I know that a huge amount of work went into organising the Show.I know that the shops involved gave it all they could.It was widely advertised and while a number of other events clashed it was poorly supported.
No fault on the organisers but the position on the ground is that people have very little,if any disposable income.Bar a few ,where both parties have good jobs.
The unemployed and the working poor in this Parish have barely enough for basic necessities .
To even write a cheque induces anxiety in most people as Banks seem to take pleasure in bouncing them,irrespective of the status of the customer and period of time clocked up.
In theses circumstances I am perturbed about reports that the Club is considering reversing its policy of not paying any of its team managers.To misquote Mickey Rattigan "Are they fu..... mad ?
Monday, October 29, 2012
Tipster being put out to grass.
After tipping 5 successive losers,a feat hard to do in itself and failing to return to the ways of a winner ,despite intense and pressurised rehab.,I have put the tipster out to the paddocks for the foreseeable future.
A more grizzled replacement,who came up the hard way in the era of Rasher Byrne and Liam Ward and who honed his equine skills in the streetwise company of such astute students of form as Larko,Dicker Mc Entee and Cairde O Rourke in Blanch .Tech.in the mid sixties ,is taking on the tipping duties for next month ,
He reckons he knows his horses.We await with baited breath.
Like Willie Nelson,this man is on the road and the multiple sources of tit bits that he mines will be shared with all.
The original tipster will be chomping at the bit for reinstatement we reckon.
A more grizzled replacement,who came up the hard way in the era of Rasher Byrne and Liam Ward and who honed his equine skills in the streetwise company of such astute students of form as Larko,Dicker Mc Entee and Cairde O Rourke in Blanch .Tech.in the mid sixties ,is taking on the tipping duties for next month ,
He reckons he knows his horses.We await with baited breath.
Like Willie Nelson,this man is on the road and the multiple sources of tit bits that he mines will be shared with all.
The original tipster will be chomping at the bit for reinstatement we reckon.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
U21FC.. Dunderry 2-18 Carnaross 2-4
A phenomenal win,which was unimaginable at the halfway point of the second half,when only a point separated the teams ,was well earned by a competent Dunderry team today in a bitterly cold Martry .
In my view the redeployment of the injured Minogue ,after being taken off for an injury and an accident to the excellent Carpenter ,which compelled his early retirement ,were a bridge too far for Carnaross as Dunderry went on a unstoppable scoring spree .
Our team has potential ,just how much a tougher examination will show.
In the meantime all we can do is beat what is put before us,
Team,
Patterson
Maguire Carty
O Shea Dempsey E Kenneally J.P.
Minogue Dempsey L
Mooney Farrell Martin
Kenneally Coogan
Garry,
Daly/
Keenan.
In my view the redeployment of the injured Minogue ,after being taken off for an injury and an accident to the excellent Carpenter ,which compelled his early retirement ,were a bridge too far for Carnaross as Dunderry went on a unstoppable scoring spree .
Our team has potential ,just how much a tougher examination will show.
In the meantime all we can do is beat what is put before us,
Team,
Patterson
Maguire Carty
O Shea Dempsey E Kenneally J.P.
Minogue Dempsey L
Mooney Farrell Martin
Kenneally Coogan
Garry,
Daly/
Keenan.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Fashion Show 27/10.2012.
The glue that holds rural and indeed much of urban Ireland together is the GAA and its sister organisations.Without it we would be in a bad way indeed.
At 8.00 p.m.this Saturday in the Darnley in Athboy,Dunderry GAA and Camogie Clubs are hosting a fashion show .
Admission is E.15 for adults and E.10 for children.
They are fairly stuck for models as they asked me to strut my stuff.I had to decline as my ankle is well strapped .
I can't make it but it deserves support.
The usual suspects will be giving it diddy.So go.
At 8.00 p.m.this Saturday in the Darnley in Athboy,Dunderry GAA and Camogie Clubs are hosting a fashion show .
Admission is E.15 for adults and E.10 for children.
They are fairly stuck for models as they asked me to strut my stuff.I had to decline as my ankle is well strapped .
I can't make it but it deserves support.
The usual suspects will be giving it diddy.So go.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Robinstown -A Hamlet once again
Robinstown,once possessed of a thriving Post Office,General Grocery and petrol pumps and a popular public House has neither Post Office,Grocery nor Public House at the moment nor for some time. To be entirely accurate there is a sign up that the grocery store site saying it will soon reopen.
Any student of my blog will not be surprised that such an appalling vista has befallen such a relatively wealthy and picturesque former village ,now hamlet.
I have constantly preached that the austerity policies imposed via the present Government and the horrific over regulation of business will reduce rural Ireland to tumble weed status.
It is ironic that a hamlet that so overwhelmingly endorsed Fine Gael in the last election should suffer so.Their activists have much to answer for now.
This is the first of many villages in rural Ireland that will be wiped out commercially.
Where now all those quasi Blue shirts who were so prominent in campaigning for rural Ireland before the election ?
Any student of my blog will not be surprised that such an appalling vista has befallen such a relatively wealthy and picturesque former village ,now hamlet.
I have constantly preached that the austerity policies imposed via the present Government and the horrific over regulation of business will reduce rural Ireland to tumble weed status.
It is ironic that a hamlet that so overwhelmingly endorsed Fine Gael in the last election should suffer so.Their activists have much to answer for now.
This is the first of many villages in rural Ireland that will be wiped out commercially.
Where now all those quasi Blue shirts who were so prominent in campaigning for rural Ireland before the election ?
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
MIck Gillick.A tribute.
Mick Gillick from the Black Road,Robinstown ,died over last weekend ,arrived at Dunderry Church at 7.30 on Monday and departed for St,Loman's Cemetery ,Trim,after 11.00 a.m. Mass today.As would be expected the Church was full of friends,neighbours and admirers of a man who lived a full life ,while farming to the highest standards,a tradition his only son Stephen carries to this day.
