The Johnny Roe mentioned in my blog "Johnny F...in Roe" is alive and well.We have been in contact and he liked the story and the blog.If Pat Rattigan was alive he would be delighted and would make some fuss.
I also received a letter from Billl Mc Mahon of Navan,chiding me on a few lapses in spelling and over the overuse of the "I",as presumably in "I" myself .Spellings corrected and "I" can only talk for myself and not anyone else.So Bill "I" am afraid you will have to put up with it.But thanks for your letter.
Thanks to other friends who have also offered encouragement..Hello to Leon where ever you are.And to the Dunderry and Irish diaspora worldwide.The incompetent gob shites who were in charge have allowed forced emigration on a par with famine times to develop and our current captains are merely political kapos implementing the policies of our new masters.
There are a plethora of Fir Breaga prancing the boards of the political stage jiggering and pokering and pirouetting their way out commitments given.
We are effectively a slave nation and it is heartbreaking that such a sound generation have had to abandon the sinking ship and build up their destination countries rather than their own.For those left behind here it is no joke either as all live in fear ,particularly the unemployed and self employed.Informing on your neighbour instead of helping him is the new religion here,as the number of informant helplines increase and multiply.Larkin's successors lead the posse in this regard.
It is ironic that a decent woman who denied Eirgrid access to her land in Tipperary is languishing in jail while those that destroyed the country are as free as birds.And creditors are getting committal orders against impoverished people .Yes ,putting the poor in jail because they owe money and cannot pay it continues.That will surely make money appear.And if they go to the Credit Unions for money their chances diminish by the hour as the Regulators treat them as economic units not social ones.The idea governing the foundation of the Unions,i.e helping out your neighbours, has been lost sight of as the money men take over.
With the demise of conveyancing the legal profession (and all trades) are in decay and something like 40% of legal work is now concentrated in debt collection.Creditors are in competition to strip the carcasses of impoverished people and the tragic deaths of so many middle aged males .who happen to be self employed ,is a direct result.
Ordinary people can be likened to the wildebeest who migrate across the 500 kilometers of the Serengeti in central Africa and which are hounded at every turn by prides of lions,alligators,vultures, hyenas and every scavenging animal you can imagine.Match the creditor to the predator.
Money has never been as scarce and any more taxes ,open or sneaky are not on.
Most people haven't enough to eat and any more cutbacks will be the last straw.
It is not to Europe that our emigrants are heading ,but the historical traditional destinations.The time has come to quit Europe and paddle our own canoe again.It was titled the European Economic Community and that is just what it is--- an economic community that is destroying our social society.
When Angela and Nicholas say "jump" our boys say "how high" and I suppose that when the Americans tell the to jump they will give the same response.
About the only source of hope is the Gaelic hurling and football,the quintessential expression of our Irishness ,which all Gaels hold close to their hearts,whether at home or abroad.Often copied but never equalled ,long may the games prosper.
Let us give all these amateurs,however lowly, a buaile bas.Let us pay homage to all those who are lucky enough to represent their counties and fawn at the true grit of the participants in all All Ireland Finals,both men and women.
The highest compliment you can pay a man ,in my view is to afford him the accolade"every inch a man".I suppose the same could be said of women.
There are many Gaelic sportspeople you can say this about.
On a sad note Maggie Morgan,a woman who helped promote our Camogie Club here in Dunderry this many years, passed away today,well before her time.having fought the good fight to the end.She was a great one and wanted only the best for her kids and this community.We sympathise with them and her devoted husband Gerry..
Ar dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
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