick one turfed out.
Yep the Blue shirts and the Labourites are gloating in self righteousness and their  wonderful management of the economy and sneering at the Greeks and their failure to be as proactive as themselves in imposing austerity.
The unspeakable wankers,
The house is now for sale.No decent person should touch it  ,

Were my neighbours  one legged  new Irish lesbians from Lesotho every quango in the country and every Junior Minister seeking to broadcast  his /her political nous,led by Amnesty and the  head of the IDA,would be apoplectic in their defence.
But sure they are only Irish Paddies and Biddies trying to survive in their own country and it is better all round if they disappear without trace.

VARADKER'S VAMPIRES CLAMP VULNERABLE

I have compared the Irish political establishment to the Jewish Kapos who implemented the will of the Nazi's against the inmates of the concentration camps who Were also Jews ,
I am not being fanciful when I  say the present and past government and their minions inflicted unspeakable depravities  on the general population to satisfy their political buddies in Europe,the IMF and the commercial banks of the world who had loaned money to the Irish banks ,who have a long record of lying to the populace ,cheating their customers and defrauding the State and therefor the populace in general.
These deprivations include but are not limited to rampant homelessness,economic emigration,suicide because of despair,the bargain basement sale of large chunks of our country to foreign vulture capitalists,economic abortion,widespread despair and the fracture of family solidarity because of the fear stalking the land AND THE INCESSANT ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY
But perhaps the most vile sort of depravity being daily implemented is the humiliation of the elderly sick by inordinate delay in attending to their medical needs.
I know one lady who is waiting over 4  years for a operation who is in constant pain and huge discomfort  as she approaches her 70 th birthday.Another guy I know is over 2 years awaiting an operation for grave and very painful deficiencies which cause serious ,stressful and debilitating pain.No glimmer of  hope at the end of the tunnel.
But the most sickening scenario daily presenting itself is that of sick centenarians housed on trolleys or chairs for eons in hospitals which are understaffed and undermanned and under resourced.
The Kaposi who run this country and in this instance I refer to Organ Grinder LEO ,the Minister for Health ,with whom the buck stops,don't give a fiddlers.
Of course all politics is local and given the capacity of Government supporters for underhand sleaziness it should come as no surprise to learn that yesterday over 7 victims of the extortionate policy of bleeding dry unfortunate sick people who happen to  be destitute and unable to pay for car parking in Navan Hospital while being attended to ,were clamped and forced to pay e.90.00 to get their cars back.
Let me paint the picture for you.For the vast majority of people in Meath there is no public transport from their homes to Navan Hospital.Such is the fear of the general populace of hospitals in general tha you would only go there as a last resort and if very sick, And when you  get there God alone knows how long you will be waiting to be seen.AND if you have no money to pay for the car park what are you supposed to do ? Lie down and die ?
I am aware that amongst those whose cars were clamped by Leo's monkeys ( IN THE SOLE SENSE THAT THEY WERE DANCING TO THE ORGANIST LEO'S TUNE ) were an 85 year old wheelchair user and another lady who has a disease of the bowel and who shits without warning over 40 times a day.
Talk about sucking blood from the half dead and defenceless.
The cool clear wisecracking hero Blue shirt political organist doesn't have a fucking clue what its like to be old ,sick ,dependant and despairing.
Greeks should disregard the nonsense being spouted by this cruel government ,which is so trusted by the financial markets to so deprive its own citizens that they will advance whatever money the Government needs in the sure knowledge that they will be repaid irrespective of the hardship  imposed on the despised citizenry.
CROMWELL'S POLITICAL SUCCESSORS ARE WELL ENS CONSED IN THE LAND WHERE JUSTICE IS AWOL.

Grim reaper lingers on in Dunderry.

Alfie Mc Connell from Tullaghanstown (Navan side of bog cross going to Athboy )died yesterday after a struggle with cancer only diagnosed months rather than years ago.
He was only 55 years young and lived life according to the best medical advices only drinking now and then and rarely and hardly ever smoking.
He is survived by his parents,his wife and two children.
He will arrive in Dunderry Church at 7.00 p.m.this evening and his burial is tomorrow Saturday after Mass at 11.00 a.m. in Dunderry graveyard.
Reports are just filtering through that Lorna Carty ,wife of Declan from Robinstown, was shot in Tunisia this morning .
Unbelievable though it sounds it seems to be true and the whole place is in a state of shock and bewilderment that one so young and decent could meet her end in such a bizarre fashion.
We hugely sympathise with her husband and family.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a hanam dilis.
We will return to both tragedies at a later stage.

Dunderry Grave Blessings 2015.

Saturday July 11th. Vigil Mass Dunderry 7.30 p.m.Blessing in Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.

Sunday 12 th July .11.00 a.m.Mass Dunderry.Blessing in Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.

Tuesday 14th July.7.30 p.m.Blessing in Churchtown.

Wednesday 15th July 7.30 p.m.Retaine blessing.

Thursday 16th  July 7.39 p.m.Claddy with KIlcooley at 8.00 p.m.

Sunday 19th July.Mass at 7.00 p.m.Kilbride.Blessing afterwards.

Tuesday 21st July.7.30 p.m.Blessing of Moymet.


Wednesday 22nd July .7.30 p.m. Tullaghanogue Blessing.

Thursday 23 July 7.30.p.m.Black Church.

And more history made today in Dunderry.

Today the Club hosted Baltinglas GAA juveniles ,under 8 and 10 I think,in football challenges prior to the Wicklow /Meath game today in Navan.
I'd say this was the first time that Baltinglass were here.They are a grand bunch of people.
One veteran Baltinglass and Wicklow player present I spoke to said that Wicklow had a great chance seeing as Meath were short six players.
One veteran Dunderry man I spoke to afterwards said "IF Meath lose to day ,then in the words of Johnny Gannon , we are b.......xed".
Meath got hard to win.And Wicklow finished with 13.
There are two Wicklow men involved with Gaelic Games in the Parish.Con O Neill is now coaching the underage footballers and Tom Byrne is Chairman of the Camogie Club.
Niall Rennic ,who played with Dunderry is a former Manager of Wicklow and Sean Kelly is a current Meath selector.
A grandson of mine Padraic,son of Evan and Aoife played his first competitive football match against Baltinglass today.Cormack Mac Donagh ,another grandson has played underage hurling also.
And Mickey ,husband of Aoife's mother, attended his first ever GAA match today to see Pauric playing.
I thought that no sixty year old could exist in Meath without attending a GAA match at some stage, but there you go.
And possibly the greatest full back of recent times Darren Fay was in the field.
He is half way through his studies to be a teacher.
I imagine there will be a huge queue to sign him on when he qualifies. And he is one nice guy to boot.
And Ted Dowd  was also in the field and his sons were playing too.
All in a day's sport.

Disrespect frourishes around Dunderry.

Lovely day Thursday.Sun splitting the stones.First real day of summer.So down with me to the graveyard to spice up the Mc Cormack's grave for the forthcoming blessing.On my tricycle.
Two cars there.Two women.The older woman was sweeping up the shattered glass of the windscreen of her car and in a state of shock.
She had been in the graveyard tidying up her mother's grave ,concentrating on the job in hand and enjoying the weather ,oblivious to the wider world.
The other lady,a cousin of mine ,had been passing the graveyard at 4.00 p.m.when she noticed a silver Volvo stopped there with three young males around the other car.She copped one of them smashing the window and lifting the handbag from the front seat.
She screeched to a halt ,very courageously as she had a young child with her,and put her hand on the horn.
The three bowsies  hopped into the Volvo and headed towards Trim.
This is a first for Dunderry.
Clean sweep of all the houses in the main street,the Church,the Hall,the GAA Club,and much,much more.
Now they prey on the bereaved.
Yep post Christian Multicultural Ireland has reached Dunderry.
Hip,hip hip fuckin' horray.

History made in Dunderry tonight.

This evening we played a Monaghan team called Inniskeen in our pitch in a hurling challenge at adult level.
Garrett Dooley has a relation on that team.This is the first hurping team from Monaghan to field in Dunderry.

Underpants only for lads with dirty arses.

