Nulty connection to Dunderry

Patrick Nulty is,to the best of my knowledge,the first indigenous person from Blanchardstown to have been elected to the Dail.Just as Kilbride and Robinstown are part of Dunderry Parish,so is,to my mind,Mulhuddart and Clonsilla part of Blanchardstown Parish.
In my youth Blanchardstown Church was the main parish Church,with a subsidiary Church in Porterstown.There was no Church in Clonsilla nor Mulhuddart and when we lived on the Shilleran Road in Huntstown Lawn in the 1970's a Mass Bus used leave Mulhuddard Village each Sunday for nine o clock Mass in Blanchardstown .
As far as memory serves me Partick Nulty's grandfather and granny on his father's side were long time residents on the Shilleren Road ( rechristened the Blakestown Road) and I vividly recall many animated conversations with her as she rested from her bicycle on her journeys past our house.A grand woman.I would say that she was a very hardworking woman .I think her husband had a bad accident late in life.
Those times there were two competing clubs in the Parish.Brigid's GAA Club,which we belonged to and St.Mochtas Soccer Club,who I never played with ,but my brother Benjy did.A lot of lads would have played with both.
Patrick's uncle Nicky was a skillful footballer and I played underage football with him in Brigid's up to under 21 level.He played a few Senior games.He was fairly good and very skillful but on the small, side and came in for considerable rough treatment from the opposition.He was also a skillful soccer player and played with Mochtas,where at one stage all the players adopted the names of Manchester United players of the day and he was known as "Buchan".
He got less abuse at soccer and stuck with it rather the Gaelic.
His younger brother Vinny also played with both clubs and was a good footballer too.I didn't play with him but my younger brothers did.He gravitated more towards the soccer ,where he became a committed administrator.I wouldn't know Patrick's father at all but am certain that my brother Benjy would.
Nicky's son is the spit of his father,is great friends with my nephews and has  played for many years with Erin Go Brath,which my brothers founded and which Cecil in particular has helped establish as a fixture on the GAA map of Dublin West.
Another uncle of Patrick is Shane ,a good friend of my family,a great friend of my brother Martin and a resident of Kilbride in this parish for some time.
I am delighted to be able to congratulate all the Nulty's (including those from River Road ,Blanchardstown ) on the success of Patrick and it is indeed great to see one of our own getting on politically.

Presidential Election and all that.

Fine Gael imploded.Fianna Fail got it as wrong as wrong could be.The young didn't vote.The electronic and printed media ,particularly the Independent are anti Republican ,the latter being dominated  by anti Irish and pro British journalists ,owned by a Knight of the realm ,which never miss a chance to stick the boot into those who bloodied the nose of their beloved Empire over the years.( This includes English lovers by birth and inclination and partitionists.).
RTE and TV3 and their pet panellists pander solely to the Dublin luvvies and their groupies and are virulent anti Catholic.A la ca rte Catholicism is a cloak to be worn or discarded at a whim and atheists are now reinventing themselves as "spiritual " beings.
Avoiding straight answers is the new fashion as aspiring candidates strove mightily to avoid answering searching questions.Appearance, not substance, is the new yardstick.
Journalism has reached a new low as they stampeded to the gutter to see who could hit the most hurtful ,sneaky and mortal blow to those they opposed.As they reaped so shall thy sow.What goes around comes around.Or so one hopes.    
Feminism persists in the Aras,as two women are succeeded by an ardent feminist.
Cromwell is  spinning in his grave as the Westies occupy all the main political offices,Taoiseach,Tanaite and President.
Dublin is on a different planet,culturally and politically from the rest of the Country.Every where bar Dublin,the natives support their own ,even those with remote claims to an area.Dublin seems to despise their own.What is wrong with them.Are they ashamed of their own and in awe of others.
Personally I wouldn't be a supporter of Gay Mitchell,but he is a true blue Dub.Must count for nothing.No loyalty there at all.Maybe the Dubs have been over run in their own county.
Michael Martin was true to form.He made a balls of it,because he has none himself.There are plenty of Fianna Fallers in the Country who clamored to Gallagher and some even voted for Higgins.
Young Dev,was right .He should have run.He is as clean a politician as there is and the pedigree is head and shoulders above the rest.He would have romped home as the electorate have already extracted revenge on the Party and realise that Tweedledum is no different than Tweedledee.
In a way the Republicans have had a resounding victory.Labour has been hijacked by the Workers Party,the political front of the former Official IRA,Sinn Fein increased its vote,and Gallagher picked up the Fianna Fail (the Republican Party )vote and "Old Labour"faction of the Labour Party has as its icon James Connolly who died in combat in the against the Empire.Even Fine Gael pays tribute to Michael Collins a courageous and brave fighter against the Empire.
So Republicans won the day.Just a matter of the hue.

