International expansion

The Drumbeat has now gone global, with the reverse takeover of the Robinstown Recorder, the Kilbride Klarion, The Lambay Leader and the Churchtown Chronicle.

In addition I am pleased to announce that the founder and sole director of the P.L.C.(People of Lawlesses Cross) , Gary Travers, has decommissioned his felt pen and  has sought fraternal links with my Save Ireland movement.We are still negotiating over the membership fee, which the PLC had fixed at the price of a pint but as I cannot drink pints anymore, I am thinking of changing. This may need the input of the Labour Court,tripartite medi ation and scrutiny of at least three quangos. Any ideas before a fatwa or a jihad is declared.

On a more serious front a member of the exiles team has undergone the horrific and shocking experience of discovering a dead body in a suitcase in a canal in Australia lately. Our thoughts are with him.We commend his bravery.

On the Asian front, God help the people of Japan.A tsunami alone is savage enough reminder that the power of nature can exceed all man’s inventiveness, but the added threat of nuclear escape puts the cap on it. The possibility of a second Hiroshima must be in their minds. On the subject of which,who bears the responsibility for all the deaths resulting. The man who released the bomb or the man who ordered its release.If the latter the question arises whether any politician will ever see heaven. In the event of the death of even one Libyan civilian are all the politicos who agreed the bombing on the schute to eternal damnation?

I hope that this puts to bed any further thoughts of nuclear development anywhere else in the world.

Lest we be accused of ignoring the local scene I am reporting under on the B League Div.3 game in Dunderry last Sunday and the adult hurling match in the field yesterday. To the players and mentors it is as important as any of the world events and so it should be.