The T.V.Repair man was at the back end of beyond as they say around here.He was hopelessly lost and had but the name of the customer who rang in with the request to repair his telly.
He came across an elderly gent out walking in the rain with hair down to his waist wearing a leather sombrero hat from which the water dripped .
"Would you be Stephens,with a broken television"said the repair man.Without breaking pace nor looking up yer man said "Television ,the soap box of the Devil ""Na not me ",
It's as well he hadn't heard of the Internet.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
In the morning Lord.
The trusses and timber work in the Church roof were magnificent ,complex and mind numbing.They were primed,painted and varnished by hand every five years and generally treated with the respect they fully deserved.It took a number of skilled craftsmen a month from start to finish to complete the work,nestled as they were on high and perched on top of the objects of their lavish attention.
They worked all day long from dawn to dusk carrying up with them enough food and equipment to last the day.Once up they stayed up and Masses and all the other ceremonies continued apace as they worked.The Parishioners forgot them after a while and continued about their Church business as though they didn't exist.
Including the Budda Stephens the most devout attendee at the Church and so nicknamed because of his obvious devotion.
The painters watched down on all from on high and the Budda was in the habit of doing the Stations of the Cross after every ceremony he attended ,which was each day in effect.His last act was to light a dozen candles and pray fervently on his knees.But the Budda never put any mulla in the candle cash box.Ever.
The boys copped this and told their boss ,himself a genuine devout man.
The next morning he hid above in the trusses out of sight entirely.
Things progressed as per normal and the Budda pulled his normal stunt of lighting the candles and getting up to leave sans payment,whereupon the foreman intoned in his best and deepest voice"Pay for the candles Budda "to which the reply issued as the Budda bowed without breaking pace "In the morning LORD".
In Dunderry the craic never ends.
They worked all day long from dawn to dusk carrying up with them enough food and equipment to last the day.Once up they stayed up and Masses and all the other ceremonies continued apace as they worked.The Parishioners forgot them after a while and continued about their Church business as though they didn't exist.
Including the Budda Stephens the most devout attendee at the Church and so nicknamed because of his obvious devotion.
The painters watched down on all from on high and the Budda was in the habit of doing the Stations of the Cross after every ceremony he attended ,which was each day in effect.His last act was to light a dozen candles and pray fervently on his knees.But the Budda never put any mulla in the candle cash box.Ever.
The boys copped this and told their boss ,himself a genuine devout man.
The next morning he hid above in the trusses out of sight entirely.
Things progressed as per normal and the Budda pulled his normal stunt of lighting the candles and getting up to leave sans payment,whereupon the foreman intoned in his best and deepest voice"Pay for the candles Budda "to which the reply issued as the Budda bowed without breaking pace "In the morning LORD".
In Dunderry the craic never ends.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
TALK TO THE HAND.
There are many people of my vintage who have made valuable contributions to Irish Society over the decades and the zenith of our educational achievements was the Primary Certificate which was a State exam which one sat after 9 years at Primary School at about 13 years of age.
Passing it meant that one had mastered the three R s i.e reading writing and arithmetic.
With these at your disposal you were fit to take on the world and many millions did and continue to do.
Of course many fell between the cracks and are illiterate to this day.Many of my vintage could not afford to get second level education as it had to be paid for and that was as far as we went.
Relatively few got Second level education and fewer still went to Third level.
These last two decades have seen huge advances in Technology and the State has paid to upgrade the computer skills of millions of youngsters the vast majority of whom now go to third level at least,largely on the taxes contributed by my generation.
Generally there are millions of my age and older who might as well be looking into a bush as confronting a computer screen and a keyboard,but who can perfectly execute the three Rs in totally legible hand writing.
Instead of showing some element of appreciation towards us for our contributions to society over the years this State and the major Financial Institutions do all in their power to victimise ,bully .penalise and intimidate those of us who can read ,write and do arithmetic but have not yet nor will master the complexities of computerisation.
Many Government Office sand Financial Institutions will not accept the written word as a valid form of communication but insist on computer text to deal with customers and even if they do reluctantly accept perfectly written text as valid severely penalise and disadvantage the writers in monetary terms.
This is callousness.ageism and discrimination of the most insidious type.
Imagine the uproar that would ensue were a defined minority,say Japanese people ,who were known to be computer deficient ,penalised in its dealing with the State and the Financial Institutions Yet this happens daily to millions of people of my vintage and older in the Ireland of today at all levels of society.
I can best illustrate the point being made by the abominable treatment I witnessed of a person I know to be a pensioners and severely disabled in a Pillar Bank recently.
This person subsequently nformed me that he was banking with this Bank for 40 years or more.
I was behind this man in the queue.
The Bank has a number of machines to which we were directed and told to use instead of the two tellers who were behind the counter and totally unoccupied.
The man had two things to do,he had a cheque to lodge and he wanted a cash withdrawal.Of the 6 machines there only one allowed both transactions.I strongly suspect that the Government's strong aversion to cash and its use and its desire to know what you had for breakfast is the reason for the glaringly obvious dearth of cash dispensers generally .
Not only did this man look his age but he had severe discomfort standing in the queue on a clearly lame leg.
We had the misfortune to be behind a woman who had a handbag as big as a Santa's sack on the start of his rounds and who proceeded to lodge individual cheque after individual cheque in the machine for several long minutes with no end in sight.
The life long customer ,by now visibly wilting, called a female clerk who was one of the posse of people herding us to the machines and asked would it be all right to do his business with the idle clerks behind the counter to which she replied that the female ahead of him would be finished shortly and to wait on.
Now how she could know this was beyond him and so it proved as five minutes later yer wan was still parked in front of the machine talking to it.
On the point of collapse the old guy just turned on his heel and left.
This is what Baldy Noonan and Enda the Cromwellian ,their ilk and their devotees think of our generation.
Bad cess to them one and all.
Passing it meant that one had mastered the three R s i.e reading writing and arithmetic.
With these at your disposal you were fit to take on the world and many millions did and continue to do.
Of course many fell between the cracks and are illiterate to this day.Many of my vintage could not afford to get second level education as it had to be paid for and that was as far as we went.
Relatively few got Second level education and fewer still went to Third level.
These last two decades have seen huge advances in Technology and the State has paid to upgrade the computer skills of millions of youngsters the vast majority of whom now go to third level at least,largely on the taxes contributed by my generation.
Generally there are millions of my age and older who might as well be looking into a bush as confronting a computer screen and a keyboard,but who can perfectly execute the three Rs in totally legible hand writing.
Instead of showing some element of appreciation towards us for our contributions to society over the years this State and the major Financial Institutions do all in their power to victimise ,bully .penalise and intimidate those of us who can read ,write and do arithmetic but have not yet nor will master the complexities of computerisation.
Many Government Office sand Financial Institutions will not accept the written word as a valid form of communication but insist on computer text to deal with customers and even if they do reluctantly accept perfectly written text as valid severely penalise and disadvantage the writers in monetary terms.
This is callousness.ageism and discrimination of the most insidious type.
Imagine the uproar that would ensue were a defined minority,say Japanese people ,who were known to be computer deficient ,penalised in its dealing with the State and the Financial Institutions Yet this happens daily to millions of people of my vintage and older in the Ireland of today at all levels of society.
I can best illustrate the point being made by the abominable treatment I witnessed of a person I know to be a pensioners and severely disabled in a Pillar Bank recently.
This person subsequently nformed me that he was banking with this Bank for 40 years or more.
I was behind this man in the queue.
The Bank has a number of machines to which we were directed and told to use instead of the two tellers who were behind the counter and totally unoccupied.
The man had two things to do,he had a cheque to lodge and he wanted a cash withdrawal.Of the 6 machines there only one allowed both transactions.I strongly suspect that the Government's strong aversion to cash and its use and its desire to know what you had for breakfast is the reason for the glaringly obvious dearth of cash dispensers generally .
Not only did this man look his age but he had severe discomfort standing in the queue on a clearly lame leg.