I knew him socially as,no more than myself,he did appreciate a good pint of Guinness when he had the money and the opportunity.His choice of pub.in Dunderry was Geraghty's and he loved the company of all there especially Hugh Geraghty.
In fact Hugh has lost two great social companions this last week in Mick and Tommy Tuite.
We offer our sincerest sympathies to his loving wife ,Margaret ,his son Stephen aforesaid,his grand daughters Lisa and Aoife,both handy camogie players for Dunderry ,a trait they picked up from their Dunderry father and Killion mother ,also Margaret .
I had the great pleasure of managing them both in the arts of Camogie ,which they mastered with ease and two more determined and decent ladies you wouldn't meet in a long day's walk.
By misfortune I happened to be in Navan Hospital in July 2009 and when I came to found that Mick too was also sick and in the same ward.I was as bet as a man could be,barely able to blink my eyes and Mick too was somewhat under the weather.He was frail and disorientated and confined to a chair ,when not in bed.Even so his memory on all things to do with the land was spot on and he was bang up to date on the price of cattle,a subject on which he was quizzed a few times.
While I had plenty of family visitors and he had too, I used marvel at the devotion his wife displayed towards him.She was there first thing in the morning and last thing at night and she herself was no spring chicken and had her own health problems.She would also spend time with me,visits I enjoyed and which she kept up when I was moved to a different ward than him.Some woman I tell you.As are Stephen and Lisa who went out of their way to be pleasant to me.
Any how we got on fierce well.Mostly he was confined to a chair but constantly had it in his mind that he would die for a pint in Geraghty's .And by God he was determine to break for the border to get it,as it were.
When closing time for visitors came he would watch the exit door like a cat watching a mouse.all the time rocking back and forth and biding his time to break out when the nurses weren't watching.Which they were nearly always as they were wise to him.
He rcruitesd me to the breakout team.I readily agreed even though I could do little more than blink and even needed attention to go to the toilet in my bed ,which was not forthcoming on all occasions humiliatingly.
Anyhow one night he was on the top of his game.Scoped like a hawk and rocked to his feet and out the door like a bullet.Go for it boy I roared to myself,a vision of him somehow making it and entering Geraghty's and calling for pint pleasantly filling my mind,
But too loyal for his own good he came back to get me and was rumbled.I nearly cried I was that heartbroken.
I used promise myself that when ,if ever I got a wheelchair,I would spring him on my lap,head for Dunderry and enter Geraghty's and he would say "two pints please Leo".Now that's what you would call an entrance.
I have no doubt but that he will whet his thirst in the company of the good Lord tonight,
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
I knew him socially as,no more than myself,he did appreciate a good pint of Guinness when he had the money and the opportunity.His choice of pub.in Dunderry was Geraghty's and he loved the company of all there especially Hugh Geraghty.
In fact Hugh has lost two great social companions this last week in Mick and Tommy Tuite.
We offer our sincerest sympathies to his loving wife ,Margaret ,his son Stephen aforesaid,his grand daughters Lisa and Aoife,both handy camogie players for Dunderry ,a trait they picked up from their Dunderry father and Killion mother ,also Margaret .
I had the great pleasure of managing them both in the arts of Camogie ,which they mastered with ease and two more determined and decent ladies you wouldn't meet in a long day's walk.
By misfortune I happened to be in Navan Hospital in July 2009 and when I came to found that Mick too was also sick and in the same ward.I was as bet as a man could be,barely able to blink my eyes and Mick too was somewhat under the weather.He was frail and disorientated and confined to a chair ,when not in bed.Even so his memory on all things to do with the land was spot on and he was bang up to date on the price of cattle,a subject on which he was quizzed a few times.
While I had plenty of family visitors and he had too, I used marvel at the devotion his wife displayed towards him.She was there first thing in the morning and last thing at night and she herself was no spring chicken and had her own health problems.She would also spend time with me,visits I enjoyed and which she kept up when I was moved to a different ward than him.Some woman I tell you.As are Stephen and Lisa who went out of their way to be pleasant to me.
Any how we got on fierce well.Mostly he was confined to a chair but constantly had it in his mind that he would die for a pint in Geraghty's .And by God he was determine to break for the border to get it,as it were.
When closing time for visitors came he would watch the exit door like a cat watching a mouse.all the time rocking back and forth and biding his time to break out when the nurses weren't watching.Which they were nearly always as they were wise to him.
He rcruitesd me to the breakout team.I readily agreed even though I could do little more than blink and even needed attention to go to the toilet in my bed ,which was not forthcoming on all occasions humiliatingly.
Anyhow one night he was on the top of his game.Scoped like a hawk and rocked to his feet and out the door like a bullet.Go for it boy I roared to myself,a vision of him somehow making it and entering Geraghty's and calling for pint pleasantly filling my mind,
But too loyal for his own good he came back to get me and was rumbled.I nearly cried I was that heartbroken.
I used promise myself that when ,if ever I got a wheelchair,I would spring him on my lap,head for Dunderry and enter Geraghty's and he would say "two pints please Leo".Now that's what you would call an entrance.
I have no doubt but that he will whet his thirst in the company of the good Lord tonight,
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Is Ireland the Mc Keown of Europe ?
If you go into Dunderry graveyard and turn immediately right before the first row of graves and proceed to the end of that row you will come across a well kept plot beneath a weather worn headstone with the writing illegible to the unaided eye.This is the grave of Mc Keown,although some say he was called Mc Kenna,a matter I hope to clear up for once and all soon.
Anyhow he was a tramp and lived hereabouts in the nineteen thirties ,residing in a shed belonging to the Horan's the local publicans.He was a working tramp and when work was available he took it.
Things were bad for most people here in the thirties because of the so called Economic war with England.This was as a result of Dev's decision to stop paying the Land Commission annuities to England.
To elaborate further the Land Commission was set up in the late 1880's to buy out the English Landlords who owned the land of Ireland and redistribute it to the tenants.I recently had reason to investigate how this worked in practise and it went something like this in this area.
