Death of Sean Mallon,Bohermeen Cross.

On Wednesday past ,29th.May 2019,Sean cast off this mortal coil.
He had died in his sleep in his 78th. year and although I  haven't yet seen him I  am assured that his demeanour is such that he died peacefully.No man deserved a peaceful death more than Sean did as he was one of natures gentlemen and I am fairly sure that he never did a bad turn on anybody.
Sean was a first cousin of my mother's Peggy Mc Cormack,his father Ned being a sister of my granny Kate Mc Cormack.
Ned's wife died when the kids were small and my mother used walk from the Curragh Boreen to Bohermeen to babysit the Mallon kids.
I am sure they are comparing notes in Heaven at this stage and I am sure that his sister Baba is joining in the conversation.
All the Mc Cormacks of that generation are dead and all the Mallons save Larry have passed over and one thing they all had in common was the gift of good conversation and a withering sense of humour.
T o put it bluntly they could all cut the boots from you if you asked for it.
I'd say that the get together around God's table of these cousins is riveting. I  suspect that even Jesus is not spared the odd cut.
Sean was a decent man,a family man par excellence and there was not a mean bone in his body.
His aunt ,my granny used feed any tinker who called to her door and it is no coincidence that the tinkers used camp adjacent to Ned's house decades ago as they were sure of a hand out or a leg up if the Mallons had it.
IT is rumoured that Sean as a kid went begging with them on occasion...
Recently he gave them full permission to draw water from his well  and loaned them his trailer as they needed it.They did not abuse this privilege.
Sean was a man of many work talents and was big in the cattle trade for many years.This came to an end when European Agricultural regulations decreed that the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of Euros would have to be made to provide overnight lairage for the cattle ,money he did not have.
Never a man to be put down he remembered a quarry in his property from his father's time and physically dug out stone and sustained himself and the dependent family members for a period until ill health overcame him.
He was a game man and a trier to the very last.
Sean was a bigger than life man as long as I  knew him.Not only was he physically big but he exuded a presence in any company that drew people to him.HE  was a great conversationalist and full of fun.Irrepressible and great company.
Of late his great friends Liam Harte and ,when he was able Georgin Herterich,were his wingmen and what a crew they were.I  often tn went on the beer with him.
We take a lot for granted in this Country presently.Just over a hundred years ago we were a slave Nation ,a colony of the Brits and certain people put their lives on the line to get our freedom.
Sean's father Ned and two of his brothers put their lives on the line as IRA members for the periiod  of the War of Independence  in the fight for freedom.
Mc Cormack's house was a safe house.Kate wasn't going to let her brothers live under the open sky while on the run.
To his people we owe a huge debt and we sometimes forget this.
The Mallon household was a welcoming one and this was and is due hugely to his wife Mary ,who serves up only the best in grub and hospitality,a welcome I  can vouch for as I  have often enjoyed it.
They were not only husband and wife but great friends as far as I  could see..
She must be heartbroken,as must be their children ,Eamon,John.Lillian ,Sandra and Maria.They were predeceased by their son Patrick just as was entering his prime of life and this left a permanent emotional scar.
Larry is his only surviving sibling ,another great man for the conversation and enjoyable company too.
His nephew Gerry Murtagh is a friend of mine and he to possesses  those qualities that made Sean such an outstanding individual.
As do his children.
To all these,his grandchildren .other family ,in laws and friends too numerous to mention I offer my sincere condolences.
His remains will be reposing in his house in Bohermeen on Friday from noon until 9.00 p.m.
The funeral Mass will be on SATURDAY AT 11.A.M in Bohermeen  and his remains will go thence to Lakelands Crematorium ,Cavan.
Ar Dheas De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

Dignity in death.

 I have the father and mother of a flu and haven't been out much lately,at least I  hope that is what I  have.
Nonetheless I  have kept in touch with my good friend  and fellow Muskateer Liam Dalton.
He had the saddest of news three weeks ago today.
His beloved daughter Louise and her husband Russell Dersley had the huge misfortune to give premature birth to two identical twin boys Jack and Harry a few day's earlier.They knew this was coming and even though it happened at twelve weeks the sadness was nevertheless palpable.
They gathered in Dunderry Churchyard to bury the boys in the family plot.
It was a private ceremony and I  went out of friendship and even though I was too sick to get out of the car I  am glad that I  did.
The entire family ,especially the parents and the only sister of the twins ,were devastated.
The ceremony and prayers were lead by Father Hornick,the grave was opened and in the most dignified manner possible the twins were interred in a white coffin not the size of a shoebox.
Tears flowed copiously and why wouldn't they.
The Daltons are decent and true Catholics so decency is in their DNA.
Ar  dHEIS dE GO RAIBH A Hanam dilis.
This event effected me hugely as it brought back personal memories of events of decades ago ,when my own sister went to full term carrying dead children and they too were buried with her husband's ancestors  in Kentstown after a ceremony officiated over by the local Priest.
May they too rest in peace.

Death of Fig.Conway.

It was a grand Spring day in Dunderry,weatherwise.I am just after poking my head out the door and it is invigorating and would make you feel good to be alive.

dunderry drumbeat

I am therefor saddened in the extreme to be the bearer of the bad news that my great friend Phil Conway died at c.1.00 a.m. this morning in Beaumount Hospital where he had been languishing these few weeks back.
I last saw Fig about a week before last Christmas and although shook he was well with it and had no contemplation nor expectation of imminent death.
He had recently come home after a 5 week stay in the Mater where he had been treated for swelling of the body.
He was told that the dreaded cancer was not back and that the medics could find no reason for the swelling.Having seen about 50 doctors he could get no answers and came home.
I  had arranged a few pints for myself and a few others a few days later and asked him to come.He was delighted and promised that he would.He never landed.
I knew then that things were not good.
Shortly afterward he was admitted to Beaumount and the inevitable followed.
There are indelible ties of friendship between the Conways and the Mc Cormacks ,my, mother's people ,that defy time and space,that have their genesis in hardship and history.
Fig's uncle Jack was an important and brave participant in the War of Independence.H e was active.
For years in the 1960.s and 1970,s Dunderry GAA Club used his field for matches and training at  time when my uncle Tommy Mc Cormack was Chairman.
It had by far the best playing surface of any pitch Dunderry ever used including the present one.
It is no coincidence that an active participant and patriot in the struggle against imperialism should help out another and more enduring perhaps movement for sovereignty ,the GAA,in furthering the common  ideal.
Fig was a life member of Dundery GAA Club and was upset that he did not  receive a notification of last year's AGM,a matter of considerable concern to him at the time.
I  was glad to be able to sooth his mind on this omission.
Eaten bread ought not be forgotten.
I am proud to be related to Fig,although this link is buried in the mists of time.
I will explore this link further but am assured that my grandfather and Fig's walked to Longwood for the funeral of  Pappy Conway ,another great GAA man in the 19th.century and that he was related to them equally.
We called to the house today.Anne was there.She is a great friend of my wife Agnes and they both lost another great friend Eileen Mc Nally recently.
Liam Harte and his wife Bernie,Anne's sister and a brother of theirs and his wife  were up and about and in a state of shock.
His sons were resting after their recent vigils by his bedside.
Liam and Bernie have been on hand these last weeks and have done more than anyone could to help out.
His grand kids were all there and it is common knowledge that he adored them and they him.
His mortal remains will be resting in the Chapel of Rest ,Old Johnstown from 3.00 to 5.30 on Friday ,leaving to arrive in Dunderry Church at 6.30.
Funeral Mass is at 11.30 on Saturday ,with removal after wards to Dunderry Cemetery.
To his wife ANNE,his sons Anthony,Sean and Philip ,his grandchildren Cillian,Clodagh and Daniel and his surviving siblings Paddy ,Seamus and Richie and sisters Sheila ,Lily ,Phylis,Teasie and Imrlda we offer our sincere condolences.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

A random Sunday.

This morning ,a Sunday,I  was tied up until noon when I  was able to face the world,which I did.Venturing out the gate I  observed a knot of people at the front of the Church.
Included in this knot was the Hormone and John Daly.Given that the 11.00a.m.Mass was long over I  asked the Hormone who was getting Christened."No one said he,twas my fathers anniversary Mass today."
It is hard to believe that Mickey is a year dead.
I  loved Mickey .He was a true gent.Uniquely all his sons and himself are life members of Dunderry GAA Club and he devoted a lifetime to promoting it.
Elsewhere I  have called for prayer for two beloved people who are suffering greatly.They too are life members, a man and a woman.
From there I went up to the pitch to get the end of an Intermediate football league match between ourselves and  Ballinabrackey.
With about 15 minutes to go it was a draw at 1-5 a piece.
The final 15 minutes were fought out fairly competitively ,overwhelmingly with hand pass after hand pass after hand pass from both sides and with kicking as rare as hens teeth.
Ballinabrackey levelled with the last kick of the game.
What I found more enlightening was a conversation I  had with a young lady from Iskaroon.She is based in AUSTRALIA,was in Spain on business's for her Australian employer and flew home for the weekend to see her folks.
She was in the company of her brother ,who is a chemist working on cancer treating chemotherapy preparations in a Dublin Hospital,who was educated in Scotland.He lives in Dunboyne and had his infant son with him at the match.
Like every child his age he found the biggest puddle there to jump in and soak himself.
The Dunderry team was short its only County player Paddy Kenneally ,who is away in New Zealand and his brother John Paul is away in Canada  at opposite ends of the world so to speak.
Both are reputed to be bursting with brains.
Talking of which I am given to understand that up to 5 Dunderrians will be studying medicine next year.
Lord we are some cosmopolitan village,with talent to beat the band.
Thence I  went to Mass in Johnstown,a Tridentine Latin Mass,where I  go now and again,WHEN i don't go to Dunderry.
The Mass is entirely in Latin ,you have a book with the English translation and the only non Latin language used is the" Kyrie"which is Greek.
So this morning I  heard English,Latin ,Greek ,Irish,"those gosoons are horrid young to be playing adult football"and Dunderrian "horrid young".
The attendees at the Tridentine Mass are far more religious than me and are Catholics in the truest sense.They abhor this Government and all the Parties who pushed through our Constitution the abortion laws which they equate TO  the Mass MURDER OF THE DEFENCELESS AND INNOCENT UNPROTECTED.
They consider themselves to be on the right side in this matter,a position on which I  agree.
Like myself they are dismayed with the watery defence of unborn life offered by our Bishops ,save Bishop Doran.
Personally I think that parts of the body politic are in thrall to  Satan and subject to Demonic Possession and that time will bear this out.
Regarding the football,we are at a crossroads,we picked up our first point today out of a possible 6.
There young lads have a hard road ahead of themselves and have to breach a gap in football nous ,which will be very challenging.
As I  understand it there is no relegation this year,but next year 3 teams will be coming down from Senior.
The Inter Championship will then be very hard to win,so its now or never maybe.
The County team is perking up with Andy Mc Entee at the helm.I  met him when he was over Dunboyne in 2005 and he is a sound guy.
His brother Gerry gave a great hand out to Brigids my former Club for years and made them a respected force in Dublin football when he was in charge.
Given the population of Meath it is time that a more solid marker was put down in football circles.
 

