Miss Hogett's pregnancy came to a sad end last week in one of the most sylvan settings in Meath.Church town to be exact.
Since being tipped by the horny ram a number of months ago she indulged in only the very best of grass ,tender shoots of hay and nuts to die for.
At 5.00 a.m.last Wednesday morning the labour pains started and she firstly delivered a hell of a fine lamb.She licked it clean but before she could organise a feed from her bursting elder for her first born the labour pains started again and she had to stand and deliver all over again.And after a half hour a twin no bigger than a man's fist was born.
As she licked the covering from her second born she remembered her first born and cast her eyes anxiously about for him.He has stumbled about twenty yards away from her and she could see in the dawn sunshine that a toxic combination of three magpies .two grey crows and a single half black /half grey crow were attacking the defenceless mite and she rushed to his defence.In the process leaving her second born defenceless.Whereupon the murderous amalgam turned their attentions back to the first born.And she rushed back again and again and again.
Eventually she ran out of breath by the side of "the fist "and stood exhausted at his side.
In her brain stirred the memory of the arrival of the hated magpie in Ireland .The ba ba bastards were blown here for the first time by a tempest shortly after Cromwell murdered and lay waste the owners of the three green fields.They picked eyeballs till they busted .She trembled at the memory.And the grey crows ,rejected mutants of their own flocks ,soon allied forces with them in their taste for soft targets.
And true to form they picked first the eyes from her first born,followed by the flesh around his anus and then they burrowed into the remains of his umbilical cord and followed it into his belly.Lucky for him he died from shock as his second eye was plucked from the socket and his pain ended then.
Just as they finished THE MAN attired and drove them away.Too late.
The fist could not reach its ma's teats it was so small so the Man stuck 60 mills of colostrum into its stomach and boy did he enjoy it.For two days he was flying around and Miss Hogger minded him like her life depended on it.Certainly his life depended on her care.
On the third night he strayed from her side and made his way through the sheep wire fence around the field.He strayed into a steep hollow in the ground and could not get out or back to his ma despite his bleating and her agitated bellowing.
But a vixen did hear the commotion and mused around.
She couldn't believe her luck and with one shake of her powerful mouth she broke the neck of the fist and off with her to her own hungry brood.
I'm on the side of Miss Hogget and share her sorrow.
I despise Cromwell,Magpies,grey crows and foxes and their human counterparts.
Bad cess to them.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Quinn/Labour are elitist anti Catholic snobs.
A decent old lady I knew well described Conor Cruise O Brien as a "hateful man"as they both approached the end of their lives.I concur with this description of a man who changed so many horses midstream that he forgot which horse he rode last and ended up standing on a Unionist platform against the interests of Nationalist Irishmen,who he clearly despised.
He despised Catholicism,was of the view that educated people also despised it,hated Nationalism,had a poisonous vehemence for Republicanism,was a keen advocate of censorship and vigorously applied it,tried to stop the teaching of Irish history in our schools,intended to shut down the Irish Press which annoyed him in its publications,opposed the Good Friday Agreement,condoned the brutalising by certain Gardai of suspects in their custody and slyly withheld the fact of these beatings from his political colleagues.
He was a card carrying member of the Labour Party for much of his political career.
He was a direct contrast to James Connolly who put the the Labour Party on the map ,who died while tied disabled to a chair by the spite of a firing squad of British Army soldiers (my my weren't they brave men indeed ) and to whom many of the present leadership pay lip service only .
The present leadership of Labour are more Cruise O Brien than Connolly.
The old Stickies own it body and soul at this stage and I predict will leave a husk of a party when they have sucked it dry ,as they did to Sinn Fein the Workers Party,The Workers Party ,Democratic Left etc.
It is reliably reported that before the Provos were formed in the North and while Jack Lynch did stand idly by and while pogroms were being implemented against the Nationalist Catholic population that the stickies ran away.
Anyhow Rory Quinn seemingly shares some of the Cruiser's traits and ideas.
He never misses a chance to belittle Catholicism having embarked on a Labour approved campaign to abolish the teaching of religion in religious schools.I'll rephrase that, its Catholicism only he hates reserving his hatred for it exclusively.He continuously spouts nonsense about the pluralist society this country has become and it must be conceded that he and his Blue shirt colleagues have done and are doing their best to achieve this by evacuating rural Ireland of the indigenous people and packing them off to countries where thay are afforded the honour of work. Will they reach an emigration figure of 750,000 before they are run out of office ?What FIanna Fail et al started they will finish.
Like Hitler he wants total State control of the schools to propagate his communist and atheist views of society.
In a country where 86% of the population declares themselves to be Catholic /Christian this insulting approach to politics ought be stopped.He wants Caesar to have it all and God to have nothing.Maybe its time that God's people considered ceasing to pay their taxes until this hatefulness is stopped.Why would you pay the wages of someone out to destroy your religion ?
What we have from him is the hair on the tail of the dog trying to wag the dog.A right wagger.
He wants to demean the teaching of history too,afraid perhaps a la the Cruiser that history would not justify his politics and that the people might suss out his take on life.
The hatred he has generated amongst his employee teachers as evidenced in the vocal disapproval he has unreceived at the various conferences is palpable ,some record for a Labour politician who is supposed to protects the livelihood of workers.
