Nell passed away earlier today 28/05/2012 in the loving bosom of her family.
House private until 2.30 P.M.tomorrow,Tuesday .
The removal will be on Wednesday to arrive in Dunderry Church at 12.00.
Burial immediately after to Dunderry Cemetery.
Lord have mercy on her soul.
Monday, May 28, 2012
The tinker's purse or the rat?
There is an old saying around here which goes "Among tinkers no one owns the purse".I first heard it used many years ago ,long before the prohibitionist and health Taliban destroyed the pubs of Ireland and put them to the sword,when six of us used meet every Friday evening for a few pints ,a smoke and a good chat.God be with the days.
Even then one or more of us might be shy in the money department ,while others might be carrying extra,having had a good week or whatever.Once the situation revealed itself,the lad going well covered the lad under pressure and everybody got the same amount of gargle ,no questions asked.
This was the custom among the travelling fraternity ,another institution our secular society has tried to put to the sword by enacting the petty laws barring camping by the roadside. Our lawmakers and their acoloyties would prefer the sight of ragworth and hogweed to humans.
Maybe the sense of community (which the E.U. has perhaps consciously dropped from its title )made such Christian values pertinent.Tinkers have a great sense of family and boozing buddies are broadly similar.
Certainly I never remember anyone talking of sub prime loan repayments or moral hazard in the context of the tinkers purse.
Everybody trusted everybody else to be honest and the attitude was that it was good to help out a neighbour and friend in hard times without undue investigation and without guarantees of institutional austerity and the levy of penal interest on the guy who was temporarily under pressure.
If a community of countries are mutually bound by common objectives there are no reasons why the "Tinkers Purse " principle cannot apply,Unless of course one wants to totally dominate the other and punish and humiliate it if it falls on hard times.
If it comes to that stage then the logical and honourable thing to do is to dissolve that Union ,not humiliate the the fella experiencing hard times by instituting permanent austerity on him,getting him to surrender even more sovereignty and to agree to be fined if he goes broke again.
Now Noona's remarks about not being pavilion members of the EU,being at the heart of it (Do ye take us for full ejits) and his sneering reference to a buddy under pressure ,Greece,as only being capable of contributing feta cheese to the cause ,displays a mindset which would never,ever allow him to even comprehend the rational of the tinkers purse.Nor to be a drinking buddy of mine.
Now to the Rat story.
Many years ago ago a mill owner was so plagued with rats that he could barely survive, such was the amount of grain they ate or destroyed.Cats ,terriers ,traps ,poison made no difference.The day was saved by a mountain man who trapped a dozen rats,and put them alive into an aerated barrel,without food or water.He returned in three weeks to find one sleek rat alive.This rat,the most cunning,fearsome ,vicious and determined of them all had killed and devoured the rest.
Let loose in the mill he soon cleared all rodents out ,as they soon got the message that he had developed a taste for rat flesh.Soon his influence spread to all the neighbouring mills.
You get the message?
Vote No says I.
Even then one or more of us might be shy in the money department ,while others might be carrying extra,having had a good week or whatever.Once the situation revealed itself,the lad going well covered the lad under pressure and everybody got the same amount of gargle ,no questions asked.
This was the custom among the travelling fraternity ,another institution our secular society has tried to put to the sword by enacting the petty laws barring camping by the roadside. Our lawmakers and their acoloyties would prefer the sight of ragworth and hogweed to humans.
Maybe the sense of community (which the E.U. has perhaps consciously dropped from its title )made such Christian values pertinent.Tinkers have a great sense of family and boozing buddies are broadly similar.
Certainly I never remember anyone talking of sub prime loan repayments or moral hazard in the context of the tinkers purse.
Everybody trusted everybody else to be honest and the attitude was that it was good to help out a neighbour and friend in hard times without undue investigation and without guarantees of institutional austerity and the levy of penal interest on the guy who was temporarily under pressure.
If a community of countries are mutually bound by common objectives there are no reasons why the "Tinkers Purse " principle cannot apply,Unless of course one wants to totally dominate the other and punish and humiliate it if it falls on hard times.
If it comes to that stage then the logical and honourable thing to do is to dissolve that Union ,not humiliate the the fella experiencing hard times by instituting permanent austerity on him,getting him to surrender even more sovereignty and to agree to be fined if he goes broke again.
Now Noona's remarks about not being pavilion members of the EU,being at the heart of it (Do ye take us for full ejits) and his sneering reference to a buddy under pressure ,Greece,as only being capable of contributing feta cheese to the cause ,displays a mindset which would never,ever allow him to even comprehend the rational of the tinkers purse.Nor to be a drinking buddy of mine.
Now to the Rat story.
Many years ago ago a mill owner was so plagued with rats that he could barely survive, such was the amount of grain they ate or destroyed.Cats ,terriers ,traps ,poison made no difference.The day was saved by a mountain man who trapped a dozen rats,and put them alive into an aerated barrel,without food or water.He returned in three weeks to find one sleek rat alive.This rat,the most cunning,fearsome ,vicious and determined of them all had killed and devoured the rest.
Let loose in the mill he soon cleared all rodents out ,as they soon got the message that he had developed a taste for rat flesh.Soon his influence spread to all the neighbouring mills.
You get the message?
Vote No says I.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Kells V Dunderry 26/05/2012
Was watching a cow to calve and missed the match.We drew .I had a good man there to take notes.Report in due course.
On the other hand I was watching a young hare ,which was oblivious to my presence ,while cow watching.
Brought to mind an old dirge I heard years ago.
"God made man and he made money,
God made the bee and he made honey,
God made the hare to lie in the grass,
And the divil made the greyhound to bite him in the arse."
On the other hand I was watching a young hare ,which was oblivious to my presence ,while cow watching.
Brought to mind an old dirge I heard years ago.
"God made man and he made money,
God made the bee and he made honey,
God made the hare to lie in the grass,
And the divil made the greyhound to bite him in the arse."
Friday, May 25, 2012
Dunderry Match results 25/26 May 2012.
The U 14 footballers hammered Dunsany in the Div 5 Shield Final last night.
The U 15 Camogie team were well beaten by Rathoath in the Top Tier Final tonight.
