August.The month for Real Men.

With the weasel worders gone on holidays there is no distraction from the football and hurling championships ,where all that is best of our native games allow real men to show what it is that makes the Irish,well Irish.
On the football front what a weekend.The real men from the west showed how it is done .Mayo deserved every point of their victory and caused the shock of the year so far.Cork were worthy champions but were short a few vital men.Despite all the systems,blanket defences and tactical ploys employed in the modern game,when all is said and done,great players are irreplaceable and the old truth that there is no substitute for a man still rings true.
After a brutal first half Donegal and Kildare served up a classic second half and period of extra time.The unbridled look of delight on the the face of the young supporter from Donegal when Cassidy kicked the winning point is the distillation of what the G.A.A.is about and the marketing gurus should  capture this image and use it to promote the games.In this instance one picture is worth a thousand words.
Kildare can feel hard done by as a perfectly good goal was disallowed.IT is time to do away with this square ball idea for once and all,such is the inconsistency in its application and it is cruel to be beaten on a bad call.One wonders whether playing Johnny Doyle midfield was such a goor idea after all.I know that even from there he was their top scorer but suspect that as a free scoring forward ,which is what he is,he would have scored even more.The old principle that you always play a man in his best position still applies ,in my opinion.As a forward he was surely worth one point and might not have been in the way of so many robust challenges.
Donegal are a good team and will take some beating.Michael Murphy is easily the best full forward to grace the position this long time.He has it all.He can catch,kick and pass to perfection.He won't be bullied to easily and is totally unselfish.His skill in footlfting the ball and delivering it accurately led to the winning point.
Kerry beat Limerick without too much trouble.Limerick appeared to be a bit overawed by the occasion.Unlike Limerick Commercials who beat Pearse O Mahony's in the 18880s when the first Dunderry man to play in an All Ireland fielded with O Mahonys.He was a Mc Cabe from the Curragh Boreen and his people still flourish in the Parish.Kerry will fancy their chances big time now that Cork is gone but there is many the slip from the cup to the lip.
Tyrone beat Roscommon handily in the end but the Rossies put it up to them for half the match and missed a number of scorable chances.No bad team Roscommon and no bad team Tyrone.But at this level you must take your chances and the Rossies did not.
Tyrone also will be hard bet and Mickey Harte is some man.Given what he and his family have been through you would have to marvel at how he keeps going and where he draws his enthusiasm from.Roll on Tyrone and Dublin.
And hats of to the real men on all teams who give us such honest endeavour and entertain us so well.Long may it last.
Of course the nanny state is doing all it can to deny us the simple pleasures of  simply enjoying our own games.I am sick to the teeth of these finger wagging and depressing advertisments by the road safety people which deny us just a few hours simple pleasure in front of the T.V.set.
Not only have our political leaders and their quangos utterly failed us and sold us  into economic slavery but they insist on denying us the few hours hapiness we are surely entitled to.Butt out lads.
Finally I thought I was in hospital land rather than a football field last week when I  heard a forga reminding patrons that it was forbiden for anyone to smoke either in the terraces or in the stands.
The persecution of smokers continues apace.
One wonders whether smokers should boycott all intercounty and club matches and withdraw entirely from Club involvement.The tobacco police will surely fill the void.won,t they?Or will they be too busy spying on you in your homes to see if you are fit parents?
With the untouchable arrogant condecension displayed by these people it is only a matter of time.
Truly we do live in an open prison

Anti Catholic Rhetoric deeply insulting

I think I am a practising Catholic but I am confused.I think I belong to the Roman Catholic Church but I am confused.I am certain I am a sinner and I am absolutely certain that I am no holy Joe.I do believe in the God that all Catholics believe in,am certain that there is an afterlife and believe that the Pope is God’s representative on earth.

It is said that there are no atheists on the battlefields when death is raining down.I know that when death waved the bent finger to call me to the sidelines from the field of  life , I said a perfect act of contrition to Jesus Christ and I prayed to Him.Not to any politician,judge ,administrator nor wise ass bar room philosopher..When I temporarily escaped the ultimate certainty that I still must face I was glad to have a priest anoint me.I have been to confessions many times.I believe in the Sacraments.I believe that I was spared death for a reason.I would say that the reason was not to take cheap shots at the followers of Jesus Christ.