We had the misfortune to be behind a woman who had a handbag as big as a Santa's sack on the start of his rounds and who proceeded to lodge individual cheque after individual cheque in the machine for several long minutes with no end in sight.
The life long customer ,by now visibly wilting, called a female clerk who was one of the posse of people herding us to the machines and asked would it be all right to do his business with the idle clerks behind the counter to which she replied that the female ahead of him would be finished shortly and to wait on.
Now how she could know this was beyond him and so it proved as five minutes later yer wan was still parked in front of the machine talking to it.
On the point of collapse the old guy just turned on his heel and left.
This is what Baldy Noonan and Enda the Cromwellian ,their ilk and their devotees think of our generation.
Bad cess to them one and all.
Death of Eithne Lee Dunderry
Eithne died recently in a Dublin Hospital after suffering for some time from severe accidental burns,which compounded the discomfort she has suffered from multi weekly dialysis treatment she had to undergo in recent years.
These last few months have been severely taxing on her and her exemplary daughters Anne,Maura and Eithne who have maintained vigils at her bedside and have for some time feared the worst.
Eithne was a Louth woman ,of quiet disposition and was married for many years to the late Bob Lee ,a Galway man ,who was the more outgoing of the two.
Bob died some years ago in some distress also and I know his family suffered considerably at the time.
The Parish was lucky that such a decent and outstanding exemplary family chose to live here and enlighten the lives of those fortunate enough to know them.
Bob was a life member of Dunderry GAA Club and so enrolled because of the involvement of their youngest daughter Eithne in the Camogie Club and she remains to this day the firmest of friends with our Mags as a consequence of friendships then forged.
Her many friends and neighbours in the Parish mourn her passing.
Her mortal remains will arrive at Dunderry Church this evening ,Sunday 17th, January at 6.00 p.m.and the funeral Mass is on Monday at 11.00 a.m.
Her remains will be cremated in Mount Jerome at approx.1.30.p.m. afterwards.
Ar Dheis SDe go raibh a hanam dilis.
These last few months have been severely taxing on her and her exemplary daughters Anne,Maura and Eithne who have maintained vigils at her bedside and have for some time feared the worst.
Eithne was a Louth woman ,of quiet disposition and was married for many years to the late Bob Lee ,a Galway man ,who was the more outgoing of the two.
Bob died some years ago in some distress also and I know his family suffered considerably at the time.
The Parish was lucky that such a decent and outstanding exemplary family chose to live here and enlighten the lives of those fortunate enough to know them.
Bob was a life member of Dunderry GAA Club and so enrolled because of the involvement of their youngest daughter Eithne in the Camogie Club and she remains to this day the firmest of friends with our Mags as a consequence of friendships then forged.
Her many friends and neighbours in the Parish mourn her passing.
Her mortal remains will arrive at Dunderry Church this evening ,Sunday 17th, January at 6.00 p.m.and the funeral Mass is on Monday at 11.00 a.m.
Her remains will be cremated in Mount Jerome at approx.1.30.p.m. afterwards.
Ar Dheis SDe go raibh a hanam dilis.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Sunday Independent.A total rag.
Two weeks ago I momentarily forgot just why I had years ago ceased buying and reading the Sunday Independent and made the gross and inexcusable once off mistake of buying it just the once..After reading a scurrilous article by a being called Carol Hunt the reasons came flooding back.
She wrote an article demonising the life's work of Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa who has been nominated for Sainthood.
Firstly let me state that this was cowardly journalism in its most invidious form in that this insufferable wagon knows full well the first rule of knavish journalism is that you can spread whatever lies that you wish about the dead because they are not alive to defend their good name.
Secondly this anti Catholic bigot thinks it kosher to belittle the beliefs of Catholics by besmirching the Status of Sainthood which as even a smidgen of research would reveal Sainthood is held sacred to us who practise Catholicism.At the very least it is disrespectful and at its worst is bigotry of the worst sort ,far worse than that practised by that French Satirical Magazine which has put world peace at risk.
Maybe she thinks she is being clever and cool in asserting that Mother Teresa took pleasure in the suffering of the poor and that She subjugated them to such suffering for her pleasure.
Of course she can make such false allegations in the sure knowledge that Catholics will not place a fatwa on her,unlike Muslims who might.
Such a cowardly journalist would not repeat in print ,nor would her Rag publish such damning and hateful rubbish, about any Muslim prophet nor religious icon.Guess why.
Satan himself could have found it difficult to more effectively demonise such a Holy Woman and Saint as the pro abortion Carol Hunt has done and therein may lie a clue for her hateful vindictiveness towards Catholicism and Saint Teresa.
In my very simple take on Catholicism there are good and evil.There are God and the Devil.Obey God's laws and after death you will have eternal happiness in HEAVEN in the company of the Saints and the good people.
Deliberately disobey God's laws and you will enter the realm of Hell from which there is no escape.
Do the Devil's work in this life by calumnising God's Saints and you will serve Satan for eternity in the next life.
It may be that in Satan's realm in the afterlife that Carol Hunt will be renamed Mike Hunt (SAY IT QUICK) and when Satan calls her from the ranks of the damned ,she will scurry on all fours to serve him in the capacity that best suits her.
She wrote an article demonising the life's work of Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa who has been nominated for Sainthood.
Firstly let me state that this was cowardly journalism in its most invidious form in that this insufferable wagon knows full well the first rule of knavish journalism is that you can spread whatever lies that you wish about the dead because they are not alive to defend their good name.
Secondly this anti Catholic bigot thinks it kosher to belittle the beliefs of Catholics by besmirching the Status of Sainthood which as even a smidgen of research would reveal Sainthood is held sacred to us who practise Catholicism.At the very least it is disrespectful and at its worst is bigotry of the worst sort ,far worse than that practised by that French Satirical Magazine which has put world peace at risk.
Maybe she thinks she is being clever and cool in asserting that Mother Teresa took pleasure in the suffering of the poor and that She subjugated them to such suffering for her pleasure.
Of course she can make such false allegations in the sure knowledge that Catholics will not place a fatwa on her,unlike Muslims who might.
Such a cowardly journalist would not repeat in print ,nor would her Rag publish such damning and hateful rubbish, about any Muslim prophet nor religious icon.Guess why.
Satan himself could have found it difficult to more effectively demonise such a Holy Woman and Saint as the pro abortion Carol Hunt has done and therein may lie a clue for her hateful vindictiveness towards Catholicism and Saint Teresa.
In my very simple take on Catholicism there are good and evil.There are God and the Devil.Obey God's laws and after death you will have eternal happiness in HEAVEN in the company of the Saints and the good people.
Deliberately disobey God's laws and you will enter the realm of Hell from which there is no escape.
Do the Devil's work in this life by calumnising God's Saints and you will serve Satan for eternity in the next life.
It may be that in Satan's realm in the afterlife that Carol Hunt will be renamed Mike Hunt (SAY IT QUICK) and when Satan calls her from the ranks of the damned ,she will scurry on all fours to serve him in the capacity that best suits her.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Dunderry Adult Management 2016
Word is filtering through that the following is the set up.
Football.
Manager Kevin Dowd.
Selectors.Phil Fay Junior,Mickey Molloy,Lee Mulligan.
Hurling.
Mark Nolan.
Selectors.Christy Coogan,Kevin Heffernan,Paddy Darcy.
And Tom Ryan ,former Dunderry and Meath Manager has agreed to give a hand. from time to time.
All these guys have a huge wealth of Experience under their belts and are good guys as indeed were the retiring Managers and their selectors led by Stephen O Rourke and Paddy Gorey.
It is great to see that volunteerism is still alive and kicking in Dunderry for jobs that make you either a hero ,if you succed or a knave ,if you fail.
But would we have it any other way.
Kevin would have more managerial experience at Hurling level including at County level.He is the fourth member of the 2005 team which I managed and was demoted from Senior to Intermediate to take up the challenge of regaining Senior status,the others being his brother Tommy ,Barry Callaghan and Stephen O Rourke.