The U 18 footballers were beaten byClanna Gael in the Div.3 Final tonight.
With three members of the Meath Minor team on our side the latter was a shock result.
The U 15 Camogie team were well beaten by Rathoath in the Top Tier Final tonight.
The U 18 footballers were beaten byClanna Gael in the Div.3 Final tonight.
With three members of the Meath Minor team on our side the latter was a shock result.
Drumbeat Dividend for 26/05/2012.
Try Hermival at the Curragh in the 3.15 tomorrow Saturday.
I collected E15.00 last Saturday as I got last week's tip at 2/1 and am now playing with the bookies money .I am E.9.40 to the good on an investment of E.20.00.( 2 winners one second and an also ran.)
Caught on the wrong side of the track in the English Guineas at Newmarket ,Hermival was unlucky not to win,having won his group stage comfortably.
At 11/2 he is good enough to win in a field that is far from impressive.
Give it a lash.
I collected E15.00 last Saturday as I got last week's tip at 2/1 and am now playing with the bookies money .I am E.9.40 to the good on an investment of E.20.00.( 2 winners one second and an also ran.)
Caught on the wrong side of the track in the English Guineas at Newmarket ,Hermival was unlucky not to win,having won his group stage comfortably.
At 11/2 he is good enough to win in a field that is far from impressive.
Give it a lash.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
First day of Summer
Went up to the pitch last evening to give Jim Mitchell and Darren Yourell a hand with the under 14 footballers who are in a shield final this Thursday in Dunganny.
Truth to tell we were lucky to get a place to train.The pitch was chock a bloc with underage camogie players hosting a tournament,another camogie challenge against Trim,under 18 football training,and Senior hurlers and footballers training together as well as our training.
Not a cross word exchanged as everybody adjusted and tailored their needs according to the circumstances.
The under 14's didn't field in the first round of the championship and this is not good.That is why I volunteered to give a hand with them.These young lads are the potential stars of the future and deserve the best.
The numbers of children ,parents and adults present would do your heart good.
For the first time in a month there was a diminution in the harsh wind that has most farmers still foddering in the month of May,which is highly unusual.
Last week my daughter and her husband saw what they took to be a huge falcon hovering close to the village.They described it as bigger than a hen and smaller than a swan with a hooked beak and a massive wing span.Any ideas?
The previous evening was a bit of a bummer as both Dunderry and Rathoath turned up for a B League Div2 match but no referee.A huge disappointment and no match played.
It's hard to fathom why the GAA and the Government don't get together and devise a system for reward to address this type of thing.You would imagine with 450,000 unemployed one person would be available.
The under 14 camogie team fields in the final this Friday.
Beidh me ann.
Truth to tell we were lucky to get a place to train.The pitch was chock a bloc with underage camogie players hosting a tournament,another camogie challenge against Trim,under 18 football training,and Senior hurlers and footballers training together as well as our training.
Not a cross word exchanged as everybody adjusted and tailored their needs according to the circumstances.
The under 14's didn't field in the first round of the championship and this is not good.That is why I volunteered to give a hand with them.These young lads are the potential stars of the future and deserve the best.
The numbers of children ,parents and adults present would do your heart good.
For the first time in a month there was a diminution in the harsh wind that has most farmers still foddering in the month of May,which is highly unusual.
Last week my daughter and her husband saw what they took to be a huge falcon hovering close to the village.They described it as bigger than a hen and smaller than a swan with a hooked beak and a massive wing span.Any ideas?
The previous evening was a bit of a bummer as both Dunderry and Rathoath turned up for a B League Div2 match but no referee.A huge disappointment and no match played.
It's hard to fathom why the GAA and the Government don't get together and devise a system for reward to address this type of thing.You would imagine with 450,000 unemployed one person would be available.
The under 14 camogie team fields in the final this Friday.
Beidh me ann.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Fir Breaga in their element.
As predicted the up coming constitutional amendment is the perfect arena for the Fir and the Mna Breaga (best be careful not to upset the gonad brigade ) to sprout whatever comes into their heads,with little regard to the facts .
My approach to the matter is quite simple.I am a huge admirer of the 1937 Constitution.It was drafted by people who had just emerged from a millennium of subjugation under the world,s greatest Empire ever and who never wanted to be vassals again to anyone.
It should only be meddled with in the most extreme circumstances and should never in my view be changed to concede sovereignty so hard fought for to any other institution.
That the Attorney General had the conjoles to pronounce that a constitutional vote was called for shows the she is a brave and proper woman and that the passing of the the referendum would be a conceding of sovereignty to a foreign institution.
Now the political parties have in the past been more than happy to campaign for the conceding of many aspects of sovereignty to the European ideal..The question we have got to ask ourselves now is whether with 14.5% unemployment ,mass emigration ,increased levels of suicide ,and while increasingly living in fear we would now opt ,were we outside the E.U. to make ourselves a part of a Union that is in absolute chaos.A Union that has austerity as its focal point,where 50% youth unemployment is common in Greece,Spain ,Italy and Portugal,where there are riots in the streets ,where ordinary people are displaying alarm at the running of the club whenever they have the chance and where democratically elected politicians are blackmailed into conceding democratic control to unelected officials.
Whether thes issues are avoided by the yacht club brigade or those who wouldn't clear the shite of a sick chicken from the coop ,these issues dont go away.
I would say that we would not opt for membership of such a club,even pavilion membership..
The fact that the current Taoiseach can publicly be so nasty to a man regulated out of business after nearly thirty years by telling him to get a job,when 450,00 others can't and that his Minister of Finance can be so insulting of Greece ,the home of democracy,by reducing their worth to the level of a form of cheese tells its own story.
I happened to be at the removal of a former hospital companion of mine ,Jo Ging from Ballivor,this evening.
The Church was packed as you would expect for a man who lead such a decent ,worthy and compassionate life.We were for a long time in regular contact but I lost contact over changed phones and he only last week asked Vincie Rattigan to get me to contact him.Vincie delivered the message but I was so busy I put it on the long finger,a decision I will eternally regret and which just shows how unpredictable life is.
Any how the queue to offer sympathy was long and a former Fianna Fail minister was in it.The talk of him was "There's one of the people that put this country back forty years"Hard to disagree.His successors have added another ten years on to that without our consent and now want to make it permanent.