If a tenant could establish that he and his people were tenants of certain lands back to the 1850's to the satisfaction of the Land Commissioners and wanted to buy out the land ,then the Commissioners decided on the current market value of the land ,immediately paid the landlord this price,assigned the land to the tenant as "Freehold Registered"Land and charged the tenant with paying off the price to the State over a number of years as a Land Commission Annuity,which was charged on the lands until it was paid off entirely.The State kept the mineral rights under the land.
As a matter of fact I worked for some years in the Estate Duty Office and during that time had the job of investigating the historic title of lands the Land Commission acquired to establish if any claims for death duties arose on the title to ensure that any such claims were paid to the State before the proceeds were paid to the persons from whom they were acquired.
You will notice that the necessity to prove occupation spanned the great famine of 1845 to 1847 and this reassignment of title was achieved despite the halving of the population from 8 to 4 million over the 1845 to 1900 period through death from starvation and emigration.
Anyhow Dev decided in the 1930's that it was nonsense to send these annuities to England when this newly formed country needed them so badly.The Empire struck back by levying import charges on the importation of cattle and sheep into Britain so as to price them off the market there.This fecked up Ireland as the one thing we could do well then and still can is produce the best livestock in the world and Britain was our main market.The hole fell out of the market and valuable cattle became valueless.Many big farmers ,mainly blue shirts then and now,became impoverished overnight and these Fine Gael families still despise Dev and Fianna Fail over this.
Then as now poverty and hunger stalked the land.To help alleviate it in rural Ireland the Government introduced a grant for digging and clearing ditches on farmland.The bounty was ,I think 2 shillings and six pence a perch paid for each perch completed.The bigger farmers went for this and employed their poorer brethren to do the work at half the grant rate per perch ,with dinner thrown in.
Some of my uncles worked at this,as did Mc Keown.Pick ,spade and shovel were the implements employed and the work was brutal.For dinner most farmers dined at their own table in the dining room and a separate table was set up along the wall for the workers,just to let them know who was boss.Dinner was served simultaneously.
On one such occasion ,Mc Keown was at the side table for dinner when all save him was served two herrings and spuds ,he getting only one herring.He looked mournfully at his plate for a long time ,then asked the woman of the house ,pointing to his single herring,"where's his companion Mam?"
Given that ten percent of the population are suffering food deprivation (in layman's terms going hungry ),that over 80,000 people are fleeing the Country every year ,the highest since famine times,that hundreds of thousands are in despair over their inability to afford the cost of food and shelter,that our European "partners" are forcing every family in the country to repay the gambling losses of our own and pan European banks and that the embarrassing rolling over of our political representatives before the German controlled Union and the sucking up of Enda to Angel has so humiliatingly been rebuked ,the time has come to replicate the request of Mc Keown ,
And if we are not sorted properly to tell Angel and her cohorts to f... off.
Dev had the balls in the thirties and we survived it .Has Edna the balls to do it now?
Anyhow he was a tramp and lived hereabouts in the nineteen thirties ,residing in a shed belonging to the Horan's the local publicans.He was a working tramp and when work was available he took it.
Things were bad for most people here in the thirties because of the so called Economic war with England.This was as a result of Dev's decision to stop paying the Land Commission annuities to England.
To elaborate further the Land Commission was set up in the late 1880's to buy out the English Landlords who owned the land of Ireland and redistribute it to the tenants.I recently had reason to investigate how this worked in practise and it went something like this in this area.
If a tenant could establish that he and his people were tenants of certain lands back to the 1850's to the satisfaction of the Land Commissioners and wanted to buy out the land ,then the Commissioners decided on the current market value of the land ,immediately paid the landlord this price,assigned the land to the tenant as "Freehold Registered"Land and charged the tenant with paying off the price to the State over a number of years as a Land Commission Annuity,which was charged on the lands until it was paid off entirely.The State kept the mineral rights under the land.
As a matter of fact I worked for some years in the Estate Duty Office and during that time had the job of investigating the historic title of lands the Land Commission acquired to establish if any claims for death duties arose on the title to ensure that any such claims were paid to the State before the proceeds were paid to the persons from whom they were acquired.
You will notice that the necessity to prove occupation spanned the great famine of 1845 to 1847 and this reassignment of title was achieved despite the halving of the population from 8 to 4 million over the 1845 to 1900 period through death from starvation and emigration.
Anyhow Dev decided in the 1930's that it was nonsense to send these annuities to England when this newly formed country needed them so badly.The Empire struck back by levying import charges on the importation of cattle and sheep into Britain so as to price them off the market there.This fecked up Ireland as the one thing we could do well then and still can is produce the best livestock in the world and Britain was our main market.The hole fell out of the market and valuable cattle became valueless.Many big farmers ,mainly blue shirts then and now,became impoverished overnight and these Fine Gael families still despise Dev and Fianna Fail over this.
Then as now poverty and hunger stalked the land.To help alleviate it in rural Ireland the Government introduced a grant for digging and clearing ditches on farmland.The bounty was ,I think 2 shillings and six pence a perch paid for each perch completed.The bigger farmers went for this and employed their poorer brethren to do the work at half the grant rate per perch ,with dinner thrown in.
Some of my uncles worked at this,as did Mc Keown.Pick ,spade and shovel were the implements employed and the work was brutal.For dinner most farmers dined at their own table in the dining room and a separate table was set up along the wall for the workers,just to let them know who was boss.Dinner was served simultaneously.
On one such occasion ,Mc Keown was at the side table for dinner when all save him was served two herrings and spuds ,he getting only one herring.He looked mournfully at his plate for a long time ,then asked the woman of the house ,pointing to his single herring,"where's his companion Mam?"
Given that ten percent of the population are suffering food deprivation (in layman's terms going hungry ),that over 80,000 people are fleeing the Country every year ,the highest since famine times,that hundreds of thousands are in despair over their inability to afford the cost of food and shelter,that our European "partners" are forcing every family in the country to repay the gambling losses of our own and pan European banks and that the embarrassing rolling over of our political representatives before the German controlled Union and the sucking up of Enda to Angel has so humiliatingly been rebuked ,the time has come to replicate the request of Mc Keown ,
And if we are not sorted properly to tell Angel and her cohorts to f... off.
