Dunderry.
Sat. 30/3/2013 7.30 p.m.Solemn Easter Vigil
Sun.31/03/2013 11.00 a,m. Mass
Kilbride.
Sat. 6.00 p.m. Mass.
Robinstown
Sun. 9.30 a.m.Mass
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Labour Party in total freefall.
An earlier blog of mine on the issue of Labour's hatred of rural Ireland has been borne out by the fact that out of 24,300 votes cast only 1,112 were for their misfortunate candidate.About 4.6 % of the vote cast.This compares to 8,994 out of 42,752 in the general election of two years ago.21% of the votes cast.
While there was a huge wave of sympathy for Helen Mc Entee the winner ,on account of the death of her father by his own hand , it is only a remote possibility that any true blue Labour supporter would have voted for her for sympathy reasons, as a second preference vote would have been just as good.
So I would guess that all Fine Gael diehards in the constituency did come out to vote for her and maybe about another 2,000 or thereabouts because of respect for the work her father and grandfather put into the IFA and the GAA. In my view about 33 % of people are fairly comfortable financially under this Government and these wealthier people belong to Fine Gael.(The Patsy of the ranchers.)
I would guess that keeping this 33 % sweet is the overarching policy of Fine Gael if they want to have a second term in Government and this is what they will do,Labour or no Labour.
Labour has long lost its natural base of the working and labouring classes.If there are only 1,112 tradesmen ,labourers and working class people in East Meath then I am a monkey's uncle.
Under the authoritarian influence of those who kicked away from Sinn Fein ,via Sinn Fein the Worker's Party via the Workers Party via Democratic Left to take over totally the reins of the Labour Party , it has been shaped into an anti Cathollic , anti Christian,stridently feminist,niche for aggressive secularism and atheism,a rallying point for pro choice womb raiders and a promulgator of the gay lifestyle over and above that of the nuclear and extended family.
There is no point reiterating that when all the principal leaders of Europe were honouring the Pope on his elevation to the shoes of the fisherman in Rome,our two buckos ,who are way too educated for God ,were away in America sucking up to Obama.
People do not forget that Gilmore,the Labour leader broke off diplomatic relations with the Vatican ,in what is a 90% Catholic country.
Nor do they forget that Burton actively discriminates against third and fourth children in the Budget by treating them as less worthy of financial assistance than their first and second siblings and cut the mobility allowance for the most severely disabled members of society.And introduced a household charge etc etc etc.
I would say that only a totally out o f touch lunatic would parade Ivana Bacchic from Trinity mouthing about gay marriage and spouting pro abortion views at the start of the Labour campaign,But she did and they did.
I hazard a guess that the 1,112 votes they gathered represents the gay,atheist ,anti Christian and pro abortion sector of the constituency,although Sinn Fein may also have captured a slice of the womb raider vote ,given their strong pro choice policy.
The only chance Labour have to survive is to jettison the former Workers Party infiltrators and over educated third level anti Catholic bigots and aggressive secularists and atheists from its ranks and revert to being a Party that promotes the well being of the working classes ,as it once did.
Otherwise the downwards slide will continue and accelerate to hover around the 263 votes (1.1 %) that the eviscerated Workers Party and former comrade of the Labour leader e Seamus Mc Donaugh got.
While there was a huge wave of sympathy for Helen Mc Entee the winner ,on account of the death of her father by his own hand , it is only a remote possibility that any true blue Labour supporter would have voted for her for sympathy reasons, as a second preference vote would have been just as good.
So I would guess that all Fine Gael diehards in the constituency did come out to vote for her and maybe about another 2,000 or thereabouts because of respect for the work her father and grandfather put into the IFA and the GAA. In my view about 33 % of people are fairly comfortable financially under this Government and these wealthier people belong to Fine Gael.(The Patsy of the ranchers.)
I would guess that keeping this 33 % sweet is the overarching policy of Fine Gael if they want to have a second term in Government and this is what they will do,Labour or no Labour.
Labour has long lost its natural base of the working and labouring classes.If there are only 1,112 tradesmen ,labourers and working class people in East Meath then I am a monkey's uncle.
Under the authoritarian influence of those who kicked away from Sinn Fein ,via Sinn Fein the Worker's Party via the Workers Party via Democratic Left to take over totally the reins of the Labour Party , it has been shaped into an anti Cathollic , anti Christian,stridently feminist,niche for aggressive secularism and atheism,a rallying point for pro choice womb raiders and a promulgator of the gay lifestyle over and above that of the nuclear and extended family.
