A definition of Irishness?

Goodbye to Seanie and Gilki  on their voyage to Aussieland. And to their parents we mourn their departure with you.

Hello to Kate and Julie in England, Eoin, Daniel,  Mark, Philip in Aussieland (all nephews and nieces) Razor, Yvonne, Lisa, Noel  and Gerry in Australia, Tommy in New Zealand and Garrett, Niall and the Daly clan in Sasana. Also Kenny,  Gerry C. and family and Tommy G and sister  in the USA and Tommy B. in Uganda.

We wish Eileen Mc Nally a happy 80^th and are delighted that her five children made it home from their homes in England for the celebrations in the Lodge and Horans and Geraghtys.

You might like this one-

“Being Irish is about driving a German, Japanese, Korean or French  car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer or an Irish coffee infused with Irish sugar (you must be joking) on the way home from a German or Canadian supermarket, then grabbing either a Chinese, Indian or Thai curry, a Turkish kebab or chips from an Italian chipper, ordered in English, to sit on a Swedish sofa and watch English, Australian  or USA shows on a Japanese T.V. set

And being very suspicious of anything foreign.

Only here can you get a pizza delivered quicker than an ambulance and only here do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counter. Only here do Governments lumber children yet to be born with the as yet to be fathomed  billions in losses by the same banks.

In  supermarkets sick people have to walk to the back of the premises for prescriptions, while healthy people are served fags at the front.

And only here would the leader of the main political party and Taoiseach in waiting promulgate the decommissioning of the native Irish language and accrue a teacher’s pension of 100K up front and 30k for life for spending 4 years actually teaching ”

Hey lads drink a pint of Guniness, munch a pack of Tayto and ate a fatherly feed of rashers, sausages and black puddings on the way home from the hurling match. Make sure to go to the ceili, sing the National anthem as gaelige and pray for us.

Slan.

Daithi.