I will be watching to see if he can succed where the others failed and hope that the players will give him the full loyalty he gave me.
All his backup team is hugely impressive and all were dual players so there should be a smooth relationship with their hurling counterparts.
Older Dunderrians may not know Mark Nolan and Kevin Heffernan.Mark is a Boardsmill man and married to Eunice O Brien whose mother is Mary Newman.He has been involved with juvenile hurling here for some years,Kevin is a fanatical Limerick hurling man doing fantastic work wit the juveniles.He really loves hurling and has a name that is hard to live up to.Paddy was a selector before if I am not mistaken .
Tom I WORKED WITH BEFORE.He knows his onions.
INTERESTING TIMES AWAIT US .
Football.
Manager Kevin Dowd.
Selectors.Phil Fay Junior,Mickey Molloy,Lee Mulligan.
Hurling.
Mark Nolan.
Selectors.Christy Coogan,Kevin Heffernan,Paddy Darcy.
And Tom Ryan ,former Dunderry and Meath Manager has agreed to give a hand. from time to time.
All these guys have a huge wealth of Experience under their belts and are good guys as indeed were the retiring Managers and their selectors led by Stephen O Rourke and Paddy Gorey.
It is great to see that volunteerism is still alive and kicking in Dunderry for jobs that make you either a hero ,if you succed or a knave ,if you fail.
But would we have it any other way.
Kevin would have more managerial experience at Hurling level including at County level.He is the fourth member of the 2005 team which I managed and was demoted from Senior to Intermediate to take up the challenge of regaining Senior status,the others being his brother Tommy ,Barry Callaghan and Stephen O Rourke.
I will be watching to see if he can succed where the others failed and hope that the players will give him the full loyalty he gave me.
All his backup team is hugely impressive and all were dual players so there should be a smooth relationship with their hurling counterparts.
Older Dunderrians may not know Mark Nolan and Kevin Heffernan.Mark is a Boardsmill man and married to Eunice O Brien whose mother is Mary Newman.He has been involved with juvenile hurling here for some years,Kevin is a fanatical Limerick hurling man doing fantastic work wit the juveniles.He really loves hurling and has a name that is hard to live up to.Paddy was a selector before if I am not mistaken .
Tom I WORKED WITH BEFORE.He knows his onions.
INTERESTING TIMES AWAIT US .
Dunderry Christmas Masses 2015
Christmas Eve 24th December.
Kilbride.6.00 p.m. Carols and Music from 5.30 on under tutelidge of Aoife Stephens on trombone with Deirdre Mc Hale singer,Lauren Finnegan Harp,and David Lamb organ.
Dunderry.7.30 with Carols beforehand and during by Dunderry Church Choir.
Christmas Day 25/12/2015.
Robinstown 9.30 a.m.with Carols before and during by Robinstown Church Choir.
Dunderry 11.00 a.m.with Carols before and during by Dunderry Youth Choir.
Stephens Day.
10.00 a.m. Robinstown.
IT IS ADVISABLE TO ATTEND WELL IN ADVANCE OF STARTING TIME TO GET A SEAT ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY
And give a thought to Father Hornick who celebrates all these Masses and organises the shoot bang lot.No easy job that.
Kilbride.6.00 p.m. Carols and Music from 5.30 on under tutelidge of Aoife Stephens on trombone with Deirdre Mc Hale singer,Lauren Finnegan Harp,and David Lamb organ.
Dunderry.7.30 with Carols beforehand and during by Dunderry Church Choir.
Christmas Day 25/12/2015.
Robinstown 9.30 a.m.with Carols before and during by Robinstown Church Choir.
Dunderry 11.00 a.m.with Carols before and during by Dunderry Youth Choir.
Stephens Day.
10.00 a.m. Robinstown.
IT IS ADVISABLE TO ATTEND WELL IN ADVANCE OF STARTING TIME TO GET A SEAT ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY
And give a thought to Father Hornick who celebrates all these Masses and organises the shoot bang lot.No easy job that.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The seagulls know.
Our land is over 30 miles from the sea,that is the part of it not covered in water from the incessant rain.Today the non submerged part was covered with seagulls picking maggots from the ground as said maggots surfaceed from the earth in fear of drowning from the upcoming deluge. I assume.
If I am right in this analysis we are in for some deluge.And these seagulls have an uncanny ability for foresight and how to turn nature to advantage.
The hoors have set up house in it and have started to squalk to me.Bad cess to them.
If I am right in this analysis we are in for some deluge.And these seagulls have an uncanny ability for foresight and how to turn nature to advantage.
The hoors have set up house in it and have started to squalk to me.Bad cess to them.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Death of J,Doonan and my tribute to,
Word is just filtering in of the unexpected death of the very well respected J,Doonan of the Meadstown Road,Dunderry,husband of the late Breda Stanley .
He was suffering from pneumonia in a Dublin Hospital ,as I understand it and died there..They had no children .
J was Down man and kicked football with them in his youth.If I remember correctly his brother subsequently played in goal for the County.He also played professional soccer in England and was interested in boxing and at one stage approached me to see would I be interested in setting up a club in Dunderry,Because of my time consuming involvement in the GAA I had to decline and the idea was stillborn.
He was a die hard Republican and spent several years in Long Kesh on remand ,never being charged with an offence ,as far as I know.
He was also a nurse by profession and worked for many years with Sister Consilio in the fields of addiction in which he was an acknowledged expert.
Indeed when one of my extended family had a habit he did all humanely possible to help and I will be eternally grateful to him for this.
I think but am not certain that no State Hospital gave him employment because of his Republican past but that Sister Concilio was above that sort of retribution ,I may be wrong in this.
Well after his retirement date he continued to ply his trade and was working until recently.
I found him to have been a decent guy and good neighbour.
I have no knowledge of the funeral arrangements yet.
Ar Dheis De go raibh hanam dilis.
P.S .J.was brought to Dunderry Church last evening at 7.30 to a good crowd of neighbours and a wider congregation of friends and colleagues and Father Hornick paid fair tribute to him and his late wife Breda Stanley,who he now joins after 9 years separation.
She too died around this time of the year and it is hard to realise that it is 9 years since she walked this earth.
They were devoted to each other and had to be considering the continuing disruption that occurred in their nursing and personal lives because of their Republican beliefs..
Long after he was able to walk with comfort because of wonky knees you would see J.on the bicycle with Breda alongside, as they prepared for the annual Dublin Marathon which they participated in until they were physically unable .I am full sure that all the funds raised were for the laudable aims of sister Concilio.
The funeral Mass took place this morning to a packed Church ,consisting of a combination of neighbours,work colleagues,Down family and friends ,Fellow Republicans and the wider GAA community from the North.including Oisin Mc Conville and several members of the Kilcoo Club ,the Down County Champions.
Orations were made at the graveside by both Joe Reilly ,Sinn Fein Councillor and Sister Concilio,who were ad idem on a number of things ,particularly that J.was an exemplary member of the caring profession and that he left a lasting impression on all who met him.
Around here we had no idea he was so sick but he himself must have known that the end was near as Sister CONSILIO said that she arranged his final confession shortly before he expired .
I called to see him last summer to thank him for all his efforts regarding my extended family member's difficulties and to inform him of the outcome.
I can say that there was no behaviour in the addiction world that would have surprised J.,HE HAD SEEN IT ALL and more.
I quizzed him about getting his memories down in writing and he said he intended to do this in due course.I hope he did, but suspect that death crept up on him before he could.
No matter.He lived his life by his beliefs and made no efforts to hide them.
Any man who has moving orations by a true blue Republican and a Sister verging on Sainthood can consider his life well spent.
Ar DHEIS dE GO RAIBH A HANAM.
He was suffering from pneumonia in a Dublin Hospital ,as I understand it and died there..They had no children .
J was Down man and kicked football with them in his youth.If I remember correctly his brother subsequently played in goal for the County.He also played professional soccer in England and was interested in boxing and at one stage approached me to see would I be interested in setting up a club in Dunderry,Because of my time consuming involvement in the GAA I had to decline and the idea was stillborn.