There is no point reiterating that when all the principal leaders of Europe were honouring the Pope on his elevation to the shoes of the fisherman in Rome,our two buckos ,who are way too educated for God ,were away in America sucking up to Obama.
People do not forget that Gilmore,the Labour leader broke off diplomatic relations with the Vatican ,in what is a 90% Catholic country.
Nor do they forget that Burton actively discriminates against third and fourth children in the Budget by treating them as less worthy of financial assistance than their first and second siblings and cut the mobility allowance for the most severely disabled members of society.And introduced a household charge etc etc etc.
I would say that only a totally out o f touch lunatic would parade Ivana Bacchic from Trinity mouthing about gay marriage and spouting pro abortion views at the start of the Labour campaign,But she did and they did.
I hazard a guess that the 1,112 votes they gathered represents the gay,atheist ,anti Christian and pro abortion sector of the constituency,although Sinn Fein may also have captured a slice of the womb raider vote ,given their strong pro choice policy.
The only chance Labour have to survive is to jettison the former Workers Party infiltrators and over educated third level anti Catholic bigots and aggressive secularists and atheists from its ranks and revert to being a Party that promotes the well being of the working classes ,as it once did.
Otherwise the downwards slide will continue and accelerate to hover around the 263 votes (1.1 %) that the eviscerated Workers Party and former comrade of the Labour leader e Seamus Mc Donaugh got.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Gonad politics to the fore.
Prior to and subsequent to the election of Shane Mc Entees daughter to the Dail I heard a number of female politicians and commentators ,some of whom are so hateful that they are pushing for a gender quota in politics because they know full well that they have no chance of election if the were to run on their merits alone, laud her because she is "young " and a "Woman".As a middle aged ,some would say auld man ,I take fierce exception to remarks of this nature as being sexist in the extreme and ageist to boot.
If the criteria for selection and election depends on the sex and age of the candidates it would cut to the chase and save a fortune were the gonads alone of all the candidates photographed and displayed beside each other so that the electorate could decide which set they fancied more and whose owner would be more suitable for the Dail on that account only.
There has to be a limit to nonsense or am I naive ?
If the criteria for selection and election depends on the sex and age of the candidates it would cut to the chase and save a fortune were the gonads alone of all the candidates photographed and displayed beside each other so that the electorate could decide which set they fancied more and whose owner would be more suitable for the Dail on that account only.
There has to be a limit to nonsense or am I naive ?
Time please gents and ladies.
How often our revelry was deflated by the cry of the publican at closing time of "Time please ladies and gentlemen,time.Ye have to leave.The polis are outside.No ye can't stay here.Have ye no homes to go to ?"
Those were the days,only a few short years ago.The days when some polis had little more to do than rack up brownie points by "doing" the publican and customer after hours and wait in ambush for the drinkers with a few on board to" do them for driving over the limit.
The days when every politician worth his /her salt pleaded with the publican for the use of the pub to hold his clinic.The days when pubs were places where you could have a smoke and a decent drink with your friends and neighbours without being weighed down by the incessant hectoring of the health Taliban about the political correctness and certitude of their puritan and Cromwellian views .The days before joy was banished and misery,"pain " and subjugation elevated to the pinnacle of human expectation.( I must admit that it defies logic and flabbergasts me how a medical profession ,some of whose practitioners must rate as the greatest and most cowardly of humankind for the callous murder of countless billion of helpless unborn children ,has the temerity to lecture anyone else on proper behaviour.).
The days when you would notice that your neighbour was missing from his usual stool and enquire after him and look him up afterwards.The days before successive governments and clueless politicians and civil servant advisers turned pubs from "Public " houses into deserted excuses for funeral homes where despairing publicans and disillusioned customers share and swap stories of misery.And where each have to face out in all weathers to have a smoke to satisfy the health Taliban fronted by a medical profession of know alls who regard those who oppose them as neaderals beneath contempt.
The scourge of cancer is endemic .Smokers with a terminal prognosis absolutely dread going to hospital in the knowledge that these Taliban will even in their final days deny them the comfort of a smoke.Many older people,I suspect, commit suicide in this knowledge,knowing that if MRSA doesn't got them something else will .