Dev had the balls in the thirties and we survived it .Has Edna the balls to do it now?
Friday, October 19, 2012
Dividend for 20/10/2012
Having purged his mind of all extraneous matters and resolved to return to winning ways the Tipster sticks his neck out yet again and opts for Carlton House in the 3.30 in Ascot.Me thinks he fancies the Queen but I will put a handy fiver win on all the same,although the more cautious may go a fiver each way on this outsider.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Boggers not alone on Quinn victimisation.
The professional classes who dominate the media and which steered the good ship Ireland,but not themselves nor their cronies,,onto the rocks of economic Armageddon ,and who despise all decent people from the hidden Ireland are at it again.
Having lectured the populace at large about the evil Quinns of Cavan and demonised them at every hands turn,and having sneered at those decent GAA people who continue to stand by the most maligned family in Ireland ,these vultures who fed from the froth of the economic bubble and were cheerleaders for the culture of greed continue to spew their biased poison in the reportage of the Supreme Court case on the contempt issues which arose there.
Both the print and electronic media headlined the judgement as a loss of the Appeal by the Quinns .It was anything but.Certainly he lost the Appeal on one ground only and that was he was in contempt regarding a payment made to to a Russian lady.
But all the judges agreed that a contempt finding relating to to 30 coercive orders was entirely wrong .
Not only that but the vastly experienced Supreme Court judge Adrian Hardiman disagreed with the majority decision on the issue of the payment to the Russian lady.
I suppose he too is an ignorant bog man who doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
I find it horrifying that The Government ,our Bank under the former leader of Fine Gael and such a supposedly well up coterie of financial experts could get it so wrong in the second highest Court in the land.
It is disappointing that a High Court judge could be so wrong also.Bearing in mind that judges tend to stick together makes the successful part of the Appeal all the more remarkable.Fair play to the Judges for bringing some objectivity and fair play to the matter.
The tactics of the State in this matter are appalling.They have bankrupted the Quinn patriarch and placed a coterie of Receivers over all the Quinn Companies,thus ensuring that the Quinns cannot contest the States actions on a level playing field.They cannot afford lawyers of a calibre equal to the States nor do they have the resources of the State.
The Assignee for Bankruptcy ,as far as I know,steps into Sean Quinn's shoes in all matters relating to his assets,including personal assets and Company shares in the Quinn companies.His job is to realise the assets for the benefit of Quinns creditors,which creditors Quinn cannot pay,which is why he was bankrupted in the first place.Given this the Assignee,even if he wants to,would not have the money to pay for legal fees for Sean Quinn.
The Receivers have control of the assets of the Quinn companies so no fighting fund there.
All fair minded people recognise that this is an unequal battle ,similar to the All Ireland foot ball Champions playing the Dunderry junior 4 football team.
Now there is genuine doubt over whether the majority of the debt claimed by Anglo is owed at all and I cannot understand how this part of the debt can be pursued at all until this issue is decided.It seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse to enforce this portion of the debt before the hearing of the fully and equally contested court case on the issue.
The attitude of a Rte journalist toward people who were willing to fund the Quinns legal actions on a recent Sunday programme was entirely in Keeping with e the wider media bias on the issue,that is totally biased against the people involved.And fairly sickening.
I suppose nothing symbolises the gulf between Officious Ireland and the hidden Ireland than the contrast between Miriam O Callaghan and the Quin women in the recent programme on the issue.Miriam is so noticeably different from them that she might be from another planet.
There are indeed two Ireland's ,which I would classify as know all Ireland ,where the same media pets are trotted out all the time,and get up and do it Ireland ,where the Quinns live.
Having lectured the populace at large about the evil Quinns of Cavan and demonised them at every hands turn,and having sneered at those decent GAA people who continue to stand by the most maligned family in Ireland ,these vultures who fed from the froth of the economic bubble and were cheerleaders for the culture of greed continue to spew their biased poison in the reportage of the Supreme Court case on the contempt issues which arose there.
Both the print and electronic media headlined the judgement as a loss of the Appeal by the Quinns .It was anything but.Certainly he lost the Appeal on one ground only and that was he was in contempt regarding a payment made to to a Russian lady.
But all the judges agreed that a contempt finding relating to to 30 coercive orders was entirely wrong .
Not only that but the vastly experienced Supreme Court judge Adrian Hardiman disagreed with the majority decision on the issue of the payment to the Russian lady.
I suppose he too is an ignorant bog man who doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
I find it horrifying that The Government ,our Bank under the former leader of Fine Gael and such a supposedly well up coterie of financial experts could get it so wrong in the second highest Court in the land.
It is disappointing that a High Court judge could be so wrong also.Bearing in mind that judges tend to stick together makes the successful part of the Appeal all the more remarkable.Fair play to the Judges for bringing some objectivity and fair play to the matter.
The tactics of the State in this matter are appalling.They have bankrupted the Quinn patriarch and placed a coterie of Receivers over all the Quinn Companies,thus ensuring that the Quinns cannot contest the States actions on a level playing field.They cannot afford lawyers of a calibre equal to the States nor do they have the resources of the State.
The Assignee for Bankruptcy ,as far as I know,steps into Sean Quinn's shoes in all matters relating to his assets,including personal assets and Company shares in the Quinn companies.His job is to realise the assets for the benefit of Quinns creditors,which creditors Quinn cannot pay,which is why he was bankrupted in the first place.Given this the Assignee,even if he wants to,would not have the money to pay for legal fees for Sean Quinn.
The Receivers have control of the assets of the Quinn companies so no fighting fund there.
All fair minded people recognise that this is an unequal battle ,similar to the All Ireland foot ball Champions playing the Dunderry junior 4 football team.