He was a die hard Republican and spent several years in Long Kesh on remand ,never being charged with an offence ,as far as I know.
He was also a nurse by profession and worked for many years with Sister Consilio in the fields of addiction in which he was an acknowledged expert.
Indeed when one of my extended family had a habit he did all humanely possible to help and I will be eternally grateful to him for this.
I think but am not certain that no State Hospital gave him employment because of his Republican past but that Sister Concilio was above that sort of retribution ,I may be wrong in this.
Well after his retirement date he continued to ply his trade and was working until recently.
I found him to have been a decent guy and good neighbour.
I have no knowledge of the funeral arrangements yet.
Ar Dheis De go raibh hanam dilis.
P.S .J.was brought to Dunderry Church last evening at 7.30 to a good crowd of neighbours and a wider congregation of friends and colleagues and Father Hornick paid fair tribute to him and his late wife Breda Stanley,who he now joins after 9 years separation.
She too died around this time of the year and it is hard to realise that it is 9 years since she walked this earth.
They were devoted to each other and had to be considering the continuing disruption that occurred in their nursing and personal lives because of their Republican beliefs..
Long after he was able to walk with comfort because of wonky knees you would see J.on the bicycle with Breda alongside, as they prepared for the annual Dublin Marathon which they participated in until they were physically unable .I am full sure that all the funds raised were for the laudable aims of sister Concilio.
The funeral Mass took place this morning to a packed Church ,consisting of a combination of neighbours,work colleagues,Down family and friends ,Fellow Republicans and the wider GAA community from the North.including Oisin Mc Conville and several members of the Kilcoo Club ,the Down County Champions.
Orations were made at the graveside by both Joe Reilly ,Sinn Fein Councillor and Sister Concilio,who were ad idem on a number of things ,particularly that J.was an exemplary member of the caring profession and that he left a lasting impression on all who met him.
Around here we had no idea he was so sick but he himself must have known that the end was near as Sister CONSILIO said that she arranged his final confession shortly before he expired .
I called to see him last summer to thank him for all his efforts regarding my extended family member's difficulties and to inform him of the outcome.
I can say that there was no behaviour in the addiction world that would have surprised J.,HE HAD SEEN IT ALL and more.
I quizzed him about getting his memories down in writing and he said he intended to do this in due course.I hope he did, but suspect that death crept up on him before he could.
No matter.He lived his life by his beliefs and made no efforts to hide them.
Any man who has moving orations by a true blue Republican and a Sister verging on Sainthood can consider his life well spent.
Ar DHEIS dE GO RAIBH A HANAM.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
PRAY FOR dUNDERRY BURN VICTIMS.
In recent times two Dunderry people ,one man and one woman, have received fairly severe accidental burns.The woman is way worse than the man and he is under some pressure also.
Sustained prayer wouldn't go astray.
Sustained prayer wouldn't go astray.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Down Memory Lane
I was blessed to move to Dunderry in 1986 as that was the start of the Golden decade in Gaelic Games in the GAA Club.
Tommy MC Cormack my uncle had recently retired as Chairman of the Club,having thus served for over three decades I reckon.There was never a more fanatic member .In fact he died less than a decade later and his dying wish to be visit the Pitch one last time before being buried was honoured .
I atttended my first AGM shortly after arriving and declined the nomination for Secretary proposed by Gerry Callaghan as I was of the view that one should start on the factory floor ,as it were before looking for the Gaffer's job and boy did I spend many years on said floor before the chance came around again.
At that time we had some of the foremost dual players in the County at underage level and there was no adult hurling team here and the neighbouring hurling clubs were salivating at the prospect of getting their mitts on our boys.
The men and women who had achieved this underage hurling miracle were loath to see these boys dispersed to our hurling neighbours and naturally had a preference to keep them together in our club but were very much aware that there would be stiff resistance within the Club to upsetting the footballing apple cart as it were by entering a hurling team,
So a number of them approached me and requested me to propose such a team as they were somewhat afraid to do so themselves less they be chastised.
At the appropriate stage during the AGM I put the motion to enter a team and it was just carried despite the virulent opposition of most of the top table.To say I was shocked was an understatement.
Anyhow the work went on and there was a fierce buzz around the place.a buzz grounded not only in the high expectations of success on the playing fields because of the undoubted emerging underage talent allied to the acquisition after fierce machinations at Provincial level ,which enabled Parish residents the Rennicks brothers and Pat Gibbons transfer here from Trim for whom they had played at Juvenile level and in respect of whom Trim refused transfers, but also because o the excitement of finally acquiring our own Pitch.
Basically it involved the transferees thansferring to another County ,playing with a a club there and then transferring back to Meath when they could play with whatever Club they chose .
My ex club Saint BRIGIDS of Blanchardstown gave a hand in this process and I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THIS.
By this route we eventually got these men onto our books and they contributed significantly to our unfolding success.
And Dermot Dempsey also threw in his lot with us and added his considerable maturity to the gosoons on the hurling fields of Meath and added to his considerable haul of county medals .
The Rennick transfers s sparked a rule change in the GAA and the new rule now applicable that you play with your home Parish makes those machinations irreverent today
I played a small part in the drive for the top in that I did my best for the adult hurlers on the field of play at full back for as long as my battered and ageing chassis was able to compete and picked up two Junior medals as a player and one Intermediate one as a sub,being usurped at full back by Plug Levy and more luck to him.
On the football front I turned up for training a number of nights ,fully intent of competing for a place ,but never got further than being mandated to kick the ball in between back and forwards in competing drills.
It rapidly became clear to me that anyone nearing the three o wasn't wanted and a guy of my vintage, nearer 40 than 30 was not flavour of the month.
I felt huge sympathy with lifelong and ebullient Dunderry men of the era who were thrown on the scrapheap at the time in order to make way for the emerging youth ,in what I still consider to have been premature retirement.
Anyhow what happened happened and the Club prospered,but in due course.
In 1988 the Pitch was opened to great jubilation and to the profound credit of those who had made such valiant sacrifices in putting it there,.
But not everybody in the Parish fully grasped the full extent of our achievement in the overall scheme of things GAA.
On the way to open the Pitch Tommy and Joe were stopped by a man whose hobby and job were farming exclusively and who had never darkened a football pitch ever nor never would and on being told here they were off to said"Well that's Croke Park fucked ,I hear that Dunderry is so good that Croker will get no more matches."And he genuinely meant that.
Well the pitch was opened and Meath played Cavan in a challenge to a huge crowd .I remember a guy called Cahill fielded for Cavan and I think he was related to our Phil.
Tommy had a prodigious memory and dictated an article from memory to me about the history of Dunderry GAA which i wrote down and it was published in the programme written for the opening.
He concluded by wishing that the Club would attain Senior status in the near future.
Hid wish came to fruition as we attained Senior status in football in 1990,in Hurling in 1991 and as a bonus in Camogie in 1991 also.
And all this in an era when the MEATH on the national stage GAA SPORTS WISE WAS VERY STRONG.
to be continued.
Tommy MC Cormack my uncle had recently retired as Chairman of the Club,having thus served for over three decades I reckon.There was never a more fanatic member .In fact he died less than a decade later and his dying wish to be visit the Pitch one last time before being buried was honoured .
I atttended my first AGM shortly after arriving and declined the nomination for Secretary proposed by Gerry Callaghan as I was of the view that one should start on the factory floor ,as it were before looking for the Gaffer's job and boy did I spend many years on said floor before the chance came around again.
At that time we had some of the foremost dual players in the County at underage level and there was no adult hurling team here and the neighbouring hurling clubs were salivating at the prospect of getting their mitts on our boys.
The men and women who had achieved this underage hurling miracle were loath to see these boys dispersed to our hurling neighbours and naturally had a preference to keep them together in our club but were very much aware that there would be stiff resistance within the Club to upsetting the footballing apple cart as it were by entering a hurling team,
So a number of them approached me and requested me to propose such a team as they were somewhat afraid to do so themselves less they be chastised.