He rules by diktat not consultation.His way or the byway.
And that teacher leader who complained about death threats on the Internet must be a right gob shite.I lead no union nor anything else and have had countless abusive threats from people of malice .It goes with the inter net territory and to allow Rory to hide behind his concern at the threats and avoid the flood of dissatisfaction at his antics was a monumental blunder and an opportunity lost.
He wants to fuck around with the Inter Cert,which he regards as a low status exam. For many many people the Inter Cert is the height of their academic achievement and they are hugely proud of it.Many hundreds of thousands of tradesmen,apprentices .labourers,shop assistants and so on n burst themselves to get it .And there are hundreds of thousands of people who have the Primary Cert,as their highest academic achievement and are fierce proud of it.All these people are as good ,if not better than Rory and his Labour ex student leaders who never broke sweat nor will.
The holders of mere low status examinations ,now have full knowledge of how the members of a party that was set up to represent them ,views them and what they think of them.
Now the Party of the Gays and Lesbians and the educated classes Labour has abandoned its natural support base entirely and fully deserves to languish at 6% in the polls,
It's a wonder its that high.
He despised Catholicism,was of the view that educated people also despised it,hated Nationalism,had a poisonous vehemence for Republicanism,was a keen advocate of censorship and vigorously applied it,tried to stop the teaching of Irish history in our schools,intended to shut down the Irish Press which annoyed him in its publications,opposed the Good Friday Agreement,condoned the brutalising by certain Gardai of suspects in their custody and slyly withheld the fact of these beatings from his political colleagues.
He was a card carrying member of the Labour Party for much of his political career.
He was a direct contrast to James Connolly who put the the Labour Party on the map ,who died while tied disabled to a chair by the spite of a firing squad of British Army soldiers (my my weren't they brave men indeed ) and to whom many of the present leadership pay lip service only .
The present leadership of Labour are more Cruise O Brien than Connolly.
The old Stickies own it body and soul at this stage and I predict will leave a husk of a party when they have sucked it dry ,as they did to Sinn Fein the Workers Party,The Workers Party ,Democratic Left etc.
It is reliably reported that before the Provos were formed in the North and while Jack Lynch did stand idly by and while pogroms were being implemented against the Nationalist Catholic population that the stickies ran away.
Anyhow Rory Quinn seemingly shares some of the Cruiser's traits and ideas.
He never misses a chance to belittle Catholicism having embarked on a Labour approved campaign to abolish the teaching of religion in religious schools.I'll rephrase that, its Catholicism only he hates reserving his hatred for it exclusively.He continuously spouts nonsense about the pluralist society this country has become and it must be conceded that he and his Blue shirt colleagues have done and are doing their best to achieve this by evacuating rural Ireland of the indigenous people and packing them off to countries where thay are afforded the honour of work. Will they reach an emigration figure of 750,000 before they are run out of office ?What FIanna Fail et al started they will finish.
Like Hitler he wants total State control of the schools to propagate his communist and atheist views of society.
In a country where 86% of the population declares themselves to be Catholic /Christian this insulting approach to politics ought be stopped.He wants Caesar to have it all and God to have nothing.Maybe its time that God's people considered ceasing to pay their taxes until this hatefulness is stopped.Why would you pay the wages of someone out to destroy your religion ?
What we have from him is the hair on the tail of the dog trying to wag the dog.A right wagger.
He wants to demean the teaching of history too,afraid perhaps a la the Cruiser that history would not justify his politics and that the people might suss out his take on life.
The hatred he has generated amongst his employee teachers as evidenced in the vocal disapproval he has unreceived at the various conferences is palpable ,some record for a Labour politician who is supposed to protects the livelihood of workers.
He rules by diktat not consultation.His way or the byway.
And that teacher leader who complained about death threats on the Internet must be a right gob shite.I lead no union nor anything else and have had countless abusive threats from people of malice .It goes with the inter net territory and to allow Rory to hide behind his concern at the threats and avoid the flood of dissatisfaction at his antics was a monumental blunder and an opportunity lost.
He wants to fuck around with the Inter Cert,which he regards as a low status exam. For many many people the Inter Cert is the height of their academic achievement and they are hugely proud of it.Many hundreds of thousands of tradesmen,apprentices .labourers,shop assistants and so on n burst themselves to get it .And there are hundreds of thousands of people who have the Primary Cert,as their highest academic achievement and are fierce proud of it.All these people are as good ,if not better than Rory and his Labour ex student leaders who never broke sweat nor will.
The holders of mere low status examinations ,now have full knowledge of how the members of a party that was set up to represent them ,views them and what they think of them.
Now the Party of the Gays and Lesbians and the educated classes Labour has abandoned its natural support base entirely and fully deserves to languish at 6% in the polls,
It's a wonder its that high.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
IFC.Dunderry o-11.Kilmainham 0-9.
Dressed on top with only a vest,undershirt and hoodie under a beaming sun I nearly perished with the cold in Navan's Pairc Tailteann tonight. Whatever about the weather being bitter the pitch was in fine fettle and a strong wind blew towards the hospital end.
In the pre match banter two predictions were made by avid Dunderry supporters.