Now the politicians who left  Navan Hospital and many like it bereft of decent 24/7 X ray services and clot busting medication until 2010 and who I would say are responsible for any number of unnecessary deaths and disabilities  and who enslaved a once proud nation for at least the next thirty years  are lecturing to God’s representative on earth on how to run His Church,and belittling Sacraments that are an integral part and core value of Catholic belief.

All the political parties are joining in the witch hunt,cheered on by an antagonistic media and hysterical anti Catholic commentators  who are rejoicing in getting another chance to stick the boot in.And unless my ears are deceiving me the head man in the priest’s union is himself aligning his union to these attacks.Not only this but the Archbishop of Dublin is being quoted by Government Ministers as being on the same side as the belittlers.

Who am I to advise a Bishop.Yes apologise for wrongdoings perpetrated by some Catholics,.But have the balls to stand up for  the faith and the faithful.Bishop,those who have only contempt for Catholicism quote you approvingly in their objective of persecuting your flock.You are the media darling.So were  Bishop Comiskey and Father Cleary and Bishop Casey in their day.Look media commentators , journalists and editors will do anything to sell papers and gutless politicians say anything to further their own objectives.

It is left to David Quinn to stand up for ordinary Catholics.For his troubles I heard him belittled  thrice on a on a t.v. show ,with an all female cast ,with no attempt at gonad balance never mind at objective balance,and one of whose contributors rejoiced at the presence of Jews and atheists in the Dail ,the obvious  implication being that they were better than Catholics.
Is there no Catholic Priest out there  fit to stand up and say that it is absurd for these mob leaders to tar all Catholics with the one brush and to insist that this anti Catholic rhetoric be stopped immediately.

I never thought I’d see the day when Paisley.,Kenny, ,Martin,Sinn Fein ,Labour  et all would be singing from the same hymn sheet and when a member of the Church of Ireland feels free to pronounce that new generation Catholics are only interested in religion  for births ,deaths and marriages.The last time they were so united was when they belittled us by having a second vote on the Lisbon treaty to prove what gobshites we were to reject the first one and to suck up to our good friends in Europe .Fat lot of good that did us.We will be in hock to them for generations and will be farmed like cattle for their benefit,with our political classes more political kapos  than defenders of their electorate.

As an aside I never saw a man as uncomfortable in the Dail when caught beside the Taoiseach in full flow as Shane Mc Entee was during the speech.He couldn’t get off camera quick enough.Fair dues to him.Either that or he was in a bad way to go to the jacks.

I have a solution by the way.Ireland can contact the Chineses (there are probably enough old contacts in Government circles still open and they have huge experience in suppressing religion in Nepal) ) who have an official Catholic church there under State control, for advice on how to start up an official Church of Ireland .”Practising Catholics” who resent the Popes leadership can join up.They  can make it mandatory for whatever aspects of Confession they want to be reported to the Police.And Sinead O Connor can resume her Bishopric.She has suitable form,having trashed a picture of the Pope on American t.v. Now this has been done before and assets sequestered .But the new Church of Ireland can be differentiated by the insertion of the word Catholic along with the rest of the title.

In the meantime those of us who are not a la carte Catholics will continue to honour the  laws of God as best our human frailty allows.We will continue to support the many church gate collections we contribute to and pray for guidance,for the survivsal of our family and friends through the financial turbulence wrought on us by nanny state Caesars ,who increase their own powers exponentially , and a happy death when the time comes .

I am sorely tempted to do as a man I knew did, that is to say the Rosary at the belittlers ,not for them, but will pray to resist this temptation.

Feis Cup.Summerhill 1 -15.Dunderry 1-10

Played tonight in Trim in ideal conditions for football,I was delighted but not surprised when one of the Trim officials ,seeing that I was under pressure physically ,offered and got me a chair to sit down and watch the match.You are a gentleman Mr Gaynor ,I think.Thanks again.Genuine Trim people are like that.
Dunderry team started was:-
                                                   Jennings
Mc Cormack D.                       Callaghan D.                       Newman G.
Kelleher                                    Stephens E.                         Garry A.
                       Callaghan D.                        Fay.
Garry M                                   Garry T.J.                            Coogan A.
Clarke D.                                  Newman A,                        Callaghan K.