Prayers urgently needed.

As I write at least a brace of well regarded and loved Dunderrians are suffering the ravages of that most hateful of diseases and need all the support and prayers they can get.Oremus.

Current member of Irish Cabinet reputed to be a witch.

Search for the name of a female Irish Minister and the word "Witch "on your search engine.
The results will shock you and explain a multitude.

A modern Miracle.

On 15th August 1996 an elderly Eucharist minister let the Host fall on the ground whilst giving out Communion.in a Church in Buenos Aires.As it was dirty he asked the Priest to pick it up,which the Priest did and placed it in a recepticle with water in it and put it in the Tabernicle to dissolve it.
He checked it out a week later but instead of dissolving it had grown in size and was covered in red splotches.
In short order the red splotches increased and multiplied until it looked like a piece of flesh.
A sample was taken by a Lab. in the City ,where red blood cells,white  blood cells and haemoglobin were identified  and were found to be moving and beating.
Three years latera a  scientist named Dr Richard Gomez was asked to perform a more robust examination and sent a sample to a New York Lab., not disclosing what it was.
They diagnosed it a a living human heart muscle.
In 2004 a Doctor named Frederick Zugibe ,whose speciality was identifying the cause of death from an examination of a sample of the heart muscle of a deceased ,examined a sample of the matter involve and wothout knowing whence it came ,concluded that the person had been tortured to death.
He was acutely perplexed as to how the sample ,apparently from a dead person ,had cells that were curently moving and beating.
As they say in Mass "This is my Body and this is my Blood".

Dunderry First Team GAA Management for 2019.

All is changed utterly.
Football Manager is David Callaghan,Mickey's son and his Selectors are Con O Neill and  Padraic Travers.
David played up to minor level in football with St.Ultans and thereafter with Dunderry.He was on the 2005 team that went back from Senior to Intermediate and of which I was Manager unfortunately.He follows in the footsteps of Barry Callaghan , Kevin Dowd ,and Stephen O  Rourke,who played with that team,Tommy Dowd and Con O Neill who have had their hands on the tiller since and a variety of selectors who have tried and failed to win the Laurels.
David was a selector with Kells for a year and they are now Senior.
He played in the USA in his day and maybe in England,I  am not sure.
Con has since stepping down from adult football been involved with the juveniles and they are making good progress.
Padraic is a Bohermeen man but has the saving grace of being married to a good Dunderry woman Stephanie Coogan.
We wish them well.
The Juvenile Club have at last got their act together and are turning out fairly decent players at minor level.
It will be interesting to  see how these guys gel these minors into the Intermediate set up.
We wish all the best in the year to come and thank those who gave their time selflessly in the year gone.viz Kevin Dowd,Evan Stephens,Lee Mulliganand Phil Day.

Hurling Manager is Timber Leavy and his selectors are Kevin Heffernan,Derek Hickey and Damian Martin.Timber has been up  to his oxters in Juvenile Hurling this last decade as have Derek and Kevin.
I played with Timber many moons ago and acted as a selector when he was still a player.
He was a nifty wing forward and fairly useful.Derek too gave it diddy as long as he played.I  didn't see Kevin in action but being from Limericj k cannot hurt.
Damian is an All Holding Goalkeeper from Offally and there is no higher honour.
Timber and Co.have done the trench work at juvenile level and are ideally placed to ressurect the Club's honour at adult lever.
We wish them the best and thank Mark  Nolan and Co.for the magnificient work done in recent years.

I have no idea how many adult teams we have and who is over them.
As soon as I  find out I  will let ye know.

Political Leaders are pure spoofers

In the last debate on RTE  before the 2011 General Election the Leaders of the Political Parties had the following to say on evictions.

Mickie Martin."Increase mortgage interest relief and in no circumstances take the roof from over their heads"

Enda Kenny."Guarantee  you won't lose your home."

E.Gilmore".Head off the Bailiffs"

F.Gerry Adamms"No evictions in Ireland."

G.John Gormley."Don't take the roof from over their heads."

Last week decent people in Roscommon ran bailiffs ,who had put evictees on the side of the road as  the Gardai stood silently bye,just the same as the Redcoats did in Famine and colony times.
And our great leader Leo took the side of the Bank and decried the decent people who defended the evictees.
No wonder that he defended the Bank.He himself is a supporter of the Bank of Mammy and Daddy as are his Cabinet.
To use the law as a shield for this behaviour by the Bank is nothing new.Precisely the same excuse was used in Famine and Colonial times.
This stuff is going on daily in every Court and County in the Country and many people have had their lives destroyed and have indeed taken their lives as a consequence.
The political leaders and parties have betrayed the people of Ireland.
Hell is not hot enough for them to roast for eternity.

The bushy tailed assassin still loose.

Last Saturday week the Meath Hunt arrived in Dunderry.I  was glad to see it .Maybe now I  thought that the hounds and hunters would capture the assassin who had killed and ate my innocent ducks and captured and ate all my neighbour's hens .
Not a word of it.The assassin is still on the run .
I  am comforted however by the old saying that "no matter how fast the fox runs ,he is always caught in the end."
Of course this saying has application to all sorts of illicit activity.
Oremus.

The dog,the Deer and the Crocodile.

A family member recently visited Sri Lanka.While visiting a nature reserve alongside a lake she witnessed the following horrific sequence of events and captured it on video.I have seen it and proves to me that dogs and crocodiles are related in viciousness and depravity.
What happened was that a wild dog chased a deer through the brush forcing the misfortunate animal to jump into a lake to escape and swim for it.The dog gave up the chase and the poor deer thought it was home and dry.
Not so.The crocodile appeared out of nowhere ,was a far superior swimmer than the deer ,crushed it in its maw ,dragged it underwater and killed and devoured it.
I  was wondering why God saw  fit to let  me in on this scenario and it has finally clicked.
The dog can be equated to the political  gloaters,yahooers ,dancers,Judas goats  and abortion facilitators who  weep with joy now that they have succeeded in enabling the baby haters to murder said babies before birth,the deer can be equated to the most innocent of the preborn babies on the run from these blood thirsty excuses for humans and the crocodile can be equated to those sub human medics and so called health professionals into whose maws the misfortunate preborn kids are chased for disposal.
We all know that there is a commonality  between the dog and the crocodile as the most ardent promulgators of abortion are now actively acting as persuaders to recruit  human crocodiles  so that they can get rid of the human deer.

The Bushy Killer prowls Dunderry again.

Last May I bought two baby ducks at the Fair.Myself and all here minded them well.They thrived and were grand innocent creatures,totally inoffensive and quacked with joy daily.
They laid the nicest of eggs which we all ate,either boiled,fried in an omellete or in the cup.
Last Thursday herself told me that there had been a kidnapping,that the two ducks were missing.I am friggin' raging.
All that remains is  a heap of feathers.
I  have compared notes with a neighbour ,all of whose hens and chickens have likewise been lifted.
I m quacked enough to start  society for the protection of ducks and for the elimination of the ginger assassins the bushy tailed Reynards.
Any takers.