Our ancestors refused the soup to abandon principle.Surely we are brave enough to do likewise .
By the way attempts to say that we are at the "heart of Europe"is Fir Breagaspeak at its worst.Think about it.
My approach to the matter is quite simple.I am a huge admirer of the 1937 Constitution.It was drafted by people who had just emerged from a millennium of subjugation under the world,s greatest Empire ever and who never wanted to be vassals again to anyone.
It should only be meddled with in the most extreme circumstances and should never in my view be changed to concede sovereignty so hard fought for to any other institution.
That the Attorney General had the conjoles to pronounce that a constitutional vote was called for shows the she is a brave and proper woman and that the passing of the the referendum would be a conceding of sovereignty to a foreign institution.
Now the political parties have in the past been more than happy to campaign for the conceding of many aspects of sovereignty to the European ideal..The question we have got to ask ourselves now is whether with 14.5% unemployment ,mass emigration ,increased levels of suicide ,and while increasingly living in fear we would now opt ,were we outside the E.U. to make ourselves a part of a Union that is in absolute chaos.A Union that has austerity as its focal point,where 50% youth unemployment is common in Greece,Spain ,Italy and Portugal,where there are riots in the streets ,where ordinary people are displaying alarm at the running of the club whenever they have the chance and where democratically elected politicians are blackmailed into conceding democratic control to unelected officials.
Whether thes issues are avoided by the yacht club brigade or those who wouldn't clear the shite of a sick chicken from the coop ,these issues dont go away.
I would say that we would not opt for membership of such a club,even pavilion membership..
The fact that the current Taoiseach can publicly be so nasty to a man regulated out of business after nearly thirty years by telling him to get a job,when 450,00 others can't and that his Minister of Finance can be so insulting of Greece ,the home of democracy,by reducing their worth to the level of a form of cheese tells its own story.
I happened to be at the removal of a former hospital companion of mine ,Jo Ging from Ballivor,this evening.
The Church was packed as you would expect for a man who lead such a decent ,worthy and compassionate life.We were for a long time in regular contact but I lost contact over changed phones and he only last week asked Vincie Rattigan to get me to contact him.Vincie delivered the message but I was so busy I put it on the long finger,a decision I will eternally regret and which just shows how unpredictable life is.
Any how the queue to offer sympathy was long and a former Fianna Fail minister was in it.The talk of him was "There's one of the people that put this country back forty years"Hard to disagree.His successors have added another ten years on to that without our consent and now want to make it permanent.
Our ancestors refused the soup to abandon principle.Surely we are brave enough to do likewise .
By the way attempts to say that we are at the "heart of Europe"is Fir Breagaspeak at its worst.Think about it.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 19/05/2012
Last weeks tip finished second and we are down 60p over the three weeks having invested E.15.00 in total.
This week we are going for Thought Worthy in the 2.15 in Newmarket.
His trainer John Gosden has already said that he is his number one Derby candidate ,which is very interesting considering that he also has Fencing and Shantaram in the race.
This horse has loads of potential and can burst the bubble of favourite Noble Mission.
This is our strongest fancy and should end up at odds of 3/1.
This week we are going for Thought Worthy in the 2.15 in Newmarket.
His trainer John Gosden has already said that he is his number one Derby candidate ,which is very interesting considering that he also has Fencing and Shantaram in the race.
This horse has loads of potential and can burst the bubble of favourite Noble Mission.
This is our strongest fancy and should end up at odds of 3/1.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Heart breaking scum thrive in "New"Ireland.
The amoral spawn of the ill bred lineage of a mongrel sub species of our so called multicultural society continue to thrive and prey on the decent and good in this Parish .
Last Sunday ,while the decent citizenry of the Parish and further afield were enjoying the fruits of the volunteers of the Fair Day extravaganza in Dunderry ,the beneath contempt parasitic low lives that share the same air that we breathe were at the only "work" they are capable of,that is they were desecrating and robbing the empty house of a decent married man and woman and their three infant children.
They stole their wedding bands rings,the engagement ring ,the children's Christening,Communion and Confirmation bracelets,the cameras,boxes containing saved coins and anything easily carried.They defiled family photographs ,memorial cards and up scuttled every room in the house.
They went through all the drawers in each room,scattering underwear and over wear everywhere,threw mattresses aside and broke the locks on every press and cupboard in the house.
In this instance there were more than the normal amount of locks and clasps on account of the tender years of the children and special circumstances.Everything ruined and violated.
Yep this trash have now a triple to their credit in that they have robbed three generations of the one family within six months,granny ,child and grandchildren.
Welcome to secular Europe where the atheists continue to push for the exclusion of the morality of religion from our Schools.Yep ,to say "thou shall not steal "in the schools of the secularists will be forbidden perhaps.
The Gardai were out in force in the Village during the fair.The kindred spirits of the housethieves were picking a pocket or two.And the Gardai were on the job.They can't be everywhere.
I will bet you this though.In any District Court in Meath next week the bulk of the cases will be public order offences ,speeding offences or other car related offences,all of which are readily detectable.There will be few ,if any ,people caught for theft and such like .
Cut backs you know.
A sure the poor hoors of thieves have no money and know no better and aren't we all feeling the pinch in this recession.God help them.
Yes we are going to institutionalise austerity ,force the emigration of our own,take in all comers from our Europe and whinge when our turn comes.
Time to wake up ,look after our own and tell Europe and its 'philes to go to hell.
Last Sunday ,while the decent citizenry of the Parish and further afield were enjoying the fruits of the volunteers of the Fair Day extravaganza in Dunderry ,the beneath contempt parasitic low lives that share the same air that we breathe were at the only "work" they are capable of,that is they were desecrating and robbing the empty house of a decent married man and woman and their three infant children.
They stole their wedding bands rings,the engagement ring ,the children's Christening,Communion and Confirmation bracelets,the cameras,boxes containing saved coins and anything easily carried.They defiled family photographs ,memorial cards and up scuttled every room in the house.
They went through all the drawers in each room,scattering underwear and over wear everywhere,threw mattresses aside and broke the locks on every press and cupboard in the house.