Swiss was carted off at an early stage to hospital.We think he broke his wrist  but hope otherwise.In these dastardly times to be out of work,if one has work,is depressing.
It is the first time that I can remember since the Elder Callaghan brothers played, that three brothers played together on the team,the three Garrys,sons of Michael the "bear".
We couldn't get going at all in the first half and went in down 1-7 to 0-4.
during the second half the nearest we got to them was five points ,which seperated the teams at the end on the scoreline cited above.
Brought on were Ted Dowd,Peadar Callaghan,Trevor Conaty,Simon Carty and Kevin Slattery.And we still had subs left over on the line aside altogether from four injured players at least and Stephen Coogan,unavailable because of County considerations.
We have played better.
I must confess that my ambition exceeded my ability on the bicycle front as I attempted to shake off the webs and resume cycling again.The averdepois you know.By the time I got to Carrolstown on the way to Trim , I was well bet and had to take five.The will to live was seeping from my sweating excuse for a body and my breath coming in gulps.I swear that when I was smoking years ago I had a lot more breath.
Anyhow Grainne Dowd,Ted's wife pulled up in the car and offered me a lift.Problem was the tricycle wouldn't fit in her car.So she cycled it back to a gateway and hid it in a field.And off we went to the game with Jack ,Tadgh and Molly all under six, to the game.
AS they say "an ounce of breeeding is worth a ton of feeding" and Ted certainly hit the jackpot there.
There sure are good people around and long may they live. 

Dunderry V Kilmessan in Kiltale.02/07/2011 I.H.C.

Dunderry.

                           Conor Farrell (Bomber)

Davy Stephens (Sprog)   Davy Mc Cormack (Spongy)  Joey Martin (Joey)

Conor O Shea(Conor )Ivan Mc Cormack(Ivo) Dylan keenan.(Dylan)

      Kevin Dowd (Ted)             Bob Doherty (Doc)

Killian Minogue           Davy Geraghty   Chris Harrington (Harrow)

Ownie Mac Cormack    Evan Stephens (Finn ) David Gilkinson (Gilki)

Out with injuries.Darren Callaghan.Paddy Gorey,Eddie Maguire,Kevin Bruton,Damian Bruton,

And Brendan Wright.Stephen Coogan not available because of upcoming minor football intercounty match.

Gilki registers first point from play after good combination play.After some end to end stuff Geraghty handpasses to Bob who splits the posts.Finn is fouled on seventy yard line .Ivo splits posts from free.Both sides exchange wides.KIlmessan awarded a free and convert from distance.

After broken play Finn scores a point from play.Dunderry defend well and Ted is fouled  halfway line .Ivo converts.Inaccurate shooting and good defending from both sides force a number of wides.After more end to end stuff KIlmessan convert a free from 80 yards.A period of honest endeavour from both sides follows but scorable chances are missed ,Half time arrives .We are ahead by 0-5 to 0-2.

This does not reflect our superiority over the half. All sectors are giving it diddy but it is not reflected on the scoreboard.

KIlmessan score a point from throw in.We are not looking good.Then Bob wins a hard ball and lets in to Gilky who scores a fine point.WE work ball from full back line to Finn who splits the post.We have lifted our game and are fighting hard for ball all over the field.All doing better.Ownie scores a point from play.Geraghty scores a minor from play.We are on a roll.Ownie scores a minor from play.Harry gets ion on the act with a point from distance.Sprog.Spongie ,Joey and O Shea defending well at this juncture.Gilky lands an impossible point.O Shea feeds Harrow who converts from 70 yards.Harro on a roll.O Shea opening shoulders as is Minogue.Bob pops sideline ball to Geraghty who scores another point.On a roll too.Teams exchange points.Ownie scoring from Finns breakdown.O Shea passes to Geraghty who splits posts again.0-18 to 0-3.Sprog makes some brilliant interceptions and forces a wide. Ref gives sympathy free to Kilmessan .They rattle the net.Another sympathy free to Kilmessan.Another goal.Final score.o-18 to 2-3.