One Kane supporter opined that we were 5 points the better team and the winning margin should reflect this.A second die hard opined that Donal Smyth the referee would definitely not favour Dunderry.There is a belief in Dunderry this while back that Donal has not favoured us in either code and that today would be no different.
Dunderry Team.
Jennings
A.Newman Davy Mc Cormack C.O.Shea
C.Dempsey Finn Stephens S.Carty
A.Coogan C.Farrell
A.Waters S,Coogan D.Clarke
M.Garry L.Martyn B.Doherty
Seamus Harte and Paddy Kenneally, starters the last outing, were not available because of injury and as a consequence Sponge went back to full back from centre half and Finn from the edge of the square to centre back,positions many feel is the most beneficial for the team.
KIlmainham's huge player is Michael Newman who is an automatic on the Meath team and we figured he would be placed on Finn with the expectation he would take him to the cleaners.And Rose Mulligans nephews are no daws either,
The teams lined with Newman at 11 and Finn at 6 and We played into the face of a strong wind.We conceded a point to a 45 from the deadly accurate Newman in the first minute and then two more to frees from the same scorer.Already the Dunderry supporters were howling with frustration at the referee who seemed to award frees to KIlmainham for incidents which when they happened to Dunderry were not similarly awarded. But were settling reasonably well and making the odd foray into the teeth of the gale towards the pavilion end and possibly missed two scorable minors in the first quarter.Then Kilmainham scored a minor from play and with 4 on the register against us it was shit or get off the pot time.And off both the pot and our mark we got a minor,followed by another to leave it 0-4 to 0-2 against us,entering the last 10 minutes of the half.They scored two more minors from a free and a forty five to leave us in nail biting territory before we pulled one back .But they scored another minor from a free to leave the half time score 0-7 to 0-3 in their favour.The free count in the first half was 7 against Dunderry to 3 against Kilmainham.Of Kilmainmham's 7 points 1 came from play,2 came from 45's and four came from frees .Truth to tell some of the decisions against us were hard to decipher and to take and the Dunderry supporters were not happy campers.Of our three points, Lukie scored one from play and Denise's gasun score one from play and one from a free.
I felt the wind was worth 6 points and this combined with the fact that Finn had kept Newman scoreless from play and that Spongee and Swiss were playing with panache put us in with a great chance if we got a level battlefield in the second half.We were playing well in all positions and well able to compete in open play after a tentative opening ten minutes when some well intended passes went astray .Marty Garry foraged well back in this half to definite advantage it must be said and made an excellent contribution
Half time 0-7 to 0-3 against us.
The selectors made several positional switches at half time.Marty Garry and Simon switched positions .Swiss went midfield ,Andy to full forward and Lukie to wing forward.The switches worked.With the wind we rattled odd the first 7 scores of the half ,5 from play and two from frees from the laser acculturate Stephen Coogan who was as good as Newman on the fee taking department and and his master from open play.
It has to be said again that what were at least two blatant frees to Dunderry were not given in this half and the light was not that bad.And it now seems a kosher to surround a man in possession and drag him down and not get penalised for so doing.The Dunderry supporters were outraged ,to put it mildly and with only two points separating the teams in the last ten minutes the tension was unbearable
.Dunderry introduced John Paul, Liam Dempsey ( I am informed that it is from the Dempsey's he gets his moxy),Colm Harte and Shane Maguire for Lukie ,Andy ,Alan and Bob and all made their mark especially J.P.,whose first touch split the uprights for a great point.
Anyhow we lived dangerously scoring a further point from play to theirs from a free.to hold out victors by two points.
Scorned half scorers were Stephen Coogan 0-5(0-2 F.)
Andy 0-1
Baby Doc 0-1
J.P/ 0-1
and the free count was 11 against Dunderry to 8 against KIlmainham.
In case anybody would get the idea that Dunderry are a dirty team then they are totally wrong.This was a clean well contested game played out by two honest teams in a fully sporting manner as you would expect from two proud and decent Clubs and from decent and manly players.
Frees aside we were probably five points the better team and it a great source of pride that Finn kept Newman scoreless from play ,a feat that many inter county players have failed to do..He was well aided in this by the rest of the backs.led by the ballsy Davy Mac , who gave it their all.
The extra week has stood O Shea in good stead in his ball handling and Aaron is getting better and better.Simon and Conor .D.are oozing confidence and Kenning's kept us in the game at least twice with magnificent saves.His kick outs aren#t bad either.
Bomber had a good game in the middle and Andy and Swiss gave it their all ,Swiss in particular belying the advancing years.
Waters had a good first half but his marker (No.5 ) was probably the best KiIlmainham man on the pitch in the second half. Stephen Coogan does not miss a scorable chance either from a free or from play.Potentially a county man.Bob is using his bulk to advantage totally and had a good game even garnering some dubious frees from the referee and Lukie is a competitive and strong garsun learning his trade.He wins all the fifty balls and some of the forty sixty even,A good sign.
This was a good win for us in a match that I would guess that KIlmainham had targeted as a certain win for them.