Death of Eileen Fulham

Eileen from Meadstown ,just the far side of Garry's Cross on the road from Dunderry to Athboy as you turn right for Tullaghanstown has died on 21st October in Care Choice nursing in Trim aged 88 years
She was predeceased by her husband Thomas 14 years ago and is survived by her children Brendan,Bernadette,Geraldine and Eileen and numerous grandchildren ,sons in law ,daughter in law ,nephews,nieces and many true friends.She was  a Ward from Tullaghanstown ,exemplary people also before and after marriage.
She was matriarch of an exemplary family of the highest moral code and a true supporter of Dunderry GAA Club both financially and in the spread of the games it nourishes.
I  had the pleasure of playing football and hurling with her son Brendan ,who despite his lack of inches was as tough as nails and feared no one on the field of play.Now that his playing days are over he is ,as you would expect , involved in the management side of a juvenile team with which his sons play and is a former long serving Secretary of the GAA Club.
One of  her  sons in law Pat Geogh  is caretaker in Dunderry and Kilbride Schools and as you would expect is helping to promote the GAA at schools level there also.
Eileen her daughter was and is a friend of mine and like the entire family is  a person of the highest integrity,which is no more than you woud expect, as the apple never falld far from the tree.
The entire Fulham clan are simply the best and pillars of the local community.
Padre Pio's relics were and are no strangers to the Fulham's homesteads and are a great source of comfort and more to the family.
Reposing at her home today Monday from 4 pm to 8 p.m.with funeral Mass on Tuesday in Kilbride Church at 11.00 a.m.,followed by burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
Ar dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

Tommy Pop Lawless is dead

I  am 68 years coming .From a very young age I came on holidays to the Mc Cormack's on the Curragh Boreen .They were happy days and there were Healys,Conways ,Newmans and Lawleses living nearby to play with and have the craic with.
I  thought then and still think that it was unique to have a crossroads named after your family name.I  well remember Tom Lawless who had a shop on the actual crossroads ans I  think Lizzie who lived the Bohermeen side of it.
And then there was another family of Lawlesses who lived the Dunderry side of Tom Lawlesses shop.There was Tommy ,Matty and Catty --Catherine--and I can barely remember their parents,but the three kids I well remember.
Mattie died young a few years ago,much too soon and now Pop has shook off this mortal coil,at too young an age also.
I didn't know Pop as well as the others ,because after his n marriage he went to live in Donore but did know him and he knew me.
My memory of him is that he was a jovial and quiet and considerate guy ,always being particular in his dress sense and taking great pride in the way he conducted himself and cared for his car ,for example ,which was always kept in the best of form and had the most up to date gadgetry.
He was a big guy and handsome to boot  and would avoid confrontation if at all possible.The King of jobs at the time he finished school was to get a position in Navan Carpets and he had no bother getting one.I  was so impressed with this that one year after I  went home to Blanchardstown after my summer holidays that I  tried to talk my parents into letting me apply for a job there too.They decided otherwise.
Any how Pop stayed there for decades until the Carpet Factory closed down and advanced well upwards in responsibility.
The Lawlesses were never afraid of work and I  understand that his work ethic was such that work always found him ,recessions or no recessions.
I  understand that he kept extremely busy right up to the time of his extremely short illness,which took him and all belonged to him by total surprise.
Right up to his death he was a fierce supporter of Dunderry Football and always supported them in all games of importance as he did the County Team in good times and bad.
He died in the Lourdes Hospital after the shortest of illnesses and is survived by his Wife Pauline,children Sharon,Ronan,Emma and Brian and grandchildren and a great grandchild and devoted in laws and a large coterie of friends.
Cathy is the sole surviving sibling.
On my own behalf and that of my family and on behalf on the deceased members of the Mc Cormack family who thought so much of Pop and indeed all the Lawlesses I offer my sincerest condolences.
The Funeral Mss is on Monday 15th.October at 11.00 A.M in Donore.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a HAnam Dilis.

Getting it right at last.

At adult level we went out with a wimper.The Intermediate Football Team were beat 0-7 to 0-4 by a super defensive Ballinabrackey .The Senior Hurlers failed to win a Championship  match all season and reverted to Intermediate.The sting was taken out of it by securing the League title in Div 3 by beating KILDALKEY'S  2nd.team in extra time.
The Junior Football  Team at least scored a decent score before being turfed out of the Championship.
We have had no second hurling team for many years now and this is not good enough and must be rectified immediately.Adult hurling is a Cinderella sport in our Club and I don't know how our Mentors and players endured it.
The Camogie Club retained Senior status and will but they too were beaten by I  think 3-14 to 0-3.by Na Fianna in the semi final of the Chachampionship.They are better than this .
I  know that the Camogie has a brilliant set up at Juvenile Level and that there is a seamless flow the whole way through to Adult ,where they also field a second adult team.
For many years the Juvenile GAA Club has failed miserably to bring enough players through to adult level.Last year for example we only had two minor hurlers who fielded with Trim and for years we populated the lowest Divisions in the sports we promote .
Now at last there are green shoots of growth.At both hurling and football we have clawed our way up the Divisions and decent teams are getting that winning feeling.We are starting to produce winners,in my view because the Mentors know what they are about.
Next year we must  aim to produce field 2 Adult Hurling Teams and three Adult Football Teams and give games to the talent coming through and believe you me there is talent coming through.
Now is the time to drive our players forward.If we don't there are plenty of other sports waiting to poach those of our youth they haven't yet poached.
One of my grandsons Padraig plays under 11,and 12 hurling and football.They have good mentors and always give a good account of themselves and are well able for the big town teams.This is encouraging .
I am as proud as punch that Padraig and 46 other boys and girls under 12 from Dunderry were part of the crew who partook in a  Guinness World Record training session of 1772 kids who trained concurrently at hurling in  Croker last Sunday.
Well done.
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Death of John Campbell

The above who was in his seventies emigrated to England and settled in London.A native of Carnaross he was a brother of Etna Dowd ,nee Campbell,the the wife of Tommy Dowd and the mother of Tommy the Allstar,Cathy,Dolly and Kevin.
He is survived by a son.
Well Etna and Cathy travelled over to London to bury him at what she says was a very well attended funeral.
Ar dheis De go raibha hAnam dilis.

Computer mice busy as bees.

Now that the GAA Seasons are over for most and that the serial Managers have burnt their boats at their present Clubs there is fierce activity on the Internet in order to establish ;

A.The name and nature of the Chairmen of prospective new Clubs.

B.The names and nature of Secretaries and Treasures of prospective new Clubs.

C.And most importantly whether all other things being equal what Clubs have a strong and successful Lotto.

Dunderry excepted.

Death of Brendan Rogers ,Boyerstown,Navan.

Brendan Rogers was one of ,if not ,the oldest surviving former footballers of Dunderry GAA Club.He played with my uncles Joe,Paddy and Tommy  Mc Cormack and a host of other men long since gone to their eternal reward and I  think that he won Intermediate Championship medals with them in the 1940.s but I  could be wrong.
His father before him Mattie ,better known as the Buller was one of Ireland's,Leinster and Meath's greatest footballers and had and indeed has legendary status amongst true Gaels.
He drove my mother to Dublin to give birth to my late brother Robert 6 decades ago in one of the former Parish Priest's cars he always had in stock all those years ago.
Brendan had not been well at all in recent times and was in and out of hospital  and had the appearance of bad health.This did not diminish has keen interest in all matters agricultural and his wider family ,which he kept up until his untimely death.
His granddaughter Zara is a keen Camogie player with Dunderry Camogie Club and plays Senior and her father Brendan Junior is deeply involved with supporting his daughter's involvement.
The deceased was I  understand reared partly with his granny King beside my mother's people alongside the riverbank of the river Clady and they were lifelong friends.
As long as his health allowed he got daily Mass in Dunderry  Church ,a fact I know because I  often saw him coming or going.
His funeral Mass is in Boyerstown Church this coming Saturday at 3.30 p.m.with burial in the adjoining cemetery afterwards.
To his wife Joan,children David,Joseph,Brendan,George,Joan,Agnes,Anne,Mary and Olive,his survining siblings Micheal ,Tommy,Agnes,Olive,lilly and Brigid .his numerous in laws,and grandchildren and other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a h anam dilis.

JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YA.

Electric Picnic is  hailed as a great family day out.I  don't go but expect it is fairly expensive to attend.A  guy went on Joe the Squaddie's show last week to complain ,justifiably ,that he was waiting 8 years to get a hip replacement operation in Navan Hospital but that it was cancelled at the last moment.
The Health Board gave out free Johnnies at Electric Picnic.The guy still awaits his operation and over one million people await in line to see consultants.
Give them all Johnnies says I.
Sodom and Gomorrah  spring to mind.Or should that be Gonorrhea.
This is the Leo and Simon way.
God and Pope Francis help us.
Hope HE  does not zappone us .
"A Johnny in my time was the name given to a French Letter or a  piece of rubber you put on your bud to prevent the contents of your sack from spilling outwards".