Happy those who can finish their days in their own homes free of these interfering busy bodies.And I have heard one such interferon fanatic state that he would have no compunction policing people's homes to see that this evil was suppressed.I suppose that a profession which routinely murders the defenceless unborn has no problem in bullying those that survived gestation and that this is just a natural progression.
The smoking ban heralded the epitome of State bullying so far and heralded the death knell of the pub trade.It is unashamed bullying on a massive scale,nothing more and nothing less.The Seamin na Caices that conceived this ban and implemented it,heralded the destruction of rural society and having got away with it ,introduced successive punitive measures against a populace who are too programmed and fearful to "take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them".In a democratic sense of course.
Anyhow time was when the ownership of a pub,any pub,was a thing to be desired .As was a mid sized farm.
A man of my acquaintance once said"If you have a son you actively hate ,give him a 45 acre farm on condition that he makes a living from it exclusively and generates enough income to support a wife and family.This should break his spirit in a short time."I thought he was nuts.It was me that was nuts.And you could now substitute or add a rural or small town pub instead of a farm.Imagine the poor ludraman who volunteered for both.
Land has held its value.I doubt you could give away a pub at present were it to be run as a pub.And finally,the publicans were way ahead of their time in the cry "Have ye no homes to go to" as a considerable number of people will find out soon.The Government and the Central Bank are demanding more evictions,despite the pre election false promises of the Taoiseach and Tanaiste on the matter.
Those were the days,only a few short years ago.The days when some polis had little more to do than rack up brownie points by "doing" the publican and customer after hours and wait in ambush for the drinkers with a few on board to" do them for driving over the limit.
The days when every politician worth his /her salt pleaded with the publican for the use of the pub to hold his clinic.The days when pubs were places where you could have a smoke and a decent drink with your friends and neighbours without being weighed down by the incessant hectoring of the health Taliban about the political correctness and certitude of their puritan and Cromwellian views .The days before joy was banished and misery,"pain " and subjugation elevated to the pinnacle of human expectation.( I must admit that it defies logic and flabbergasts me how a medical profession ,some of whose practitioners must rate as the greatest and most cowardly of humankind for the callous murder of countless billion of helpless unborn children ,has the temerity to lecture anyone else on proper behaviour.).
The days when you would notice that your neighbour was missing from his usual stool and enquire after him and look him up afterwards.The days before successive governments and clueless politicians and civil servant advisers turned pubs from "Public " houses into deserted excuses for funeral homes where despairing publicans and disillusioned customers share and swap stories of misery.And where each have to face out in all weathers to have a smoke to satisfy the health Taliban fronted by a medical profession of know alls who regard those who oppose them as neaderals beneath contempt.
The scourge of cancer is endemic .Smokers with a terminal prognosis absolutely dread going to hospital in the knowledge that these Taliban will even in their final days deny them the comfort of a smoke.Many older people,I suspect, commit suicide in this knowledge,knowing that if MRSA doesn't got them something else will .
Happy those who can finish their days in their own homes free of these interfering busy bodies.And I have heard one such interferon fanatic state that he would have no compunction policing people's homes to see that this evil was suppressed.I suppose that a profession which routinely murders the defenceless unborn has no problem in bullying those that survived gestation and that this is just a natural progression.
The smoking ban heralded the epitome of State bullying so far and heralded the death knell of the pub trade.It is unashamed bullying on a massive scale,nothing more and nothing less.The Seamin na Caices that conceived this ban and implemented it,heralded the destruction of rural society and having got away with it ,introduced successive punitive measures against a populace who are too programmed and fearful to "take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them".In a democratic sense of course.
Anyhow time was when the ownership of a pub,any pub,was a thing to be desired .As was a mid sized farm.
A man of my acquaintance once said"If you have a son you actively hate ,give him a 45 acre farm on condition that he makes a living from it exclusively and generates enough income to support a wife and family.This should break his spirit in a short time."I thought he was nuts.It was me that was nuts.And you could now substitute or add a rural or small town pub instead of a farm.Imagine the poor ludraman who volunteered for both.
Land has held its value.I doubt you could give away a pub at present were it to be run as a pub.And finally,the publicans were way ahead of their time in the cry "Have ye no homes to go to" as a considerable number of people will find out soon.The Government and the Central Bank are demanding more evictions,despite the pre election false promises of the Taoiseach and Tanaiste on the matter.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
European Union legalised robbers.