Death of Kitty O Riordan.

It never rains but it pours.So it must seem to Denise Coogan,wife of Christy of Tullaghanstown,who had no sooner returned here from the burial of her sister in Boston,when she had to fly back to the bedside of her mother Kitty,who took a turn for the worst after the death of her daughter.
After a defiant struggle she finally succumbed to her illnes and went to meet her Maker two days ago.
Our hearts go out to Denise ,her father Alfie,her sisters Tina and Tricia,her brothers Kevin,Barry and Alfie and her grandchildren.
We know and love  her Dunderry grandchildren and we know how much they mourn her passing.We know well that  all her grand children ,in laws,relatives and friends equally mourn her passing.
All in this Parish sympathise with the bereaved on the cruel losses they are enduring.
We pray for God to give them help and succour.
Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.

Exodus from country gains momentum.

With the departure of Davy Clarke and Martin Garry to Australia in pursuit of a decent living and real work,the Parish is further diminished and two more native families are in deep mourning.
There are times in the affairs of men that are taken on the tide and such is the exodus that those left behind feel that they have little option but to join the majority of their friends in foreign fields,such is the lack of hope in this austere and subjugated land,where our political kapos jump to the tune of our Continental masters.
The exodus is taking on a life of its own and will soon become a torrent.
We are all fed up of weasel words and being talked down to by gutless politicians ,over paid commentators,spineless journalists,useless academics ,who between them could not create even one sustainable job.
God help us.

Turkeys being asked to vote for Christmas.

It is gratifying to read that eight former Attorney Generals,appointed in turn from all the political Parties have strongly supported the Blog's call ("Constitutional Amendments out ,out,out.") to vote against these proposed amendments to reduce judges pay  and allow members of the Dail and Seanad  to play at being judge,jury and executioner.
These are the sort of powers that dictators dream about and would completely erode individual rights to fair procedure,their good name and fair play in general.
Alan Shatter,the Justice Minister,who already stifled debate on the matter ,is reduced to sneering at one Attorney General ,who presided at AIB after his term and presumes to be more knowledgeable than the combined wisdom of the eight.
 These men have nothing personal to gain and much to lose from the stance they are taking,including as they do former Fine Gael ,Labour,P.D.and Fianna Fail  appointees in their number.
How the present Attorney can stand behind this travesty is astounding.
Power hungry politicians want nothing more than ultimate power to satisfy their super egos.
Don't be a turkey voting for your own extinction.
Vote No and No.

Dunderry v Oldcastle u 21 football challenge.

Last evening was brutal weatherwise.Thoroughly miserable.
Our boys travelled to Oldcastle for a challenge and,from what I hear ,did well.
On a night you wouldn't put a milk bottle out,that's dedication for you.