In this instance there were more than the normal amount of locks and clasps on account of the tender years of the children and special circumstances.Everything ruined and violated.
Yep this trash have now a triple to their credit in that they have robbed three generations of the one family within six months,granny ,child and grandchildren.
Welcome to secular Europe where the atheists continue to push for the exclusion of the morality of religion from our Schools.Yep ,to say "thou shall not steal "in the schools of the secularists will be forbidden perhaps.
The Gardai were out in force in the Village during the fair.The kindred spirits of the housethieves were picking a pocket or two.And the Gardai were on the job.They can't be everywhere.
I will bet you this though.In any District Court in Meath next week the bulk of the cases will be public order offences ,speeding offences or other car related offences,all of which are readily detectable.There will be few ,if any ,people caught for theft and such like .
Cut backs you know.
A sure the poor hoors of thieves have no money and know no better and aren't we all feeling the pinch in this recession.God help them.
Yes we are going to institutionalise austerity ,force the emigration of our own,take in all comers from our Europe and whinge when our turn comes.
Time to wake up ,look after our own and tell Europe and its 'philes to go to hell.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Tipster has nightmare day
Our Davy had a bad day today,He was close in the tip .The horse came second.The third time it came second.In retrospect this was probably the bet to call .Maybe he is destined to come second in perpetuity??
Then three goals winged their way past him this evening.Not blaming him but not a happy punter.
Then three goals winged their way past him this evening.Not blaming him but not a happy punter.
Dunderry V Kilmaimham Div 2 A League 12/5/2012.
My late uncles used say when Dunderry were bad in football that they "shit on the traces".I didn't get this until they explained to me that in the days when the horse was king,a horse not made of the right stuff would shit on the chains (traces )attaching him to the dray rather than go the extra mile when a pullable weight was aboard .i.e.he would give up the ghost without a decent fight.
I will say no more than Dunderry shit on the traces today when going down to a game Kilmainham team in our neighbours pitch in Rathcairn.Three second half goals in a five minute spell kick started them to a well deserved victory.
We were bet five points .
'Nuff said.
I will say no more than Dunderry shit on the traces today when going down to a game Kilmainham team in our neighbours pitch in Rathcairn.Three second half goals in a five minute spell kick started them to a well deserved victory.
We were bet five points .
'Nuff said.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for Sat.12/5/2012.
Last week's nomination paid me E.14.40 for a fiver win.Not bad .E.9.40 up on the day ,E.4.40 up on the successive Saturdays and only 60 cents of my own money needed to cover tomorrows bet of a fiver.
Feeling adventurous we are going for a fiver on Shantaram in the 3.10 in Lingfield tomorrow .
Has yet to win a race but has shown huge potential in both starts ,particularly last time out when narrowly denied.
Well drawn and the impressive William Buick in the saddle,Shanatram has the ability to win this Derby trial and will be fancy odds too.
Yep I'll chance a fiver win.
Feeling adventurous we are going for a fiver on Shantaram in the 3.10 in Lingfield tomorrow .
Has yet to win a race but has shown huge potential in both starts ,particularly last time out when narrowly denied.
Well drawn and the impressive William Buick in the saddle,Shanatram has the ability to win this Derby trial and will be fancy odds too.
Yep I'll chance a fiver win.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
U 15 Camogie Boardsmill 2-4.Dunderry 4-2
This semi-final was played tonight in Boardsmill on a pitch that held up well to the prevaling conditions .No rain during the match for a change.That long serving knight of the whistle Christy Rispin took charge .As Boardsmill is in Trim Parish and as several adult Boardsmill players ply their trade with the Trim Senior team,despite Boardsmill having their own adult team,(don't ask),it was probably unfair on him to ask him to officiate at the fixture. With the exception of denying Dunderry a clear line ball he did a fair job enough.
This was a ding dong battle between two evenly matched teams,which kept the large attendance on their toes right up to the final whistle.The lead alternated from the throw in,from which the Mill scored a goal' right up to the final whistle ,by which time Dunderry were deservedly in front.
A tactical change was made pre match which ,for the first time this year ,saw the thus far dominant midfield partnership of Minogue and Mc Donagh broken up ,with the latter sited on the forty,Stenson drafted to the middle and Scanlan to half back.
It worked to a point with Mc Donagh scoring a first half goal and the teams went in even steven at half time. 2-0 Dunderry 1-3 The Mill.
After the break Mc Donagh and Scanlan swopped positions and the ship steadied somewhat better in a half full of character and vim by both sides.We added 2-2 and they only managed 1-1and as the fella says its whats on the scoreboard at the end that matters.
This was a brave ,courageous and spirited performance by a well drilled ,disciplined and fiercely determined team which will not accept defeat.As far as I know the Mill are the bogey team of Dunderrry in this grade and the victory was all the sweeter for that fact.
From 1 to 15 we gave it loads and this was a victory for team spirit above all.I will not pick out one above the other ,as all gave all they had and they have a lot.
Boardsmill were no slouches either and can be proud of their honest and determined endeavours.
Tracey Coady,Evelyn Barry Murphy and Hugh Daly can be proud of their girls.
Now is not the time to get carried away as there is no silverware on the table yet but with a ratcheting up of the tempo and another push in the courage department the final can be won.So we pray.
Team. Tara Fleming
Aoife O Shea Blaithnid Keyes Michelle Smith
Aine Coogan Labaoise Martyn Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Anna Stenson
Isobel Varley Aisling Mc Donagh Cara Woods
Niamh Daly Anna Byrne Megan Doherty
Subs.Ciara Casserly for Niamh Daly
Holly Keenan for Megan Doherty
Rachel Keaveney,Hazel Carty,Rachel Brennan and Sinead O Farrell.
This was a ding dong battle between two evenly matched teams,which kept the large attendance on their toes right up to the final whistle.The lead alternated from the throw in,from which the Mill scored a goal' right up to the final whistle ,by which time Dunderry were deservedly in front.
A tactical change was made pre match which ,for the first time this year ,saw the thus far dominant midfield partnership of Minogue and Mc Donagh broken up ,with the latter sited on the forty,Stenson drafted to the middle and Scanlan to half back.