I find it difficult to use swear words in my blog because of the possibility that small kids might read it.But having last evening on RTE Radio heard the word "Cunt" liberally used ,I am as usual out of kilter.Now don't get me wrong I can use expletives with the best of them but only in context.Like for example when trying to motivate a lad's football team.,as anyone who has had any serious involvement or even basic knowledge will know.
And it is in this context that I first and for the only time heard the words used in the heading supra.
Jigser Powell,since deceased,was a team mate of mine in Saint Brigid's Club,Blanchardstown for many years.He was a hardy guy and a typical corner back of his era,as tough as old leather.
Over many decades we all togged out together.Jigser never wore underpants and eventually some grave soul plucked up the courage to ask him why."They're only for fellas with dirty arses" said he.
Now the kapos who run our country at the direction and for the benefit of the EU and Atlantic Philanthropies are fulfilling every thief's and criminal's wet dream by publishing the names and particulars of every farmer's entitlements to payment from the Common Agricultural Policy single payment scheme, which will save them considerable research and help them focus on the more isolated and lucrative turkeys to be plucked and reveal particulars of their most intimate financial affairs for all the world to see.
Conversely Dennis O Brien,a billionaire and media mogul,none of whose otherwise mouthy journalists have offered even one word of criticism against his actions,has gagged the other electronic and paper media from reportindg a single word said by an elected member of our Dali in relation to his financial dealings.
The Kapos who are supposed to run our country are too busy arse licking the EU  and Atlantic Phil .to be even arsed doing anything about this information deficit and threat to democracy,which demonstrates,at least to me, that one law applies to billionaires and another to the rest of us.
Truly it entitles me to restate Jigser's adage as
 "Confidentiality is only for lads with well wadded arses".
Atta boy Jigs.

GAA needs to up it's game.

As I understand it there is  a new sport to be introduced for the Olympic Games in the future,a form of rugby sevens ,I think.
Everybody knows that the Irish ladies rugby team won the World Cup recently.
The rugby coach tasked with promoting the Olympic sevens team has stated that the reason the Irish ladies won the world Cup was because they had vetted the Ladies GAA  players and turned them from GAA  football to rugby and that they would be doing the same to men GAA players  for the Olympic sevens.
Now the IRFU is tendering to get the World Cup Rugby Finals hosted in Ireland and the GAA is promoting this venture , is bent in making all its facilities available for his purpose and the General secretary of the Association is a member of the hosting committee.
If this event is secured for Ireland the popularity of rugby here will soar.
Why  in the name of all that's Holy  ( and there is very little that's left ) would an organisation that's competing for the sporting  minds of Ireland youth hand over the reins of its stadia to an organisation that is already actively and deliberately pooching it members and increase the popularity of its greatest sporting competitors.
Is there anyone with any principle left at all in Gaelic Ireland or is it destined to go the way of the Irish language ?

Some people ( and Countries ) you just can't help

The person first.
There was this woman who fell on hard times through excessive drinking.She lost all her worldly possessions and took to sleeping in an unused shed.Her neighbours and friends took pity on her and through the milk of Christian compassion took to collecting money for her in a neighbourhood emporium.
Each morning kindhearted customers took to donating money for her benefit through putting it in a mug designated for that purpose in the emporium.
Each morning when she came in the contents of the mug were given to her.There was always enough to buy a mug of tea and a sandwich in the emporium which she did.And there was always enough to buy cigarettes ,which was another of her many addictions,which she did also.
Through the rise in the price of cigarettes to place their purchase beyond the reach of the poor, the day came when there was not enough money left in the mug after paying for the tea and sandwich,to buy a packet of cigarettes.
She rattled the change in her fist and looking the owner of the Emporium in the eye she just bent down ,dropped her knickers ,shit on the floor of the Emporium and flounced out the door.
The staff and the customers were speechless and appalled.
The most generous of owners asked if anyone there was prepared to clean up the steaming mess.No customer volunteered.
He asked the staff one by one if they would clean up the mess.
Each replied that their contracts stated that this nature of work was not covered and declined.
The owner had to go down on his own knees and do the job.
The next morning the lady entered the Emporium as usual and looked for the mug.
Her expectation was not fulfilled .and the owner told her that she would no more have the previous arrangement applied to her and that she was denied access to the emporium henceforth.

Now the country....Ireland.
For over 800 years the populace of the Country was persecuted,enslaved ,the subject of attempted genocide and scattered to the four corners of the globe.
Its Catholic priests and practitioners were hunted down like wolves and hung drawn and quartered if apprehended,like Saint Oliver Plunkett.
But even in the face of certain death  many  refused to take the soup of betrayals and stood by the Lord.
And in 1916 a hand full of brave men and women declared a republic "In the name of God"  and "under the protection of Most High God "and for their trouble many were executed.
And it came to pass that the smallest colony of the greatest temporal Empire the world has ever known had its fate given back to its citizens to rule over.
And for nearly 100 years now its citizens have ruled over its territory,with the free will that is part of God's promise.
And over the years there have been many who lived the way the Lord wants and there have conversely been evil people who who sight to and succeed to enact  the law of man ,called secular law,some of which  follow the ways of the evil one.
They have sought to make it common to murder the lives of the Innocent unborn and have denied the Lords dictum on the permanency of marriage.
And the many faceted and evil  body politic,speaking uno voce, have with their companions of convenience ,including false prophets hiding in the midst of mother Church in order to undermine its teachings  persuaded a majority  of its citizens that the teaching of the Church,modelled on the family of Jesus Himself with Mary as His temporal mother and Joseph as His temporal Father  is incomplete  and that the Lord's message is a lie.
Now I call this a dumping on God's  floor  and a betrayal and denial of the men of and women of 1916.
I pray that God in his mercy will forgive me for living in a society that allowed such a thing to happen when I stood idly by.
And I pray that the scribe who describes people like me as "hate filled bigots "and that those who designate me as "unfit to live in today's society " and as a "homophobe " because I champion the Word of the Lord ,in as far as I can,repent before they meet the fate of the alcoholic woman.
And I know I am the most imperfect of men.

What "Yes"campaigners think of us.

I voted "No" in the recent plebiscite to change the definition of a family in the Constitution.
In this I was swam against  the tide of all the political parties,state sponsored businesses and corporations ,the Unions of the Gardai and homosexual inspired  sports organs which are supposed to be politically neutral but sided with the sexual preferences of their drivers for want of a better word.
Over 720,000 other free thinkers decided that it was not in society's interest to debase the word marriage by extending it to same sex couples.
For daring to take this stance the acclaimed and best selling writer of romantic literature Marian Keyes has offered this tip regarding people like me
"I'll give you a tip .Move to Roscommon / Leitrim and pal around with your own kind of hate filled bigots"
Roscommon /Leitrim is the only constituency which voted to retain the constitutional provision interpreted  as defining  marriage as between a man and a woman.
So now you know what motivated the proposers of change and what they think of traditional values and now we know what sort of people and political bedfellows some of our kids in the main prefer to look up to in preference to us..
Talking of bedfellows these homosexual activists and their devotees have made it increasingly clear that their  ultimate loyalty lies to each other in preference to the political organisations they populate and they have proved successful in organising all the political parties,some ex presidential families (the Mac Aleeces for sure ) and the printed and electronic media to speak uno voce in their favour.

Cromwell's men murdered all before them in Dunderry Parish

In 1641 /42 Charlie Coote (Sir ) led a  murder squad which murdered Mrs Eleanor Taaffe of Tullanogue,a sixty year old woman and six female companions. and burned alive an eighty year old blind beggar woman.
Later that day they came to Kilbride where they hanged two more women and two decrepit tramps who made the mistake of begging for alms.
They next went to where I live in Philpotstown ,Dunderry and murdered all the ploughmen they encountered,before heading to Ardbraccan(Dorhamstown),where they murdered 42 men women and children and eighteen infants and battered to death a woman in a mill race.( officr in charge Richie Grenville (Sir)
In Stonestown Parish a cairn of stones is the last vestige of a burial plot of a community of people from that area murdered while reaping corn
These are just a few of the many thousands of atrocities perpetrated against the people of Meath in that period .
Isay this because I cannot see how any decent Irishman can stomach a knighthood which joins him at the hips to these butchers of his own people,butthere again no decent Irishman would accept such a knighthood.
The reason these people were murdered was because they were Irish and Catholic.
It is therefor sickening to see how many supposed Irish Catholics have so easily been turned against their religion ,seduced by the forces of evil,turned their backs on the customs and beliefs of their parents and are so vociferous in their hatred of their own race.
HUGE SWATHES OF THE YOUNGER POPULATION HAVE PREFERRED THE HAPPINESS OF THEIR HOMOSEXUAL FRIENDS TO THE TRADITIONS AND H BELIEFS OF THEIR PARENTS AND THINK IT HIP TO MAKE THIS CHOICE.
Cromwell would no doubt approve.
And Neda and Joan and Mickie and Gerry and Lucinda and all political leaders played the pied piper.
They  abolishing the teaching of history anddowngrading teaching of Irish.
Guss why.
And ye hip  young things who turned your backs on the traditions of your parents have taken all and given back just broken hearts.
Ye shall reap as ye sowed.
Patrick Kieleys "A history of Dunderry " is the source of the historical information.