Hereabouts we are plagued by thieves robbing our heating oil ( that is if we can afford to buy it.).Everybody ,especially the rural isolated,are advised not to keep cash at home but to place it in the safety of a bank.It was bad enough to put it there knowing that the Revenue could lift it from your account if they decided they were owed money.
Now the European Union is resorting to legalised theft from the bank accounts of the people of Cyprus.Elected thieves lining up the booty for their outlaw buddies.No difference in principle ,just method.
And then we have the obscenity of our Government,spurned on by our Central Bank driving our Banks and others to evict our people from our homes.
Not happy to destroy our banking system and load our foreseeable descendants with insurmountable debt ,the responsible institutions are now in the process of destroying the Credit Union movement less it rescue us from the clutches of the moneylenders ,where they want us to be to keep us on our bellies.
Whether she meant it or not and I would assume not,the performance of Josephine Feehily.Chair of the Revenue on national television was threatening and chilling. The amount of power the Revenue and every other Government Dept. and Quango have accumulated over the citizenry if frightening .She has more powers at her disposal than any other person or institution in the State in my view .And I include the judiciary in this.
This is not her fault.The legislators have granted all these powers to her.The politicians don't want the responsibility of exercising these powers themselves as it would affect them in the ballot boxes.
It is unprecedented for the Chair of the Revenue and indeed the Secretary General of the Dept.of Finance to publicly endorse Government policy so enthusiastically.They ought steer clear of politics unless they want to become part of the political machinery and put themselves up for election.
As a former Revenue employee, who stumbled lately on the fact that the Revenue were enforcers for Cromwell in his campaign of genocide in this Country,I am not enamoured at all.
But have no doubt about it,the civil servants will implement the policies of their political masters if they can at all.
It is high time that the E.Union be either reformed root and branch from the ground up or be disbanded entirely before we are all ground down under the armies of political jackbooted bullies who run the show.
Now the European Union is resorting to legalised theft from the bank accounts of the people of Cyprus.Elected thieves lining up the booty for their outlaw buddies.No difference in principle ,just method.
And then we have the obscenity of our Government,spurned on by our Central Bank driving our Banks and others to evict our people from our homes.
Not happy to destroy our banking system and load our foreseeable descendants with insurmountable debt ,the responsible institutions are now in the process of destroying the Credit Union movement less it rescue us from the clutches of the moneylenders ,where they want us to be to keep us on our bellies.
Whether she meant it or not and I would assume not,the performance of Josephine Feehily.Chair of the Revenue on national television was threatening and chilling. The amount of power the Revenue and every other Government Dept. and Quango have accumulated over the citizenry if frightening .She has more powers at her disposal than any other person or institution in the State in my view .And I include the judiciary in this.
This is not her fault.The legislators have granted all these powers to her.The politicians don't want the responsibility of exercising these powers themselves as it would affect them in the ballot boxes.
It is unprecedented for the Chair of the Revenue and indeed the Secretary General of the Dept.of Finance to publicly endorse Government policy so enthusiastically.They ought steer clear of politics unless they want to become part of the political machinery and put themselves up for election.
As a former Revenue employee, who stumbled lately on the fact that the Revenue were enforcers for Cromwell in his campaign of genocide in this Country,I am not enamoured at all.
But have no doubt about it,the civil servants will implement the policies of their political masters if they can at all.
It is high time that the E.Union be either reformed root and branch from the ground up or be disbanded entirely before we are all ground down under the armies of political jackbooted bullies who run the show.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Cromwells Policies to be reintroduced by Irish Government.
The genetic abhorrence of Irish people to eviction and forcible resettlement is rooted in Cromwell's reconquest of Ireland and the routing of the landowners and householders to Connaught ( to hell or to Connaught,the mass emigration of the fighters who opposed him to continental Europe and forcible e migration of women and children to the slave colonies of the sugar plantations and such like of the Empire.
He set out to destroy a Nation and subjugate it and to destroy a Catholic Religion so then cherished.It is therefor nauseating to see a native Government allowing the reintroduction of the same tactics by enabling legislation against an Irish race who saw Cromwell down,particularly as the leaders of the Country are from the West (Connaught)and should have the genetic revulsion against this type of activity strongest in their genes.
Whether eviction is disguised as "repossession,,"voluntary surrender"or whatever you are having yourself it nonetheless amounts to eviction.Not only this but banks are pursuing destitute defaulters viciously for the outstanding balance after the creditors are evicted even when they know full well that they have Nada.