Barbaric Mutilation of Ghadaffi

Just finished watching The Omen.It featured many violent and  horrible deaths at the behest of the Devil.
Nothing in the film  compared to the barbaric death inflicted on Qaddafi and the macabre treatment of his mortal remains..In theses matters  you never blame the monkeys ,rather identify the organ grinders.These are the supposed renowned and civilised leaders of the free world.
How these people sleep at night is beyond me.It baffles me how at Our Rulers can  throw open the hospitality   of the State to these people but vilify our own for far less.NATO ran 26,000 bombing expeditions over Libya.Hilary Clinton is reported to have said that once Qaddafi was removed from the scene she didn't much care how it was achieved.The very sight or sound of her , her allies and her enemies,all of whom think so little of the dignity of human life, much send shivers down the spine of right thinking people.
It has been left to Zuma,the president of South Africa to articulate the views of decent people.Betcha not one Irish Presidential candidate  nor Parliamentarian will have the guts to comment on the matter either way., 

Enda puts his foot in it.

I heard the Taoiseach using the privilege of the Dail today to condemn the man who developed those flats in Dublin, which have been temporarily closed to have remedial repairs done in order  to satisfy the Fire Officers.
This cheap shot was delivered to get at Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams,who was raising questions about the Aviva downscaling.
The man was not there to defend himself.
I would guess that this man can never be prosecuted for anything to do with whatever shortcomings may arise regarding these buildings as he has been publicly found guilty of wrongdoing in the most privileged and public of fora in the Country and to be condemned so publicly by the Taoiseach of the day ensures that he will never get a fair trial.
Do you want politicians ,who may,like the Taoiseach ,condemn in advance people who haven't had a chance to defend themselves ,to investigate anyone they choose in either the Dail or Seanad?
IF you don't, vote against the proposed constitutional amendment.
These amendments are a severe threat to democracy.

Proposed Constitutional Amendments Out,Out,Out..

There is much that is wrong about the way the law operates in this country.The main complaint I have is that ,like the best medical treatment ,the best law is generally only available to those with the deepest pockets.In civil cases ,in any event,the richest litigants get the best and maybe only practitioners and therefor the best  results.
With the exception of a small number of practitioners,some of whom I have the honour of knowing,and those good people in "New Beginning"I think it is called ,who take cases for poor litigants on a no foal no fee basis ,the civil law is beyond the financial  reach of the bulk of the populace and rich bullies and gredy lawyers can manipulate the situation to their advantage.
It would be great were that situation addressed in the upcoming vote ,but no fear of that.
The Government of the day appoints judges.One presumes that they will not appoint someone with diametrically opposed views to their own.
Once appointed they are very difficult to remove .
The reason they are independ  from the Government is so  they can act independently in the interest of the citizens.The reason that their salaries cannot be reduced after appointment is to protect them from victimisation from a Government that might disagree with decisions they make.
Put simply the Government might put them under financial pressure by reducing their salaries until they pip at the seams and change their tune.
We should know enough about politicians not to trust them on this one.
The second matter to be voted on concerns the desire of politicians to play at being judge ,jury and executioner in the Dail or Seanad.They want to usurp the role of the Courts by effectively trying people in the Houses of the Oireachtas "in matters of the public interest."
Given the performance of the politicians in bringing the Country to its knees ,the crushing austerity being imposed on the populace,the sucking up to the European and world bank henchmen,the mass emigration resulting and the widespread abandonment of hope by so many,I would have thought that no one in their right mind would even contemplate letting politicians stick their noses into this area.
It is not that long since collective amnesia was experienced by so many politicians when it came to taking donations from developers and such like when they were plied with money for" political purposes "in the interest of the democratic process."
Look when ,if ever, they arrive at the stage that they can run the country in some sort of reasonable manner and stabilise it to the benefit of our citizens ,then and only then should we even remotely contemplate them playing at lawyer.
To make a decent living as  either a Solicitor or Barrister you need to be married to or partners with a person laying a golden egg all the time,be independently loaded or else live like a monk.In rough times like now unless you have a cushion to fall back on you are doomed.Really it is a rich man's game and always was.The general populace don't like lawyers much,considering them on a par with traffic wardens ,grippers,the traffic corps  and Revenue and Social Welfare enforcers.Of course this is a generality and there are many fair people in all theses categories,but who doesn't dread receipt of a Solicitor's letter or the service of proceedings,invariably promising all sorts of ruination.and usually when you are at your lowest.
It is not great that theses bodies regulate themselves,but to allow politicians who couldn't get a drink in a distillery to appoint the majority of the  governing regulating body is recipe for disaster.Didn't they look after the regulation of the financial sector and look where that got us.
A resounding no,no,no.  