There is no such thing as a bad Kilmesan team and our victory was hard earned.Backs,midfield and forwards were solid when they settled.Given the number of injuries we had I was apprehensive.The blend is good and all played well .Gilky,Harrow and Davy Geraghty are starting to come out of their shells and this is a good thing.

Good day at office.

Ref. played himself and knows what it is about. A job well done.

Sitting targets in our own Country.

A good friend of the blog related to me his frustration at the antics of some Romanian guests in our multicultural post colonial society.He did so reluctantly as the usual suspects would be biting at the bit to scream "racism"at the very notion that people without any moral compass could do any wrong.
My friend was leaving his flat in Dublin last Saturday evening to come to Navan for the game against Kildare ,pulled the front door after him and was on his mobile in his car pulling out of the driveway when he copped that he was under observation by a car load of East Europeans parked a short distance away.He stopped the car ,got out and left his mobile on the roof as he returned to double check the locks on the house door .Big mistake.The East Europeans swarmed his car ,lifted what they could out of it and stole his mobile phone.He was outnumbered and aside from shouting at them could do little.They made off in a car far superior to his.He didn't get the number,His evening ruined he immediately contacted his mobile company reporting the theft and cancelling the number.This took 20 minutes and it took another 20 minutes to cancel the number..In that time the thieves had run up a bill of E40.00 in calls to Romania.
This is not to tar everybody with the same brush,but these specific guests of our country are giving other people from the region a bad name.
If your phone goes missing report it immediately.

Fine Gael to decommission confession?

An article is brewing.
In the meantime I wonder will Fine Gael activists continue to actively participate in Mass over the weekend or are they in place awaiting the day when the Party Will bid for a complete takeover of Catholicism.I will search for guidance at Mass and pray for guidance over the next week.
I will be contemplating whether the Church should consider such sanctions as refusal to administer the Sacraments to those who attack its Sacraments and whether excommunication of such persons and parties is warranted. It comes as no surprise that secularist Europhiles should raise such issues .

Dunderry's contribution to Meath Kildare Classic.

Just finished watching the Match on the television.It was a powerful game and only the kick of a ball seperated the teams.Plenty of" only ifs".
It was noticable that there were huge swathes of empty terraces at the game.Whether this was due to over officious health and safety precautions or underselling of the allocated tickets remains to be seen.
What I wish to concentrate on is the Dunderry connection to the occassion.
Firstly Mandy Dowd sang the National Anthem before the game.She is a daughter of the famous Dunderry man Tommy who did so much as a player and selector for both Club and County and is a repeat of her magnificient performance of the same Anthem which she sang at the official opening of the Dunderry Dressing rooms  in 2008 when Meath played Mayo.
Secondly Stephen Bray is the son of a Dunderry man who gave great service to the Club.Our loss is Navan's gain.
The Dunderry under 12 football team provided the half time entertainment.
No doubt Tommy Nally was stewarding as he has done for yonks.
And finally Barry Callaghan another former Dunderry and Meath player,selector and current club intermediate football manager, walked from the selector's job when Graham Geraghty was recalled to the panel recently.
Not bad for a rural backwater?

Christian Prayer is a rigmarole and means nothing said David Norris.

According to today's Irish Independent ,the aspiring Presidential Canditate,made the following remarks two years ago ,in connection with the daily prayer recited at the beginning of Seanad and Dail sittings.
Deploring the fact that such sittings began with a prayer he said"It's a rigmarole,it means nothing and we should be alert to the fact that there are atheists,agnostics,Jews and Muslims and I just think it makes a mockery of the whole thing,to involke Jesus Christ as the source of our doings here".
This man wants to represent all the people of Ireland ,including Christians ,I presume.You can see now the respect he holds for Christian beliefs and Religions.
The Labour Party has long been recognised as containing its fair share of professed atheists and agnostics.It is no surprise therefor to read that Aodhan O Riordan  a Labour T.D. of Dublin Central also calling for the axing of the prayer.
If this concerns you ,you should seek clarification from you local Labour representatives to ascertain if this is official Labour policy and whether their Presidential canditate also shares these views.
Remember,Nationalist Christian Irish =bad.Post colonial multiculturalism =good.
See earlier blog on "Old Nick".  