Magnificient "No" vote despite overwhelming odds against.

The world should know that every political party in Ireland,that is Fine Gael,Fianna Fail,Labour,The Greens,Sinn Fein and the Worker's Party and most of the Independents supported the concept of homosexual marriage and that any politician of any of these parties opposing the concept were thrown out of the Party.
All the papers and all the Radio and Television Stations ,especially  the people's subsidised station RTE ,despite supposed legal constraints about balance ,did all they could to promote homosexual marriage ,whether by cunning and deliberate rescheduling of programmes showing the Catholic Church , which  opposed these unions, in a bad light in the run up to the plebiscite or conversely showing homosexual people in a flattering light.
ADDITIONALLY INTERVIEWERS WERE BLATANTLY HOSTILE TO THE "NO" SPOKES PEOPLE AT ALL STAGES.
The ex president Mary Mac Aleece ,having passed herself for years as a practising Catholic and upholder of the Constitution ,did a hundred and eighty degree turn when she discovered that her son is a homosexual and did all she could to discredit the Catholic Church to ensure that he can engage in a form of union with another man which makes a mockery of the word marriage as traditionally understood.
She has let people like me ,who were stupid enough to believe that she was what she put herself forward to be ,down with a bang.
But there again she wouldn't be the first to take the soup.And the American Bishop who said to Mac Aleece "God help Ireland with you as it's President " was a very wise man.
And of course the Government played along with her by giving her full exposure in prolonged T.V.footage with Prince Charles ,future head of the Church of England and his divorced wife Camilla in Mullaghmore.
Quite how  a retired President found her way there as a national representative  is beyond me,She was clearly a plant by the Government to promote its agenda.
Clearly there is a huge deficit in Catholic leadership in the Dublin diocese.The Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was so wishy washy about this and other core Catholic doctrines that he has clearly lost the trust of his flock and Dublin Catholics are devoid of leadership entirely.
How else can you explain that 70% of a Catholic population can vote against a core Catholic value.Really he and the other priests who are not prepared to vigorously uphold core Catholic values ,should get of the pot and let in others who will uphold these values without compunction.
The former Pale voted against traditional values but this is nothing new historically,as the inhabitants of this area have always been more Gall than Gael and Lizzie's taxpayer funded  Uni showed its true colours by voting 98% against traditional Irish values.
A Government which shamelessly coaxed its taxpayer funded subsidiaries and the Unions of its supposedly apolitical  policemen to take sides in a political matter is shameless and unworthy of Office
.Sinn Fein ,who are riding the crest of  wave of popularity are nothing more than a more mouthy version of Fianna Fail lite and are a massive disappointment to me.
To cap it all the Government gave Dublin Castle ,at taxpayers' sexpense again,
 to the victorious homosexuals and their fellow travellers to party and rub salt into our wounds.
Now my family have implored me to stop stating my grounded views on social media for fear of abuse and violence against me and them.
Having already been told that I am not fit to live in society because of my views by a yes activist and been branded a homophobe and  in the knowledge that the Gardai have voted to support the Yes side and are unlikely to protect me ,I will take whatever is coming on the chin.
Oh and bye the way the other 750,000 brave souls and "No" voters,who surmounted huge odds and pressure to vote "No",as against the 1,200,000 who voted "yes"are now in a political void with no current political party to represent them and promote their views .
This void will have to be filled sooner rather than later and a covenant instigated to revisit this issue again constitutionally sooner rather than later,in my view.

Death of Thomas Glynn

Mick and Janette Glynn and family live in Iskaroon in this Parish and are good friends of ours.
Mick's younger brother Thomas,who I don't know , who too lived here in Iskaroon  for many years but who had been suffering bad health in recent years, died unexpectedly today in Palmerstown in Dublin.
When I hear more I will let ye know.
May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
His mortal remains will be reposing in Heffernans Funeral Home in Trim this Thursday from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Funeral Mass this Friday 29/5/2015 in St.Patrick's Church ,Trim at 11.00 a.m.with burial afterwards in Dunderry graveyard.

Underhand RTE Bias towards "Yes" side this last week.

I listened last night to the debate on RTE Radio 1 concerning the upcoming referendum on the redefinition of the family chaired by a lassie called Shanley,I think it is spelled .On the "Yes" side you had a Scot and a Royalist .The Scot was a nasty bit of stuff who used the most derogatory terms to describe his opponents making inter alia a bitchy reference to the sister in law of a lady on the "no  side ,whoever the sister is I don't know. .
But it is the blatant bias of the presenter that  most upset me. .She continually interrupted the "no " side and challenged them far more than the "yes " side to whom she gave a free and uninterrupted ride ,even allowing the last word to the "yes" side.
But this is what I have come to expect from RTE whose behaviour on this and similar issues in recent times can at best be described as defiantly and aggressively unbalanced  all the time awaiting a chance by the presenters and programmers to let their personal prejudices shine through..
Now I have a grand young cow.I also have a stock bull who makes this cow and  her comrades very happy and fruitful.And it is necessary that I know the daddy and mammy of each calf for a multiplicity of reasons.Certainly every calf knows its mother from the moment of birth and every cow would die for its calf and every calf looks to its mother for protection ,milk and sustenance.
Naturally had I no bull or a homobovine l bull  I would be out of business fairly quickly unless I impregnated the cows by artificial insemination.
Certainly  cows of a queer nature would be no good  to me at all.
Now I am not using this analogy to describe my views on the proposed redefinition of the family.
But this very fine cow had a most perfect calf three weeks ago and both she and I minded it like a newborn baby.She adored it no more than myself.
Then as a result of a freak accident the calf died.She was bursting with milk and I bought a suck calf from a dairy man to alleviate the  pressure on her elder.
Well talk about turning Turk.She has turned into a bovine assassin intent on killing the substitute.I have to stand over her to make her allow the calf to suckle her and as soon as I turn my back she lines the calf up for assassination.Neither shouts,threats nor copious amounts of nuts will deter her from this irrational hatred.
Now I feed the cow ,sustain her and give her a good life.I would rather she acknowledged and desist from this behaviour.
Now most of the RTE reporters and programmers are like this.
Through my licence fee I support and maintain and suckle them.They know they are supposed to give equal balance to each side in the forthcoming referendum but like the cow  as soon as your back is turned they turn assassins against the "no "side.
Ray Darcy ,who has before this outlined publicly his dislike for Catholicism on the airwaves ,never misses to take a nasty potshot against the Catholic Church ,who are on the" "no" side.
Successively this last week he he had a suspended Priest called Flannery on his show and gave him full licence to reinforce his personal prejudice's  against the true Church  .And boy did Flannery oblige.Falnnery is stridently against all the laws of the Church including the definition of the family as a core unit involving a  father and mother.( one must ask which of his male father or female mother let him down ).Of course Flannery got full opportunity to trash Catholicism and full encouragement from the biased presenter.
Then we had wee Daniel ,who was raised by his mother solely as his father died when he was young and who opined that not having a father he could remember and whose influence he could gauge ,he didn't give a damn who raised a child and that as far as he was concerned a father's input was clearly superfluous.(This is my interpretation of what he said not his precise words.)
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Of course Darcy egged out of him his intention  to vote "yes".
After whining for a while about the necessity to show balance he cold called someone from the Iona institute to gave an opposing view,a person who made it clear that he hadn't even heard the interview.
Now during the night RTE radio replays highlights of  the previous day's programmes .would you believe it if I told you that the Yes arguments were rebroadcast but not a word about the no side's.
See the simulator to the assassin cow.
And yet again he did his level best to get an American woman who was adopted from here years ago to condemn those who put her up for adoption and Irisher society in general,even ignorantly talking over her daughter in the process.You could hear the disappointment in his voice when she said the opposite.
Now the RTE programmers were more subtle but just as underhand.
Knowing full well that the Christian Churches are on the no Side they did all they could to discredit the Catholic Church.
This ranged from a rebroadcast of the Simpsons lauding homosexuality and sneering at Christian values,to rebroadcasting a programme presented by a guy called Sixsmith into the adoption through nuns,who were only people with the charity to take in unwanted children at the time,and have them adopted by mostly loving American families.
Now this bollix Sixsmith did his best to get everyone he encountered to condemn the Catholic ethos and State action in the matter.
Now a fella called Banville, a homosexual I believe,,who I believe is a writer of some sort and who is rabidly oppose to Catholicism agreed with him as did another guy called Milotte I think.I don't know much about Milotte but will research further.
Sixsmith managed to trace four of these children,all of whom had a sad story to tell.six out of sixty thousand.Now that is objective reporting for you ,is n't it.
And even at that some of the six were clearly not the full shilling and one poor mother was kept by the same nuns they were  dissing for 35 years .
He tried to make out that it was a simple thing in those bygone years for prospective adoptive parents to flitter back and forth from the States to inspect children  and enlisted the aid of a state employee to
try and make this  point.
Ten of my granduncles emigrated there  after the turn of the century and none ever had the fare to return even for a short visit.
The programmes assertion on this point is pure nonsense unless the people involved were all millionaires.
I  suppose that a near neighbour State  solution to unwanted preganacies ,i.e.murder the babies when alive in the mother's wombs ,would be more up the programme maker's alley.
And this bollix went as far back as 1925 in his determination to d sneer at Irish society .
Maybe he should cast t his mind back slightly further to the 1850's when the Irish didn'tcontrol their destiny and there was a systematic genocide over maybe two million people under the Union.
Anyhow this shit was broadcast in this sensitive time.
Followed by that middle class programme of a guy Called Demott Bannon refurbishing houses of the well off.And guess whose house was refurbished and whose loving relationship was on full display.
Yes you have it ,Catherine Zappone .fi ull lesbian and "Yes " vote activist and spokesperson.
My cow is only in the halpenny place.