Man of the match for me is Stephen Coogan by a whisker ,from Finn,Swiss ,Davy Mac and Jennings with the rest of the field closing rapidly,
This is a good management team by the way and are doing a fine job.Fair dues to the Legend who grasped the poisoned chalice when many others jibbed.
Let us not get carried away but the beat lives on.
In the pre match banter two predictions were made by avid Dunderry supporters.
One Kane supporter opined that we were 5 points the better team and the winning margin should reflect this.A second die hard opined that Donal Smyth the referee would definitely not favour Dunderry.There is a belief in Dunderry this while back that Donal has not favoured us in either code and that today would be no different.
Dunderry Team.
Jennings
A.Newman Davy Mc Cormack C.O.Shea
C.Dempsey Finn Stephens S.Carty
A.Coogan C.Farrell
A.Waters S,Coogan D.Clarke
M.Garry L.Martyn B.Doherty
Seamus Harte and Paddy Kenneally, starters the last outing, were not available because of injury and as a consequence Sponge went back to full back from centre half and Finn from the edge of the square to centre back,positions many feel is the most beneficial for the team.
KIlmainham's huge player is Michael Newman who is an automatic on the Meath team and we figured he would be placed on Finn with the expectation he would take him to the cleaners.And Rose Mulligans nephews are no daws either,
The teams lined with Newman at 11 and Finn at 6 and We played into the face of a strong wind.We conceded a point to a 45 from the deadly accurate Newman in the first minute and then two more to frees from the same scorer.Already the Dunderry supporters were howling with frustration at the referee who seemed to award frees to KIlmainham for incidents which when they happened to Dunderry were not similarly awarded. But were settling reasonably well and making the odd foray into the teeth of the gale towards the pavilion end and possibly missed two scorable minors in the first quarter.Then Kilmainham scored a minor from play and with 4 on the register against us it was shit or get off the pot time.And off both the pot and our mark we got a minor,followed by another to leave it 0-4 to 0-2 against us,entering the last 10 minutes of the half.They scored two more minors from a free and a forty five to leave us in nail biting territory before we pulled one back .But they scored another minor from a free to leave the half time score 0-7 to 0-3 in their favour.The free count in the first half was 7 against Dunderry to 3 against Kilmainham.Of Kilmainmham's 7 points 1 came from play,2 came from 45's and four came from frees .Truth to tell some of the decisions against us were hard to decipher and to take and the Dunderry supporters were not happy campers.Of our three points, Lukie scored one from play and Denise's gasun score one from play and one from a free.
I felt the wind was worth 6 points and this combined with the fact that Finn had kept Newman scoreless from play and that Spongee and Swiss were playing with panache put us in with a great chance if we got a level battlefield in the second half.We were playing well in all positions and well able to compete in open play after a tentative opening ten minutes when some well intended passes went astray .Marty Garry foraged well back in this half to definite advantage it must be said and made an excellent contribution
Half time 0-7 to 0-3 against us.
The selectors made several positional switches at half time.Marty Garry and Simon switched positions .Swiss went midfield ,Andy to full forward and Lukie to wing forward.The switches worked.With the wind we rattled odd the first 7 scores of the half ,5 from play and two from frees from the laser acculturate Stephen Coogan who was as good as Newman on the fee taking department and and his master from open play.
It has to be said again that what were at least two blatant frees to Dunderry were not given in this half and the light was not that bad.And it now seems a kosher to surround a man in possession and drag him down and not get penalised for so doing.The Dunderry supporters were outraged ,to put it mildly and with only two points separating the teams in the last ten minutes the tension was unbearable
.Dunderry introduced John Paul, Liam Dempsey ( I am informed that it is from the Dempsey's he gets his moxy),Colm Harte and Shane Maguire for Lukie ,Andy ,Alan and Bob and all made their mark especially J.P.,whose first touch split the uprights for a great point.
Anyhow we lived dangerously scoring a further point from play to theirs from a free.to hold out victors by two points.
Scorned half scorers were Stephen Coogan 0-5(0-2 F.)
Andy 0-1
Baby Doc 0-1
J.P/ 0-1
and the free count was 11 against Dunderry to 8 against KIlmainham.
In case anybody would get the idea that Dunderry are a dirty team then they are totally wrong.This was a clean well contested game played out by two honest teams in a fully sporting manner as you would expect from two proud and decent Clubs and from decent and manly players.
Frees aside we were probably five points the better team and it a great source of pride that Finn kept Newman scoreless from play ,a feat that many inter county players have failed to do..He was well aided in this by the rest of the backs.led by the ballsy Davy Mac , who gave it their all.
The extra week has stood O Shea in good stead in his ball handling and Aaron is getting better and better.Simon and Conor .D.are oozing confidence and Kenning's kept us in the game at least twice with magnificent saves.His kick outs aren#t bad either.
Bomber had a good game in the middle and Andy and Swiss gave it their all ,Swiss in particular belying the advancing years.
Waters had a good first half but his marker (No.5 ) was probably the best KiIlmainham man on the pitch in the second half. Stephen Coogan does not miss a scorable chance either from a free or from play.Potentially a county man.Bob is using his bulk to advantage totally and had a good game even garnering some dubious frees from the referee and Lukie is a competitive and strong garsun learning his trade.He wins all the fifty balls and some of the forty sixty even,A good sign.