At the appropriate stage during the AGM I put the motion to enter a team and it was just carried despite the virulent opposition of most of the top table.To say I was shocked was an understatement.
Anyhow the work went on and there was a fierce buzz around the place.a buzz grounded not only in the high expectations of success on the playing fields because of the undoubted emerging underage talent allied to the acquisition after fierce machinations at Provincial level ,which enabled Parish residents the Rennicks brothers and Pat Gibbons transfer here from Trim for whom they had played at Juvenile level and in respect of whom Trim refused transfers, but also because o the excitement of finally acquiring our own Pitch.
Basically it involved the transferees thansferring to another County ,playing with a a club there and then transferring back to Meath when they could play with whatever Club they chose .
My ex club Saint BRIGIDS of Blanchardstown gave a hand in this process and I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THIS.
By this route we eventually got these men onto our books and they contributed significantly to our unfolding success.
And Dermot Dempsey also threw in his lot with us and added his considerable maturity to the gosoons on the hurling fields of Meath and added to his considerable haul of county medals .
The Rennick transfers s sparked a rule change in the GAA and the new rule now applicable that you play with your home Parish makes those machinations irreverent today
I played a small part in the drive for the top in that I did my best for the adult hurlers on the field of play at full back for as long as my battered and ageing chassis was able to compete and picked up two Junior medals as a player and one Intermediate one as a sub,being usurped at full back by Plug Levy and more luck to him.
On the football front I turned up for training a number of nights ,fully intent of competing for a place ,but never got further than being mandated to kick the ball in between back and forwards in competing drills.
It rapidly became clear to me that anyone nearing the three o wasn't wanted and a guy of my vintage, nearer 40 than 30 was not flavour of the month.
I felt huge sympathy with lifelong and ebullient Dunderry men of the era who were thrown on the scrapheap at the time in order to make way for the emerging youth ,in what I still consider to have been premature retirement.
Anyhow what happened happened and the Club prospered,but in due course.
In 1988 the Pitch was opened to great jubilation and to the profound credit of those who had made such valiant sacrifices in putting it there,.
But not everybody in the Parish fully grasped the full extent of our achievement in the overall scheme of things GAA.
On the way to open the Pitch Tommy and Joe were stopped by a man whose hobby and job were farming exclusively and who had never darkened a football pitch ever nor never would and on being told here they were off to said"Well that's Croke Park fucked ,I hear that Dunderry is so good that Croker will get no more matches."And he genuinely meant that.
Well the pitch was opened and Meath played Cavan in a challenge to a huge crowd .I remember a guy called Cahill fielded for Cavan and I think he was related to our Phil.
Tommy had a prodigious memory and dictated an article from memory to me about the history of Dunderry GAA which i wrote down and it was published in the programme written for the opening.
He concluded by wishing that the Club would attain Senior status in the near future.
Hid wish came to fruition as we attained Senior status in football in 1990,in Hurling in 1991 and as a bonus in Camogie in 1991 also.
And all this in an era when the MEATH on the national stage GAA SPORTS WISE WAS VERY STRONG.
to be continued.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
God 1.IRFU .0.
In 2010 the greed machine that is professional rugby showed its true nature when a match between Munster and Leinster was fixed for Thomond Park on Good Friday ,which as everybody knows is the date when Jesus Christ was crucified for the salvation of humanity.
Not only was disrespectful to the children of God ,which according to the last census 84 per cent of the population claim to be,to have such a match on this Holy Day ,but Good Friday is one of only two days out of the 365 days of the year when pubs are bound to close for the best part of a century.
The greed machine and its vociferous proponents adored their Mamon and insisted that the game go ahead and mounted a campaign to have the drinking laws suspended in Limerick so that the stuck up nobs that follow the game could sate their thirst that most Holy of days and to their eternal shame the ASSOCIATION that represents the publicans backed them to the hilt in pursuit of greedy profits.And a judge stretched credulity to the limit when he allowed the opening of the pubs for health and safety reasons,thus conjuring up the vision of a rampaging mob of rugby supporters breaking down the doors of the pubs in limerick IN HOT PURSUIT OF AN ALCOHOL FIX which may be accurate
And then we had the Rugby supporters of Munster waving flags and sporting jerseys that Rugby was more popular than Catholicism and denigrating the Mass.
And the mass hysteria that infests both the written and electronic medias sucked up to the professional rugby game and its proponents as though it was a divine gift and as though its over paid players and mostly Australian and New Zealand coaches were minor Gods themselves.
This coalition of the greedy and delusional talked up Irish Rugby as though they were confirmed world beaters and all they had to do was show up and claim their rightful place as the World's chosen.
Except they did what a bad horse does when the load is heavy-----it shits on the traces.
And Irish rugby did shit on the traces and not very graciously either.
I heard a guy called Trevor something sneering at Gaelic Football when he likened the hasty retreat of a rugby referee after some match to what happens in the GAA world and I heard another Star ,a Cork guy with a smart mouth and a similar contempt for the GAA ,sneering at the Junior grade of football in GAA competition,a grade in which I would bet he would not last pissing time.
And there was a guy called Shane who played minor football for Meath in his day on the panel where the latter sneer was made and he made no attempt to correct his rugby buddy.
We know now that these guys are just mouths without anything to back themselves up and we also know that the sneers who belittled God and his flock in Munster very much barked up the wrong tree.
The way Munster are playing now Dunderry Junior C team would give them a good run for their money and no amount of talking can change that.
These guys just don't get it .They have denigrated God ,the National Anthem and are doing their best to rugbify the national schools in strong GAA areas to put backbone into a sport that is short of it.
And if the GAA leaders don't wise up to this these greedy schemers will succeed.
God however just waited in the long grass and it is only a matter of time until the greed for handy money pollutes Rugby in the same way that it has besmirched Soccer,Athletics and cycling to name but a few.
Not only was disrespectful to the children of God ,which according to the last census 84 per cent of the population claim to be,to have such a match on this Holy Day ,but Good Friday is one of only two days out of the 365 days of the year when pubs are bound to close for the best part of a century.
The greed machine and its vociferous proponents adored their Mamon and insisted that the game go ahead and mounted a campaign to have the drinking laws suspended in Limerick so that the stuck up nobs that follow the game could sate their thirst that most Holy of days and to their eternal shame the ASSOCIATION that represents the publicans backed them to the hilt in pursuit of greedy profits.And a judge stretched credulity to the limit when he allowed the opening of the pubs for health and safety reasons,thus conjuring up the vision of a rampaging mob of rugby supporters breaking down the doors of the pubs in limerick IN HOT PURSUIT OF AN ALCOHOL FIX which may be accurate
And then we had the Rugby supporters of Munster waving flags and sporting jerseys that Rugby was more popular than Catholicism and denigrating the Mass.
And the mass hysteria that infests both the written and electronic medias sucked up to the professional rugby game and its proponents as though it was a divine gift and as though its over paid players and mostly Australian and New Zealand coaches were minor Gods themselves.
This coalition of the greedy and delusional talked up Irish Rugby as though they were confirmed world beaters and all they had to do was show up and claim their rightful place as the World's chosen.
Except they did what a bad horse does when the load is heavy-----it shits on the traces.
And Irish rugby did shit on the traces and not very graciously either.
I heard a guy called Trevor something sneering at Gaelic Football when he likened the hasty retreat of a rugby referee after some match to what happens in the GAA world and I heard another Star ,a Cork guy with a smart mouth and a similar contempt for the GAA ,sneering at the Junior grade of football in GAA competition,a grade in which I would bet he would not last pissing time.
And there was a guy called Shane who played minor football for Meath in his day on the panel where the latter sneer was made and he made no attempt to correct his rugby buddy.
We know now that these guys are just mouths without anything to back themselves up and we also know that the sneers who belittled God and his flock in Munster very much barked up the wrong tree.
The way Munster are playing now Dunderry Junior C team would give them a good run for their money and no amount of talking can change that.