Obama the Dunderry jackass

Dunderry Fair is in full swing around me as I write this.
But I just had to drag myself away to write this up lest I forget.Last year I bought a jackass called Obama on account of the fact the he shares a birthday with the Pres.He has proved that his tackle is in P.M.O.by siring an ass foal which looks like a mammoth.
Anyhow I had him tethered at the double gate to my house opposite Geraghty's pub today and overhead these two men conversing in there  today.I swear.
One guy says to the other ."I bet you a score I can make Obama laugh.""No way .I'll cover that bet ".
So the guy went across the road and whispered something to Obama after which the donkey split his sides laughing for a good ten minutes.
Then the loser says "You'll have to make Obama cry and give me a chance to get my money back."
"No problem " said he and crossed the road again to whisper into the donkey's ear.
And I swear the the donkey started to cry buckets of tears.
The loser forked up again and reckoned that he was entitled to an explanation.
"Right" said the winner ."to make him laugh I told him that his  tackle was smaller than mine"."And what did you do  to make him cry "."That's simple ,I showed him mine ".
And then a young boy saw Obama in full flight if you get my drift and said to his mother "What's that?"His ma said "That's a donkey"."No I mean that yoke there ".That's nothing "said the Ma.
He then asked the Da "What is that yoke ""That's his tackle "said the Da.
"But Ma said that's nothing."Well to your Ma that is nothing son of mine "
And beside me is a Kerry man who owns a zebra called "Spot".

Noonan lets mask slip.

Last week Sean O Rourke interviewed Michaael Noonan the Minister for Finance on his radio show on RTE 1 midweek.
He had the temerity to bring up the Minister's handling of how a construction firm was apparently sold so cheaply by NAMA .a State creature, to connections of Dennis O Brien,a Portuguese resident citizen ,who has huge commercial interests in Ireland and indeed worldwide.
As part of his very reasonable questioning of the Minister he asked why it was necessary to not only raise the issue by Parliamentary Question but also seek the same information by way of  enquiry under Freedom of Information before anything approaching the truth was forthcoming.
In this he was echoing a comment made by Justice Hamilton during the Beef Tribunal who made a similar observation when concluding that if the whole truth were told in response to P.Q.s expensive Tribunals might well be avoided.
Well talking about turning Turk.
When O Rourke threw in a remark about his Minister of Justice days.Noonan turned as nasty ,hectoring and insulting as a gurrier .
Perhaps power has gone to these guys heads and given this sort of example it is no wonder that proponents of the "Yes "side in the upcoming plebiscite on the definition of the family take a similar attitude towards proponents on the "No"vote,as I have learned from my hesitant forays on (anti ) social media on the issue.

Dunderry High Nellies Part 2.

It has been brought to my attention that my history of bicycle racing a lifetime ago has a glaring omission in that there was a third and unheralded member of the team who also gave it diddly as best he could and that was Georgin Herterich.
Like the "Showman" and the "Footballers Father "he was under the management of the old Showman who was also the team Sponsor.
In true Sponsor mode he supplied bikes for all three who hadn't the price of a fag never mind a bike.Not Pirrelli for sure but a pre cursor of Smith International ,Dowd Oil and Herterich Engineering.
It is rumoured that one year when the Ras Tailtean was passing through Navan the intrepid trio hid in the bushes the Kells side of Navan and when the rear riders had passed they wheeled into the tail end of the race unnoticed.
History does not record what position they finished in but some swear that they went through Navan cock a hoop.
Truly those who turn up on Saturday will be wheeling in the wake of legends.

Dunderry High Nellies

A lifetime ago there used be a bicycle race in Dunderry.I well remember the most intense of competitive of races between Frank Smith a.k.a "The Showman " and "Rodger Rabbit"and Tommy Dowd a.k.a. "The footballers father"
Frankien was not the first of his breed to be known as "The Showman "as his father,who was equally eccentric and entertaining also carried that name with aplomb and Tommy Dowd might justifiably claim to be entitled to call his son "The Footballer's Son "  as he himself was no mean footballer and some consider that had he a smidgen of the dedication of his son for training that he might be equally revered in GAA circles.
Any how the races were deadly competitive and never more than a wheel separated them.The route was around the block starting at Horan's towards Robinstown,through Retaine,down by where Vincie and Dot used live and where Con and Marie now live and by Joe Clarke's back to Dunderry.I cannot remember how many laps were involved but the competition was really intense.
I understand,as a side comment, that Frankien maintained his "Rodger Rabbit "persona deadpan while a patient in Hospital much to the amusement of patients ans staff.A shrinking violet he was not and I for one miss his hilarious antics.
Niall a.k.a "he Nailer " was his brother. Himself and Frank were as physically opposite as brothers could be.Frank was six foot plus and  Neill was nearer Five foot.
Both were truckers and the Continent was their workplace.For a big man Frank had a tenor voice and Nailer had a voice that rumbled from his toes through his booming larynx.
Nailer too had a sporting love affair with the bicycle.He raised thousands for charity through sponsored cycles over the decades.
Like Frank and their trucking mate Metal Mickey their involvement with trucks attracted adverse attention of the law at times and this caused considerable stresses at times.
The trucking Heaven they now populate and enhance is I fully expect devoid of such tensions and in between climbing the Heavenly equivalent of Mont Blanc they are cycling the roads and lanes of Jesus Street and Peter's Lane.
It is therefor totally appropriate that Nailer's wife Marie and their son Francie are up to their oxters in another cycling club the Dunderry High Nellies.,which as the  name implies is for cycling spins on the old "High Nellie "bicycle.
Next Saturday,May 2nd., at 4.00 p.m.in Dunderry they are hosting a family day out for all vintage cyclists.Refreshments are guaranteed during the trip and afterwards.There will be a raffle and a  few glasses of fresh milk afterwards.And if you implode during the spin there will be transport to bring you back to base.
No pressure then and all are sure of a "Cead Mile Failte."
Bi  ann

I'm voting "No".