Time to drain the RTE Cesspool

I happened by mistake to hit the wrong dial on the Radio this evening.I say by mistake because that abomination of a radio station is leading a witch hunt against Catholicism and the Pope's visit to this Country.
Not for the first time the station has been taken over lock stock and barrel by a cultish  gang of bowsies ,to whom the Station employees are in thrall.
Those of us a bit long in the tooth will remember when the writ of the Stickies ran riot there and their contorted views held sway .Thankfully the many guises they morphed into were copped onto by the electorate long since and they are long gone from the scene .The cowardice of their armed wing was dubbed "The Irish Ran Away "when they ran and hid from rampaging Loyalist and murdering British forces during the Troubles and real fighters had to take their place.
I well remember the total adherence of all the Journalists there to the writ of Conor Cruise O  Brien that suppressed the interview of  Sinn Fein and IRA members on the same War in Northern Ireland ,the genesis of which lay in absolute discrimination against Catholics and in which basically the majority of Catholics there and many here gave tacit if not actual support.Thankfully Burton has led his Labour Party into the void.
The only brave journalist to break ranks was Kevin O Kelly and he did jail time for his courage.
And it is not that long since the Cesspool had to pay substantial damages for lying about the activities of a Priest.Actually we the citizens who largely fund RTE  had to pay the damages and legal fees.
The hatred of Catholicism endemic in the place was passed off as "group think"by the journalists and programmer makers etc.
This hatred , anti Catholic bigotry and group think has festered since and is glaring in its bias against all things Catholic and  its sycophantic  nodding and  benign approval to anti Catholic bigots and  homosexual practitioners is sickening.
Its glorification of those who facilitate the murder of the living unborn  is constant and it never ceases to champion those who celebrated and danced in Dublin Castle, on the evening of the result of the Referendum for State execution ,on the graves of those who will be exterminated in the future .
Now I happened to hear Miriam Mc Gurk ,Carson O  Callaghan sink to new lows yet again yesterday.
You would have to ask how she would even have the neck to interview anybody on matters Catholic ,when the Catholic view on marriage is that it is for life and between a man and a woman and that she herself has two living husbands so far .The point being that it is clear that she could hardly be seen be unbiased personally on Catholic mores and ought excuse herself as a neutral arbiter on matter Catholic.
Earlier this week I had heard Gabriel Byrne mock the Dublin he had grown up in and denigrate Ireland from his perch somewhere in New York where he had emigrated to decades ago.True to form he was also denigrating about a half of his new neighbours and indeed the USA.
It appears that he had been molested whilst studying for the Priesthood by a deviant homosexual before he bailed out.
He progressed then to sneer and belittle Mick Cleary AND Eamon Casey because they broke their vows of chastity,which by the way is contrary to cannon law but absolutely not contrary to civil law.
This was followed by the ultimate political insider Mainin  the ex President ,who like Henry the Eight before her wants the Catholic Church to change its laws,in her case  to allow  gay marriage and the practice of homo sexual sex to be allowed under its rules because one of her sons is a homosexual.
Might I suggest to her that she and her family and her supporters can and should defect to the Church founded by the aforesaid Henry where all the things she so screechingly demands are de rigour and allowed or why not set up her own and fund its start up from the substantial pension us poor plebs pay her.
She again mocked Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey ,both of whom are dead and cannot defend themselves.
Earlier yesterday I  could not believe my ears when on The Cesspool Radio I  heard Miriam interviewing a  son of the aforesaid Mick.
She did   her best to get him to say he hated his father.Thankfully he wasn't tricked into saying this and professed his absolute love for him.She can presumably dig lower tomorrow and dig up Mick Cleary's bones and interview and mock them also.
Interestingly he made reference to journalists of the time hiding in bushes to try and confront him and his siblings,mere children then.No change in journalistic behaviour since  seemingly
Then last evening I  strayed into the end of an interview in the Prime Time Studio where a decent Bishop was tricked into attending a hostile and vicious attack by her as a supposed neutral interviewer and where many of the imbalanced audience would seem to have been drawn from those dancers and singers who attended Dublin Castle.
Her bias was particularly evident when she knowingly said the homosexuality was against Catholic teaching ,when it is not.Its  practise is.
Certainly had those  devious and depraved  homosexuals that snuck into the Church using the Priesthood as a veil to rape and sodomize young boys in their control kept their dicks in their pockets the odium they brought on the Church would be avoided.
I try.often without success , to be a follower of the Cross and forgiving  and aside from murder ,including the murder of preborn human beings ,the rape and sodomizing of anyone especially a child is as vile as it gets and I  think I would gladly kill anyone who did to a relation of my own
The question of how enough of these depraved homosexual got into the Church must be examined as must the probability of the existence of a cell of these subhumans and whether there was a conspiracy between them and others of their ilk to get in and keep it secret.
I heard Colm O Gorman po poing such a scenario implying it would  be wrong even think of such a probability and this was let go unchallenged by Mrs.Carson.
O  Gorman for a long time now has gone out of his way to denigrate all things Catholic and is devoured by hate.What has he got to fear by by an investigation on the lines I  outline or does he think that only the Catholic Church should be instigated  and that these group of  homosexual degenerates ought  exempt from further scrutiny.
I haven't read the Philadelphia Report yet but it also seems that what happened here happened there.ie there was rape and sodomy of boys be men and forced oral sex .
This leads me to speculate that this raping and  sodomizing of defenceless boys by men was fairly widespread and in roughly the same timeline and I  wonder whether these  degenerates had a wider communication than thought heretofore.
Personally I  think such heinous crimes by these people could not be kept totally secret  from wider society and that all citizens, homosexual and hetero and in between and of none ought come clean if they already have not, if they information they think relevant..
I believe in goodness and evil and think that the Devil could do no better than to plant a bunch of evil dec deviant homosexual predators into Christ's Church to pass themselves off as Priests and wreak the havoc they have
On a personal level I am 67 years old ,grew up in Ireland ,was in regular touch with the Clergy,served Mass for years,went to the Christian  Brothers,played Hurling and Football for decades and was never once abused nor beaten by any religious nor Priest nor Christian Brother.Maybe we had the Angel Gabriel on our shoulders and he saw the evil beasts off.
I  have the height  of respect for the Catholic Clergy and Brothers I  met and they were many and   know full that outside of the Cess pool and the other media outlets there are millions like me.
78 PER CENTAGE OF US DESCRIBED OURSELVES AS CATHOLIC IN THE RECENT CENSUS
BUT OF COURSE THE CESSPOOL AND THEIR SERIAL PANELLISTS THINK US TOO STUPID TO KNOW  HOW TO FILL THE FORM  .
Mickey Harte is bang on the money to have nothing to do with the Cesspool and more Counties ought  follow the example he has adopted.
And one final thing, only a very small percentage of those who snuck through the nets of the Priest hood were perverts and the enemies of Catholicism ,including the members of the Cesspool and their journalistic friends ought stop implying that all Priests were in this Demonic league.
To refuse to do so is similar to saying the all journalists are child molesters just because one well known Journalist was so convicted.

Auld traditions die hard in Limerick.

I wrote some time ago about the naked greed of the Rugby fraternity in fixing an important rugby match for them in Limerick on a good Friday in the hope of maximizing their financial rewards and those of their political and financial groupies.
Professional Rugby has for decades wheeled out Limerick as an example of how this snob game is embraced by the working classes.
Thanks be to God that the Limerick hurling team won the All Ireland Hurling last Sunday and that 90,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO GREET THEM HOME ON MONDAY.
Proof ,if ever proof was ever needed ,of where the true sporting loyalties of ordinary Limerick people lie.
It is in the  DNA of all true Gaels and you either have it or not and no amount of nonsense nor money can purchase this loyalty .
And fair dues to the Gaels of Na Piarsaig for successfully  promoting our beautiful game of hurling in the huge shadow of overpaid professional sportspeople of Thomond Park.

Trim Church full this evening.

After a day when Radio Eireann reached a new low in puke journalism insofar as it broadcast as many mocking and anti Catholic stories as it could I  donned my Pope Francis cap and headed into Trim Church to celebrate the start of the World Meeting of Families at 7.30 this evening.
The Church was full with the finest of people ,including a number of Dunderry people.
Father Hornick played a part in the engaging Service.
I stayed late to contemplate the deranged, outrageous ,spiteful and  bitchy contributions that I  had heard from the usual waggons these last few days ,led by the former political insider  Mc  Aleese who is lashing out blindly at everything Catholic ,just because she has a son who is homosexual and the Catholic Church regards the practise of homosexuality as wrong.
She wants the Church to change its teachings to suit his condition and sexual preferences.
I thought to myself that the desire to satisfy the bud has lead to discord for centuries.
We still have in this Parish the ruins of Churches destroyed by King' Enery because the then Pope wouldn't  change Church law to allow him remarry .
As we all know his inadequate bud failed to produce a male heir after several females were serviced by him and beheaded as a result of his failure and the Church of England founded  with him as its head and a  fundamental rule to this day that no Catholic can become Monarch of England.
This breakaway organization allows women Priests,married Priests and  homosexual ministers,issues which moaning MAININ  bleats about all of the time.
She should make a beeline there and save us the perpetual screeching.
And if she thinks that her hectoring and bullying misuse of her former status as President to change Church law to suit the use of he son's bud is likely to succeed she is mistaken.
There is one thing that puzzles me about this witch hunt and it is this.
From my reading of the reportage it seems that the buggery and sodomizing was done overwhelmingly by  men who preyed beneath the radar on young and defenceless boys,ie by same sex perverts.
You would imagine that homosexual organizations would be anxious to establish why these tendencies seem to exist so extensively in that area of sexual endeavour.
I wonder whether independent studies have been done and what the results are.
Now Mainin the ex had no problem calling Mick Cleary and Bishop Casey hypocrites because they did what she and her consort did i.e they had sexual congress with members of the opposite sex and had children.
Sure isn't this is what she and her ilk is campaigning for.
I knew Mick and some of the family and I  would think more of  his disgarded small toe nail than I DO OF ALL THESE BIGOTS.and their fellow traverrers.
Of course as a lawyer and former student of Enery's Lizzies Uni,she knows that the dead cannot sue for defamation.
I am certain the the families of Mick Cleary and former Bishop Casey are grievously hurt by her comments and unless she is stupid ,which I  doubt, those comments give the lie to her supposed concerns about Christian mores.
She is no more Catholic than the woman in the moon and were I to get into Heaven in the afterlife and see her and her hateful fellow travellers I would opt for relocation to the other place for eternity,where I fully expect to see the sexual predators who preyed on the defenceless young ,those who covered it up,the herd of anti Catholic bigots currently in full bray  and the facilitators and enablers of the murder of defenceless living unborn ,intermingle and compare notes .
Finally I find it disgusting that those political facilitators  whose fangs are dripping with the blood of the defenceless unborn and those who profit from painful divorce brigade, have the temerity to  advise anyone especially God's man on earth how to run his and my Church.
Realizing as I do that the journalistic profession includes in its numbers at least one sexual predator about which little is heard from fellow journalists and that Mussolini was a journalist before he became a fascist Dictator ,I  ought not be surprised by the ignorance and bigotry displayed by Miriam O Callaghan and her hateful colleagues,both electronic and written , today in their one sided reportage and choice of  guests .
And if you ever want to hear an ignorant,spiteful and badly researched interview just listen to the mocking interview with the Bishop of  Raphoe this morning on "Morning Ireland",when the Bishop was queried about the attendance of a former Bishop SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA  at the Congress of families.
This interview was done by Cathal Mac Coille and a colleague ,who again today sneered at Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey deceased in the full knowledge that they are dead and cannot sue and knowing full well that  the people they hurt are people like me and the relatives of these men.
These excuses for reporters are bully boy anti Catho;ic bigots ,who have earned for me the appelation of RTE as "RTE ,the home of the bigots".
This was followed up by Pinkie Miriam calling Sean Spicer a liar on radio.
This is what we pay their  wages for.
Mickey Hatre is right to have nothing to do with this shower of ignoramuses .