These guys just don't get it .They have denigrated God ,the National Anthem and are doing their best to rugbify the national schools in strong GAA areas to put backbone into a sport that is short of it.
And if the GAA leaders don't wise up to this these greedy schemers will succeed.
God however just waited in the long grass and it is only a matter of time until the greed for handy money pollutes Rugby in the same way that it has besmirched Soccer,Athletics and cycling to name but a few.
The only good injun is a dead one.
Do you remember those old cowboy movies that glorified the massacre of the native red injuns of the USA by the the Blue Coats when scalps were paid for irrespective of whether they were from murdered men ,women or children.Yep they were treated like vermin and massacred to the point of extinction.Not all that long ago relatively speaking.
Now while the targeting of the civilians by ISIS in PARIS is reprehensible it is worth noting that at least two hundred civilians a day are killed in SYRIA according to a recently released hostage held by ISIL --A FRENCHMAN I heard interviewed on France 24 or Euro news last night.
We have all the World's Superpowers Carpet bombing Syria and Iraq ad lib and killing God only knows how many men,women and children and fighting to be first in the queue "understandably"for revenge.
Seems to me that the so called civilised Western World has reached the same conclusion that the USA authorities reached about the Red Indians over a century ago and that the only good member of ISIL Is a dead one.
I thought that when a black man assumed leadership of the world,given the persecution that blacks suffered historically, that a more peaceful one would result.
Hasn't happened.
Does the civilised Western world want to exterminate an entire race of people men,women and children.
WITH THE SHOOTING DOWN TONIGHT OF a Russian plane by a Turkish SHELL the anti ISIL Coalition are starting to shoot down each other.
ALL we want now is for China to test out its weapons there also.
Sure maybe an atomic bomb is the answer.
Just blow the entire place to Kingdom come and be done with it.
Yep the War to end wars ended in 1918 Sir.
Now while the targeting of the civilians by ISIS in PARIS is reprehensible it is worth noting that at least two hundred civilians a day are killed in SYRIA according to a recently released hostage held by ISIL --A FRENCHMAN I heard interviewed on France 24 or Euro news last night.
We have all the World's Superpowers Carpet bombing Syria and Iraq ad lib and killing God only knows how many men,women and children and fighting to be first in the queue "understandably"for revenge.
Seems to me that the so called civilised Western World has reached the same conclusion that the USA authorities reached about the Red Indians over a century ago and that the only good member of ISIL Is a dead one.
I thought that when a black man assumed leadership of the world,given the persecution that blacks suffered historically, that a more peaceful one would result.
Hasn't happened.
Does the civilised Western world want to exterminate an entire race of people men,women and children.
WITH THE SHOOTING DOWN TONIGHT OF a Russian plane by a Turkish SHELL the anti ISIL Coalition are starting to shoot down each other.
ALL we want now is for China to test out its weapons there also.
Sure maybe an atomic bomb is the answer.
Just blow the entire place to Kingdom come and be done with it.
Yep the War to end wars ended in 1918 Sir.
Bucklepping
We own a few cattle,calves,cows and one only bull.They have a goodish life.And they have a way of letting you know what's on their mind.
Its been good year so far for cattle until two weeks ago.The grass was growing well into November and the weather was clement and the rainfall was scarce.
Plenty of grass to ate and happy cattle.
Then the rain came and boy did it rain.The Clady runs through our land and it was swollen to the top of its 20 feet depth.And then some.A fair bit of the land was waterlogged and the grazing thus restricted.But the cattle had free access to a shed full of good barley straw and they sated themselves on the grass and the straw as they desired.
And then a touch of frost,
The cattle know where the hay is stored and of a sudden they congregated at the gate outside the hay shed looking mournfully over the gate at the hay.
I got the message and brought three bales of sweet hay from the hay shed to the field where they are foddered for the time being.
They followed the tractor single file until we reached the field and then still single file they danced past the tractor in delight bucklepping as they passed by and kicking their heels into the air with delight.Bit like the bull with rider on board as he is released from the schute in the Rodeo movies if you can visualise that.
Filled my heart with wonder.
Cattle definitely feel delight and don't let anyone tell you different.
Its been good year so far for cattle until two weeks ago.The grass was growing well into November and the weather was clement and the rainfall was scarce.
Plenty of grass to ate and happy cattle.
Then the rain came and boy did it rain.The Clady runs through our land and it was swollen to the top of its 20 feet depth.And then some.A fair bit of the land was waterlogged and the grazing thus restricted.But the cattle had free access to a shed full of good barley straw and they sated themselves on the grass and the straw as they desired.
And then a touch of frost,
The cattle know where the hay is stored and of a sudden they congregated at the gate outside the hay shed looking mournfully over the gate at the hay.
I got the message and brought three bales of sweet hay from the hay shed to the field where they are foddered for the time being.
They followed the tractor single file until we reached the field and then still single file they danced past the tractor in delight bucklepping as they passed by and kicking their heels into the air with delight.Bit like the bull with rider on board as he is released from the schute in the Rodeo movies if you can visualise that.
Filled my heart with wonder.
Cattle definitely feel delight and don't let anyone tell you different.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Chilling TIMES
After watching TV this evening a chill ran down my spine.
The rhetoric of WAR is all over the place and Truth is the first casualty.
First we had Vincent Brown trying to blame religion on the situation.Even someone as hateful and vilely anti Catholic as he must surely have heard of the Commandment thou shall not kill.
Perhaps his hatred has so twisted him that he cannot distinguish between God and the Devil ,the latter's propensity for evil seems to be more acceptable to him.
Am I wrong in thinking that the main protagonists here are atheist and secular and anti religious as is generally understood.
Secondly we had a guest panellist of his demanding that an entire race of people.men,women and children be eliminated.Hitler is mild by comparison.
Then the PRIME minister of France ratcheted up the ante by declaring war on ISIS AND the military singing so redolent of HITLER'S STORMTROOPERS being sung with hatred.
There is no doubt but that ISIS is evil and must be defeated and as a Catholic I DESPISE ITS STATED AIM OF destroying Catholic Rome,but mass genocide is not the answer.
Of course there are many atheists within Europe who share the AIM OF DESTROYING THE VATICAN with ISIS and are only too glad to see them MURDERING CHRISTIANS,ESPECIALLY THOSE PROMULGATING THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT UNBORN.
GOD HELP US.
The rhetoric of WAR is all over the place and Truth is the first casualty.
First we had Vincent Brown trying to blame religion on the situation.Even someone as hateful and vilely anti Catholic as he must surely have heard of the Commandment thou shall not kill.
Perhaps his hatred has so twisted him that he cannot distinguish between God and the Devil ,the latter's propensity for evil seems to be more acceptable to him.
Am I wrong in thinking that the main protagonists here are atheist and secular and anti religious as is generally understood.
Secondly we had a guest panellist of his demanding that an entire race of people.men,women and children be eliminated.Hitler is mild by comparison.
Then the PRIME minister of France ratcheted up the ante by declaring war on ISIS AND the military singing so redolent of HITLER'S STORMTROOPERS being sung with hatred.
There is no doubt but that ISIS is evil and must be defeated and as a Catholic I DESPISE ITS STATED AIM OF destroying Catholic Rome,but mass genocide is not the answer.
Of course there are many atheists within Europe who share the AIM OF DESTROYING THE VATICAN with ISIS and are only too glad to see them MURDERING CHRISTIANS,ESPECIALLY THOSE PROMULGATING THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT UNBORN.
GOD HELP US.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
A week of despair on the world stage.
Here in Dunderry I seldom travel more than five miles,so I am and have been dependent on the papers and electronic media for information.
I have gone way past believing half of what I see and nearly none of what I read because I am convinced that now ,more than any time in history ,the truth has become a poor second to lies and deceit and there is nearly no reporter nor publication that doesn't promulgate lies all the time.
My week of disgust and horror had to do with the total disregard of Sovereign States and their leaders for the sovereignty of others and the impunity with which they kill, murder and maim others ,who they regard as enemies, just because they can.