Not only Banks .but creditors of all sorts,including the State, are queuing up to persecute,terrorise and do down unfortunate and decent people who did and do no more than try and feed and shelter their families
Families are being destroyed,suicides are being caused,abortions are being forced and economic emigration is higher as than it ever was.
The law and the State take the view that the creditor or borrower takes all the risk when he borrows and that the lender takes none of it and the law is loaded in favour of the lender ,the State or whatever.
Let us be honest and stop whispering about "pain"and say what is really happening here.It is death by the drip,the cutback ,by suicide ,by economic abortion .by forced emigration ,by threat ,by plamas ,by jiggery pokery,by no longer wishing to be a burden on the State,by any name you wish to
add yourself .
And remember what happened to Cromwell.His body was dug up long after he died and his remains hung drawn and quartered and his beheaded skull displayed on a spike.
Those who facilitate eviction from the family home,the persecution of our people and the exile of maybe two generations would do well to remember the lessons of history before it is too late.
Even one eviction from a reasonable family home is too much and the relentless persecution of a large minority of the people must stop forthwith.
He set out to destroy a Nation and subjugate it and to destroy a Catholic Religion so then cherished.It is therefor nauseating to see a native Government allowing the reintroduction of the same tactics by enabling legislation against an Irish race who saw Cromwell down,particularly as the leaders of the Country are from the West (Connaught)and should have the genetic revulsion against this type of activity strongest in their genes.
Whether eviction is disguised as "repossession,,"voluntary surrender"or whatever you are having yourself it nonetheless amounts to eviction.Not only this but banks are pursuing destitute defaulters viciously for the outstanding balance after the creditors are evicted even when they know full well that they have Nada.
Not only Banks .but creditors of all sorts,including the State, are queuing up to persecute,terrorise and do down unfortunate and decent people who did and do no more than try and feed and shelter their families
Families are being destroyed,suicides are being caused,abortions are being forced and economic emigration is higher as than it ever was.
The law and the State take the view that the creditor or borrower takes all the risk when he borrows and that the lender takes none of it and the law is loaded in favour of the lender ,the State or whatever.
Let us be honest and stop whispering about "pain"and say what is really happening here.It is death by the drip,the cutback ,by suicide ,by economic abortion .by forced emigration ,by threat ,by plamas ,by jiggery pokery,by no longer wishing to be a burden on the State,by any name you wish to
add yourself .
And remember what happened to Cromwell.His body was dug up long after he died and his remains hung drawn and quartered and his beheaded skull displayed on a spike.
Those who facilitate eviction from the family home,the persecution of our people and the exile of maybe two generations would do well to remember the lessons of history before it is too late.
Even one eviction from a reasonable family home is too much and the relentless persecution of a large minority of the people must stop forthwith.
Anti Catholic Bigotry rampant in some quarters.
The likes of Vincent Brown,Sinead O Connor,Ray Darcy,Olivia O Leary,Kathleen Lynch and a host of other well known figures in the public eye like to sneer at Catholicism at every opportunity.They may think that this has no consequence.
The amount of hatred and pure bile these attacks provoke is well illustrated on facebook at Meath Anti Eviction Ireland .
I would say that the rhetoric against the Jews in pre War Germany was not as overt as the pure bigotry spewed out at that site.Look it up for yourself and judge for yoursself.
And the people mentioned in the first paragraph can take a bow for the stuff they they disseminate and the "passions "they produce.
The amount of hatred and pure bile these attacks provoke is well illustrated on facebook at Meath Anti Eviction Ireland .
I would say that the rhetoric against the Jews in pre War Germany was not as overt as the pure bigotry spewed out at that site.Look it up for yourself and judge for yoursself.
And the people mentioned in the first paragraph can take a bow for the stuff they they disseminate and the "passions "they produce.
Monday, March 11, 2013
O Leary rant and Lynch claims suspect?
I recently heard Olivia O Leary seriously denigrate the nuns that worked in the Magdalene Laundries ,sneer at the Catholic ethos and viciously attack the wearing of cardigans by women as an attempt to smother female sexuality,especially if worn by nuns.Considering that she herself was educated by nuns in a boarding school ,presumably having been sent there by her parent or parents ,this is a prime example of biting the hand that feeds you.This should serve as a valuable lesson to nuns not to waste their compassion on the education of middle classes who ran Irish society for decades and who put the people in the laundries in the first place. She is not the only Catholic hater to so bite the hands of those that educated her and not the only person who feels free to denigrate the Catholic Faith working in RTE, an institution funded by a populace of which 80% expresses itself to be Catholic.