Now there is genuine doubt over whether the majority of the debt claimed by Anglo is owed at all and I cannot understand how this part of the debt can be pursued at all until this issue is decided.It seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse to enforce this portion of the debt before the hearing of the fully and equally contested court case on the issue.
The attitude of a Rte journalist toward people who were willing to fund the Quinns legal actions on a recent Sunday programme was entirely in Keeping with e the wider media bias on the issue,that is totally biased against the people involved.And fairly sickening.
I suppose nothing symbolises the gulf between Officious Ireland and the hidden Ireland than the contrast between Miriam O Callaghan and the Quin women in the recent programme on the issue.Miriam is so noticeably different from them that she might be from another planet.
There are indeed two Ireland's ,which I would classify as know all Ireland ,where the same media pets are trotted out all the time,and get up and do it Ireland ,where the Quinns live.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Straws in the Wind.
The D.I.S.E.i.e. Dunderry Institute of Social Economics or Mise makes the following predictions on and observations from rural Ireland.
1. The 2012 spend on necessities,that is those staple goods and essential services people need to survive ,will decrease by 6.5 % on comparative 2011 goods and services.
2.The 2012 spend on the next band of goods above necessities will decrease by 20% on the comparative 2011 spend on such goods and services.
3.Given the increased VAT take on such goods and services,and the stealth taxes snuck in all the time ( increased Electricity and Gas charges,a super sneaky 10% increase in toll charges by Leo Varadakar,the continuing extortion of taxes from motorists in the form of VAT,Excise Duties and Carbon Tax,,the immoral and inequitable Property levy ,the Septic Tank charge and the proposed tax on homeowners,the actual amount of goods and services consumed will fall by well over 6% and 20% in reality.
4.If the jigger pokers get their way and reduce the children's allowance most families will fall further into poverty and become reliant on the Vee de Pee.
5.The farming of our people by the political kapos running the Country for the benefit of the Teutons and not for the citizen's, will continue apace because these guys and gals haven't a clue what to do except follow blindly in the footsteps of their immediate predecessors and then blame them for so doing.See my earlier blog on "People Farming."
6.In the last twelve months over 80,000 people have voted with their hearts and feet and left the place,not for the E.U.but Australia and Canada mostly.These are the highest figures since the famine.
7..I feared before the last election that the equivalent of our annual Leaving Cert number was leaving the country and that this was unsustainable.It has gotten even worse.56,000 people sat the Leaving last year.Over 80,000 left.
8.It appears that about 500,000 residents here are not Irish born.Out of a population of about 4,000,000 this is far too high and we are are diluting our Irishness.I would say no other country would allow this to happen.And it will get worse.Anybody who can get to a maternity hospital will see that non Irish mothers are fierce plentiful compared to our own.
9.Sad to say any Irish parent who is asked by a child currently in Australia or elsewhere ,whether that child should stay there or come home ,is being told not to be foolish and stay abroad.
10.And sadder to say the age profile of those leaving is getting older.In this Parish two further families,husband s,wives and children have quit the supposed riches of farming and emigrated lock,stock and barrel.The parents are in the fifties and sixties.
11.The echo of the jackboots in the open prison inhabited by those who don't emigrate is getting louder.Lately Joan's Storm troopers have started swooping into the homes of those selected demanding Birth Certificates and Passports.Simultaneously people are being encouraged to spy on and report on their neighbours.Merkel came from such a background in East Germany.WE have our own Statsi groupies right her in Ireland.Be afraid.
!2.We have a Doctor sponsored Bill proposing the penalisation of parents who smoke in front of their own children in a car.And we have a proposal to allow adults other than the parents of children to decide who has the final say in their upbringing and who will rear them "in exceptional circumstances".Can you think of any other regime which banned smoking and where the State took precedence over parents regarding their children? Try the Thousand Year Reich for size.Be very afraid.Its only a matter of time until some control freak,or political appointed judge , decides that children of say drug addicts,smokers and maybe even religious persuasions demonised by the media are considered "exceptionally "unfit to rear their own children and have them seized by the State.
13.I recently read an article in the Sun poking jest at the Irish a la Punch in times gone by.Included in the supposed insightful article was the gem that the Irish had a propensity to put" Catholic" down as their religion in the Census Form when everybody knows this is not true.I'd say the journalist who published this article had done no research on this matter and thinks very little of the Irish if she believes that we would lie on this question only and be entirely truthful on the many other questions in the form.As a Catholic I find it grossly offensive and as an Irishman grossly insulting.Here's another saying that is currently in vogue in the real Ireland and which has application to her reported views-"She is talking through her hole."
14.If there is a lower and more cowardly form of human life in this world than an abortionist I don't know what it is.Certainly torturers,executioners,people who snuff out human life at a whim,persons who who direct the murder of civilians ,men women and children, like say the bombing of major cities and use words such as termination and such to justify murder and adults who sexually abuse children come close.
But an abortionist just murders a human with potential that is totally defenceless ,totally innocent and totally dependent on its mother for survival.I would say that any moral woman or girl who underwent such a procedure was imbalanced at the time and would have sympathy with them.But not so for those who enable and execute the children.
It never ceases to amaze me that so many of these enablers and executioners are fellow women.Can anyone explain to me how these enablers and executioners get their jollies from doing this?
I know of no religion that approves of this so these people must be atheists.Be very ,very afraid.
15.Cannot everybody not see that the Euro experiment was a colossal mistake and that it ought to be abandoned forthwith and that austerity is a recipe for disaster and it too ought be terminated.
16.The fact that the Banks were nationalised and that they are now our Banks does not entitle them to do things to people that are immoral and indecent ,even if legal and judicially approved.Remember that our law is the law of the conqueror and was bought in lock.stock and barrel when we secured Independence.It always favours the rich at the expense the poor .And remember also that until the 1960,s the paper of record overwhelmingly employed Protestant staff and that the Independent was until recently headed by a Knight of the Realm.Their coverage was and is is very much in favour of the monied and powerful.
If we lived to a thousand we could not clear the debts owed and imposed on us.Now is the time for write down and away with the nonsense.