The more advanced States can target and snuff out human life from thousands of miles away in the safety of bunkered or even unbunkered environments, safe in the knowledge that they are safe from retribution.
This is because they have more advanced technology and superior fire power and weapons than their protagonists.
The less advanced States the subject of these sallies from afar have long since figured that the only, puerile by comparison .way they can strike back, is by their adherents making themselves into human suicide bombers willing to carry themselves into the midst of their protagonist,much like the Kamakazi Japanese pilots of WW2.
Honour has long since disappeared into he mists of time and the more sneaky,underhand ,cunning and ruthless and murdering you are the more heroic you are painted by your own side.
The first vile and underhand act that appalled me this week was the murder of a WOUNDED Palestinian Leader in a hospital in his own country whilst being treated there for his wounds, by an undercover Israeli murder squad some of whom dressed as women to carry out their murderous mission.
From reports it seems that the Israelis regard one Israeli life as equivalent to 10 Palestinian ones and are Hell bent on maintaining this ratio.
There is little doubt ,it seems to me, that the beasts in the field are accorded a higher ranking than Palestinians in the Israeli scheme of things and that the World at large would be more outraged if such depravities were perpetrated on animals than Palestinians.
What happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis was inhumane and they are not slow to bring it up when it suits and proper order.
But that does not excuse their treatment of the Palestinians NOW THAT THEY ARE IN THE SADDLE.
The second matter that appalled me was the murder of two hundred PEOPLE in Paris by suicide bombers whom ISIL claim ownership of.
I had been thinking of this situation in the Middle East for some time back.
It seems to me that this whole scenario has its genesis in the colonial past of certain European States centuries ago and the assumption of the USA of the role of world policeman in more recent decades.
As before WW2 and Pearl Harbour the USA thought it was immune from conventional attack because of the sheer distance it was from its protagonists until the atrocity of the Twin Tower outrage ,which cost the lives of thousands of Americans,
In retribution the USA struck back AND IS STILL TRIKING BACK.
Afghanistan,Iraq,Syria,Libya,Tunisia,Pakistani,Somalia and the overwhelming majority of the ARAB SPRING STATES ,which Countries secular Europeans and others tried to model on their concept of democracy, have been turned into hell on earth by constant bombing and drones by the USA, the coalition of the willing ,which included most European States and the EU and latterly by Russia.
Now my mother used talk about TOOPHS,which I understand to mean innocents abroad or amadans as gaeilge.
Barrack Obama has played a blinder in persuading the Toophs of the EU into joining the Coalition of the Willing and setting itself up for the sort of atrocity perpetrated in France yesterday.
The USA is too far away to be hit by such an atrocity but, as witnessed every day by the massive influx of displaced peoples from the HELLHOLES of the Muslim World into EVERY European Country, we are sitting ducks.
It is hard to gauge the numbers of peoples killed since the Twin Tower tragedy but the best Estimates run into millions,mostlty Muslims.
It may be that the relatives of these people will forgive and forget but I doubt it somehow.
If retribution is sought and secured by these Muslims on the same scale that was delivered unto them then the carnage has only begun.
Within Secular Europe we have a further massive problem fiacing us in the ability to defend ourselves.
Militant feminists and atheists have for decades waged a war on our viable and unprotected unborn and slaughtered them by the million if not billion since the start of the last Century, to the extent that the population of the EU is in decline and we shortly won't have the manpower to defend our aging populations.
When that day arrives the first boot/bootees we must place in the frontline are those responsible for these vile senseless and barbaric murders of the defenceless unborn.They will then find that murdering those that are old enough and motivated enough to fight back is a different kettle of fish entirely.
I look forward to Ivana and her legions of the blabbermouths talk their way out of that one.
Finally the most ridiculous proposal I have head in this centenary year of 1916 is that of some fools who put forward proposals to tackle border smuggling by ceding to England a corridor of seven miles into the Republic TO POLICE AND OTHERS OF THE CROWN TO HAVE UNLIMITED ACCESS IN HOT PURSUIT.
Why stop at 7 miles .Why not give them free access the whole way to the South coast,YEP GIVE THEM THE COUNTRY BACK ENTIRELY,.
When France is sealing its borders our TOOPHS ARE PROPOSING handing control to another foreign power.
You couldn't make it up.
I have gone way past believing half of what I see and nearly none of what I read because I am convinced that now ,more than any time in history ,the truth has become a poor second to lies and deceit and there is nearly no reporter nor publication that doesn't promulgate lies all the time.
My week of disgust and horror had to do with the total disregard of Sovereign States and their leaders for the sovereignty of others and the impunity with which they kill, murder and maim others ,who they regard as enemies, just because they can.
The more advanced States can target and snuff out human life from thousands of miles away in the safety of bunkered or even unbunkered environments, safe in the knowledge that they are safe from retribution.
This is because they have more advanced technology and superior fire power and weapons than their protagonists.
The less advanced States the subject of these sallies from afar have long since figured that the only, puerile by comparison .way they can strike back, is by their adherents making themselves into human suicide bombers willing to carry themselves into the midst of their protagonist,much like the Kamakazi Japanese pilots of WW2.
Honour has long since disappeared into he mists of time and the more sneaky,underhand ,cunning and ruthless and murdering you are the more heroic you are painted by your own side.
The first vile and underhand act that appalled me this week was the murder of a WOUNDED Palestinian Leader in a hospital in his own country whilst being treated there for his wounds, by an undercover Israeli murder squad some of whom dressed as women to carry out their murderous mission.
From reports it seems that the Israelis regard one Israeli life as equivalent to 10 Palestinian ones and are Hell bent on maintaining this ratio.
There is little doubt ,it seems to me, that the beasts in the field are accorded a higher ranking than Palestinians in the Israeli scheme of things and that the World at large would be more outraged if such depravities were perpetrated on animals than Palestinians.
What happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis was inhumane and they are not slow to bring it up when it suits and proper order.
But that does not excuse their treatment of the Palestinians NOW THAT THEY ARE IN THE SADDLE.
The second matter that appalled me was the murder of two hundred PEOPLE in Paris by suicide bombers whom ISIL claim ownership of.
I had been thinking of this situation in the Middle East for some time back.
It seems to me that this whole scenario has its genesis in the colonial past of certain European States centuries ago and the assumption of the USA of the role of world policeman in more recent decades.
As before WW2 and Pearl Harbour the USA thought it was immune from conventional attack because of the sheer distance it was from its protagonists until the atrocity of the Twin Tower outrage ,which cost the lives of thousands of Americans,
In retribution the USA struck back AND IS STILL TRIKING BACK.
Afghanistan,Iraq,Syria,Libya,Tunisia,Pakistani,Somalia and the overwhelming majority of the ARAB SPRING STATES ,which Countries secular Europeans and others tried to model on their concept of democracy, have been turned into hell on earth by constant bombing and drones by the USA, the coalition of the willing ,which included most European States and the EU and latterly by Russia.
Now my mother used talk about TOOPHS,which I understand to mean innocents abroad or amadans as gaeilge.
Barrack Obama has played a blinder in persuading the Toophs of the EU into joining the Coalition of the Willing and setting itself up for the sort of atrocity perpetrated in France yesterday.
The USA is too far away to be hit by such an atrocity but, as witnessed every day by the massive influx of displaced peoples from the HELLHOLES of the Muslim World into EVERY European Country, we are sitting ducks.
It is hard to gauge the numbers of peoples killed since the Twin Tower tragedy but the best Estimates run into millions,mostlty Muslims.
It may be that the relatives of these people will forgive and forget but I doubt it somehow.
If retribution is sought and secured by these Muslims on the same scale that was delivered unto them then the carnage has only begun.
Within Secular Europe we have a further massive problem fiacing us in the ability to defend ourselves.
Militant feminists and atheists have for decades waged a war on our viable and unprotected unborn and slaughtered them by the million if not billion since the start of the last Century, to the extent that the population of the EU is in decline and we shortly won't have the manpower to defend our aging populations.