My recent foray into the so called  debate on the issue of the forthcoming referendum seeking to redefine the notion of marriage from being the union for life of a consenting adult  male and consenting adult female to essentially being between two consenting adults irrespective of their sex has revealed to me the  intimidating ,threatening and ugly nature of the movement advocating the change in the Constitutional position.
For daring to say that I believed that a more balanced rearing would be given where a father of the male sex and a mother of the female sex were involved in parenting a child I was labelled with the ageist tag,told I was ignorant and a bully and threatened that society had no place for people like me.
I am supposed to be medieval to boot and as for being a Catholic,it is clear to me that that camp share the views  of ISIS in the main and would gladly throw the followers of the Cross overboard to drown  given a chance.
I am beginning to think that the spoiled child syndrome affecting the young single  children of China ,who are so pampered and used to getting their own way that they think they can do what they want and actually despise the traditions of their parents and ancestors is well rooted here too and that many over educated,spoiled and pampered youths of a certain age actively despise their own traditions and take pleasure in denigrating those who reared them and think nothing of ruthlessly stabbing them in the heart,as it were.
Some of the protagonists who attacked me seem have a deep rooted hatred of heterosexuals and blame us solely for all the ills in the world,including death by suicide of some homosexual people.
I would turn this on its head and suggest that many suicides of people my age could be rooted in the uncaring and aggressive discarding of our traditions and beliefs by a brash ,spoilt and uncaring cohort of spoiled and overdamanding young adults who are encouraged in their actions by a media that is out of sync with broader society.
AS for the politicians,hey are united in their view that supporting anything but traditional values is the mother lode to elective success and are both creating and hopping on the hysterical screeching of the homosexual brigade in the hope  that will garner another term of power.
This is nothing new for a blueshirt /laboue coalition as it was de rigeur for the same combination in the eighties who turned brother against brother in the plethora of constitutional elections in order to deflect attention from the horrible economic conditions and the depopulation of the country caused by economic emigration. Nothing changes.
Except that the coalitions  answer to massive under performance by a Government Minister is to announce that he/she or someone belonging to them is homosexual and to hide behind this relevation to protect them from justified criticism.After all to criticise a homosexual in any guise is homophobic and people are cowed into silence by the same tactics and the same cohort of people that orally abused and threatened me when I dared propose an opposing view.
Look ,all the politicians and the trendies are in favour of this gender balance thingy in order to have a more and better balance of gendered people running the county.Supposed to be a great thing.
Suggest that the same thing ought apply in the basic unit of society and you are a homophobe,ignorant,a bully .an out of touch auld fogey ,medieval heterosexual religious nut who has no place in society
.And all the unions,including the Gardai,and sportspeople  who have enough to do reaching the pinnacle of their games of choice and most especially providers of social media ,who are all  subsidised by the taxes of all the people of Ireland  ,should  keep their noses out of the politics of this issue and be thankful they are getting their pockets lined in these times of hardship .in large part out of the taxes squeezed from the plain people of Ireland .

Grim Reaper still at it.Marie Fulham

No sooner have the burial arrangements of Sean Cleary and Tommy Garry been finalised than the nearest neighbour to the Garrys is also called to God.
Marie Fulham of the Minister's Bridge between Garry's Cross and Kilbride Village near Trim (opposite Nancy Mc Cormacks )has just now been called to God.
I had heard that she got a bad turn two days ago and was on a ventilator in Navan Hospital and did notice a casebook request for prayer from her son Shane,but never suspected that she was in such imminent danger.
As they say you know not the day nor the hour.
We fully sympathise with her husband and children and grandchildren .
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Her mortal remains will be reposing at her home from 3.00p.m. to 8.00 p.m.this Thursday and her funeral Mass will be at 1.00p.m. this Friday in KIlbride Church with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.

The beautiful Game,Cork and Neddie Hanly

To distract myself from all the grief and bad karma around the Parish  I am just finished watching the National League hurling semi final between Dublin and Cork.
Dublin were far the better team over the hour,were 5 points ahead with 6 minutes to go,looked totally in control but were pick pocketed by Cork,who won by a last minute point.
Bit like Trim's pickpocket ting of Dunderry's footballers last Friday.
Coincidentally both Trim and Cork wear Red as did my former Club St.Brigids of Blanchardstown.
Now Neddie Hanly was my wife's uncle and a proud Templemore man.Himself and my father in law,Tommy Hanly won a number of Senior Football Championships with Templemore in the  1920's or thereabouts and spent a lifetime studying and attending Thurles to witness Tipp's exploits on the hurling fields and had huge experience of Cork hurling.
I well remember going to Thurles with him decades ago to see a game betwen Cork and Tipp.I think.
Tipp were hot favourites and I asked him,after we got in for free ,due to a nod he gave to a gatekeeper he knew,what he thought of the upcoming game.
"Jasus " said he,"those Cork boys are hoors ..You'd never be up to them."Tipp- lost.
Nathing changes.
On a more serious note,both Cork and Dublin are worth a punt for the Football/Hurling All Ireland double.
Finally nothing compares to Hurling well played .

Dunderry Funerals week of 20/4/2015

Meadstown was hammered again with the too soon deaths of two very decent fellas in the recent past.
Tommy Garry was  hammered by cancer.Sean Cleary died tragically.
Arrangements are as follows.
Tommy .
Wake in house from 3.00 pm, to 8.00p,m Monday.Funeral Mass.Tuesday 11.00 a.m.in Dunderry.
Sean
.Arriving in Dunderry Church Tuesday at 7.30.p.m.Funeral Mass,Dunderry. .Wednesday 12.00 a.m.

Both are being interred in Dunderry graveyard afterwards.

I offer the sympathy of my own family,.the GAA Club and Camogie Club and I know full well that all clubs and organisations and the entire Parish mourns their loss.

Go ndeana Dia trocaire ar a hanam dilis.

Mary mac Aleese.The penny drops.

Now that her only son has come out of the closet  and declared that he is a homosexual ,the penny finally drops ,as it were,on why she is so vehemently oppose to the teachings of the Catholic Church on the matter of homosexuality and a myriad of other matters.
She  presumably expects it to change its position on this  and other issues to fit neatly into her personal situation.Thanks be to God the Catholic Church is a universal institution and is not as supine as the political parties  and intimidating paper and electronic media excuses for reportage that passes here  and the Church  very properly takes a principled stand on the matter of the sacredness of the traditional family.
Some idea of the sort of intimidation that supporters of the no side can expect if the change to the Constitution is passed can be gauged from the bullying that was inflicted on a caller to Live line who objected to the display of a four storey  unauthorised mural in the H.Q.of homosexual Ireland designed by its author to support the yes vote, who had a caller from England call her a homophobe and demand she not be given airtime at all.
And then we had others try to ridicule her and make out it was art and art only.And another little shit demand her to say whether she thought a picture of two men kissing revolted or disgusted her.
She properly refused to answer.
Were I asked I would answer that I do find such scenes revolting and don't want to look at them.But hey if it is passed presumably there are those who want them forced on us as it were.
Of course what homosexuals who are consenting adults lawfully do in the privacy of their own homes are private matters as are the moves of heterosexuals.
Am I correct in remembering that the unfurling of a banner objecting to the presence of the Quinn  of England to Ireland by the father of Celtic player Stokes from his public house resulted in a deluge of pet media abuse being heaped on him and visits from the Gardai and the City Council and whatever you are having yourself.
And no constitutional campaign in place.
Now we have homosexual women Senators applauding their banner.
Yep these people are above the law,not like the rest of us.
And finally that arch anti Catholic bigot Vincent Brown must be rubbing his hands in delight now that he has intimidated and sneered at Catholicism so long that people are afraid to even say on his Show that they intend to vote no.,as was the case last week when only three of  a few  hundred people at a Kildare venue volunteered  that they were of that disposition.
I will never forget the spitting out of the word "sheep " as a   denigrating of people such as me who are lay Catholics by him at his insulting and vindictive best.
As another know all John Crown diplomatically referred to an idea or a man whose view he opposed on radio recently a right "bollix ".
And of course the political heirs of those that took 77 recent comrades  from jail and murdered them without trial in 1922 are living up to their tradition by again  misusing their authority to get on side those Yankee companies they pander to ,to interfere in Irish politics and agree to denigrate the tried and trusted family definition .Boss Croker's reference to a good .. staying bought springs to mind.
Not content with evicting their  own people a la Cromwell.selling off large tracs of the country to foreigners,stealing our water frrom us,imposing the will of a bullying and hateful EU illegal dictat on austerity that has caused huge hardship and premature death and forced economic emigration and continues to do so ,the united political class has now enrolled and given centre stage to those we grant favourable Tax rates free licence to interfere in our domestic policies.
Banana Republic is right.

Suffering at an end.

Our friends will know who I refer to.
His suffering ended about an hour ago.
May the Lord have Mercy on his soul.
Tommy Garry is 62 years young.

Ex Camogie Players on rampage.