I will have an article shortly on the Quinn's and the religious meanderings of the Articulate and well heeled matrons who never were elected to Office ,but assumed positions of power because of political patronage,and feel free to lecture us ordinary Catholics on our beliefs.
1. The 2012 spend on necessities,that is those staple goods and essential services people need to survive ,will decrease by 6.5 % on comparative 2011 goods and services.
2.The 2012 spend on the next band of goods above necessities will decrease by 20% on the comparative 2011 spend on such goods and services.
3.Given the increased VAT take on such goods and services,and the stealth taxes snuck in all the time ( increased Electricity and Gas charges,a super sneaky 10% increase in toll charges by Leo Varadakar,the continuing extortion of taxes from motorists in the form of VAT,Excise Duties and Carbon Tax,,the immoral and inequitable Property levy ,the Septic Tank charge and the proposed tax on homeowners,the actual amount of goods and services consumed will fall by well over 6% and 20% in reality.
4.If the jigger pokers get their way and reduce the children's allowance most families will fall further into poverty and become reliant on the Vee de Pee.
5.The farming of our people by the political kapos running the Country for the benefit of the Teutons and not for the citizen's, will continue apace because these guys and gals haven't a clue what to do except follow blindly in the footsteps of their immediate predecessors and then blame them for so doing.See my earlier blog on "People Farming."
6.In the last twelve months over 80,000 people have voted with their hearts and feet and left the place,not for the E.U.but Australia and Canada mostly.These are the highest figures since the famine.
7..I feared before the last election that the equivalent of our annual Leaving Cert number was leaving the country and that this was unsustainable.It has gotten even worse.56,000 people sat the Leaving last year.Over 80,000 left.
8.It appears that about 500,000 residents here are not Irish born.Out of a population of about 4,000,000 this is far too high and we are are diluting our Irishness.I would say no other country would allow this to happen.And it will get worse.Anybody who can get to a maternity hospital will see that non Irish mothers are fierce plentiful compared to our own.
9.Sad to say any Irish parent who is asked by a child currently in Australia or elsewhere ,whether that child should stay there or come home ,is being told not to be foolish and stay abroad.
10.And sadder to say the age profile of those leaving is getting older.In this Parish two further families,husband s,wives and children have quit the supposed riches of farming and emigrated lock,stock and barrel.The parents are in the fifties and sixties.
11.The echo of the jackboots in the open prison inhabited by those who don't emigrate is getting louder.Lately Joan's Storm troopers have started swooping into the homes of those selected demanding Birth Certificates and Passports.Simultaneously people are being encouraged to spy on and report on their neighbours.Merkel came from such a background in East Germany.WE have our own Statsi groupies right her in Ireland.Be afraid.
!2.We have a Doctor sponsored Bill proposing the penalisation of parents who smoke in front of their own children in a car.And we have a proposal to allow adults other than the parents of children to decide who has the final say in their upbringing and who will rear them "in exceptional circumstances".Can you think of any other regime which banned smoking and where the State took precedence over parents regarding their children? Try the Thousand Year Reich for size.Be very afraid.Its only a matter of time until some control freak,or political appointed judge , decides that children of say drug addicts,smokers and maybe even religious persuasions demonised by the media are considered "exceptionally "unfit to rear their own children and have them seized by the State.
13.I recently read an article in the Sun poking jest at the Irish a la Punch in times gone by.Included in the supposed insightful article was the gem that the Irish had a propensity to put" Catholic" down as their religion in the Census Form when everybody knows this is not true.I'd say the journalist who published this article had done no research on this matter and thinks very little of the Irish if she believes that we would lie on this question only and be entirely truthful on the many other questions in the form.As a Catholic I find it grossly offensive and as an Irishman grossly insulting.Here's another saying that is currently in vogue in the real Ireland and which has application to her reported views-"She is talking through her hole."
14.If there is a lower and more cowardly form of human life in this world than an abortionist I don't know what it is.Certainly torturers,executioners,people who snuff out human life at a whim,persons who who direct the murder of civilians ,men women and children, like say the bombing of major cities and use words such as termination and such to justify murder and adults who sexually abuse children come close.
But an abortionist just murders a human with potential that is totally defenceless ,totally innocent and totally dependent on its mother for survival.I would say that any moral woman or girl who underwent such a procedure was imbalanced at the time and would have sympathy with them.But not so for those who enable and execute the children.
It never ceases to amaze me that so many of these enablers and executioners are fellow women.Can anyone explain to me how these enablers and executioners get their jollies from doing this?
I know of no religion that approves of this so these people must be atheists.Be very ,very afraid.
15.Cannot everybody not see that the Euro experiment was a colossal mistake and that it ought to be abandoned forthwith and that austerity is a recipe for disaster and it too ought be terminated.
16.The fact that the Banks were nationalised and that they are now our Banks does not entitle them to do things to people that are immoral and indecent ,even if legal and judicially approved.Remember that our law is the law of the conqueror and was bought in lock.stock and barrel when we secured Independence.It always favours the rich at the expense the poor .And remember also that until the 1960,s the paper of record overwhelmingly employed Protestant staff and that the Independent was until recently headed by a Knight of the Realm.Their coverage was and is is very much in favour of the monied and powerful.
If we lived to a thousand we could not clear the debts owed and imposed on us.Now is the time for write down and away with the nonsense.
I will have an article shortly on the Quinn's and the religious meanderings of the Articulate and well heeled matrons who never were elected to Office ,but assumed positions of power because of political patronage,and feel free to lecture us ordinary Catholics on our beliefs.
Sad death of Tommy Tuite.
News has just reached me that the King of the Dealers and resident of Tullaghanstown,Tommy Tuite had a turn yesterday evening and died a few hours ago.
I knew he wasn't well this while back and had gone downhill since a traffic accident some time ago,but didn't know until last week that he had also contacted an incurable disease and was fading.He was the luckiest man in Ireland to have such a loving wife as Rose and such a respecting and kind son as Brian,who I would say hasn't got it in him to offend anybody ,to care for him in his time of need.