Alan Shatters all hope of transparency.

Any notion anyone had that the present coalition would be more transparent than their predecessors have been firmly buried by the decidion of the present MInister for Justice to delete from the Courts Service website the response of the judiciary to the Government's proposals to reduce the pay of said judiciary.
This decision,despite the consent of the Government's own law officer,the Attorney General ,for its publication ,smacks of censorship of the worst kind,fear of open debate and is itself proof of the undesirability of placing the judges even more in hock to the Government.After all if the judges are so beholden to the Minister at the moment that they agree to this unreasonable request for deletion without a fight ,they will surely be pussy cats entirely when the Government fully controls the purse strings at its whim.
God help anyone then who challenges the might of the State or our European masters.What judge in his/her right mind would rule against them in the knowledge that they could be impoverished for so doing.Don't mind politician's promises nor assurances that this would not happen.Think only of the alacrity with which concrete promises relating to hospital services are being abandoned and the furious backpedalling on the issue.
Not to labour the point further another fine gael mess we are landed in.
If the judges are percieved to be in the pockets of the Government it will eventually dawn on people that recourse to the courts is a waste of time and that matters ought be handled outside the law,a recipe for anarchy and an indicator of a facist State.
It goes without saying that if the judiciary are faced down and not let raise the issues as publicly as the Government does,the rest of us have no chance whatsoever and the mushroom treatment practised in this country for far too long will be cemented for further generations who cannot escape these shores.

Cemetery Sunday in Dunderry.

There was standing room only in Dunderry Church today at 11a,m. as Mass was celebrated before the blessing of the graves in the local cemetery.A massive turnout thanks be to God.
The weather held good,and the faithful made their way to the graveyard after Mass where the graves were blessed and a decade of the Holy Rosary and accompanying prayers recited by the well humoured and respectful congretation.
It was great to see so many relations of the deceased from all over Ireland and indeed further afield participating in the Catholic ritual of honouring and praying for the repose of the dead.
Father Hornick conducted the ceremonies with his usual efficiency and was his usual thoughtful and accomodating self.
The graves and graveyard were in pristine order and clearly huge efforts were made by all concerned to rise to the occassion.
Car parking was kindly provided by Joe Clarke.
On a personal level it was gratifying to be accompanied on the trip to the graveyard by my grandson Padraic who cycled his bike there with my good self.He is three.
The other graveyards will be blessed as follows:-
Churchtown.  Tuesday 12th.7.30 p.m.
Retaine.          Wednesday 13th.7.30.p.m.
Clady.             Thursday   14th 7.30.p.m.
Kilcooley        Thursday 17th 8.00 p.m.
KIlbride.          Sunday 17th .Mass 7.00 p..m.
Moymet.          Tuesday 19th 7.30.p.m.
Tullaghanogue.Wednesday 20th.7.30.p.m.
Black Church.   Thursday 21st.7.30. p.m.

Denis Naughten does not make Fear Breaga list.

I have been asked to define the term"Fear Breaga"again.It is the Irish language word for" scarecrow".Translated literally back from Irish to English it would read "false man",which is what a scarecrow is.Yes Irish is a fierce descriptive language ,which makes it a shame that we all don't use it as a working language.
Anyhow my late uncle used it to describe people who were false either in their deeds or utterances.
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say that Denis Naughten,who was elected as a Fine Gael T.D. by the people of Roscommon ,who pre election gave his Party's undertaking that there would be no scale back in the services of Roscommon Hospital under a Fine Gael led Government ,has not made it on to the Fir Breaga list .
This is because he matched his deeds and words and did the manly and proper thing by voting in the Dail consistent with his pre election undertaking .He was expelled from his Party for this reason.
Not for him the weasel words nor any attempt to hide behind the skirts of HIQUA where  many others are cowering,just as the last crowd used cower behind the skirt of the H.S.E.
Watch now as our own T.D.s try to wrangle out of their undertakings when Navan's turn comes.    

Letter from Old Nick a year on.

On 28^th.March 2010 I composed this letter for another publication.
“The following missive materialised on my desk last week.Aside from being hot to the touch it smelt strongly of fire and brimstone,with a return address of Sodom”.

