Mulhuddard Cemetery was packed today,not a great day weatherwise,for the blessings of the graves.Daddy and Mammy are buried there as are many former buddies of the family and past friends from the neighbourhood and my only former Club,St.Brigids.Met George Brennan,Noel Tonge,Aidan English,Patsi Powell ,Ray Carty ,Bob O Leary ,Frank Russell ,Ellis Poynton and my own crowd,Cecil,Martin,Benjy,Barbra,John and the kids,Emily,Marie Brennan and Paul Norton and many more.Missed my good friends the Hughes from Blanch.and was well fed in Cecil's gaff.
The Hughes left early to update themselves on the result of the All Ireland Football Feile from Portlaoise where Brigids were in the Final.
They won and the team is coached by Keith Barr,who has a son playing.They are also Dublin under 14 Hurling Feile Champs.Some achievement and some advances from the times I played at that age there and subsequent years of involvement there.
Must try and encourage such vision and ambition here in Dunderry.
Cecil is up to his oxters in Erin go Brath and he tells me they are going well.I wish them all the luck in the world.
Can't let the occasion go without mentioning Tommy Tonge' judgement on the quality of pints of Guinnesss in the locality years ago ,when he opined in a discussion on the matter that "there is no such thing as a bad pint lads, just good ones and better ones.", but not in the pub that was so bereft of atmosphere that "it would be a great place to bring your mother in law on the way home from a funeral"
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