Were GAA ambushed by Miller Committee.

Media reports indicate that amongst those organizing the soccer match for the late Liam Miller's family  is a GAA member of the GAA Clb that Miller played with as a juvenile .His name appears to be O Flynn..
As such he would have known that by rule the GAA is prohibited from allowing its pitches and premises from being used to promote field games it competes with.
That being the case one wonders whether the approach to use Pairc Ui  Caoimh to host the match was deliberately made to stroke up controversy and as an opportunity to savage the GAA by the many opponents it has in Irish society ,who are envious of the ability of the GAA to secure their own premises and pitches by careful use of its funds and by implementing its amateur ethos by its thousands of volunteers working for and playing its games for free instead of paying its players.
It is hard to conclude otherwise than that an ambush was sprung and well orchestrated by both social media and regular media begrudgers who despise the GAA and all it stands for,including power hungry politicians who want to make the GAA  as inefficient in administering its affairs as they are with administering those areas  of responsibility they themselves control such as health,policing  and housing to name a few.
That the Judas goat Sean Kelly,former GAA President  who misused his power to promote the game of rugby over the games he was supposed to nurture is again weighing in on the side of those who want to drive a coach and fours through GAA rules,comes as no surprise.He has well earned his pieces of silver for his treachery.
 Those of us who labour on the on the coal face of promoting our National Games know only too well of the targeting of our schools by the soccer and Rugby people in order to deplete our ranks and promote their own and their trips to lANDSTOWN ROAD  --"No phones or cameras please for fear you violate the image rights of our players".
In this former GAA stronghold rugby and soccer have seduced at least a half dozen of our better players to their ranks at the expense of our adult teams with the implied promise of money and fame.
And we are supposed to laud them by giving the use of our grounds to further promote their advances.You must be joking.
I  hope those in charge of our rules and games do the honest thing and implement the rules as all true GAA  people understand them,come what may.
And a lesson ought be learn ed here .Never again seek money from the State to promote our games and when we are treated unfairly and threatened by the State because they gave us taxpayers money .let all GAA taxpayers just cease paying their taxes and funnel the money saved into our local and National branches.

Currrent Sinn Fein leadership betrays Republican traditions.

I never was a member of Sinn Fein.I never took up arms to shoot enemies of Republicans.It is probably to my shame that I did little to help those Republicans who fought the British Empire.the Irish Republic and the failed Northern Ireland entity in order to get equality  for Catholics from the early 1920 s until the passage of the Good Friday agreement.
I have nothing but admiration for those that did.
Three of my granduncles,Mallons from Bohermeen joined the IRA during the War of Independence and fought the better equipped forces of the greatest Empire the world has ever known .including the Royal Irish  Constabulary and the professional murderers and thugs  of the Black and Tans.
They lived day to day and hour by hour as they set their sights on a better resourced and equipped enemy.
I am absolutely sure that they never would have contemplated setting their gun sights on the bodies of the unborn children of Ireland.
We now have Sinn Fein .which claims to be the successors of these heroes doing precisely this and because the leader is a woman ,blood thirsty to introduce human sacrifice into this republic's laws and culture ,no one of significance in that Party has the balls to stand up and call halt.  
It is no surprise to me that Fine Gael thinks that little of the living unborn ,especially if they are Christian Irish ,have their eyes on stalks seeking to make the murder of the living unborn part of our legal culture.
Every  chance their frontbenchers get they attack the Catholic Ethos but not the ethos of the minority Churches whose members they represent.
Yep fuck the Catholics.Put them down at every hands turn..Life will be a lot easier for us when we have cowed them out of comment and we have a free run at our form of secularism.
In this regard their Ministers are a thundering disgrace.
And as for certain Fianna Fail Ministers who support the introduction of human sacrifice into our laws and culture fuck them and the horses they rode into town in.
They all can cultivate friendship with that half XCHINESE ABORTIONIST WHOSE CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE HAS MURDERED OVER 40,000 UNBORN BABIES.
THEY SHOULD ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE IN HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

HEART RENDING DEATH OF NAOISE CLARKE LAMBAY

This morning a young child ,little more than a baby,flew from this life straight into the arms of the Angels.His departure was anticipated but is nevertheless shocking to all in Dunderry .neighbouring Parishes and indeed further afield.
His parents Damian and Eadaoin,his sister Muireann and all his relatives and his neighbours smothered him with love from birth until his premature departure and they left no stone unturned to make his life as comfortable and stress free as possible.
Our hearts bleed for them and hopefully our prayers will offer them some sort of limited succour.
His Funeral Mass is on Monday next 14th May at noon in Seipeal Naomh Padraig,Rathcairn, followed by burial Saint James Cemetery, Athboy.
 Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Words alone cannot express the devastation and loss felt here for all involved.
A terrible tragedy.

Death of S.V.Mc Cormack

Seamus,formerly of the Meadstown Road,Dunderry and latterly of Navan has passed away this morning after a long illness bravely endured.
He had made his peace with God and everybody else.
He was one of life's characters and during his 72 years on this earth he made many many people smile and laugh.
He was irrepressible .
To his wife Claire and three children ,Derek,Brian and Niamh and grandchildren ,Nina and Aoife especially we offer our sincere condolences.We also sympathise  with his only brother Pat.
When we were much younger Jimmy and Nan,Seamus's parents, took in my siblings and I when my mother would be in Hospital having the latest baby.Seamus and Patrick were older and were kind to us.
They were fierce interested in racing bikes then and indeed subsequently.I  had never seen one, especially one with a fixed wheel and had no idea how it worked.
In any event they gave me an old one and challenged me to a race up the Meadstown Road past I think WOOD's shop .
Wishing to give a good account of myself I pedalled like the clappers until I came to the finishing line ,when I stopped pedalling and was thrown over thee handlebars and nearly kilt.To this day I don't know whether this was their idea of a joke or not.If it was it was in poor taste.
Our house in Blanch was a pit stop for all Dunderry people,especially our relatives and the Meadstown Mc Cormacks called in many many times when passing through Blanch.
There were nine kids in the house and had my mother notice of arrivals one of us would be dispatched to Shaw's shop -----now Maccarris Chipper---- to get provisions .
But one day they called out of the blue and provisions were low,so the best the Ma could do was to produce a plate of cheese sandwiches,which everybody tucked into bar Pat".Whats wrong Pat "said the Ma."Aunt Peggy I am not very enthusiastic about cheese ".After a very pregnant silence the Ma said "For a ten year old he has a fierce command of the English language ,hasn't he."And so it went.
Much later  ,when Seamus was in his early twenties the Ras Tailteann was going through Blanch on its way to Navan.We were in our back and only kitchen having a cup of tay ,when this vision in Lycra came in the back door breathless and shining with sweat with the bike on his back.
"Jaysus Peggy I am the fuckest man in Ireland ,make us a feed "said Seamus."That's the end of my cycling days"
Seamus had many careers and was never boring.He was prone to exaggeration and could spoof with the best.He always dressed well and could and probably did  sell sand to the Arabs.
Goodbye Cousin.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
He will be reposing in his residence in Ferndale ,Navan from 5.00 pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 26/4/2018 with the Funeral Mass on Friday 27/4/2018 in St, Mary's  Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.
Burial after wards in St.Mary's Cemetery.

Dunderry 2-14.Drumbarragh 1-9.IFC ROUND 2.

As a kind of prologue to this report mise has missed a number of football and hurling matches this year for one reason or another.Hopefully things will sort themselves out henceforth.
Generally I take the view that Dunderry has traditionally been a strong Intermediate  football team through most of its existence,occasionally winning a Championship and heading upwards to Senior.
The last wave of players to go Senior stayed up a considerable time ,winning a Senior in 1996 and staying up until 2005,when we were demoted down.
We have been strong at Inter  level since then .losing a final replay to St.COLMCILLES two years ago probably being the epitome of our always gallant efforts.
I have seen a number of League matches this year .The one versus Senchaelstown being the most recent.
They are a solid but currently non spectacular Senior team and in my time we have been just as good as them even though we are a grade below them.
We played them in our pitch recently and it was a draw.
Even though we were short half a team between County commitments and injury 20 men and boys togged out,so caps off to players and mentors.
I think we scored only 0-4 in the worst half of football we played for decades.
The second half was different though as we raised our game and both sides put on an exhibition that would warm the cockles.
The deciding factor was probably the dismissal of one of their players and we were cute enough to make the advantage pay.
The refereeing of that match was very fussy as are all the matches I attend and I  genuinely wonder whether over fussiness has contributed to the falling through the ranks of the County Team.Put simply do guys feel they are inhibited from robust legal challenges to the extent tat they don't even try.
There again Meath is producing more more top grade Inter County refs. than any other County so the POWERS THAT BE SURE LIKE THEM.
Maybe there is a case for referees to be instructed to give the benefit of the doubt to robust play at Club level and cut back on the blowing of the whistle for little or nothing .Surely a decent level of physicality is the hallmark of our games and we shouldn't leave this aspect of confrontation to the Rugger crowd,where it is regarded as an attribute.
Now I missed the match against Longwood  which I expected us to win.We lost by 3-12 to 1-13 a fair beating even if we were short a number of regulars.
So the omens were not good.
In ATHBOY ,where the gate man refused to believe that t I was an OAP we fielded as follows;-

                                                      Jennings
O Shea                                      Dempsey Conor                                Watters

Martin Oisin                               Davy Mack                                  A.Newman

                                    Kenneally              Dempsey Liam

Martin Jordan                               Bomber                                     Dermot Kelly

Luke Martin                                 Coogan Stephen                        Kane Mark
For the first time this year we were playing with a full deck.
Eoin Dempsey,and Ronan Brady  ere wbrough on in the second half .
For the first quarter it was tit fot tat.The second quarter saw us string together some lovely moves and scores and we were well ahead at half time on a score of           to            . 
After half time they rattled the onion bag but we raised our game well and were well out of sight at the final whistle Lukie scoring a first rate goal and missing an easier one.Kane scored the other.
Our scorers were Dermot Kelly 0-8 all frees.Stephen Coogan 0-2 .1 free.Lukie and Kane a goal apiece .Bomber 0-2 and Aron Newman,Jordan Maryyn a point apiece.
DERMOT AND Stephen scored 0-9 from frees, a testament to the fussy referring of Gerry  Mc Givney WHO WAS PERHAPS A LITTLE WHISTLE HAPPY, BUT OTHERWISE DIED A FAIR GOOD JOB.
We were good value for our win and all played well.A massive improvement on last years contest against the same opposition.