Dunderry V Dunboyne IHL Semi Final 16/10/2011

Dunderry beat Dunboyne 4-16 to 1-6 today in a well contested match in Trim.Despite the margin of victory the match was keenly contested right up to the final whistle and was no pushover.Dunboyne don't do surrenders now nor never did.
Whacko and selectors employed the cunning strategy of resting the players in the run up to the match and it worked spectacularly with a refreshed and invigorated team producing a committed and thoughtful performance.
Team.
                                                      Conor Farrell
Damian Bruton                             Davy Mc Cormack                           Davy Stephens

Darren Callaghan                         Ivan Mc Cormack                             Dylan Keenan

                         Ted Dowd                                           Bob Doherty
Conor O Shea                            Brendan Wright                                   Killian Minogue

Paddy Gorey                                Evan Stephens                                  Davy Gilkinson.

Subs used.Chris Harrington,Darren Clabby,Ed.Maguire,Keith Callaghan,Joey Martin.

Everyone played well,the full forward line being particularly lethal.Of course the ball they were fed had a lot to do with this.
Young Clabby is physically immense and as brave as they come.In fact we are developing a few physically commanding players.
A good day's work .Roll on Kilmessan in final.
Footnote.Edward Maguire is on a roll.Yesterday he was a selector on the victorious  Dunderry u21 Football Team.Today he contributed to the hurling success and this evening he had a vital  part to play in the birth of our latest grandson.  Does it get any better?

Dunderry V Rathkenny.u.21 F.C.15/10/2011

Match played in Navan.We won by a big score.I missed it but am promised a report in due course.Davy Gilkinson scored two goals.

Sacrelige at Holycross latest manifestation of anti Catholic bias.

I opined some time back that the incessant anti Catholic rhetoric  from the Government, some presidential candidates,the printed media, prominent journalists in the electronic media and other prominent people was encouraging low life scum to prey on Catholics and their institutions.I instanced the robberies from churchgoer's vehicles and the spitting at priests as evidence of this.
Currently RTE are running an ad sneering at the Angelus bells.
All these people bear an indirect responsibility for the theft of religious and sacred relics from Holycross Abbey recently as they have stirred up hatred of the Catholic Church and all things Catholic.
No doubt they are rubbing their hands at this latest desecration.
The faithful should remember the disdain poured upon them by these bigots and so called "practising Catholics" when going to the polls in the Presidential election.

And yet another burglary

Having finished with the desecration of the home of the eighty year old yesterday the perpetrators drove up the road to the home of an even older gentleman ,who lives alone,gained entry by calling out his name (they knew his name seemingly),forced their way into his home and held him prisoner there as they ransacked it for booty.My people tell me that the perpetrators were three adults ,two men and one woman.
Failte to post colonial,multicultural,secular Ireland.
Is there no protection for us,particularly the elderly?

Burglarly epidemic out of control

Today the low- lives preying on our parishioners reached a new low,even for them.They desecrated the house of an octogenarion widow in her absence.This woman has been through hell recently,losing her daughter and  husband in quick succession.She herself sufferred the most bizarre and serious injury at the time of her husband's funeral and was unable to attend.
These cowards chose to inflict further senseless pain on this woman,breaking into the house,sawing through the locked bedroom door,wrecking all the rooms ,stealing a lifetime of irreplacable memories and ensuring that she will live in fear for her remaining years.
Feelings are running high in the Parish.When these people are caught,as they are bound to be,I imagine that retribution of the most severe kind will be extracted.
The authorities seem to be ineffective in face of this type of activity .
Far be it from me to tell the Gardai how to do their business,but it seems to me that were they to apply the same diligence to collaring these scum as they have to catching drunken drivers in the past they would be caught long before now.
With the death of the pub trade it is time to redeploy the troops ,not to catch decent people doing their best to survive ,but to put this filth away.
People are losing faith and urgent action is needed.