It worked to a point with Mc Donagh scoring a first half goal and the teams went in even steven at half time. 2-0 Dunderry 1-3 The Mill.
After the break Mc Donagh and Scanlan swopped positions and the ship steadied somewhat better in a half full of character and vim by both sides.We added 2-2 and they only managed 1-1and as the fella says its whats on the scoreboard at the end that matters.
This was a brave ,courageous and spirited performance by a well drilled ,disciplined and fiercely determined team which will not accept defeat.As far as I know the Mill are the bogey team of Dunderrry in this grade and the victory was all the sweeter for that fact.
From 1 to 15 we gave it loads and this was a victory for team spirit above all.I will not pick out one above the other ,as all gave all they had and they have a lot.
Boardsmill were no slouches either and can be proud of their honest and determined endeavours.
Tracey Coady,Evelyn Barry Murphy and Hugh Daly can be proud of their girls.
Now is not the time to get carried away as there is no silverware on the table yet but with a ratcheting up of the tempo and another push in the courage department the final can be won.So we pray.
Team. Tara Fleming
Aoife O Shea Blaithnid Keyes Michelle Smith
Aine Coogan Labaoise Martyn Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Anna Stenson
Isobel Varley Aisling Mc Donagh Cara Woods
Niamh Daly Anna Byrne Megan Doherty
Subs.Ciara Casserly for Niamh Daly
Holly Keenan for Megan Doherty
Rachel Keaveney,Hazel Carty,Rachel Brennan and Sinead O Farrell.
Monday, May 7, 2012
GAA must clarify stance on referendum.
I have been involved in the GAA for over 50 years.Never in that time has it taken sides on party political matters.Brendan Halligan's claim implies that it is taking the "Yes" side and supporting the aims of an "Alliance "he ,Brian Cody,Pat Gilroy ,Conor Counihan and Christy Cooney .Pat Cox et al are involved in..There has been no meeting in my Club on the matter,nor as far as I know has there been any County Board nor Central Council meeting on the matter.Nor should there be.
The GAA would immediately want to come out and clarify its position if it is not to be seen as the patsy of this alliance of the exes ie.ex member of PDs,ex MEP,ex Secretary of Labour Party,ex president of GAA,etc.
If it doesn't and allows the impression to go out that it is taking sides in this campaign it may soon find that it has an awful lot of Ex active members,who would disagree vehemently with the aims of this Alliance and the statement of Mr Halligan implying GAA support for its aims.
These GAA personalities should also make it perfectly clear that the views they hold are solely personal views and have nothing to do with the GAA.
The GAA would immediately want to come out and clarify its position if it is not to be seen as the patsy of this alliance of the exes ie.ex member of PDs,ex MEP,ex Secretary of Labour Party,ex president of GAA,etc.
If it doesn't and allows the impression to go out that it is taking sides in this campaign it may soon find that it has an awful lot of Ex active members,who would disagree vehemently with the aims of this Alliance and the statement of Mr Halligan implying GAA support for its aims.
These GAA personalities should also make it perfectly clear that the views they hold are solely personal views and have nothing to do with the GAA.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Second Norse invasion of Moymet underway.
I see that Philip Cahill of Moymet and promiment member of Dunderry Gaa Club has Christened his son Evan Philip Curt Norstrom Cahill.
Mother must be Scandanavian.
Presumably he will be more Irish than the Irish themselves.And highly literate.
Mother must be Scandanavian.
Presumably he will be more Irish than the Irish themselves.And highly literate.
A League Div2.Dunderry V Rathkenny.
Just home from a very entertaining game between two evenly matched teams in the pitch this morning at the very civilised time of 12.00,which allowed adequare time for attendance at 11.00 Mass and tay after.
The Mass was the anniversary (11 th. it seems) for Phil Clarke ,the deceased wife of Joe Clarke of this Parish.
She was a Martin from Kilbride and her Mass was celebrated by her Priest brother,who you could tell is a true son of the soil.
Everything interlinks in its own way and Seamus Brady informed me of something I didn't know and that was that their father was a secretary of the GAA Club for many years.I know now why my uncle Tommy Mc Cormack ,a serious GAA man,thought so much of Martins the Solicitors.Sure they are one and the same Martins and an integral part of the wider GAA family.
We won by two points in a well contested game refereed by new publican Joey Curley to inter county standards.He wasn't impressed by players acting the goat and feigning injury.Others please copy.After all it is supposed to be a man's not a cissies game.
Both teams gave it loads and the result could have gone either way.I suppose we deserved to win.
Darren Fay and Donal Curtis are far from bet.
Dunderry.
D.Jennings
D.Callaghan J.Kelleher E.Dempsey
G.Newman D.Fay E.Stephens
P.Callaghan D.Callaghan
A.Newman I.Mc Cormack A.Coogan
S.Carty B.Doherty A.Newman
Sub Used.Keith Callaghan.
Subs unused.Davy Stephens,Michael Keaveney.
The Mass was the anniversary (11 th. it seems) for Phil Clarke ,the deceased wife of Joe Clarke of this Parish.
She was a Martin from Kilbride and her Mass was celebrated by her Priest brother,who you could tell is a true son of the soil.
Everything interlinks in its own way and Seamus Brady informed me of something I didn't know and that was that their father was a secretary of the GAA Club for many years.I know now why my uncle Tommy Mc Cormack ,a serious GAA man,thought so much of Martins the Solicitors.Sure they are one and the same Martins and an integral part of the wider GAA family.
We won by two points in a well contested game refereed by new publican Joey Curley to inter county standards.He wasn't impressed by players acting the goat and feigning injury.Others please copy.After all it is supposed to be a man's not a cissies game.
Both teams gave it loads and the result could have gone either way.I suppose we deserved to win.
Darren Fay and Donal Curtis are far from bet.
Dunderry.
D.Jennings
D.Callaghan J.Kelleher E.Dempsey
G.Newman D.Fay E.Stephens
P.Callaghan D.Callaghan
A.Newman I.Mc Cormack A.Coogan
S.Carty B.Doherty A.Newman
Sub Used.Keith Callaghan.
Subs unused.Davy Stephens,Michael Keaveney.
Dividend Tipster Reprieved.