Remember the Father Reynolds lible case where RTE blatantly lied about the Priest."Group Think " at fault the report found.Has it gone away?
Within a few days Kathleen Lynch of the "more faces than Big Ben sisterhood "and a paid up member of the" Jigger pokers" gave credence to a report that a woman was admitted to the Magdalene Laundries because she missed Mass.
I am sick in the craw of people like belittling my Faith ,severely doubt that the Magdalene Laundries were the places of hardship claimed in certain quarters and severely doubt that Kathleen Lynch's claim is true .I would be more inclined to listen to her had she not withdrawn the mobility allowance that enabled a minimum of independence to the most severly disabled people in the country the same day.
Had the nuns done it in years gone bye I am sure that these two ladies would be choking with rage and spewing bile by the new time.
The anti Catholic bias of RTE revealed itself further this evening on Mary Wilson's show when she gave full vent to a priest called Flannery (whose brother I think is a Fine Gael grandee and which may explain a lot),who made reference to certain Cardinals present in Rome as having been "tainted "by association with the Vatican and therefor not being worthy of elevation to the Papacy.In my innocence as a Catholic I always thought that The Holy Ghost g had a big say in this choice and am not surprised that this Priest has difficulties with the Church. Maybe he thinks that he himself is the only one qualified to take up this mantle.Off with him so.I am sure Bishop Sinead O Connor would back him for one.
I am certain were his brother to refer to anyone in Fine Gael headquarters as n being" tainted by Fine Gael policy he would be run out by Edna post haste.
He was followed on the interview by John Cooney," veteran religious affairs correspondence of the Irish Times.",who waxed lyrical about the desire for a Pope who favoured same sex marriage,women priests and married priests est c etc etc.He seemed to have a Scottish accent.He should therefor know that all these are de rigeur in the Church of England and maybe thought that he was at such a Synod.
Joe Duffy Made a disgrace of himself and all Dubs last week by the nature of his hectoring,bullying and ganging up with another loudmouth on an elderly Tallaght Priest whose views disagreed with his own.
I suspect that the reason RTE has to resort to such loudmouth bigots is because no decent Catholic will have anything to do with them .
Anyhow I will be reading the Mc Eleese report soon and will give an unbiased summary.
I get very worried when I see spokespeople looking for non adversarial compensation.What are they trying to pull?.Ancient Catholics are publicly tried in open Court and no sympathy whatever is shown to them.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.And I would not favour giving compensation to anyone put there for murder of infanticide,which a minority were.
Remember the Father Reynolds lible case where RTE blatantly lied about the Priest."Group Think " at fault the report found.Has it gone away?
Within a few days Kathleen Lynch of the "more faces than Big Ben sisterhood "and a paid up member of the" Jigger pokers" gave credence to a report that a woman was admitted to the Magdalene Laundries because she missed Mass.
I am sick in the craw of people like belittling my Faith ,severely doubt that the Magdalene Laundries were the places of hardship claimed in certain quarters and severely doubt that Kathleen Lynch's claim is true .I would be more inclined to listen to her had she not withdrawn the mobility allowance that enabled a minimum of independence to the most severly disabled people in the country the same day.
Had the nuns done it in years gone bye I am sure that these two ladies would be choking with rage and spewing bile by the new time.
The anti Catholic bias of RTE revealed itself further this evening on Mary Wilson's show when she gave full vent to a priest called Flannery (whose brother I think is a Fine Gael grandee and which may explain a lot),who made reference to certain Cardinals present in Rome as having been "tainted "by association with the Vatican and therefor not being worthy of elevation to the Papacy.In my innocence as a Catholic I always thought that The Holy Ghost g had a big say in this choice and am not surprised that this Priest has difficulties with the Church. Maybe he thinks that he himself is the only one qualified to take up this mantle.Off with him so.I am sure Bishop Sinead O Connor would back him for one.
I am certain were his brother to refer to anyone in Fine Gael headquarters as n being" tainted by Fine Gael policy he would be run out by Edna post haste.