After the Brown Presidential Debate.

The media obviously talk only to each other.The same pet panellists appear on each show and soak themselves in admiration at their mutual wit and insight.Most of these commentators are either failed politicians or also rans or haven't the balls to run themselves for office. Both they and the majority of the presenters have personal agendas relating to their own failings and bias and the chips on their shoulders aren't long emerging when they get the chance to stick the boot in.
You may take it as a general rule that anyone with a D4 accent ,or in the PRO world,or who mixes overmuch with these people ,or who was rejected by the electorate and is part of this set,is virulent anti republican,anti Catholic and particularly so when people from the North and South, who didn't stand idly by, offer themselves for Public Office.
I stood idly by myself.I have nothing but admiration for those who didn't and suffered the consequences.They stood by their people when the rest of us  spouted pious platitudes and conjured up excuses for doing nothing for them.
It annoys to see wimps,irrespective of their intellectual capacity ,belittling such people and spouting revisionist bullshit to try and cover their own cowardice .
Vincent Brown went to huge trouble to discredit Martin Mc Guinness as evidenced by the huge pile of books he had at his side .Only for Mc Guiness.Not for anybody else.Mc Guiness bested him ,despite his usual hectoring.I would say that Mc Guiness was in far more lethal sights than Brown's and that Brown is a pussy cat  by comparison.Game set and match to Mc Guinness.
Of course Brown's attack was undermined by the corner boy antics of Mitchell.As a Dub myself I was disappointed that he cannot behave in a more statesman like manner.
The surge of support apparent in the polls for Gallagher,totally unseen by the so called experts,is no surprise to me.He is decent Fianna Fail stock and I would say that the old style Fianna Failers are backing him,as indeed are many floating voters who now realise the the present crew are not the answer either.Many many people now regard them as indistinguishable from their predecessors on the job and if anything more smart alecy.Even Bertie could go to GAA matches without fear of being jeered.
Gallagher's popularity magnifies the cowardice of Fianna Fail in not entering a runner.Young Dev would have polled well and if Gallagher does well I would say that Martin won't last long.
Every day Norris participates in this contest he is further discredited.My guess is that he will do well to even get the homo sexual vote.
The Davis participation in the contest ,so far as I am concerned,has only served to highlight the enormous fees these sort of Charity heads garner for their services,both for wages and outside activities.To tell the truth I think more of our under 11 club mentors ,who devote the entirety of the spare time they have to looking after teams than  I do of all these professional "Charity " people grouped together.  Who wouldn't head a Charity for that type of money.Great work if you can get it.
From now on I will be giving great thought to which charities I will contribute at the Church gate.
Certainly any charity with an executive paid these sort of astronomical sums will get Nada.
I suppose that she will get the Miriam vote(vote for whatever woman you want ),as she is more "yummy mummy" and D4 than Dana ,who is overtly Catholic and Northern ,to boot ,and therefor unacceptable to to the West Brit Pepelopes and Bevans My arses who hate all things Irish and who really should return to their motherland such is their oft stated dissatisfaction with this country.
I would say that Dana will poll well enough and surprise many.
Where have the Labour Ministers gone to.A few months ago they were all over the place.You couldn't turn on the radio without being subject to the Burton Shriek or animated gesticulation ,or the Rabbite jigger and poker as his words of learned length and thundering sound bedazzled all around.I'll tell you where.They have gone to ground,The former "Workers Party" comrades are too busy selling off the State's assets  .standing idly by as 65 year old women languish in jail because they challenged semi state bullying ,presiding over continuing  mass emigration and denying the Irish Diaspora who hit hard times from Social Assistance on their return here from abroad.
Michael D.is one of these comrades.I would guess that no Labour big wig will even appear on his behalf in the hope that the cuddlability factor will get him there.If any of the other candidates have any sense they will point out that Labour is only a heavier version of Fianna Fail light and if anything even worse.
If the young go out in force Mc Guiness to win.

Who to back in Presidential Stakes.