Resident tipster has had issue of P45 postponed as a result of Camelot's win yesterday .The pressure is now on to repeat the dose.Is he up to it?Time and five days will tell.Some say he is a better goalie than tipster.He is a good goalie.If he tips as many winners as he stops shots I will be well satisfied.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
The three mustardeers persist.
Myself,Liam and Leo continue our Friday Vigil at 6.00 in Dunderry Church.Five decades as bearla and ceann amhain as Gaeilge.Doesn't seem to be doing much good as anti Catholic bile is spewed up all over the place and the sectarian Caesars continue to attack each other,threaten us if we don't vote the way they want ,cosy up to the banks and drive more and more people into despair.
God works in mysterious ways however and maybe those who work to destabilise religion will not succeed and maybe we won't go the way of the religion free panacea they lust after.
If Bin Laden in his bunker could suss out what is going down here ,we ourselves would be blind not to see it.Maybe our eyes will now be opened.So I pray.
Remember the parable of the mustard seed and how little apples grow again.And remember the spake about two and three people gathering in His name.
Maybe,just maybe He will consider us worthy of his grace.
God works in mysterious ways however and maybe those who work to destabilise religion will not succeed and maybe we won't go the way of the religion free panacea they lust after.
If Bin Laden in his bunker could suss out what is going down here ,we ourselves would be blind not to see it.Maybe our eyes will now be opened.So I pray.
Remember the parable of the mustard seed and how little apples grow again.And remember the spake about two and three people gathering in His name.
Maybe,just maybe He will consider us worthy of his grace.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Drumbeat Dividend for 5/5/2012.
The last horse tipped finished ninth and my fiver is now lining a bookie's crombie overcoat pocket.I have had downsizing discussions with my resident tipster but the redundancy rules for severance payments have put me in the same basket as every other small employer in Ireland i.e.I will have to go bankrupt before I let him go.
Camelot in the 3.10 Newmarket tomorrow Saturday ,has been the apple of Aidan O Brien's eye for some time now and his recent works has been excellent according to well placed sources.
Will be hard to beat and is tentatively suggested as being worth a small punt.
But remember always that there is many's a slip between the cup and the lip.
Camelot in the 3.10 Newmarket tomorrow Saturday ,has been the apple of Aidan O Brien's eye for some time now and his recent works has been excellent according to well placed sources.
Will be hard to beat and is tentatively suggested as being worth a small punt.
But remember always that there is many's a slip between the cup and the lip.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Anti Catholic Posse sticking boot in.
Those bitterly opposed to Catholicism are having a field day and clamoring to stick the boot in at every opportunity.The atheist wing of Labour of course leads the posse and is using the situation to soften up the populace for the suppression of Catholicism by legislating against the inviolability of confession and for the inculcation of atheism in schools,despite the wishes of the parents,who are the primary educators of their children.If these people get their way they will supplant parents as the primary educators of their children and implement a secular ethos to replace the ethos of choice of their parents.
This has already started with the proposal to criminalise parents for smoking in their cars with children aboard and the proposal to dehumanise smokers is not at all dissimilar to the initial dehumanising of religions in Hitlers Germany.
As I predicted some time ago the attacks on Churches have already begun with the theft of religious objects increasingly common and at least one Priest was blatantly lied about by the State broadcaster.Atheist journalists,anti Catholic publishers and a small group of so called experts get inordinate and unfair air time to present a biased and inaccurate slant on matters relating to Catholicism.
Despite their best efforts they must be raging that the overwhelming religion of the population remains Catholicism,as stated in the recent census returns.Expect the politicos to ratchet up the anti Catholic rhetoric in the coming days to cloak their own shortcomings and divert attention from their beytrayal of ordinary people.
I worry whether people who are in positions of responsibility for so overwhelming a Catholic populace and who are so violently anti Catholic are capable of objectively and fairly executing their duties.
Certainly at times like these the masks slip off and the hatred of all things Catholic shines through.
These priests and other purported Catholics who have issues with the rules of their vocation would want to make their minds up and stop sending mixed messages to the laity.All they are achieving is the weakening of the Catholic religion and in so doing are handing ready made ammunition to the opponents of my religion.You would imagine that they would be preparing for resistance to the breaking of the confessional seal rather than finding fault with their co-religionists.
As I said before nearly all their concerns can be addressed by joining the Church of Ireland or forming a Church of Ireland mark 2.
It really amuses me to hear the heads of the political parties and assorted politicians, including those who term themselves practicing Catholics and particularly those who have changed the colours of their political skins in chameleon fashion as the circumstances suited their ambitions,,moralising on the Bishop,s purported lack of action when they themselves have succeeded in placing 450,000 people on the dole,forcing 70,000 people to emigrate each year,surrendered our economic independence after less than 100 years,driven the suicide rate to unprecedented heights and set up secular processes which ,when subject to tribunal scrutiny ,were found to be utterly corrupt in their decisions and by the members of their own parties
The Cardinal broke no law.
Yes these are the boys to give lectures.
That Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are singing from the same hymn sheet is no surprise.As the Vincent Brown Show debate on the latest referendum shows they are indistinguishable and they really should merge and be done with it.
Martin Mc Guinness and Sinn Fein have long been in conflict with the Catholic Church for the minds and hearts of the Catholic population in the North ,so it is no surprise that he should join the posse. And the SD.L.P had to follow suit to get on the band wagon.
Both he and the ex-official Sinn Fein members of Cabinet would want to clear their minds on the issues of reporting criminality .What they want to do now is consider whether the same reasoning they used in relation to the Cardinal can be used against them if they have knowledge of crimes in the past,or if they omitted to report possible crime to the police,even if they reported it to their superiors..And remember the Cardinal committed no crime.
And indeed the members of all the other parties may have knowledge of corrupt behaviour during their lifetimes by former colleagues.Do the decent thing now and go to the Gardai,even if they reported these matters to their political bosses and they failed to act on them.
And the leaders of both parties in Government have a golden opportunity now to release all serving and retired civil and public servants from their oaths of secrecy and allow them to make public all past actions of politicians and others which may smell of criminality,even if they reported them upwards and didn't check if appropriate action was taken.
They can set the example we need and abolish the 30 years secrecy rule on state papers and publish the contents of cabinet meetings in the immediate aftermath of them taking place.