He was followed on the interview by John Cooney," veteran religious affairs correspondence of the Irish Times.",who waxed lyrical about the desire for a Pope who favoured same sex marriage,women priests and married priests est c etc etc.He seemed to have a Scottish accent.He should therefor know that all these are de rigeur in the Church of England and maybe thought that he was at such a Synod.
Joe Duffy Made a disgrace of himself and all Dubs last week by the nature of his hectoring,bullying and ganging up with another loudmouth on an elderly Tallaght Priest whose views disagreed with his own.
I suspect that the reason RTE has to resort to such loudmouth bigots is because no decent Catholic will have anything to do with them .
Anyhow I will be reading the Mc Eleese report soon and will give an unbiased summary.
I get very worried when I see spokespeople looking for non adversarial compensation.What are they trying to pull?.Ancient Catholics are publicly tried in open Court and no sympathy whatever is shown to them.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.And I would not favour giving compensation to anyone put there for murder of infanticide,which a minority were.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Smart policing off to flying start hereabouts.
Last Friday evening the GAA Club put a huge effort into a fundraising drive called "Dunderry has got talent".A massive amount of work went into promoting it and the whole Parish and all the voluntary organisations in it supported it financially and by putting on acts of varying descriptions.To the huge credit of the Committee of the GAA Club It was a financial as well as a social success.And of necessity it was widely advertised and well supported.
Nearly all my immediate family attended and my daughter in law Aoife competed in a double act with the next Mariah Carey ,Megan Byrne .Powerful music and singing I am told.I stayed at home to mind the house.I never allow it to remain empty.This is because I know full well that there is a strong likelihood it would be robbed.Theft from occupied and unoccupied houses around here has become endemic.
The latest craze is the theft of heating oil .Last Friday a local family made the huge mistake of supporting the well advertised Talent Show in block.Yep the thieves took the opportunity to steal their heating oil.Eight thefts I believe and rising.
Between the unlawful fleecing of the populace due to theft and the legalised extortion of decent people by a Government who are no more than kapos for the foreigners ,the rapid demise of what was not too long ago an honourable country is accelerating rapidly.
Nearly all my immediate family attended and my daughter in law Aoife competed in a double act with the next Mariah Carey ,Megan Byrne .Powerful music and singing I am told.I stayed at home to mind the house.I never allow it to remain empty.This is because I know full well that there is a strong likelihood it would be robbed.Theft from occupied and unoccupied houses around here has become endemic.
The latest craze is the theft of heating oil .Last Friday a local family made the huge mistake of supporting the well advertised Talent Show in block.Yep the thieves took the opportunity to steal their heating oil.Eight thefts I believe and rising.
Between the unlawful fleecing of the populace due to theft and the legalised extortion of decent people by a Government who are no more than kapos for the foreigners ,the rapid demise of what was not too long ago an honourable country is accelerating rapidly.
Between two Balls.
The widespread loathing of most people towards the property tax and the concern and debate over the question of valuation of property for the purpose of calculating that tax has brought to mind an almost forgotten tale my uncles used relate about the unfortunate occupants of a house,which because of its location was in effect valueless.
There was nothing structurally wrong with the house at all.It was just as sound as the neighbouring houses.Its ills lay in the old adage of "location,location,location."
It was the middle house of three houses on the same side of the road and adjacent to each other.There were no other houses for a half mile either before you passed the first house nor for the same distance after it.after the last one.
In this part of the country the male unmentionable is known as a" b..in."The family in the first house you met were called Ball as were the family in the last house you met.The family in the middle house were Mc Cormacks.The father of the house was known as "the B..in mc Cormack "and the entire family as "The Bu..in Mac Cormacks".
They sold out and the appellation stuck to the new occupants ,who were Dowds.And so it went.
This house is hard to sell.Probably impossible.
No offence meant to the Balls ,decent people all.
There was nothing structurally wrong with the house at all.It was just as sound as the neighbouring houses.Its ills lay in the old adage of "location,location,location."
It was the middle house of three houses on the same side of the road and adjacent to each other.There were no other houses for a half mile either before you passed the first house nor for the same distance after it.after the last one.
In this part of the country the male unmentionable is known as a" b..in."The family in the first house you met were called Ball as were the family in the last house you met.The family in the middle house were Mc Cormacks.The father of the house was known as "the B..in mc Cormack "and the entire family as "The Bu..in Mac Cormacks".
They sold out and the appellation stuck to the new occupants ,who were Dowds.And so it went.