“Dear Ranter,

I can see that your views are clearly misguided and have no place in this post colonial multicultural society in which we live .I mean how, in the name of logic and reason,could   such concepts as fair play and religion have any currency in  modern Ireland.

You see,logic and reason are the only yardsticks by which human behaviour can be regulated.This message I have been  whispering seductively since the start of time(which I can say without fear of contradiction was an accidental event, had no divine connection whatsoever and which phrase will be abolished as offensive to pagans due to quasi religious concepts  held by Catholic bigots but not by Muslims, Jews and others ,who are entitled to their beliefs in a way that Catholics are not).

Amongst my most fervent devotees are Stalin and Mao ,former staunch atheists ,who murdered countless millions  who opposed them.They are my pride and joy (and got some surprise when your man above sent them to me)  and head the serried ranks of the many devotees prostrating themselves at my right hoof.I nearly said God bless them ,but resiled, now that I have religion on the run and intend to abolish it.Starting in the schools and  with the Angelus ,which is so offensive to secularists and liberals and their finely tuned sensibilities.I mean logic and reason clearly indicate that there is no such thing as God and why should they even be asked to listen to those ridiculous bells tolling for two minutes every day.

You should know that I had you Paddies where I wanted you for the best part of a Millennium,when the world’s greatest empire ruled your pathetic country.There was one law ,the law of the State,which I ensured was used as an instrument of oppression and control to destroy you.I made sure your judges kept in line by regulating their remuneration.They  made sure that you lost your lands ,your heritage and your lives.Through starvation, slavery ,forced emigration ,torture and murder I made you ashamed of your language and appearance .And the sweetest bit.My buddy Mammon helped me to recruit your own people in my mission. 

Those were the days.God (there I go again),how much it pleased me to have your clergy hunted down like dogs(where were the Greens for the dogs) , tortured and killed (hung drawn and quartered).I did all I could to seize all your  Catholic property for Henry the divorcee so he could keep marrying until he clicked(he didn’t) and created his own religion.

To this day I curse that fella Pearse and his buddies.When all logic and reason indicated that your nation were beaten and broken and had no chance, they rose up.I still cannot understand how they started a movement that won the day .

Literally I have had my tail between my legs since and by stealth ,cunning and clever strategy am well on the way to reclaiming former glory.

Aside from infiltrating your clergy with deviants who violated your children I have also done my best to use your posher clergy to educate your ruling classes in their fee paying schools,where native games are verboten,the games of your former colonists inculcated and every effort made to eradicate anything that smacks of an Irish accent.It is no accident that the majority of your movers, shakers  and opinion formers have long since abandoned that ridiculous Irish brogue.

I have also turned mainstream media against your church and ensured that State law  again has currency as in the days of yore.

Today is my happiest day in a long time.In your city of limerick the trendy rugby heads ,so beloved of the mainstream media,,are sporting shirts bragging that rugby is officially bigger than Catholicism there and that Mass is now available in Thomond Park.I rejoice and admire all those who have helped me achieve this triumph.Avarice is now officially mainstream and pursuit of profit the be all and end all.. Another stab in the body of your man above on the anniversary of his crucification.

I will have my way and make every town in Ieland like Limerick.AND Ranter I will get you too.

Forever Yours,

Nick.”

Since then I wrote on the government proposal to seize religious property a la Cromwell ,Henry VIII and the statsi of East Germany  (see my blog on Navan Male Choir,noting in particular Rory Quinn’s claim that ownership is power). I  see that in his efforts to decommission the Catholic ethos  from the catholic schools he says now that it is about patronage and pluralism not ownership.This about turn arose when it was pointed out to him that the trustees of the schools could not by state law give the schools up for nothing and that the trusts  would have to be compensated by consideration of equal value.
Look this is nothing more than a land grab by the State orchestrated in the main by those who despise Catholicism.The facts are that the people gave money to Catholic parishes and communities  and people made bequests and inter vivos gifts to Catholic organisations in  order to provide education for poor people in the main,when the State stood idly by. If agnostic,aethist and anti catholic individuals want to start schools that teach the way they want, let them fund raise in the same way our ancestors did and people still do.

Remember  nationalist  catholic  Irish ---bad

Pluralist and multiculturalist europhile –good.