This was a good win for us in a match that I would guess that KIlmainham had targeted as a certain win for them.
Man of the match for me is Stephen Coogan by a whisker ,from Finn,Swiss ,Davy Mac and Jennings with the rest of the field closing rapidly,
This is a good management team by the way and are doing a fine job.Fair dues to the Legend who grasped the poisoned chalice when many others jibbed.
Let us not get carried away but the beat lives on.
Monday, April 14, 2014
I thought that Ireland had a neutrality policy
It must have passed me by,but I thought that Ireland had a policy of neutrality and I thought that this is what makes us acceptable peacekeepers in areas of turmoil worldwide.
I now hear the Tanaiste making sounds in relation to the East Ukraine that are anything but neutral and decidedly anti Russian.One presumes that he personally will lead the charge against the might of Russia when the time comes and that the Labour Party will compensate the State for exports foregone when Russia pulls the plug on our exports to Russia.
Seriously can anyone tell me when we as a nation abandoned our long standing policy of neutrality ?
For what its worth it seems to me that all the reportage we get is decidedly anti Russian and it also seems to me that the West and the USA are concentrating on the man and not on the game.A bit like the character played by Mel Gibson in the film The Patriot,when he abandoned the then convention of letting soldiers fight soldiers and instead concentrated on killing the Officers.
The West and the USA are applying various sanctions against named officials in Russia and the Ukraine,a bit like they did in Iraq when they placed bounties on the heads of various identified enemies who they wanted dead or alive.
Russia is not as weak as Iraq and the West and USA officials driving the westernisation of Ukraine would want to be careful that Russia and the Ukrainian Russians do not target them in the way that they are targeting their opponents.
IT is difficult for the West and the USA to convincingly argue that it is wrong for sectors of the Ukraine to vote to secede and opt for Russian control of their affairs.
Scotland is being allowed to decide its own fate.Gibraltar is a long way from England as are the Maldives and the inhabitants are allowed to decide their own sovereignty.
The British presence in Ireland was ruthlessly enforced by a cruel military presence and they still occupied the North by virtue of a planted inbuilt core of settlers who dispossessed the natives centuries ago.
The Presidential visit to the Queen recently has resulted in the coming out ,so to speak ,of those closeted Royalists in droves and now we can see why they were so anti republican in outlook and why the State broadcaster was so compliant in censorship over the years.
IT may be that our new found cosiness with the Brits is the reason Eamonn echoes the British policy towards Ukraine
This posturing by the E.U. egged on by the U.S. is a highly dangerous game.
Putin might say "fuck you baby "and let off a few bombs in Europe .I doubt that NATO will so readily bomb Russia as it did an undefended Libya,which is still in a total mess and I would say that there are those there who yearn for the return of Qaddafi.as there must be many who yearn for the peace in Iraq before the blanket bombing began .
THE USA is far away and now fights by unmanned drones from the safety of comfortable bunkers.It has no skin in the game so to speak and I imagine is not brave enough to take on a bully of equal strength..
The kinda innocent EU boys and girls wold want to pull in their horns unless they want a terrible whipping and do what has to be done,which is the carve up of Urkaine on ethnic lines by plebiscite.
Its gonna happen any way.
I now hear the Tanaiste making sounds in relation to the East Ukraine that are anything but neutral and decidedly anti Russian.One presumes that he personally will lead the charge against the might of Russia when the time comes and that the Labour Party will compensate the State for exports foregone when Russia pulls the plug on our exports to Russia.
Seriously can anyone tell me when we as a nation abandoned our long standing policy of neutrality ?
For what its worth it seems to me that all the reportage we get is decidedly anti Russian and it also seems to me that the West and the USA are concentrating on the man and not on the game.A bit like the character played by Mel Gibson in the film The Patriot,when he abandoned the then convention of letting soldiers fight soldiers and instead concentrated on killing the Officers.
The West and the USA are applying various sanctions against named officials in Russia and the Ukraine,a bit like they did in Iraq when they placed bounties on the heads of various identified enemies who they wanted dead or alive.
Russia is not as weak as Iraq and the West and USA officials driving the westernisation of Ukraine would want to be careful that Russia and the Ukrainian Russians do not target them in the way that they are targeting their opponents.
IT is difficult for the West and the USA to convincingly argue that it is wrong for sectors of the Ukraine to vote to secede and opt for Russian control of their affairs.
Scotland is being allowed to decide its own fate.Gibraltar is a long way from England as are the Maldives and the inhabitants are allowed to decide their own sovereignty.
The British presence in Ireland was ruthlessly enforced by a cruel military presence and they still occupied the North by virtue of a planted inbuilt core of settlers who dispossessed the natives centuries ago.
The Presidential visit to the Queen recently has resulted in the coming out ,so to speak ,of those closeted Royalists in droves and now we can see why they were so anti republican in outlook and why the State broadcaster was so compliant in censorship over the years.
IT may be that our new found cosiness with the Brits is the reason Eamonn echoes the British policy towards Ukraine
This posturing by the E.U. egged on by the U.S. is a highly dangerous game.