When that day arrives the first boot/bootees we must place in the frontline are those responsible for these vile senseless and barbaric murders of the defenceless unborn.They will then find that murdering those that are old enough and motivated enough to fight back is a different kettle of fish entirely.
I look forward to Ivana and her legions of the blabbermouths talk their way out of that one.
Finally the most ridiculous proposal I have head in this centenary year of 1916 is that of some fools who put forward proposals to tackle border smuggling by ceding to England a corridor of seven miles into the Republic TO POLICE AND OTHERS OF THE CROWN TO HAVE UNLIMITED ACCESS IN HOT PURSUIT.
Why stop at 7 miles .Why not give them free access the whole way to the South coast,YEP GIVE THEM THE COUNTRY BACK ENTIRELY,.
When France is sealing its borders our TOOPHS ARE PROPOSING handing control to another foreign power.
You couldn't make it up.
Probably the best value eating house in Ireland today.
Yesterday myself and two friends attended a funeral in Carrickmacross.We came home through through Kingscourt AND DECIDED TO STOP THERE FOR A FEED.
Paudge knows his onions and shepherded us into an eating house situate where the road from Carrick joins the Main Street in Kingscourt on the right hand side as the roads adjoin.
An entrance to the cattle mart, which was in full swing, is opposite the joint.
We had four courses of soup ,meat ,spuds ,chips and veg,succulent dessert and coffee.
Enough to fill Joe Higgins in his prime,GOD REST HIS SOUL. AND FOR FIFTEEN EURO A HEAD.
Now there's value for you.
The very best of grub.
Paudge knows his onions and shepherded us into an eating house situate where the road from Carrick joins the Main Street in Kingscourt on the right hand side as the roads adjoin.
An entrance to the cattle mart, which was in full swing, is opposite the joint.
We had four courses of soup ,meat ,spuds ,chips and veg,succulent dessert and coffee.
Enough to fill Joe Higgins in his prime,GOD REST HIS SOUL. AND FOR FIFTEEN EURO A HEAD.
Now there's value for you.
The very best of grub.
Muskaterr Carmel loses brother Benny
Today myself and fellow Muskateer Liam Dalton went to Carrickmacross to console Carmel Geraghty and attend the funeral Mass and burial of her brother Benny WOODS.Paudge Dalton accompanied us on the sorrowful journey on one of the wettest and vile days weather wise I can remember.
The ceremony was of the highest calibre and there was a large crowd from Dunderry there.
He got a fine send off.
As a matter of interest he is the third relative of our group to succumb to the blight of cancer,the others being my brother Robert and Liam's brother.
So Liam ,Carmel and myself have all lost brothers to this accursed disease.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a Anam dilis.
To his wife, brother, sister and wider family we offer our sincerest sympathies.
He had no children.
The ceremony was of the highest calibre and there was a large crowd from Dunderry there.
He got a fine send off.
As a matter of interest he is the third relative of our group to succumb to the blight of cancer,the others being my brother Robert and Liam's brother.
So Liam ,Carmel and myself have all lost brothers to this accursed disease.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a Anam dilis.
To his wife, brother, sister and wider family we offer our sincerest sympathies.
He had no children.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Ray DARCY A PERFEC FIT FOR ANTI CATHOLIC RTE
Ray Darcy,aka the Gnome with the Dome is the perfec fit for RTE ,through which a rancid anti Catholic hate campaign is being promulgated.
His older colleague Olivia O leary aka the Crone with the Moan is another example of this visceral hatred.
Every chance these bitter pills get they belittle and smirk at traditional Catholic values and promote pagan and atheist values.
Their narrative runs like this.The 84 percent who described themselves as Catholic in the last census are fools incapable of marking the box correctly but the 16 per cent who didn't are pure geniuses like themselves way above the rest of us in intelligence and knowledge.
Now their unquestioning sucking up to their own kind on public radiio is sickening and actually anti democratic and it is high time that someone in RTE called these little shits in and explained to them the meaning of respect.
However I will not be holding my breath as I fear that the atheists have long since taken over RTE .
MAYBE a boycott of the LICENCE FEE WOULD be a legitimate way of protest at this vicious bias.
His older colleague Olivia O leary aka the Crone with the Moan is another example of this visceral hatred.
Every chance these bitter pills get they belittle and smirk at traditional Catholic values and promote pagan and atheist values.
Their narrative runs like this.The 84 percent who described themselves as Catholic in the last census are fools incapable of marking the box correctly but the 16 per cent who didn't are pure geniuses like themselves way above the rest of us in intelligence and knowledge.
Now their unquestioning sucking up to their own kind on public radiio is sickening and actually anti democratic and it is high time that someone in RTE called these little shits in and explained to them the meaning of respect.
However I will not be holding my breath as I fear that the atheists have long since taken over RTE .
MAYBE a boycott of the LICENCE FEE WOULD be a legitimate way of protest at this vicious bias.
IABA AND CHRISTLE WIN BY TKO.
The Directors of the IABA are unpaid nor do they get expenses.
Unlike the other members of the Dail Committe who showboated their way through the farcical nonsense they promulgated on the occasion of their disgraceful performance on the T.V. lately.
And I include in this all the clowns on the Committee and all the members of the Sports Council .each and every one of whom have their snouts in the troughs of cash ,whether provided from general taxation or from the money legally skimmed from the Lotto.
But to me the most cowardly and disgusting performance of all was the green with jealousy and bitchy comments of Drimnagh boy Eamonn Coughlan on Prime time radio ,who despite serious State backing in his day and the instructions of the best foreign coaches abroad always shit on the traces when the OLYMPICS CAME AROUND.
Just like John Tracey ,another bitter pill.
As far as I know the last athletics OLYMPIC GOLD was won by Ronnie Delaney .
Now these clever dicks have had decades to pluck Gold for their own athletic cronies and have failed miserably,so no one in their right mind would let them have any say whatsoever in other sports that do the business.
By his nuanced mispronunciation of the words democracy and committee and by calling ,IF NOT BY NAME THEN BY Implication a real gentleman Joe Crystle a person of small mind and a myriad of other names SAID SHITTTER has exposed himself for the bitter and hateful pill he is.
A perfect fit for Fine Gael WHOSE NOMINATION TO THE SEANAD HE IS.
Not fit to lace Joe's boots.
Knowing Joe and his innate decency and moral code I fully back his call for an Independent investigation ,but guess what ,the mouthpieces will run scared from this lest their prejudices be established and their lies be exposed.
Unlike the other members of the Dail Committe who showboated their way through the farcical nonsense they promulgated on the occasion of their disgraceful performance on the T.V. lately.
And I include in this all the clowns on the Committee and all the members of the Sports Council .each and every one of whom have their snouts in the troughs of cash ,whether provided from general taxation or from the money legally skimmed from the Lotto.
But to me the most cowardly and disgusting performance of all was the green with jealousy and bitchy comments of Drimnagh boy Eamonn Coughlan on Prime time radio ,who despite serious State backing in his day and the instructions of the best foreign coaches abroad always shit on the traces when the OLYMPICS CAME AROUND.
Just like John Tracey ,another bitter pill.
As far as I know the last athletics OLYMPIC GOLD was won by Ronnie Delaney .
Now these clever dicks have had decades to pluck Gold for their own athletic cronies and have failed miserably,so no one in their right mind would let them have any say whatsoever in other sports that do the business.
By his nuanced mispronunciation of the words democracy and committee and by calling ,IF NOT BY NAME THEN BY Implication a real gentleman Joe Crystle a person of small mind and a myriad of other names SAID SHITTTER has exposed himself for the bitter and hateful pill he is.
A perfect fit for Fine Gael WHOSE NOMINATION TO THE SEANAD HE IS.
Not fit to lace Joe's boots.
Knowing Joe and his innate decency and moral code I fully back his call for an Independent investigation ,but guess what ,the mouthpieces will run scared from this lest their prejudices be established and their lies be exposed.
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