Last Friday after our six o clock Vigil Muskateer Liam and his cousin Podge picked up Hughie Geraghty and went to visit Tommy.This was the first indication I had that all was not good.
I meant to visit him but never dreamed that his time was so short.
A more complete tribute will be penned later for this man,who sat beside my uncle Tommy at Tullaghanstown School for many years and who will now join his own son Thomas in Heaven.
His remains were received this (Monday) evening at 7.30 in Dunderry Church,where they will repose overnight and depart for Rathmore cemetery after 11.00 a.m. Mass tomorrow.
I knew he wasn't well this while back and had gone downhill since a traffic accident some time ago,but didn't know until last week that he had also contacted an incurable disease and was fading.He was the luckiest man in Ireland to have such a loving wife as Rose and such a respecting and kind son as Brian,who I would say hasn't got it in him to offend anybody ,to care for him in his time of need.
Last Friday after our six o clock Vigil Muskateer Liam and his cousin Podge picked up Hughie Geraghty and went to visit Tommy.This was the first indication I had that all was not good.
I meant to visit him but never dreamed that his time was so short.
A more complete tribute will be penned later for this man,who sat beside my uncle Tommy at Tullaghanstown School for many years and who will now join his own son Thomas in Heaven.
His remains were received this (Monday) evening at 7.30 in Dunderry Church,where they will repose overnight and depart for Rathmore cemetery after 11.00 a.m. Mass tomorrow.
Tipster does a runner.
Following on from a brutal run of five successive losing tips the tipster has disappeared from view.I wouldn't blame him.I would do the same in his circumstances.I can only hope that he is has gone on retreat to Lough Dearg in Donegal and that he stays there until his sharpness is restored.This may take up to a month but if so,so be it.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Tip for 6/10/2012
To try and break our losing streak we opt for a fiver win on Moon Dice in the 4.20 in Gowran on the basis that rumour has it that he is a good lepper over the fences.Here's hoping.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Has Barnardos lost it entirely?
Fergus Finlay ,on behalf of Barnardos ,of which he is Chief Executive and one supposes on a salary that way exceeds that of many of the families who his Charity cares for,has publicly pronounced that there should be a modest decrease in the children's allowance.I assume he has no qualifying children himself and even if he had he could do without the allowance.
The real world,in which I live ,has nothing in common with the type of nonsense he is spouting.Despite appearances this recession has destroyed nearly everybody,irrespective of the strata in society once occupied by them at the height of the boom.
Even the apparently wealthy haven't a bob to rub together,much less the coping classes.
As an upfront Labour man he must surely know that the country is awash with quangos and the addition of another one, to decide who is worthy of the fullest allowance and who is not, could only result in the further deprivation of those families most in need.
All he has to do is look at the queues at the Labour Exchanges every week and the obvious discomfort ofthose in line for their benefit.And at the number of children in State care who died well before their time ,while still in Sate care.
With the Government trying to downsize further its already stretched workforce does he really expect parents to go and beg for the money necessary to feed their children.
The overwhelming majority of people totally depend on this money to survive and provide a decent standard of living for the same children.
What should really concern him and others like him is the fact that over 76,000 people are voting with their feet every year and emigrating from the country his political mates are running for the benefit of the Troika.
Has he no conception of the hurt that a thirty year old,who wishes to marry and start a family,goes through when he or she realises that they have no chance here of ever getting a house,decent jobs nor raising children properly in this country and make the heart breaking decision to go to the far side of the world for that chance.
The sort of nonsense he is spouting will surely encourage them to stay ,would you say.
The highest emigration since the time of the famine,when another Empire ruled us,is indicative of the failure of all the politicos here and their blind adherence to the diktats of their latest masters ,against the interests of the people,just shows that the worst oppressors of the Irish are other Irish.just as in famine times ,when the Brits could not run us (into the grave and abroad),without the active co operation of fellow Irishmen and women.
Might I suggest that Banardos does itself no favours when it acts as an extension of the Labour Party and go about its business in a way more commensurate with its core function.
The real world,in which I live ,has nothing in common with the type of nonsense he is spouting.Despite appearances this recession has destroyed nearly everybody,irrespective of the strata in society once occupied by them at the height of the boom.
Even the apparently wealthy haven't a bob to rub together,much less the coping classes.
As an upfront Labour man he must surely know that the country is awash with quangos and the addition of another one, to decide who is worthy of the fullest allowance and who is not, could only result in the further deprivation of those families most in need.
All he has to do is look at the queues at the Labour Exchanges every week and the obvious discomfort ofthose in line for their benefit.And at the number of children in State care who died well before their time ,while still in Sate care.
With the Government trying to downsize further its already stretched workforce does he really expect parents to go and beg for the money necessary to feed their children.
The overwhelming majority of people totally depend on this money to survive and provide a decent standard of living for the same children.
What should really concern him and others like him is the fact that over 76,000 people are voting with their feet every year and emigrating from the country his political mates are running for the benefit of the Troika.
Has he no conception of the hurt that a thirty year old,who wishes to marry and start a family,goes through when he or she realises that they have no chance here of ever getting a house,decent jobs nor raising children properly in this country and make the heart breaking decision to go to the far side of the world for that chance.
The sort of nonsense he is spouting will surely encourage them to stay ,would you say.
The highest emigration since the time of the famine,when another Empire ruled us,is indicative of the failure of all the politicos here and their blind adherence to the diktats of their latest masters ,against the interests of the people,just shows that the worst oppressors of the Irish are other Irish.just as in famine times ,when the Brits could not run us (into the grave and abroad),without the active co operation of fellow Irishmen and women.
Might I suggest that Banardos does itself no favours when it acts as an extension of the Labour Party and go about its business in a way more commensurate with its core function.
Dunderr V Wolfe Tones IHC Semi Final 6/10/2012.
At 4.30 in Trim our Hurlers play the Tones in the semi final,with Rathmoylan,who beat Clanna Gael well in the other semi ,awaiting the winners.We have already been beaten by the Tones in the group stages and nothing but a massive improvement on our performance that day will do tomorrow.
