Its a lovely day.Bit of a bite in the weather but the sun is shining.Great day for a brisk walk to clear the system out from the breakfast to make way for the dinner.Don't forget to wear the new gear for the walk.And if you got a new pair of leather gloves make sure you roll the cuffs back all the better to display them when swinging the hands arms high so as all can see them.
Mass was grand this morning.Father Hornick well earned his mid day soup by saying his fourth Mass since yesterday's 6.00 p.m.Mass in Kilbride.A grand man.
The Church wasn't packed to capacity today,but as there wasn't even standing room last evening you would expect that.The Alter was resplendent,the decorations out of this world..The readers were on their game,the Sacriscant Marie resplendent as she fussed about,the Mass Servers well versed in their work and the Youth Choir only magnificent as they belted out their music.
Miriam Minogue,Larry Mc Evoy and new Mandolin player,Hugh Scanlon (his less renowned sister writes books I believe ) provide an enthralling backdrop to the vocal of the main people the singers.
Hugh is as adept on the mandolin as he is in his coaching of the Camogie team.
He cut his hurling teeth with Ballymun Kickhams and knows his onions.Not only his onions but his spuds too as he still helps his 90 plus years father dig the garden to plant them before Patrick's day.A grand man,with a grand wife and family too.
Did you know that the Kickhams part of Ballymun results from an amalgamation of Ballymun with Kickhams,a club which I remember playing and was mainly manned by Cleary's employees.Is there a history of this defunct Club ?Or of Green Flags ,which operated a lifetime ago in Chapelizod.
Anyhow back to today.There was spontaneous burst of applause from the congregation after Mass and I checked with the Alter boys.Yes Santy did deliver last night. I said I knew he would as I saw him checking the list last night in the football field,where he landed on top of the dug out ,mistaking it for a helipad.
The most welcome cries of small children were all over the Church.Long may it last and I cried inwardly in sadness for the 150,000 dead Irish babies who died in England in recent years at the hands of the ungodly so called medical practitioners.May God forgive them.
To all Dunderry people everywhere God bless ye.
If Evan and Junior are in Sweden ,Happy Christmas.And the Report of the recent under 21 defeat will be up in the next few days.
Slan go Foill.
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