Cowslips poking heads through.

I cannot remember a worse winter than the one gone by.From Christmas until last week there were only 4 days hereabouts when it didn't rain or snow.
My uncles used say "strip the meadow ground in February and cut the meadows the first of May".
The first of May is nigh and there is more greenery on a billiard table than on the meadow ground.
Every small farmer I know is severely broke from prolonged buying of fodder and depression is widespread all over the shop.
The Government badly misread the situation and what it came up with was too little too late.
It will take years to overcome the disastrous setbacks and some will never recover.Time nor money is not  on their sides.
Notwithstanding this mother nature is kicking in on a small scale .
On the fringes of unmanured fields and along ditches the very odd cowslip is starting to emerge.
You know them.They are on slim stalks with yellow bell shaped flowers hanging down from the tops of the stalks.
Signs of better things to come hopefully.

Death of Joe Clarke,Dunderry.

Joe Clarke ,renowned Dunderry veterinarian recently died after a very short illness.I  think he was 88 years old.I had great time for Joe as he was a pleasant and decent man and easy to talk to.
Dunderry Gaels have good reason to laud his decency, as for many years prior to the Gaa Club securing and opening the present grounds in 1988, he allowed the Club the use of his field adjacent to the graveyard for the training of teams and the playing of games .
I had the honour of playing on it and I am sure that several generations of hurlers and footballers far better than me honed their skills there .
There was a family connection also as my mother's people the Mc Cormacks availed of his veterinarian services from the time he qualified until he retired.
I often heard them laud his  decency saying that they had to approach him after 50 years looking for a bill for services rendered for all those years.
Fifty quid he asked for and fifty quid he got.
In recent years I asked him was that true .He said it was,remarking that some others were similarly billed but never coughed up.
He farmed and was a horse breeder of renown  for decades past
He was predeceased by his wife a number of years ago and is survived by his son Thomas and daughters Cogie and Blainid and a number of grandchildren,to whom we offer our sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM Dilis.
His remains will be received in the Parish Church ,Trim this Thursday evening at 7.00 p.m.with Funeral Mass on Friday at 11.30.a.m.

Auld traditions alive in Dunderry.

If there is anything worse than the needy it is the greedy.A few years ago the greedy professional Rugby crowd fixed a match in Thomond Park between Munster and Leinster for Good Friday and the greedy publicans of Limerick and elsewhere decided that it was not enough to open for business 363 days of the year but that they also needed to open up on Good Friday too ,the day of Christ's cruxifiction,to cater for the superior rugger crowd who more than anyone else had to have their thirst sated on this Holiest of days.
Of course a judge called O Donnell allowed the opening of various pubs to cater for the Rugger crowd who presumably are of his class and who deserved more than anyone else to be catered for.
I well remember that some idiotic Limerick gurriers displayed banners bragging that Rugby was more popular than Religion in Munster.
While this may or may not be true it is clear that spit roasting too is de rigeur for certain participants in this greedy sport of the privileged and one can only hope that it too is not sought special status by the Rugger crowd.
As a matter of record Munster have won nothing of significance since.Maybe they have atoned since for this blasphemy.Time will tell.
Of course the political parties have followed on in this vein in their vain efforts to shed this religious legacy of the Irish people and their fore bearers.
Given that most people check their hand to see whether all  their fingers are still all there after shaking hands with most politicians this is no surprise.
Last Friday signalled the bedding in  of Official Greed in Eire ,when for the first  time it became legal to serve alcohol in pubs and elsewhere on the most sacred of days.
So bereft is RTE of news that it identified a town in Cork where the Pubs choose not to succumb to greed and stayed closed.
I am glad to report that the two pubs of Dunderry,Horans and Geraghty's had the backbone not to hop on this populist and greedy horse and chose to remain closed for the day.
Fair dues to them
As the pub in Robinstown has closed some time ago are were we  the only dry Parish in Ireland  on Good Friday.

Changing the Clock.

Confused  about whether to put the clock forward or backwards an hour for winter or summer time.
Remember this ditty "Spring forward Fall back".Geddit.

Protect the lives of the Living unborn.Rosary at 2.30 tomorrow Sunday 19th March 2018 at Retaine Graveyard.

I am a passionate believer that human life begins at the moment of conception and that a soul attaches at that stage.Certainly everybody ever born was conceived at the some stage and it is therefor impossible to be born without being conceived firstly.The mass of cells that begin to develop after conception in human reproduction are human and nothing else.They are not an alien being that science deniers call a foetus in order to dehumanize them.
The Nazis dehumanized the Jews ,other races and the mentally and physically disabled in order to murder them.
Under the Irish Constitution the Supreme Court has decided that the only protection the unborn human being has is the right to be born enshrined in the Constitution by the Eight Amendment .
Remove this and there will be NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION WHATSOEVER available in favour of the living unborn AND THEY MAY BE KILLED RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH.
Those who favour the State killing of the living unborn say we can rely on the politicians who inhabit the Dail to protect the living unborn by legislation they pass there.
If you believe this you will believe anything.Consider for example the way Fianna Fail ,a decidedly pro life party  has been betrayed in this regard by its leader Michael Martin and other mainly Cork based front bench spokesmen.You couldnt trust them as far as you throw them.
IT is an accepted fact that if you make something legal that the underlying ethos will make its practise more normal and its practise will become more acceptable as time passes.
This is why UNBORN KIDS WITH DOWNS SYNDROME and other congenital conditions such as Edwards Syndrome are aborted in vitro in other countries where abortion is prevalent.
Once the principle of taking life of the unborn beds in the legal system of a society it is only a matter of time until until it permeates other matters of life and death in that society.
I have personal but unwitting experience of an elderly but well enough old person being administered an injection to stop her heart beating and "help on her way"in Great Britain in recent years.This form of murder was and is commonplace in the nursing home where she resided and I suspect throughout that country.
In the Gaeltachs of this country special kids were and are regarded as a gift from God by families who were lucky enough to have them entrusted to their care and are regarded  as" leanai speisealta"",not sub humans to be put to death before being born.
It is no coincidence that the surnames of those leading the campaign for the murder of the innocents are as far from being Irish  as you could get and it is also no surprise that other with Irish surnames are leading the campaign for legalizing the taking the blood of the innocents.You should remember that the BRITS HAD TO HAVE THE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF MANY IRISH to keep their neighbours down and dead if necessary for nearly a 800 years
The spawn of the squaddy still abounds,especially now in Sinn Fein  under the leadership of Mary Lou .
My grand uncles risked their lives fighting the Brits for Indepence in WAR OF Independence  for IRISH FREEDOM.
To see Mary Lou leading a Party campaigning for the murder of the most defenceless Irish people imaginable is as far from their activities as is imaginable and a betrayal of the entire Republican ideal and sickening.

Now these  are my personal views.

And all over Ireland tomorrow at 2.30 a Rosary will be held to retain the right of the unborn to life .
In Dunderry Parish the Rosary will be held in Retaine Graveysard at 2.30.

Dunderry is swamped by deaths

The latest casualty is Maureen Mc Connell,nee Herbert.She died today.Mickey Daly died on Tuesday.Adam Cosgrove was buried on Monday,just 17 years old.Mrs Farrelly from Clonbun ,but in Dunderry Parish ,is being buried on Saturday.
Where will it end.
Mrs Clarke from Macetown is dead as also are John Bligh from Kilbride and Michael Vaughan who also lived in Kilbride and was married to a sisater of Dinny Gogarty.
May they all rest in peace.

Death of a Gent.Mickey Daly.died 13/02/2018

His death did not surprise Mickey Daly from Dunderry.He knew for sure it was imminent.As a friend of long standing I am devastated.
Last November he gave me the low down on his health.He had cancer and after consideration had decided to meet it head on without the application of chemo and radiotherapy.He has seen too much suffering caused by these to no avail.
This brave, principled and affable man died as he lived ,without fear nor fanfare.
He once said to me after burying a young grandaughter who died in a freak accident  that he had climbed many hills in his lifetime but didn't know whether he could climb that one.
He survived that one ,greatly diminished.
The present one was a step too far.
Maghera's  loss was Dunderry's gain.Dunderry's loss is Heaven's gain.
His presence graced the fields ,streets and streams of Dundrry,particularly the GAA Club where he and all his sons were life members.
Reposing in his home today Thursday  4.00 to 8.00 p.m.and Funeral Mass tomorrow at Noon in Dunderry.
To his wife ,children and grandchildren ,wide circle of in laws and massive circle of friends we offer our condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a a hANAM Dilis.

Din 2 F.League .28/01/2018 .Dunderry 3-6.Trim 1-11.