Transparency all round I say.
I will not be holding my breath.
One set of standardfs for Catholics and another far less rigorous set for everybody else.What else is new?
This has already started with the proposal to criminalise parents for smoking in their cars with children aboard and the proposal to dehumanise smokers is not at all dissimilar to the initial dehumanising of religions in Hitlers Germany.
As I predicted some time ago the attacks on Churches have already begun with the theft of religious objects increasingly common and at least one Priest was blatantly lied about by the State broadcaster.Atheist journalists,anti Catholic publishers and a small group of so called experts get inordinate and unfair air time to present a biased and inaccurate slant on matters relating to Catholicism.
Despite their best efforts they must be raging that the overwhelming religion of the population remains Catholicism,as stated in the recent census returns.Expect the politicos to ratchet up the anti Catholic rhetoric in the coming days to cloak their own shortcomings and divert attention from their beytrayal of ordinary people.
I worry whether people who are in positions of responsibility for so overwhelming a Catholic populace and who are so violently anti Catholic are capable of objectively and fairly executing their duties.
Certainly at times like these the masks slip off and the hatred of all things Catholic shines through.
These priests and other purported Catholics who have issues with the rules of their vocation would want to make their minds up and stop sending mixed messages to the laity.All they are achieving is the weakening of the Catholic religion and in so doing are handing ready made ammunition to the opponents of my religion.You would imagine that they would be preparing for resistance to the breaking of the confessional seal rather than finding fault with their co-religionists.
As I said before nearly all their concerns can be addressed by joining the Church of Ireland or forming a Church of Ireland mark 2.
It really amuses me to hear the heads of the political parties and assorted politicians, including those who term themselves practicing Catholics and particularly those who have changed the colours of their political skins in chameleon fashion as the circumstances suited their ambitions,,moralising on the Bishop,s purported lack of action when they themselves have succeeded in placing 450,000 people on the dole,forcing 70,000 people to emigrate each year,surrendered our economic independence after less than 100 years,driven the suicide rate to unprecedented heights and set up secular processes which ,when subject to tribunal scrutiny ,were found to be utterly corrupt in their decisions and by the members of their own parties
The Cardinal broke no law.
Yes these are the boys to give lectures.
That Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are singing from the same hymn sheet is no surprise.As the Vincent Brown Show debate on the latest referendum shows they are indistinguishable and they really should merge and be done with it.
Martin Mc Guinness and Sinn Fein have long been in conflict with the Catholic Church for the minds and hearts of the Catholic population in the North ,so it is no surprise that he should join the posse. And the SD.L.P had to follow suit to get on the band wagon.
Both he and the ex-official Sinn Fein members of Cabinet would want to clear their minds on the issues of reporting criminality .What they want to do now is consider whether the same reasoning they used in relation to the Cardinal can be used against them if they have knowledge of crimes in the past,or if they omitted to report possible crime to the police,even if they reported it to their superiors..And remember the Cardinal committed no crime.
And indeed the members of all the other parties may have knowledge of corrupt behaviour during their lifetimes by former colleagues.Do the decent thing now and go to the Gardai,even if they reported these matters to their political bosses and they failed to act on them.
And the leaders of both parties in Government have a golden opportunity now to release all serving and retired civil and public servants from their oaths of secrecy and allow them to make public all past actions of politicians and others which may smell of criminality,even if they reported them upwards and didn't check if appropriate action was taken.
They can set the example we need and abolish the 30 years secrecy rule on state papers and publish the contents of cabinet meetings in the immediate aftermath of them taking place.
Transparency all round I say.
I will not be holding my breath.
One set of standardfs for Catholics and another far less rigorous set for everybody else.What else is new?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Another witch hunt against Catholic Cardinal.
I know of no animal that abuses its young and cannot even comprehend how any human being can abuse children and I think it an abomination.Nevertheless there must be some objective and fair comment relating to the current controversy surrounding Cardinal Brady as a result of
the BBC programme on certain matters.
The head of Barnardo's charity has rubbished the actions of the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Because he himself was seemingly abused as a youth ,as he has stated publicity,does not make him any more qualified than a non abused person to objectively judge the actions of Cardinal Brady at the time.Nor is the lady who was similarly abused and is wheeled out regularly by the media any more qualified to make an objective judgement than anyone who wasn't abused.
In fact it could be argued that they are less capable of being objective because of their past experiences.
I spent thirty years in the civil service and that organisation has within it a hierarchy similar to every other bureaucracy whereby decisions are made at specified levels within the organisation.I imagine that newspapers,the police ,the DPP ,the Courts , every political party and RTE are precisely the same.
Certainly Barnardos and the organisation the critical lady leads are prime examples of these structures as Fergus Finlay and she , and they alone, are wheeled out when important matters are in the limelight.Not the note takers nor those lower in status than the decision makers .
You might as well blame the note taker in court for the inaction or wrong decision of the judge with responsibility for the decision as to try and blame Cardinal Brady for the subsequent failure of the decision maker in this case ,a dead bishop ,who is not here to defend himself ,for his failure to act.
Now if there is proof that Cardinal Brady knew then that the Bishop did s.f.a with the information so assiduously presented to the Bishop by the then Father Brady, then he would have a case to answer.
There is no evidence that there is such evidence and if Fergus Finlay or anyone else has such evidence let them produce it.
Now the attempted destruction of the character of Father Reynolds by the promulgation of a blatant lie by the State Broadcaster has been discussed in a number of forums on the airwaves.Any programme I have seen inevitably has the view impliedly presented by anti Catholic panellists that even if this did happen it was somehow understandable in the context of proved abuse by other religious.
I am not saying that either Fergus Finlay or the lady referred to above have these views ,but do feel that many who are antagonistic to religion are using this as a form of payback because their journalistic colleagues were caught out in the Father Reynolds case.
the BBC programme on certain matters.
The head of Barnardo's charity has rubbished the actions of the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Because he himself was seemingly abused as a youth ,as he has stated publicity,does not make him any more qualified than a non abused person to objectively judge the actions of Cardinal Brady at the time.Nor is the lady who was similarly abused and is wheeled out regularly by the media any more qualified to make an objective judgement than anyone who wasn't abused.