I believe that this post is an unnecessary extravagance in these straitened times.Most of  these well heeled candidates have lived well 'till now from the fat of the land.This coveted position is just an extension of that lifestyle.
Seeing however that my view is of no consequence for this election the question is whether to vote and for whom.As democrats we should vote.
In theses fearful and depressing times we should,I believe, vote for the person you would like to have beside you fighting the Irish cause when in  a corner and your back  to the wall.This will be my criteria.
There are no circumstances in which a vote for either Fine Gael or Labour should be considered presently.

Returning Irish emigrants and their families are being refused social assistance by Joan Burton's Dept.under the habitual residency regulations,operated by her Dept.
As seeing is believing I can tell you that a young Irish man,born of Irish parents ,who has returned to this country from England to try and make a better life for himself here has been refused Social Assistance,He comes from decent ,hard working,respected and patriotic stock.His great grandfather fought for Independence from the Empire in this,his  own country.
This Government should hang its head in shame.
In this regard they are truly political kapos, running the country for the benefit of their European masters and on their instructions.
Croppy lie down and starve ,or preferably,get out.

Plague of Burglaries spreads.

Bad enough that an octogenarian was burgled last week in Meadstown.I was apoplectic about this.It gets worse.Two other houses were also burgled around the same time.This is out of control.
Unless the authorities nip this in the bud this plague will become an epidemic.

Sanctity of Confession.

The attack of the Government and its allies on the sanctity of confession is nothing more than a smokes screen by anti Catholic liberals to secularise society even more than it already is secularised and to denigrate Catholicism.
Solicitors and Barristers acting in criminal cases are bound by legal and professional privilege not to reveal the secrets of their clients.
Family Law cases are held in camera and the identity of the parties are protected to the extent apparently that the parties cannot be named even in disputes over fees.
State employees bound by the Officials Secret Act can be jailed for breach of confidentiality and must by law keep secret information gleaned by them in the course of their official duties.
Government Departments ,Local Authorities,the Police and the multiplicity of official quangos do not reveal the names of the the many informers on their books. 
Journalists undertake not to reveal their sources.At least one brave man,Kevin O Kelly ,went to jail in an era of strict censorship, tightly applied by a Labour Minister,to uphold this principle.And if I am not mistaken a much renowned newspaper editor torched relevant documents to ptotect the source.
.So called liberal journalists,politicians,reporters and alleged civil rights groups are calling for religious personnel only to  breach confidentially.
Ex members of paramilitary organisations and their political associates do not reveal their secrets.
Government archives are kept secret for many years.The Courts cannot direct disclosure of Cabinet considerations.At least one Presidential candid ate refuses to reveal the contents of letters he wrote on legal advice.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
If Catholic confessor are made legally obliged to report the content of confessions,then all the above groups should be similarly treated.
Only Catholics ,alone of the above brief list , will be  victimised if populist politicians and a baying and  compliant media get their way.
Remember the thousand year Reich didn't last more than ten years,its secular successor the E.U .is presently on the ropes,our boys lost economic and arguably political sovereignty after 90 years ,Communism has come and gone,Feminism is on the wane,the great temporal Empires have all bitten the dust ,but the Catholic Church is still standing.
There is no chance that Catholic Church will contemplate breaking the seal of confession,nor should it.
A la ca rte Catholics should get out now and stop calling themselves practising Catholics when politically expedient.

Terrified populace under siege.

The cowardly thieves have struck again.For the second time in a few months the house of an octogenarian has been burgled.Hopefully this thief or thieves will make the mistake of entering a house with a fit man or men at home and get an appropriate welcome.There will be a queue to welcome him or them,male or female.Welcome to secular, multicultural,inform on your neighbour,pan European, Ireland.
It could be a mistake to think that the culprits are limited to the usual suspects.or that they are necessarily young and male.Their age span may be older than imagined and they may not be male.
An attempted burgalarly was also made yesterday at a local house.Be vigilant and be careful of strangers looking for directions.Memorise the number of their cars.