This was our first match of 2018,as far as I know.We have been training a while.Phil.Fay Jnr.is concentrating on the Meath Ladies Football,where his daughters are involved and has quit as a selector .His place is taken by Gary Newman as far  as I know.Ted is still Manager and our Evan,Lee Mulligan and Declan Mahon are also selectors.
I think that a fourth Garry,Michael  ,a son of the Bear's togged out as a sub today.T.J.,  Martin and Alan  have given full service to us before emigrating.Martiin is back  but the other pair are still abroad .Wouldn't it be great to see all four together again in the one Dundeery Team.
Played in Trim this morning on a great pitch there was a strong wind into which we played in the first half.
Only three of the last Senior Team Team to play in 2005 are on the present Panel.ie.Davy Jennings,Davy Mac and Kevin Bruton.There are four e new graduates to the Panel ,Ronan Brady ,Dermot Kelly Shane Heffernan and Jamie Leavy..Ronan is John's son,Diarmuid is Sean's son,Jamie is Timber's son and Shane is the son of  a decent Limerick man ,who has four of them,one bigger than the other.
It is noticeable that the new guys are all strapping guys well over six feet tall.
Our senior County Football panellists,Conor Dempsey,Paddy Kenneally and Luke Martin were unable to play ,it was rumoured ,because of County commitments and injury .Darren Callaghan is rumoured to have retired.
Stephen Coogan is Captain and uniquely,Hurling Captain also.
Trim too were short 4 or 5 players due to County committments.
Team was
                                                      Jennings
A.Newman                                    Davy Mac.                     A.Feeney.

Oisin Martin.                                   O.Dempsey                  M.Kane.

                                            L.Dempsey             C.O.Shea.
R.Brady                                           Bomber Farrell.            Gooch Daly.

A,Watters                                        S.Coogan                      D.Kelly.
Used during the game also were Shane Heffernan,and Jamie Leavy and a full list of the other subs are not yet to hand .
There was a fair bite in the game from the first whistle and plenty of short inter passing.We are fairly adept at this,probably a bit wiser than Trim at it.
Trim scored the first point but  a surge of speed by Kane followed by some slick inter passing ended with Liamo rattling the onion bag.
And then Coogan repeated the dose.Looking good and against the gale too.
But WE died and Trim took over,scoring 7 points in succession without reply before the half time whistle shrilled
Half Time Us.2-0.Them 0-8.
O Shea was our best in the first half I thought,manning the breaches manfully.He is as strong as a young ass.
With the wind in our backs I thought we ought shade it in the second half.
Trim opened with an early point,but Googan with a free and Liamo with another  goal  and a point put us in the lead again.
Trim pulled back with another point before Kane and Coogan increased our lead with minors.Trim score another minor before another brace of points by Coogan from  a free and a fifty put us well ahead but Trim refused to die bulging the net from play.
That left us a point up as Trim laid siege to our goal but our backs held out tenaciously to keep the lead in a tense final five minutes.
We won by 3-6 to 1-11 .
Our cause was greatly helped by Trim calling the influential Frankie Murphy ashore ,the one move you would make to help us to victory.Our mentors would hardly be so unwise.Inexplicable.
There was little between the teams,it was a good game overall and our debutantes did well.No fears there.Our substitutions were on the ball and this was probably the deciding factor in our win.
A fair display all round I thought.
When all our players are available for selection our mentors will have their work cut out.Nice problem to have.
That two intermediate teams could have 6 or 7 players on the County panel is extraordinary in my humble view.Maybe a good omen for both Clubs.
Sub's bench.J.Leavy,S.Heffernan,Jack Brady,M.Garry,Mick Garry,Jack Dempsey,Tomas Conroy,Kevin Bruton,Garrett Dooley,Dec.Mahon.

 

Do you trust women.

Somewhere there exists a cabal of people who want to kill preborn children at the behest of their  mothers and these people think up trick questions to trap out the protectors of preborm children .They have thought up this question.
I heard the apparently fragrant Claire Byrne spring that question on the Liberal's favourite Cleric and serial panellist ,Brian Darcy yesterday.
"Do you trust women "she asked fluttering her eyelashes at him.Given that he is a trendy liberal priest appearing on  a Television Station awash with anti Clerical bigots what could he say only "Yes"
This was a cowardly question by her and a cowardly answer by him,

What he should have said  was that some people are trustworthy and some are not and women are no different than men in this regard.
And as the way God designed the procreation procedure is for a man to impregnate a woman and for her to carry the child to fruition in her womb t men too must have an equal right to decide on these maters.
I am quite sure that thee are many fathers  out there who are devastated because their female partners chose to have an abortion without consulting them .
Just as there are many fathers out there that are glad it happened,

Michael Martyn drives nail into lives of unborn.

Michael Martin is the leader of Fiannna Fail,the first leader of that Party never to be Taoiseach.The membership of that PARTY  and the Parliamentarians of that Party recently voted overwhelmingly to oppose any moves to kill the living unborn,
At his insistence a rule was brought in allowing freedom of conscience when voting either for or against the killing of preborn children inside that Party.
As leader he has a duty to reflect the majority views of his members.
By insisting on the freedom of conscience rule he set up a cocoon of safety for himself by coming out in favour of the killing of unborn children in recent days in the Dail  without informing his Parliamentary colleagues or Party members in advance of  his declaration..
He would nearly have you feeling sorry for him in describing the tortuous  journey he travelled in making this decision and all the reading he did.
God help him.
Does he not realize how lucky he is in being able to consider the ethical problems involved and being able to read all this information .
If his vile turncoat activities result in legislation allowing the killing of the living preborn. they will not be able,on account of being denied the fundamental right to be born of making these ethical decisions or doing this reading because they will not exist.
THE king of the Fir Breaga and a disgrace to the Irish people.And I guess the death knell of Fianna Fail..

Tubridy joins the Gallery of arseholes.

Earlier this week Ryen Tubridy gave his take on the overdue apology given by the Gardai to Johanna Hayes and her family for falsely accusing them of murdering a baby found in Caherciveen in Kerry in the early 1980.'s.
My memory of it went like this.
A baby was found which had been stabbed to death on the shoreline in Caherciveen .The local Gardai called in the Dublin based "Murder Squad",which specialized in solving murders, to help.
The Gardai trawled the County Kerry to identify any woman who had lost a child or given birth around that time.
Johann Hayes had given birth to a baby ,which she said had died ,and which she had buried on the family farm in Abbeydorney ,many miles from Caherciveen.She showed the burial place of the baby.
The Gardai and the State fingered her for the murder of the Caherciveen Baby even though blood tests conclusively proved that neither she nor her married lover could possibly be the parents of the Caherciveen baby.
They fell back on the most remote theory that she simultaneously had intercourse with two men and had given birth to twins with different fathers.
They got her to "confess" to the murder of the Caherciveen baby ,with no proof whatsoever save a "confession "by her which she maintained was extracted by undue duress .Other members of her family also "confessed "to that murder.
It was then clear,and it has been since clear that the prosecution was baseless and for this miscarriage of justice the State is now apologizing three decades later.
A Tribunal was set up to examine how this trumped charge was allowed to proceed and to examine the actions of the Gardai.
The tribunal personnel in the main did all they could to destroy the unfortunate lady but gave the Gardai and the other State personnel a relatively free  ride.
Both the Judge ,all the legal personnel and the preponderance of the  actors in the investigation were from that well heeled class from which Tubs springs ,yet he had the effrontery to blame the narrow mindedness of rural Ireland .and the implied morality of the yokels ,for the miscarriage of justice.
In truth the people of Abbeydorney ,which is as rural as it gets, knew well that a what was put forward by the State was bullshit and formed a cocoon of protection around the Hayes family and protected them from all outsiders.a cocoon they have in place to this day.
Not for the first time this condescending Arsehole let his bullshit liberal philosophy that he and his ilk champion slip out ,a philosophy that he and his  privileged anti Catholic workmates spout regularly about those who live outside the Pale.
In this instance it was precisely his Dublin based bullies who did all in their power to destroy a brave and ho nourable woman.
If Tubs has any balls and I doubt it he should immediately profoundly apologize to the people of Abbeydorney and all rural dwellers for branding them as he did.
It is  no surprise to me that the reinvestigation is focusing on the murder of the child and not on the actions of the Gardai.and the State apparatus.
For far too long now the Politicians and the Courts have turned a blind eye to the misbehaviour of some Gardai and let them away Scot free with unlawful activities.
The Morris Tribunal result,the industrial level of lying that produced over a million false breath tests,the wrongful prosecution of many thousands people for non payment of fixed charge notice,the persecution of decent whistle blowers who abhor wrongful behaviour and the personal experiences people see every day of wrongful abuse of power and the bullying of the populace by certain wrong Gardai does not arise by accident.
Its grandfather can be found in the treatment of Johann Hayes.
It seems to me that other convictions secured by the Gardai Unit who investigated the the Johanna Hayes case should also be examined to see if they too were tainted likewise.
Now we have certain people dumping on the Catholic Church for these abuses of State power.Particularly some by Church of Ireland commentators.and other non Catholic politicians and journalists..
Whether it is the loss of the tithes and their traditional access to and untrammeled minority rule of years ago they miss that THEY FEEL ENTITLES THEM TO DO THIS  DON'T KNOW.
Certainly they are over represented in in the professions involving the Law.
I rarely have heard Catholic commentators dumping on Church of Ireland persons and practises but the opposite does not pertain.
Simon Harris is the Minister for Health.He is a disaster in this role .Up to 500 people are lying on trolleys each day during his watch and over a half million people are awaiting specialist appointments.
God only knows how many people will die during his watch as a result.
His tiny mind has tried to link the right to kill unborn babies to the Johann Hayes case amongst others.  The  Catholic Church had no hand act nor part in the misconduct of the actors in that case.It didn't kill anyone.
Maybe his logic is that if a child is deliberately killed in the womb it won't be there to clutter up his hospitals in later life.
I have heard it said by some that the events of the handling of the Abbeydornet case is a blight on us all.This of course is nonsense of the highest order.It is not "us all"they that had control of the Gardai and the entire State apparatus that perpetrated that cruelty and torture.It was the political establishmentand and  the legal apparatus established by the politicians
There are those who are jumping on the bandwagon that it was purely misogynistic treatment of women that was the root cause of this  disgraceful near  miscarriage of Justice,
Wrong again.
Just think of the Guilford four and Binmingham 6,where innocent men were stitched by a corrupt police force and State apparatus and later exonerated.
This was in the U.K. and we were no different .
All these guys were men,not women and I am certain that had I time to research the convictions secured here in that ERA I am sure I  could come up with more.
The same political parties that ran the show then are now presiding over a State where criminals and non criminals are murdered on a weekly if not a daily basis.
It is no wonder that they are still trying to divert responsibility from  themselves to "all of us ".











































And by the way I accept that the Serpent tempted certain so called Catholics to his side in the past.Satan plys a sly game.
Satans suipreme triump will surely be Starte killing of the deferceless ouborn

The good people.

