Austerity by Numbers,

1.The family of the Bear Garry and Monica.Son T.J.took the lonely plane to Australia yesterday to join his brother Martin.

2.Michael Garry and Monica now have two sons in Australia.Next door his brother Tommy has two children abroad,Thomas and Lorna in the U.S.A.Peppi Clarke has two sons in Aus,Noel and David.
My brother Martin has one daughter in England and another on the way.Gerry Coogan and Tracy Coogan are in the USA.
Korea Mc Donagh ,a native of Rathcarn our neighbours, was held captive by the Koreans for seven years,while serving in the Armed Forces of the USA.Two of his grandsons T.J.Garry and Joe Mc Donagh left together for Australia this week.
James Higgins and Gordon Weldon of this Parish got Australia Citizenship lately.The first of many?
Paddy Conway has two children,a son and daughter in the USA.


3.Razor Fagan ,Kenny Fagan and Sinead Fagan,children of Dessie and Marion are in exile in Australia and England.To get work they must go there.
Kenny was married there recently.The marriage took place in England.Clearly the expenses were incurred in England and the economic benefit associated with this accrued to the English Exchequer.
We congratulate himself and his new wife.My brother Cecil has two sons in Aus and a daughter in England.

4.The number of Churches either torched or desecrated this last twelve months.

5.The five sons of Mickey Daley in exile.The number of middle aged men ,who happened to be self employed who tragically cut short their lives within a five mile radius of here in recent times.

6.The number of nephews and nieces of mine in exile.The sentence in years a man got for smuggling garlic into the country.Yes that most addictive of drugs,garlic.Rumour has it that there are a preponderance of vampires in the judiciary.Proof positive that even the judiciary have lost the plot.No wonder that there is a desperation to get as far away as possible from this country.

7.The number of days in the week that heart broken parents fret for their exiled children and those unemployed at home.

8 and 9.The number of businesses closed in this neighbourhood this last three years.

10.The number of Commandments God handed down.Simple encompassing rules for good living.

11.In thousands this number of broken and humiliated people who turned up for  jobs expo, fora in Dublin,and Cork,desperate for work anywhere to retain their dignity.
So many turned up that many thousand had to be turned away.

12.The number of months an Irishman ,who I know and who is the great grandson of a man who fought for Ireland's freedom ,has been left destitute by Joan Burton's Dept.Advised by a genuine staff member to go to England to improve his situation.Has been given the huge sum of E.80 for the entire year  to keep himself.Dependant totally on the goodwill of his neighbours for survival he is treated worse than an animal by our State.Not even a statistic.

 13.And rising.The number of months one of the three pubs in the Parish has been closed.Ditto the Post Office.

14.%.The unemployment rate,

50.The age at which many Irish would emigrate if they could.

270.The number of boxes to tick in the jobs initiative,

300.the approximate number of offences which motorists can be penalised for.Also the I.Q.level you would need to remember them,

2,500.The number of voluntary GAA clubs the Government,via its Revenue arm ,is risking destroying
.
70,000 and rising.The number of our children who emigrate each year.

1,300.000.Number of smokers treated as lepers by our vindictive medical fanatics who are so intent on bullying them in hospitals by denying them the chance to have a smoke in the hospital grounds  while they are indisposed..That a medic took a woman's ring as security for fees is indicative of the disdain with which some medics regard their patients.When will this blatant bullying stop.

Too many .Plummy voiced apologists decrying negativity on the part of people who have nothing.

Too much.The amount of bank debt we the citizens are paying.Not a red penny is about the correct amount.Ask Leo Varadaker.