I hear that the Tones have secured the full commitment of their Rathkenny and indeed Gibbstown contingent of dual players and are confident of victory.
Tommy Dowd ,who was an integral part of our climb up the hurling ladder in the eighties and nineties ,and who is now a Tones man ,must have a dilemma as to who he will support.I like to think that his heart is still here.
In those years,when I played full back,there was a huge rivalry between the two teams and any match involving us was hugely contested.
I think we rose through the ranks with them on our coat tails,both entering the Senior ranks in the early nineties ,with us contesting a Senior Final Replay against Trim ,which we lost and they winning one soon after.
Both teams have slid back the ranks since and for us in any event this is the only competition we can possibly win this year at adult level.
History repeats itself and our Evan has been playing full back lately and I am proud to say that our Davy is Captain.
Junior and McLoughs and a younger Frog ,who were involved them times will remember what it takes and Flange Mc Guinness has a good few Championships under his belt,.so we need have no fears on the line.The players are made of the right stuff too and with a supreme effort and a rub of the green we are capable of prevailing.
Here's hoping.
As a sign of the times ,one man who won't be available tomorrow is Andy Coogan who has emigrated to Blighty in pursuit of work and ,I believe,romance.
We wish him well but would much prefer were he and his paramour able to pursue their romance and careers here.
.
I hear that the Tones have secured the full commitment of their Rathkenny and indeed Gibbstown contingent of dual players and are confident of victory.
Tommy Dowd ,who was an integral part of our climb up the hurling ladder in the eighties and nineties ,and who is now a Tones man ,must have a dilemma as to who he will support.I like to think that his heart is still here.
In those years,when I played full back,there was a huge rivalry between the two teams and any match involving us was hugely contested.
I think we rose through the ranks with them on our coat tails,both entering the Senior ranks in the early nineties ,with us contesting a Senior Final Replay against Trim ,which we lost and they winning one soon after.
Both teams have slid back the ranks since and for us in any event this is the only competition we can possibly win this year at adult level.
History repeats itself and our Evan has been playing full back lately and I am proud to say that our Davy is Captain.
Junior and McLoughs and a younger Frog ,who were involved them times will remember what it takes and Flange Mc Guinness has a good few Championships under his belt,.so we need have no fears on the line.The players are made of the right stuff too and with a supreme effort and a rub of the green we are capable of prevailing.
Here's hoping.
As a sign of the times ,one man who won't be available tomorrow is Andy Coogan who has emigrated to Blighty in pursuit of work and ,I believe,romance.
We wish him well but would much prefer were he and his paramour able to pursue their romance and careers here.
.
A little love does the trick.
Some time ago I asked for prayer for a number of Parishioners who were under the weather health wise.Some but not all have recovered,about which more anon.
Anyhow one of the persons involved ,a lady,who had to give in and go to hospital and is the sort of person who would be as comfortable there as a wild hare in a cage ,couldn't sleep at all when she began to recover.Despite every sleeping tablet prescribed she just couldn't enter the land of nod.
One night she informed her fellow patients that in her forty years of marriage she had never slept without her husband at her side and asked that he be brought in to stay by her side to see if she could sleep.
A message was got to him and in he came.He held her by the hand and said "Now,now don't be worrying Dear ,hould me hand and relax there won't be a bother on you.".And she did and was sound asleep within ten minutes.
Now the accursed stroke that struck me has a number of side effects,one of which is that I cry like a baby when I hear of such wonderful events,
As I write this I am blubbering like a baby,but like to think that even had I never got the stroke I would be likewise touched,
I know that a lot of people in exile read the Blog and ask that they continue to pray for two well known Parishioners who are entering the last furlong in the race of life and for whom the medical profession can offer little than the comfort of a pain free run in to the finishing line.
Living opposite the Church in Dunderry I see from time to time people drop in for a private prayer or whatever.Where ever you are you might do the same if you can or just pray for them where ever you are .
Anyhow one of the persons involved ,a lady,who had to give in and go to hospital and is the sort of person who would be as comfortable there as a wild hare in a cage ,couldn't sleep at all when she began to recover.Despite every sleeping tablet prescribed she just couldn't enter the land of nod.
One night she informed her fellow patients that in her forty years of marriage she had never slept without her husband at her side and asked that he be brought in to stay by her side to see if she could sleep.
A message was got to him and in he came.He held her by the hand and said "Now,now don't be worrying Dear ,hould me hand and relax there won't be a bother on you.".And she did and was sound asleep within ten minutes.
Now the accursed stroke that struck me has a number of side effects,one of which is that I cry like a baby when I hear of such wonderful events,
As I write this I am blubbering like a baby,but like to think that even had I never got the stroke I would be likewise touched,
I know that a lot of people in exile read the Blog and ask that they continue to pray for two well known Parishioners who are entering the last furlong in the race of life and for whom the medical profession can offer little than the comfort of a pain free run in to the finishing line.
Living opposite the Church in Dunderry I see from time to time people drop in for a private prayer or whatever.Where ever you are you might do the same if you can or just pray for them where ever you are .
Best sub ever.
The Muskateers were under pressure this last fortnight.I had and still have a horrid dose of somethinh in the throat and chest.I was smothered in phlegm when I could get it up ,alternating with the tubes around my throat closing in to the extent that I could hardly swallow.I had to give in and go to the Doctor and between tablets and a cough bottle am improving a little every day.The result was that I missed the six o clock vigil these last two Fridays.
Liam was so far from home that he copuldn't make it and Leo too was unavailable.
Every Team needs a good sub and Carmel alone kept the show on the road .
I have no doubt that her prayers floated straight to the Lord.
'Hon the Ladies.
Liam was so far from home that he copuldn't make it and Leo too was unavailable.
Every Team needs a good sub and Carmel alone kept the show on the road .
I have no doubt that her prayers floated straight to the Lord.
'Hon the Ladies.
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