Certain ladies who I formerly coached in the skills of Camogie were on the rampage in Dunderry tonight.
It seems that older and more experienced Camogie players don;t just go away.Some at least take up Badminton and do well at it.
Suzanne Kelly, Lorraine Thornton,Tara and Collette Rowan Caroline Duffy,Rachael Doherty (so much of her that is left in any event ) former players of this Club,joined by Ceilia Murtagh who used ply her trade with the Yellow furze and John Brady's delightful wife Orla Crocock,were looking for a pig to roast after winning the Div.8 Badminton League in a match where they did beat Trim on Friday evening.
Realising that the last vestiges of the pig were long gone they settled for tay and sandwiches in a prolonged pub crawl involving Horan's and Geraghtys,where I am told they danced on the tables under the gaze of manager Mark Nolan,husband of another Camogie veteran Eunice O Brien.
Susan Mulligan another veteran chick with a stick plys  her badminton very successfully with Sryrne ,I believe and I have no doubt that her sister Anne (Walker ),who lives in Scotland would also excel at the game were she available.
Another Dub.in exile here ,Maura Walshe a mustardseeder  who has gone nearly fully native, was missing from the celebrations on the night,having excelled at the rackets during the year.
Had she been there I have no doubt but that she would have ensured a more ladylike and civilising tone to the raucous celebrations.She keeps reminding me that it is up to us Dubs to set a good example to these Dunderry heads.
History was made last week when a second adult Camogie team fielded against Drumree and Lettie played both on the goal line and further out the field.
I am looking forward very much to next Monday evening when the Club I founded and nurtured,Dunderry,takes on Navan O Mahuony's in Navan in the Intermediate Championship.
Our Mag,now in her 39th year,forced to transfer from the Club she graced as both administrator and player by a particularly nasty piece of hatefulness,will play for O Mahony's against her former team mates all of whom she either played with or brought into the game.
I expect nothing other than a sporting encounter and no vindictiveness and know that no true Gael would stoop to that.

NNBB.Game postponed.until a later date.

Drowning Update.

Near Bective Bridge today the mortal remains of Sean Cleary were found.
May the Lord have mercy on his soul.

Good news and bad news.

A contemporary of my own who has cancer is under pressure and fighting the good fight.
Killian is getting slowly stronger and there is still no sign of Sean Cleary.
There are  those I know who sneer at the thought of prayer.
Those who do believe I ask ye to keep them in your prayers.

Trim 1-9.Dunderry 1-8.IFC 17/04/2015

Cortown Pitch was resplendent tonight at 7.00 p.m. for this vital match which would have a huge bearing on the Championship.
We inhabit the group of death in this Championship.Every team in it is better than the other.Last week we beat a lacklustre Ballivor team and Trim were hockeyed by a far superior Ratoath team .who are firm favourites to not only win out in the Group but to win the full Championship, as they were last year.but nobody told Ballinabrackey who dumped them out in the semifinal.
Notwithstanding that and considering the fact that they have several players on the Senior County panel it is only a matter of time until they do advance upwards.
So Trim were fighting for their lives tonight and we were desperate to rack up two in a row to give us some breathing space.
It is a fact that thee is little between Tim and ourselves but Trim have had the upper hand when it s counted in recent years.
We know them well and them us and we  intermingle and intermarry and engage in commerce all the time.
Aside from sporting rivalry and it as intense as it gets, we are the best of friends.
One of my sons Evan was centre back for us today.Eoin Kelly ,who is married to our Claire and lives in KIlbride ,was full back for Trim.
We take our GAA seriously  (well my circle do in any event ) in Dunderry and speculation was rife on whether we would stick with the team that won last week or whether the selectors would opt for the available again Davy Jennings for goal (over Garret Dooley who was impeccable last week when Davy was not available) and whether the fit again  Davy Mc Cormack could regain his place .

Team.
                                                 Jennings
A.Newman                            S.Harte                            C.O.Shea

C.Dempsey                              E.Stephens                   Swiss Clarke

                           L.Dempsey                    C.Farrell

A.Watters                                  L.Martyn                    A.Coogan

P.Kenneally                              S.Carty                           S.Coogan.

We had about 15 subs togged out and I briefly looked in on thetraining on Thursday night.All were training so the buzz was on the button.
From an early stage the referee made it clear that any attempt at physical contact,even revising to get out of the way would be harshly punished.
Like last week, uncles the backs throw down the red carpet to the forwards they will be carded or penalised.
This feminising of football is turning real competitive men off in droves ,be they either players or spectators and unless it is addressed pronto the crows will spectate t football games and those interested in physical contact sport will turn to the physically competitive rugby union.
I digress here and as I am unable for the hustle and bustle of inter county football games can only rely on spectators I trust who swore to me that both the Meath and Cavan spectators at the recent game in Navan heckled their own players and bawled at them to make some effort to play football and stop the cod acting.
And the Dublin supporters ,probably the best in the Country left Croker in droves such was the poverty of the fare on view in their match against Derry
Larry Tompkins is on the button when he advocates a policy of making it an offence to kick out the ball to restart play after a score or a wide a distance of less than 45 metres.He also ,I think advocates the banning of a back pass to the goalkeeper and proposes a limit on the number of hand passes.
I would go further and ban the hand or fist pass altogether ,totally ban the back kick to the goalkeeper ,agree with the change to kick the ball out at least 45 metres and encourage quick reac tion and  allow and encourage unfettered side and shoulder contact both when competing for the ball and when trying to dispossess a player in possession of the ball.
As for expecting a defender to lay down a red carpet for an attacker ,this is pure nonsense .
Kenneally,Corty and Coogan are on either the under 21 or senior panels or both ,so you would expect them to be our ace in the hole,as it were
Trim played a two man full forward line and drew Harte outfield .expecting I would say to tire out his aging legs.
It backfired .He did more damage than his opponent even scoring a point from play in the first half.
As a tactic Trim let in low ball to the two strikers hoping to expose Newman and O Shea.
They were under intense pressure as a consequence and it worked in the long run.
Our boys put Kenneally on Owen Kelly fully expecting him to clean out Owen at the edge of the square.It backfired and Onie won that battle hands down.limiting Paddy to 0-2 from play.
I would say that midfield broke even over the hour ,that our half back line was our strongest line by a mile but that our shooting left much to be desired.
Were off the mark first through Watters with a minor and lodged another point on the board before they registered a point.Together with Watters ,Harte ,,Luke  and Kenneally scored minors and Caty.with his only touch of the ball scored a goal.
All from play.
Trim scored three pointed frees only.
Our shooting .from open play and frees left much to be desired but possession wise and chances wise we were six points the better team,I thought.
But worringlyFinn and a busy Jennings smothered possible goal chances from a dogged Trim who never gave up the ghost and kept in touch.All our half backs shone through and Newman and O Sea did a good containment job and the roving Harte was good.
The referee blew his whistle aplenty ,hard at times to know for what,but he was equally perplexing to both sets of supporters.to be fair to him.
A number of yellow cards were waved for harmless enough encounters in what was an over clean game without any dirt or even physicality whatsoever.
Half time score  1-4 to Dunderry.0-3 to Trim.Trim made a few positional changes at half time.We made none.
They were off the mark .firstly and secondly with points,from frees if memory serves me right,before we scored a point ,again from a free.And so it went.
 IN Allie added four points 3rom frees by Stephen Coogan and another from Kenneally but could never pull convincingly  ahead as they stayed stubbornly in touch via their free taker and as Andy was replacedcby Davy Mac.Andy wasn't the problem ,it appeared to me.But there you go.
Missed a rake of chances in the second half,both from play and placed balls and with Stephen having an off day we had no contingency plan ,it seemed to me.
Anyhow with time upon the clock we were 4 points up and it all looked over bar the severe shouting,but Trim had other ideas and bagged a notunexpected goal in extra time and our Evan,who had an otherwise excellent game fumbled in possession of the ball ,after a previous bang to the head,which the referee advanced 21 yards for something to bring it wir in scorable range.
They duly scored and the whistle the blew.
Bet by a point.I'd say they were more shocked than us.
Back k to the drawing board.the for the fight for survival.

Mary Mac Aleese at it again.

Unsurprisingly our Mainin is repaying the political establishment who gave her a free run at the second term of her Presidency by fully backing them all in advocating a yes vote to change the nature of marriage as being between a man and a woman to one between any combination of adults in the forthcoming referendum.
Unsurprisingly also and not for the first time and as many of her over educated and taxpayer funded colleagues in her Elizabethan Alma Mater have done,she presumes to influence the Nation's Catholics on the way to vote in the Referendum by saying that she and her husband will vote "yes".
With time on her hands she has seen fit to lecture those charged with running the Catholic Church on such issues as married priests,its attitude to homosexuality and whatever you are having yourself.
She has criticised the Hierarchy's for allowing abuse of children under its watch.
Now some Hierarchy may have allowed this,I don't know.
But she was President of this s country for 14 years and as first citizen with the full resources of the Country at her fingertips the question must be asked what did she do about it and did any abuse take place during those 14 years of stewardship?
I have to say that I am totally uneasy at all these Reports that fail to lay even the glance of a glove on the entire political,judicial and public service organs of State which were legally charged with the well being of its most vulnerable subjects and which successfully lay all the blame on the Religious.
Some hand washing job.
Now I am not saying that our Manin knew of such abuse.
I am a 63 year old lay member of the Church and ,like millions of other such members had no idea that the forces of evil had infiltrated some members.
But Theology and Canon law aside I believe that the Pope is God's Man on earth and that our Manin ,although she presumes to know more than Him,does not and never will.
So despite her swanning about in the seas of liberal rheology and her multitude pronouncements on matters of Catholic morality I will not pay a blind bit of notice of what she says on this or any other issue.
I will however be contemplating on the First Commandment  "I am the Lord thy God and you shall not have strange Gods before me,"and try and figure how and if it applies on these matters.