Putin might say "fuck you baby "and let off a few bombs in Europe .I doubt that NATO will so readily bomb Russia as it did an undefended Libya,which is still in a total mess and I would say that there are those there who yearn for the return of Qaddafi.as there must be many who yearn for the peace in Iraq before the blanket bombing began .
THE USA is far away and now fights by unmanned drones from the safety of comfortable bunkers.It has no skin in the game so to speak and I imagine is not brave enough to take on a bully of equal strength..
The kinda innocent EU boys and girls wold want to pull in their horns unless they want a terrible whipping and do what has to be done,which is the carve up of Urkaine on ethnic lines by plebiscite.
Its gonna happen any way.
Easter Week Ceremonies Dunderry Parish
D.--Dunderry. K---KIlbride. R---Robinstown.
Tues.15/04/2014. R.9.00 A.M. Mass
D.7.45 P.M. Stations.
D.8.00 P.M. Mass.Confessions after.
Wednesday 16/04/2014. D. 7.00 A.M. Mass
R. 10.00 A.M. Mass
Thursday 17/04/2014. R.7.30 P.M.>Lords Supper
D.9.00 P.M. Lords Supper.
Good Friday 18/04/2014 .R. 3.00 P.M. Passion with Confessions after
K.6.00 P.M.Passion
D.8.00 P.M. Passion
Easter Saturday 19/04/2014.K.6.00 P.M. Vigil
D.7.30.P.M. Vigil
Easter Sunday.21/04/2014 R.9.30.A.M.
D.11.00 A.M.
Tues.15/04/2014. R.9.00 A.M. Mass
D.7.45 P.M. Stations.
D.8.00 P.M. Mass.Confessions after.
Wednesday 16/04/2014. D. 7.00 A.M. Mass
R. 10.00 A.M. Mass
Thursday 17/04/2014. R.7.30 P.M.>Lords Supper
D.9.00 P.M. Lords Supper.
Good Friday 18/04/2014 .R. 3.00 P.M. Passion with Confessions after
K.6.00 P.M.Passion
D.8.00 P.M. Passion
Easter Saturday 19/04/2014.K.6.00 P.M. Vigil
D.7.30.P.M. Vigil
Easter Sunday.21/04/2014 R.9.30.A.M.
D.11.00 A.M.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
I.F.C.Dunderry 1-9.Longwood 1-8.
In a windy Trim today this eagerly awaited first round championship match was dramatically played out before an appreciative crowd that stayed on to the bitter end,
No doubt about it the pitch in Trim is immaculate and the Trim stewards are top rate securing for yours truly a chair to plonk my arse on and enjoy,or rather suffer ,an enthralling game on this the Sunday when Blaithin Roisin Mac Donagh.fourth child of Terry and our Jacinta was Christened in Kilbride by Father Hornick.
Dunderry Team.
Davy Jennings
A.Newman S,Harte C.O.Shea
C,Dempsey D.Mac Cormack S.Carty
C.Farrell A.Coogan
L.Martyn S.Coogan Swiss Clarke
Bob Doherty Finn Stephens Paddy Kenneally
While not wishing to belittle the selectors ,having been one myself so often in the past,and made my share of mistakes I was baffled how Liam Dempsey didn't make the first fifteen .He is big,hardy and honest and even under the playing rules of the Longford roadshow er there is a place for men of his calibre in our game of showboats.
Playing against a strong wind blowing into the graveyard end our boys were first to show with Swiss burying a ball recycled from a Stephens catch via a few astute hands into the back of the net.Our lead was short lived however as Longwood ,orchestrated by Mickey Bourke ,repeated the dose at the other end.You would fear for us with that wind against us.But Jennings was getting good distance and direction into his kick outs.And Finn was the Lord of the Square winning any decently played ball coming his direction.Bob too was up for it.bawling for ball and winning it.Davy Mac was sticking it in as allowed by rule.And Swiss too was on song.The old dogs for the high road.
Paddy was in difficulty in the corner,conditions not suiting his individualist game and the ball did not flow for Lukie either.Bomber was hanging in there at midfield ,Andy was under pressure ,finding it difficult to get going in a tight and tough game where time is of the essence and Simon was not showing.Harte was under erasure at full back.But we held in there fairly well.
Oh I forgot about the referee.Probably he was applying the rules .I have no idea.Seemingly putting a hand on a man now is a mortal sin in the gelded arenas of the Gael where manliness is verboten .In twenty minutes Bomber got two yellows and a red,The first yellow ,maybe.The second no way.At worst it was pure awkwardness of a bigger man on a smaller one .Bad call by the ref.
Then Paddy went down not to recover,Knee trouble.Gone.Then Seamus.Down and gone .Ted and Alan Waters on in their place.Ted didn't last 5 minutes .Black carded.Not sure for what,Certainly no one died.Someone probably Sky ed out of it.( We legislate to suit Sky now,not the players.)
Down a quarter of our first choices we looked in fierce trouble.
But we got thick and dug in ,Spongee went full back and Finn centre half and the resistance started in earnest.There was no handy way down the centre now.Finn and Swiss were like colts (or should I say stallions ) out for their first Spring run.Inspired by their example the rest rose their game.Game on.