Today was a day from hell hereabouts.The chill factor alone would knock you over.There was hateful slanting rain that cut to the bone and the leaden sky was so dark and threatening that it would depress you.Outdoor livestock were huddled against the wind and rain seeking shelter against the elements.
In these conditions I  had to head to Trim.
Now the hair is long and  untidy and I wasn't dressed the best.I walk funny as a result of a stroke endured in 2009 and with the aid of a walking stick and progress is slow.I suppose I looked as miserable as I felt.
To my amazement a very able lady of my own age, I would guess ,approached me and offered me a two Euro piece to buy myself a cup of tea and get in out of the cold.I thanked her kindly and declined.
It might have been a case of mistaken identity but there again it may not have been.
Certainly the milk of human nature still flows strongly in some.
God bless her.
I also was lucky enough to meet Pat Conway from Halltown ,who was a great friend of my uncles Joe and Tommy as a child and often helped them at the farming.
He is home for the Christmas from the States ,never lost has accent and never aged a day in twenty years.A decent guy and a huge loss to Ireland and Dunderry,which as I told someone was founded the day after God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

Devaluation of Marriage .

In  a STATE dominated by a homosexual ethos ,under the stewardship of a homosexual Taoiseach and reported and commented on by a tame media totally fearful of standing up for heterosexual values and norms it is little wonder that such is the disrespect for the institution of  marriage that we now have two heterosexual men marrying for tax advantages.
This follows on from the lie that marriage between a man and a woman is no different than the union of a man to a man nor a woman to a woman.It is clear that they are not the same,no matter what the referendum result was.
I await the next absurdity.

Tommy Tiernan.Arsehole Supreme.

There is little doubt that the Electronic Media is totally in the firm control of Satan and his empire of evil.For example on RTE Radio today we had serial panellists ,known for their wish to enable the murder of  the defenceless unborn ,pollute a programme ,the alleged purpose of which was to celebrate the lives and achievements of note in 2017,
On the deaths of Cardinal Connell and Bishop Casey they made so little of them that were I Primate of Ireland I would bar them for life and in death from Consecrated ground.
Both their hatred of the Catholic Religion and that of the presenter  was so palpable that it could be felt in the very air that emanated from the studio.
It is no coincidence that the Justine thing was a permanent fixture on the Vincent Brown anti Catholic shambles that set out to do down Catholicism at every hand's turn.
She has found a home in the squaddie Duffy's show which abhors everything Republican and Catholic.
They had better hope that God's capacity for forgiveness is greater than mine as like the Brown fella they will be meeting him soon enough,no more than myself..
While snoozing on the afternoon of Christmas Day I think I  heard a contributor on a show presented by wrinkle puss O  Leary on RTE Radio ,another Catholic hater ,drone on about abuse by  Christian Brother
.In my  own experience the only abuse I suffered was at the hands of a lay teacher educated ,if that is the word,at University just like herself and around the same time I would say.
They really love the  sound of their own hateful voices and on The Birthday of Jesus too.Absolutely no respect .
But the worst of all was the performance of Navan creature Tommy Tiernan on an offshoot of TV3 this evening.In a display of hatred ,which ISIL would be proud of he blasphemed Christ's teaching as much as he could,liberally interspersing his sneering of the Sacred teachings with as many  curse words as he could muster ,especially the word "CUNT"
I don't know whether his parents are alive or not and whether hay are buried in the Christian rite,and  I don't know whether he is married or has children and if he has ,whether he thinks it OK to teach them such language and feels proud to let them see such performances ,but in my book he is a disgrace to humanity a bigot of the most extreme type, a man  unfit to rear children if the language he uses in the Show is used at home in front of them and the biggest disgrace of an excuse of a creature yet to go into exile from Navan.
I think he lives in Galway.They are welcome to him down there.
That the two biggest Stations chose to revile God and his Church and His  Teachings on the occasion of his birthday must have Satan and Hell rocking.
Soon enough Satan will be welcoming the programmers and presenters into his Kingdom of Evil.

That says it all really.

I know that those currently running the GAA Club are not long enough hereabouts to appreciate the sort of responsibility they are momentarily in charge of and the traditions they are charged with nurturing and continuing to protect.
Today at Christmas Mass I spoke to a man in his seventies who ,although he does no longer live here has never missed Christmas Mass here since his parents died.He is Dunderry to the backbone and so were his parents.
At 16 he played with the Intermediate Team ,which was the prime football team at the time .His father was still playing.
I asked him had he played with Francie Tuite who I think is the oldest living ex Dunderry footballer.He said he hadn't.I suspect that Tim Coffey might be the next oldest and I asked had he played with him, but Brendan Rogers and Paddy Conway may be older
.He said he was coming on the team at the time Tim and the Major Cregan were in the backs and the Goat Stanley was in goals.
Such was the reputation of these guys throughout the County that every forward line in the County feared them thoroughly.
Our man told me that he himself was afraid to play with these Dunderry legends,even though they were on the same team.
Incidentally I think  I  saw young Pat Conway and a clatter of Dooleys at Mass today.
Home really is where the heart is.
I'm going on the beer tomorrow and will keep ye informed of what is happening.
The same Brendan I mention above is home recovering from  fairly serious opration and we wish him well..

Longest living ex Dunderry Player under pressure.

Nearly ninety years young Francie Tuite is the oldest living ex Dunderry player alive.If ever a man needed prayer he does.

Not much Christmas Spirit in parts of Navan.

Today I drove to Navan to collect specs from Specs savers Navan.
In I drove and parked in the  car Park alongside the Credit Union  the town centre side of it.It is opposite the Shopping Centre on Kennedy Road and seems to be in private ownership.
There was a little queue to get in and the owner or  manager,I don't know which , had the manners to get me a two Euro ticket .I parked and went off about my business.
I am very visibly disabled and cannot walk without walking stick.Even then I HAVE A PROFOUND LIMP AND AM AS SLOW AS A SNAIL.
Additionally my left arm is fairly useless and is always swollen and visibly so.
I say this because when I returned to my car I was verbally artttacked and intimidated by the owner /manager who maintained that I was in huge trouble because I was an eighth of an inch away from the entrance  to his house and if I let the car slip that much forward there would be hell to play.
Now I was coming from the opticians and was wearing brand new glasses All I could see in front of me was a fence similar to the other fencing around the Car Park.No front door,no windows,no steps no nothing,Nor could I SEE anything prohibiting me from parking where I was..This creature then leaned across windshield saying I had overstayed my welcome by a half hour.,I would guess he won't see seventy again.
I told ;d him he was not a nice guy at all.He retorted that he n most certainly was not.
NOW I have noticed since I got my stroke and  am disabled that there are certain people,usually small men ,who tend to pick on people like me in the knowledge that I AM UNABLE BECAUSE OF MY DISABILITY TO DEFEND MYSELF.
These cowardly little shits would never pick on fully fit and functioning men for fear they might get a belt back.
IN MY EXPERIENCE SUCH WAS THE NATURE OF THIS LITTLE SHIT.
He either owns or manages the car park beside the Credit Union and seemingly lives in a house the Credit Union side of it through the fence according to him.
I take solace in the Biblical saying that it is harder for a rich m,an to get into the Kingdom of Heaven  than for a camel to get through the eye of a needle.

Death of Lilian Weldon ,Churchtown,Dunderry.

Anyone who has in the past habituated the streets of Dunderry and Churchtown in particular in recent years cannot but have come across Lillian walking her dog regularly on the roads .particularly on the Retaine Road ,which even today is fairly quiet.Day after day and season after season she graced these roads.Most of us knew she had cancer and all of us hoped that she would overcome it.Certainly you felt that such was the exemplary life lived by this lady that God would have to cut her some slack.And if there is anyone sounder nor her husband Mickey I have yet to meet him .The Weldons are amongst the most decent of people and their big kids now Ronan and Paul  are cut from  this cloth.
She was a Shiels from Kilmessan abnd I hear that her father was killed demolishing Trim Jail  in the 1950.s but might be wrong.
She hasn't been around in recent months and while there is no convenient time to die it is my understanding that it was not unexpected .
Her neighbourly chastisement of Dot over her wandering hens and Dot's over  Lilian's snooping dog are long since forgotten and I spotted Vince out today tidying the hedges and road on the funeral route.
She couldn't but have good neighbours as she  herself was a rare one.And I hear that they did all they could for  herself and Mickey in recent months.
Personally I didn't know her very well but as there is no such thing as a bad Weldon I know from her demeanour that she was of he highest  standard and the most decent of women.
She is being waked tomorrow Wednesday from 2.00 to 9.00 in their house in Churchtown and will arrive in Dunderry Church on Thursday at 30 minutes past Noon for the Funeral Mass.
AR Dheis De go raibh a hANAM DILIS.