In fact it could be argued that they are less capable of being objective because of their past experiences.
I spent thirty years in the civil service and that organisation has within it a hierarchy similar to every other bureaucracy whereby decisions are made at specified levels within the organisation.I imagine that newspapers,the police ,the DPP ,the Courts , every political party and RTE are precisely the same.
Certainly Barnardos and the organisation the critical lady leads are prime examples of these structures as Fergus Finlay and she , and they alone, are wheeled out when important matters are in the limelight.Not the note takers nor those lower in status than the decision makers .
You might as well blame the note taker in court for the inaction or wrong decision of the judge with responsibility for the decision as to try and blame Cardinal Brady for the subsequent failure of the decision maker in this case ,a dead bishop ,who is not here to defend himself ,for his failure to act.
Now if there is proof that Cardinal Brady knew then that the Bishop did s.f.a with the information so assiduously presented to the Bishop by the then Father Brady, then he would have a case to answer.
There is no evidence that there is such evidence and if Fergus Finlay or anyone else has such evidence let them produce it.
Now the attempted destruction of the character of Father Reynolds by the promulgation of a blatant lie by the State Broadcaster has been discussed in a number of forums on the airwaves.Any programme I have seen inevitably has the view impliedly presented by anti Catholic panellists that even if this did happen it was somehow understandable in the context of proved abuse by other religious.
I am not saying that either Fergus Finlay or the lady referred to above have these views ,but do feel that many who are antagonistic to religion are using this as a form of payback because their journalistic colleagues were caught out in the Father Reynolds case.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Kilmessan v Dunderrry U15 Camogie 27/4/2012
On one of the most bitterly cold,windy evenings I have ever seen towards the end of April ,when you wouldn't even put a milk bottle outside,the young ladies of Dunderry and Kilmessan battled out a one sided contest in a Kilmessan pitch that held up remarkably well despite the incessant rain that stung to the bone both during and for a few days before the game.
Such was the ferocity of the stinging rain that the referee had to abandon proceedings for a while to allow the elements to abate to a state that would allow the contest to resume in conditions approaching normality.
Make no mistake about it both teams are composed of hardy women and how they managed to even hold on to their hurleys ,much less exhibit the array of skills and fortitude on display was laudable .
Dunderry were the more mature,skillful and focused team and ,it seemed to me,had a considerate advantage in age and physicality over their opponents ,who seemed years younger on average.
Dunderry were never thoubled and in the time I was there Kilmessan didn't even register a wide ,never mind a score.
As far as I could count the combined Dunderry midfield registered about 6 goals and 5 points and this gives an indication of the mastery of our girls over the misfortunate opposition..
As you would expect Kilmessan were game to the end ,but were simply outgunned on this occasion.
I have managed teams over the years that got similar hidings and you just have to shrug it off and work damnable hard to get up to scratch ,as I have no doubt Kilmessan will do.
The final scoreline was 9 -8 to nil.
Team.
Aoife o Shea
Anna Stenson Blaithnid Keyes Aine Coogan.
Isobel Varley Michelle Smyth Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Aisling Mc Donagh
Cara Woods Labhaise Martyn Anna Byrne
Ciara Casserly Tara Fleming Niamh Daly.
Replacements.Niamh Keaveney,Rachel Brennan,Hazel Carty.
The bandwagon rolls on and next up is the semifinal against Boardsmill next Tuesday I think.
This match will be the real test of this team and there is no reason why ,with the necessary self belief that this team should have by now,we should not prevail.
It will go to the wire and Dunderry's famous fighting spirit and defiance ought to see them through.So we pray.
I know that some of my readers are abroad and have left here many years ago.To help match the girls to the people they may have grown up with the following may help:-Aoife O Shea is Evelyn Gallagher's daughter,Aine is Christy's,Aisling is Terry's,Ciare is Joe Cassey's grand daughter,Niamh is Kevin's and Hazel is Declan's.
The other girls and their families are more recent arrivals and we are blessed to have such fine people in our midst.
Just goes to show how things change in such a short time.
Such was the ferocity of the stinging rain that the referee had to abandon proceedings for a while to allow the elements to abate to a state that would allow the contest to resume in conditions approaching normality.
Make no mistake about it both teams are composed of hardy women and how they managed to even hold on to their hurleys ,much less exhibit the array of skills and fortitude on display was laudable .
Dunderry were the more mature,skillful and focused team and ,it seemed to me,had a considerate advantage in age and physicality over their opponents ,who seemed years younger on average.
Dunderry were never thoubled and in the time I was there Kilmessan didn't even register a wide ,never mind a score.
As far as I could count the combined Dunderry midfield registered about 6 goals and 5 points and this gives an indication of the mastery of our girls over the misfortunate opposition..
As you would expect Kilmessan were game to the end ,but were simply outgunned on this occasion.
I have managed teams over the years that got similar hidings and you just have to shrug it off and work damnable hard to get up to scratch ,as I have no doubt Kilmessan will do.
The final scoreline was 9 -8 to nil.
Team.
Aoife o Shea
Anna Stenson Blaithnid Keyes Aine Coogan.
Isobel Varley Michelle Smyth Tara Scanlan
Aoife Minogue Aisling Mc Donagh
Cara Woods Labhaise Martyn Anna Byrne
Ciara Casserly Tara Fleming Niamh Daly.
Replacements.Niamh Keaveney,Rachel Brennan,Hazel Carty.
The bandwagon rolls on and next up is the semifinal against Boardsmill next Tuesday I think.
This match will be the real test of this team and there is no reason why ,with the necessary self belief that this team should have by now,we should not prevail.
It will go to the wire and Dunderry's famous fighting spirit and defiance ought to see them through.So we pray.
I know that some of my readers are abroad and have left here many years ago.To help match the girls to the people they may have grown up with the following may help:-Aoife O Shea is Evelyn Gallagher's daughter,Aine is Christy's,Aisling is Terry's,Ciare is Joe Cassey's grand daughter,Niamh is Kevin's and Hazel is Declan's.
The other girls and their families are more recent arrivals and we are blessed to have such fine people in our midst.
Just goes to show how things change in such a short time.
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