This house is hard to sell.Probably impossible.
No offence meant to the Balls ,decent people all.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Labour party hatred of rural Ireland surfaces again.
The Labour Party has long since been taken over by clever former university student leaders who never did a day's physical work in their lives.I would guess that between all of them they would not have the making of one welt or callous.Unlike the Party when actual labouring families did in fact look to the Party for representation.Both it and Sinn Fein are in competition for the working class vote,according to the conventional wisdom..Although why this should be is a riddle to me.Both are hell bent on the eradication of preborn children if it suits the mother's wishes a.k.a. known as the right to choose.And both boast to understand the needs of working people.
As previously stated I doubt if the leadership of either party have a callous or welt between them.In the years when Labour did represent the working man and woman there were people in it who did understand the drudgery and hard work necessary to make a lining from a small or medium farm of land.And who also understood that many small and medium sized farmers were illiterate or had no education beyond primary level.Not that these impediments stopped them from eking out a living by dint of the sweat of their brow,whether here or with Mac Alpine.
Many hundred of thousands of these unfortunates died as chastitutes because they could not afford to have families because of the lack of opportunity caused mainly by the lack of good jobs which an education would advance.
Incidentally many many young men in their thirties who have the paramour but no prospect of a job nor a house are leaving by the new time so that they can marry and settle down in a country that treats them decently.I fear that this age group too will take off to join the twenty to thirty age group so conspicuous by their absence in rural Ireland at any rate.
Both this country's politicians and those of broader EU ought to be ashamed of themselves for negating the population growth of this country which was defying the slow decline and imminent death of most western European countries.See what abortion has done for them.And our very own tomb raiders want to replicate that here, the curse of God on them.
Any how I digress somewhat.
The point is that it seems to me that the out of touch Labour party wants to reinstate drudgery and all that goes with it in rural Ireland by insisting that the children of small and medium sized farm families should have the asset value of their parents farms worth over 750,00 taken into account when assessing eligibility for d student grants..
I know that no woman in her right head would marry a farmer totally dependant on say a sixty acre farm for a livelihood for the maintenance of themselves and even a small family.This is because the income would be so low that a job as a fast food employee would be greater. And the income of a teacher or acrchitect is stratospheric by comparison.Quinn and the city based TD's haven't a clue what they are talking about and should try to eke out a living on a fifty or sixty acre farm before they further destroy and decimate rural Ireland.Or else talk to some of their small farmer members if they have any left .
But then again the men and women without welts and callouses probably don't even care.
As previously stated I doubt if the leadership of either party have a callous or welt between them.In the years when Labour did represent the working man and woman there were people in it who did understand the drudgery and hard work necessary to make a lining from a small or medium farm of land.And who also understood that many small and medium sized farmers were illiterate or had no education beyond primary level.Not that these impediments stopped them from eking out a living by dint of the sweat of their brow,whether here or with Mac Alpine.
Many hundred of thousands of these unfortunates died as chastitutes because they could not afford to have families because of the lack of opportunity caused mainly by the lack of good jobs which an education would advance.
Incidentally many many young men in their thirties who have the paramour but no prospect of a job nor a house are leaving by the new time so that they can marry and settle down in a country that treats them decently.I fear that this age group too will take off to join the twenty to thirty age group so conspicuous by their absence in rural Ireland at any rate.
Both this country's politicians and those of broader EU ought to be ashamed of themselves for negating the population growth of this country which was defying the slow decline and imminent death of most western European countries.See what abortion has done for them.And our very own tomb raiders want to replicate that here, the curse of God on them.
Any how I digress somewhat.
The point is that it seems to me that the out of touch Labour party wants to reinstate drudgery and all that goes with it in rural Ireland by insisting that the children of small and medium sized farm families should have the asset value of their parents farms worth over 750,00 taken into account when assessing eligibility for d student grants..
I know that no woman in her right head would marry a farmer totally dependant on say a sixty acre farm for a livelihood for the maintenance of themselves and even a small family.This is because the income would be so low that a job as a fast food employee would be greater. And the income of a teacher or acrchitect is stratospheric by comparison.Quinn and the city based TD's haven't a clue what they are talking about and should try to eke out a living on a fifty or sixty acre farm before they further destroy and decimate rural Ireland.Or else talk to some of their small farmer members if they have any left .
But then again the men and women without welts and callouses probably don't even care.