We tacked on three hard earned points to their six to go in at half time down only three points on a scoreline 1-6 to 1-3.,Stephen Coogans point scoring from frees being uncanny and Baby Doc finding the target despite the attention of four markers.
Hope springs eternal we reasoned .With the wind even fourteen men could do it.I prayed.
Bourke scored a minor within a minute of the throw in .4 down now and they were owning the ball.But we harassed and harried and counterattacked.And Bob was still dangerous.Younger Dempsey put it up to Bourke.Must be the Henry in him.Finn and Swiss were collosal and the two Davies relived their glory days.O Shea was short of match practise and it showed at times,but he would tackle a Rotarian in the cause and did repeatedly.Aaron is playing the best he ever did in his new position and it suits him (His dad is well entitled to name him in the Chronicle on this occasion.)
And the counterattacking suited under 21 county man Carty who showed his speed to advantage making several furtive forays up field ,running unfortunately betimes into cul de sacs.Experience will fix this.Stephen kept striking the frees over and is cute at making himself available.Marty Garry replaced an out of sorts Lukie and John Paul likewise replaced Andy.There may have n been more.I don't know.Marty came good and made several important intercepts.At least one Longwood man got a black.again I don#t know why.
The Longford Roadster would surely approve of this stop start foul feast which is destroying our game (If you don't believe me look at the last twenty minutes of the Dublin /Cork league semi today and see a really happy whistleblower in action.Disgraceful ).
Anyhow we somehow went two ahead with 10 minutes to go,mainly due to the impeccable free taking of Coogan the younger and the physical presence of Liam Dempsey also introduced ,for whom I am unsure.
The last ten were tension spring ed as they drew back one and tried all out to get the other.
But we held on .Just .Hallelujah.
The auld dogs for the high road.Man of the match,Finn by a whiskey from Swiss and the two Davy,s with Baby Doc a contender.Stephen Coogan the king of the kids with Aaron pushing him to the finishing line.And the Dempsey's brothers take a bow too.
The rest did brilliant but can improve and will.
I didn't take the scorers names but will publish when available.
No doubt about it the pitch in Trim is immaculate and the Trim stewards are top rate securing for yours truly a chair to plonk my arse on and enjoy,or rather suffer ,an enthralling game on this the Sunday when Blaithin Roisin Mac Donagh.fourth child of Terry and our Jacinta was Christened in Kilbride by Father Hornick.
Dunderry Team.
Davy Jennings
A.Newman S,Harte C.O.Shea
C,Dempsey D.Mac Cormack S.Carty
C.Farrell A.Coogan
L.Martyn S.Coogan Swiss Clarke
Bob Doherty Finn Stephens Paddy Kenneally
While not wishing to belittle the selectors ,having been one myself so often in the past,and made my share of mistakes I was baffled how Liam Dempsey didn't make the first fifteen .He is big,hardy and honest and even under the playing rules of the Longford roadshow er there is a place for men of his calibre in our game of showboats.
Playing against a strong wind blowing into the graveyard end our boys were first to show with Swiss burying a ball recycled from a Stephens catch via a few astute hands into the back of the net.Our lead was short lived however as Longwood ,orchestrated by Mickey Bourke ,repeated the dose at the other end.You would fear for us with that wind against us.But Jennings was getting good distance and direction into his kick outs.And Finn was the Lord of the Square winning any decently played ball coming his direction.Bob too was up for it.bawling for ball and winning it.Davy Mac was sticking it in as allowed by rule.And Swiss too was on song.The old dogs for the high road.
Paddy was in difficulty in the corner,conditions not suiting his individualist game and the ball did not flow for Lukie either.Bomber was hanging in there at midfield ,Andy was under pressure ,finding it difficult to get going in a tight and tough game where time is of the essence and Simon was not showing.Harte was under erasure at full back.But we held in there fairly well.
Oh I forgot about the referee.Probably he was applying the rules .I have no idea.Seemingly putting a hand on a man now is a mortal sin in the gelded arenas of the Gael where manliness is verboten .In twenty minutes Bomber got two yellows and a red,The first yellow ,maybe.The second no way.At worst it was pure awkwardness of a bigger man on a smaller one .Bad call by the ref.
Then Paddy went down not to recover,Knee trouble.Gone.Then Seamus.Down and gone .Ted and Alan Waters on in their place.Ted didn't last 5 minutes .Black carded.Not sure for what,Certainly no one died.Someone probably Sky ed out of it.( We legislate to suit Sky now,not the players.)
Down a quarter of our first choices we looked in fierce trouble.
But we got thick and dug in ,Spongee went full back and Finn centre half and the resistance started in earnest.There was no handy way down the centre now.Finn and Swiss were like colts (or should I say stallions ) out for their first Spring run.Inspired by their example the rest rose their game.Game on.
We tacked on three hard earned points to their six to go in at half time down only three points on a scoreline 1-6 to 1-3.,Stephen Coogans point scoring from frees being uncanny and Baby Doc finding the target despite the attention of four markers.
Hope springs eternal we reasoned .With the wind even fourteen men could do it.I prayed.