Magnificient Greeks following in steps of Leonidas.

As part of the battle of Thermopylae,fought in 480 b.c. 300 Spartans defied the vastly superior (somewhere between 150,000and 1,000,000 soldiers ) army of the Asian King Xerxes ,who uncannily wanted the "earth and water "of Sparta,Thrace and other Greek confederates as a sign of their submission to him.
Xerxes considered himself a God incarnate.
For 3 days 300 Spartans and a number of Thespians held this massive horde at bay before they were over run and in so doing gave several thousand of their compatriots the chance to fight another day.
Now the similarities between that scenario and the present hammering of the Greeks and the absolute bullying of the population by the combined hordes of the other member States of the EU and the IMF is uncanny and eerie if you substitute economics deprivation and austerity for colonial ambition and naked greed.
In Ireland eviction has become commonplace ,NAMA and various hues of insolvency practitioner and banks  are selling off the houses.lands and  estates of this country to foreigners ,including vulture capitalists (think earth) and the State has taken it on itself to appropriate the water of the Country unto itself at the behest of the EU  (think water).
The fact that the approximate population of Dublin City (400.000 ) are waiting for outpatient appointments ,many for over a year, to get attention in our hospitals must rank for the world record for a developed country as a percentage of our total population.
Not to mention the scandal of the placing of very sick patients on trolleys endangering their frail health and shortening their lives as we spend countless millions educating the youth of the overwhelmingly privileged in our medical schools for export to greener pastures abroad .
Rather than standing up for its citizens ,,this Government and the previous one has acted like the traitor who betrayed Leonidas and his Spartans by showing the secret paths around the back of the Spartans to Xerxes and his hordes ,in order to outflank the Greeks.
And remember this,the State pays absolutely nothing to anybody,it is you and I and everybody who lives here ,consumes here and pays the myriad taxes here who pay all these things.The State is like the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Robin Hood sagas,it merely collects everything it generates from its subjects and redistributes it ,not forgetting to ;look after itself and its enforcers along the way ,of  course.
Now the Geeks are like us only in Spades..They have been screwed beyond endurance by a horde of bullies ,including our fellas  and gals,who are glorying in how they have sold the Big Lie to us and now want the Greek Government to break their word as our guys and gals did and betray their electorate.
I hope that their Government does keep its word and takes courage from their ancestors the Spartans.And I hope that our electorate sees through the Big Lie being promulgated by there esta blisherd parties and puts them to the political sword.

Dunderry 1-15.Ballivor 0-6.IFC

In Corttown tonight we ran out easy victors over a game  Ballivor team who had a man dismissed for two yellows just before half team.
A workman like performance.A good start which goes some small way to compensate for the 6-33 to 0-8 hammering inflicted on our hurling team by Killyon last Saturday in the Davis Cup in which about 6 Ballivor men featured,I think.
This club must ensure that such an embarrassing score is never again chalked up against any team in our Club.

Still no sign.

At lunchtime today I travelled through Trim.The search parties were still out.No sign of Sean Cleary yet.

Search Continues

Despite a massive co ordinated search for the body of the suspected suicide in the Boyne in Trim by the Meath River Rescue ,the Gardai and many neighbours of the suspected deceased no body has been found as yet.
God only knows the suffering being endured by his immediate family and indeed all related to him and this Blog is calling for more Prayers to enable the search to reach its conclusion..

Gobsmacked

News is filtering through of the suspected tragic death of a most respected and exemplary member of our Parish.
I find it unbelievable and hope it is untrue.His body is being searched for.

Graham Dwyer Murder Trial,my Take.

Elaine O Hara has been found to have been murdered by Graham Dwyer in possibly the most published criminal trial  in recent memory.The jury were present for most of the evidence produced and presumably had a far greater overview of the case than thee likes of mise who has only the reported version to rely on and I accept without reservation the verdict delivered.
Aside from the fact that there was no evidence she died violently and that his wife's evidence that a spade found near the grave was his was forensically proved wrong,the accumulated circumstantial evidence was the plank on which he swung,as it were.
There is one aspect of the trial that makes me wonder however and this is it.You have to be a clever person to become an architect ,dunces don't qualify.
Dwyer was painted as a manipulative ,scheming sadist and must have been  double clever to carry out his dual lives as respectable architect and devoted family man and a master  bdsm devotee,particularly in these days of  ever present CCTV coverage ,which his profession would always encounter.
Why a clever man such as he would leave a trail of semen in the CCTV covered apartment bed of his intended victim shows an an extraordinary lapse of  care for such a devious and manipulative man .
You couldn't have pointed the finger more at yourself if you tried.
Just saying.
The other aspect of the case,which taken in connection with the Bailey case which makes me wonder is the heroics of voluntary witnesses,who do their civic duties.
In the Dwyer case the evidence of Dyers current and ex wives against him have been universally praised as the epitome of the fulfillment of a civic duty.
IN the Ian Bailey case the evidence of voluntary witness Mairead Farrell,who changed  evidence mid stream ,because she alleged, of Gardai mis behaviour,her behaviour in this regsard has been referred to the DPP ,presumably for consideration of perjury.
So together with having her past romantic indiscretions exposed and being publicly skewered on the witness box she is being threatened with the offence of perjury.
Thia sends one message to me loud and clear and it is this..If you make a statement to the Gardai knowing it to be untrue,never,never try to  tell the truth and correct it unless you are prepared to be excoriated by the legal system ,have the minutest details of you past life revealed  and be threatened with a perjury conviction.
And the other thing is this,Don't take on the State,They have unlimited taxpayer donated resources to defend their position.You don't.

Easter week Dunderry Catholic Ceremonies 2015.

Holy Thursday         Robinstown.7.30.p.m.          Dunderry.9.00.p.m.

Good Friday.            Robinstowm.3.00.p.m.     Kilbride 6.00.p.m.     Dunderry.9.00.p.m.

Holy Satyrday.        Kilbride.6.00.p.m.               Dunderry 7.30.p.m.

Easter Sunday        Robinstown.9.30 a.m.              Dunderry 11.00.a.m.

Eamonn Dunphy not a bad lad

Gay Byrne hosts a show called "The Meaning of Life" on RTE television from time to time.In it he discusses with certain celebrities matters such as religious conviction or lack of it as the case may be.
Now I never bought in to the adulation that many have for Gay Byrne.I never found him funny nor entertaining and consider him to be a pompous bore.
I have long considered him an yup market version of the Garrison Irishman who would be quite happy to be an active participant in suppressing his compatriots for the benefit of the Empire were the clock turned back and if memory serves me right his ancestors served the Empire with distinction.
And I suspected before the Programme above that he was hostile to Catholicism.
I thought Dunphy to be ,firstly a Dub to his backbone ,an undoubted lover of the Garrison game and a man who made the very best of his talents as a writer and commentator on soccer.
I thought his defence of Roy Keane when he turned his back on his country churlish and misplaced.Never would have considered him a staunch Catholic.
Which just goes to show that I can be a brutal judge of character.
It transpires that he was raised a Catholic by  staunch Catholic parents in a single room flat in Dorset street and that his mother was a daily Mass goer as was he in his youth.
Now he fell for a Protestant Lady and encountered considerable difficulty with a priest when he raised the prospect of a Church wedding.
This gave Gaybo the opportunely to repeatedly spit out the word "Bigot "with venom  in describing the Priest.The dead cannot sue and it was outrageous of him to slur the man in such a way.Cowardly too.
Fair dues  to Dunphy he did not rise to the bait nor did he agree with Gaybo in that description of the man of the cloth.
 Dunphy  was undoubtedly upset at the memory as he was at other memories,including an attempted eviction and was on the verge of tears at times.
The longer the interview went on the more the religious conviction of Dunphy shone through and I particularly liked his contempt for the sterile ,empty and hopeless concept of humanism and atheism,which seems to have concentrated support  in the written and electronic media and whose manipulative proponents are planted in too many positions of power and never miss a chance to deride religious conviction and freedom of conscious.
The more the interview progressed the more I warmed to Dunphy.I particularly liked his response when asked what he would  say to God at the Pearly Gates ,which was "Are  you still serving ?"
And like myself he prays thus before going to sleep ___

"O Angel of God,my Guardian Dear,
To whom God's love commits me here,
Ever this night be at my side,
To light and guard and rule and guide ,
Amen "

And boy do I need it.

Vigil Mass on St.Patricks Eve Dunderry

The Vigil Mass at 7.30 this evening was packed to the rafters because, I would say, it was celebrated for all the sick of the Parish ,which would include KIllian Minogue and at least one more youngster.
It was heartening to witness so many youngsters at the Mass .
We hope God answers our prayers for all the sick and ill people hereabouts.

The 39A Bus

I lived in Hunts town Lawn off the Shileeren Road (It joins Mulhuddart to Clonsilla ) from the early ninety seventies until 1986.I had many good times there and the odd scary time too,about which more anon.
Anyhow my time there coincided with the development of several Council Estates and the start up of brand new communities in the area.
For much of the time I lived there I commuted to work by public transport,usually on the 39a bus if memory serves me properly.
The bus used wend its way through all the estates in the area before heading through Blanchardstown and Castleknock via Ashtown and down the Navan Road into the city centre.
After a while you got to know the regulars and you could discern a largish number of youngish mothers who daily boarded the bus in the Council Estates,dressed in their Sunday best (more Pennies than Pravda ) and exited from Myos to the Park gates in Castleknock.
From overheard conversations and general observation it became clear that they were employed by various well heeled Castleknock residents as pot wallopers ,child minders,cleaners and general factotums by professional ladies who powered dressed ,(more Pravda than Pennies),and made their way to the City to further their careers ,while their children were reared and their houses tended for by the ladies dropped from the 39 A.
It was more often than not the case that the Council ladies had their own children minded by their grannies and their houses tended by themselves when they returned from Castleknock in the evenings.
No doubt the few bob they earned helped out greatly with their own family budgets,but were nowhere near the vastly superior sums earned by their posher Pravda sisters.
For years I was the key holder for Saint Brigid's GAA Club and was often called on by the Gardai to open the Clubhouse during the night to see what had caused the alarm to go off, usually a break in and robbery of drink and fags.
I couldn't help but notice that calls relating to domestic violence used come over the garda intecom and that they addressees given were rarely the Council estates but nearly always  the posher areas.This amazed me as I expected the opposite,but there you go.
As regards health facilities ,life expectancy and material comfort the Castleknock area far surpasses the Mulhuddart and surrounding areas.It's fair to say that there is a fierce contrast in a few miles of road.
And then we come to the political representatives.Until Kerry man Joe Higgins appeared on the scene I cannot recall anyone from the Blanch side of the High Bridge running for,never mind succeeding to the Dail..
In fact Patrick Nulty is the only native I can recall getting there,if only for a short time.
It has struck me that none of the present representatives represent the reasonable views of the majority of the electors in the constituency in that all seem actively hostile to the Christian view of life,being either card carrying proponents of abortion or actively hostile to religion of any form.
And yet it is these very people who will shape the type of Ireland by passing legislation that suits themselves and not the vast majority of their constituent ,if the last census on religious belief is vaguely true.
For these reasons and to give the real locals a chance to have a genuine Blanch Representative I have been approached  to run in the next election as an Independent and am strongly considering remounting the 39 Bus.

PRAYER NEEDED MORE THAN EVER.

In Dunderry Parish we have a number of people in urgent need of prayer at the moment ,not least my friend KIllian Minogue ,who is very ill in hospital folowing an accident involving a motor vehicle last wekend.
Two vigils were held in the Parish for him tonight.
Your continued prayers are sought for him and the other sick people in the Parish.

Drumree 2-8 Dunderry 1-6

The first Dunderry hurling  team to field at Senior level this long time appeared this evening at our own pitch against Drumree in the League.
Given that the management team was only put in place two weeks ago and that we only had one training session under new Manager Paddy Gorey since our ignominious exit from last year's club All Ireland  Club at the hands of eventual winners Bennetsbridge it was a great tribute to the players and Paddy and his management team that we fielded at all.
But better late than never and  the fact that our opponents will surely regard us as a soft touch for the rest of the year could stand to our advantage.
It was the sort of a day that if you closed your eyes and listened to the howling wind that bit through your clothing you could imagine you were nearer Donetsk than Dunderry.
The weather on that top pitch where I spectated was only brutal and I have the height of respect for our under 14 footballers who battled unsuccessfully against OLdcastle and our under 12 footballers who did a full training session in conditions that can only be described as sub Baltic.
Thanks to be God we  have mentors who are still up for it.
Team.
                                                     Casey 
 Sprog Stephens                           Keenan                                        Spongee Mc Cormack

Cathal Ryan                             Liam Dempsey                                 Wright

                 C.Dempsey                                   O Shea

J.Martin                                   J.Moran                                            Gilky

A.Walsh                                      Harrow                                        K.Bruton.

The referee is some man ,fair dues to him as he went straight from refereeing the under 14 match on the top pitch into the hurling match ,where he did a good job in difficult conditions.
We still have a core of basic fitness and stubborn resistance, if still lacking a good bit of stick and handling competency..But this can be put right with time.
The underlying will not to be beaten,the hallmark of this village for a century is still discernible.
Drumree are too a proud hinterland and were probably shocked to be pipped in the final Intermediate strait by us last year.
Pride was at stake here and both teams went at it hammer and tongs.No dirt and a minimum of mouthing on the pitch in what was essentially a slug fest from whistle to whistle.
With a twisted wind in their backs they bossed us around in the first half registering 2-4 to our 0-2 and deservedly so.Our boys took time to grow into the game and were not that confident in their own ability,full back line,which was exceptional ,excepted.And O Shea who had a humdinger.
I expected better in the second half and for twenty minutes we were lord and master.Harrow  has magic hands and a first class hurling brain and we saw flashes of what could be routine for him with more dedicated exertion on the training field and I thought that Bruton was withdrawn too soon.
We were more into it in the second half and put them under severe pressure but just couldn't register enough on the scoreboard to narrow the gap enough to storm in front but were well on the way until a five minute lapse in concentration in the final quarter when they registered 4 points in succession and put themselves out of reach.
Having said that we never gave up the ghost and slugged it out to the bitter end but the margin of defeat accurately reflected the hard encounter.
Minogue,Mikie and Feeney got the nod from the bench and Feeney in particular gave it diddy.
Sprog,Spongee,O Shea and Liamie in patches were the pick of our men.
That is not to say that anybody shied away.no one did.but we have much too do and little time to do it.
But full marks for effort.
Footnote.
They say that if you want something done you should ask a busy man.Paddy Gorey,Daire Flanagan and Ted Dowd are busy men .
The Club has entrusted the management of the hurling team to them and to be absolutely clear they are doing the job in a purely voluntary capacity.
I know that they will give it a minimum of 100 per cent effort.




        

Polish up your tractor glass,wash the wife's blue knees

It is reported that Jim Newman has taken to wearing his shirt and tie when driving his highly polished tractor down the main thoroughfare of Dunderry .
This is because of rumours  that there are subterfuge RTE Reporters lurking behind the walls and hedges hereabouts compiling a programme that will raise the profile of the Village nationwide and elevate even further Dundrry in the National conscience.
Jim deserves his five minutes of fame and I hope he gets it..
No man deserves it better.

Fourth Dunderry Exile Team

                                    Jimmy Reilly (Black Road )(Sas)


Rumat Yore (Black Road )(Sas)      Tom Yore (B.Road .)  (Sas)      Niall Dooley(Sas)

Mickey Smith (Sas)                  J.P.Kenneally (Can)               David Smith.(Sas)

Tony Donnelly (Yellow Walls. Sas)         Joe Donnelly (Yellow W.)(Sas)
( These men are first cousins of Eugene Smith and were reared in the old Smith house.)

Padna Kelly (Meadstown not P.J.) Sas) Ken Duffy (B.Road ) (Aus)  David Boland (Lux)

Albert Reilly(B.Road) (Sas)          Jamie Bond (IOM)                                 O.Neill (Aus)