Bourke scored a minor within a minute of the throw in .4 down now and they were owning the ball.But we harassed and harried and counterattacked.And Bob was still dangerous.Younger Dempsey put it up to Bourke.Must be the Henry in him.Finn and Swiss were collosal and the two Davies relived their glory days.O Shea was short of match practise and it showed at times,but he would tackle a Rotarian in the cause and did repeatedly.Aaron is playing the best he ever did in his new position and it suits him (His dad is well entitled to name him in the Chronicle on this occasion.)
And the counterattacking suited under 21 county man Carty who showed his speed to advantage making several furtive forays up field ,running unfortunately betimes into cul de sacs.Experience will fix this.Stephen kept striking the frees over and is cute at making himself available.Marty Garry replaced an out of sorts Lukie and John Paul likewise replaced Andy.There may have n been more.I don't know.Marty came good and made several important intercepts.At least one Longwood man got a black.again I don#t know why.
The Longford Roadster would surely approve of this stop start foul feast which is destroying our game (If you don't believe me look at the last twenty minutes of the Dublin /Cork league semi today and see a really happy whistleblower in action.Disgraceful ).
Anyhow we somehow went two ahead with 10 minutes to go,mainly due to the impeccable free taking of Coogan the younger and the physical presence of Liam Dempsey also introduced ,for whom I am unsure.
The last ten were tension spring ed as they drew back one and tried all out to get the other.
But we held on .Just .Hallelujah.
The auld dogs for the high road.Man of the match,Finn by a whiskey from Swiss and the two Davy,s with Baby Doc a contender.Stephen Coogan the king of the kids with Aaron pushing him to the finishing line.And the Dempsey's brothers take a bow too.
The rest did brilliant but can improve and will.
I didn't take the scorers names but will publish when available.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Dunderry lads playwell in Meath V Wicklow game.
In Pairc Tailteann today Meath beat Wicklow by 6 points in the Minor Hurling Championship and three Dunderry lads played,Conor Dempsey at corner back,Luke Martyn at midfield and Alex Walsh at corner forward.
I cannot remember ever having three Dunderry lads playing for the County on the one team,so history was made.
I was a tad late for the throw in and cannot thank enough two Maors who were kindness itself to yours truly on the way in to the game. This female and male Maors are a credit to the GAA.
Meath were leading by 1-1 to 0-0 when I got seated against a very stiff wind.
I thought there was little between the teams skill wise and commitment wise but Meath had the edge on the accuracy of their passing and finding their man,some Meath scores coming from Wicklow mistakes.
It must have been the dirtiest game in GAA history were you to judge it by the number of times the referee blew his whistle.It was incessant from start to finish ans destroyed the game for me.And the game was as clean a game as I have seen.HE destroyed it as a spectacle and were I a Wicklow man I would demand a replay.And one of his his officials responded in similar fashion as he on a number of occassions overly fussily made the Wicklow free taker move the sliotar back by minute distances thereby distracting him unfairly I thought.
Young hurlers giving of their best ought not be put through this sort of thing.Certainly the attendance was utterly confused at the refereeing so the players must have been bewildered also.
Aside from that Wicklow clawed their way back into the game and led by 2-5 to 1-5 by half time.I was not unduly concerned as we had a strong wind in our backs in the second half.And bit by bit our lads clawed their way back to parity against a game Wicklow side.
You often read in reports about Wicklow men being sent off at vital moments in matches and might assume that they are dirty savages that deserve what they get.Well you should disabuse yourself of that notion.A competitive Wicklow player saw red for a tackle on our own Lukie Martyn.Lukie fair play to him didn't even go down and went on to play a vital roll in our eventual victory displaying his full range of athletic abilities and hurling skills ,so whatever happened didn't effect him at all.
But it tilted the contest entirely in Meath's way as Wicklow eventually wilted and Meath ran out deserving winners .Most unfair on Wicklow I thought but having said that I didn#t see why the Ref blew the player up and sent him off.
Certainly he and his umpires took no action when A Wicklow player subsequently and in full view of the attendance had his body nearly bent in two by a high tackle on the middle of his back while off the ground.But there you go.
Anyhow Meath took full advantage of the situation and hurled well enough to deserve their victory.That their free taking was impressive was most important in this free riddled match as they availed of the many opportunities presented with aplomb.
Our three boys did well.Dempsey was solid if unspectacular and did all that was demanded of him.Lukie outplayed his man and made some vital contributions that swung the match the Royals way,particularly in the second half and Alex too had a good second half securing a goal in the process.
There will be stiffer challenges along the road,
I cannot remember ever having three Dunderry lads playing for the County on the one team,so history was made.
I was a tad late for the throw in and cannot thank enough two Maors who were kindness itself to yours truly on the way in to the game. This female and male Maors are a credit to the GAA.
Meath were leading by 1-1 to 0-0 when I got seated against a very stiff wind.
I thought there was little between the teams skill wise and commitment wise but Meath had the edge on the accuracy of their passing and finding their man,some Meath scores coming from Wicklow mistakes.
It must have been the dirtiest game in GAA history were you to judge it by the number of times the referee blew his whistle.It was incessant from start to finish ans destroyed the game for me.And the game was as clean a game as I have seen.HE destroyed it as a spectacle and were I a Wicklow man I would demand a replay.And one of his his officials responded in similar fashion as he on a number of occassions overly fussily made the Wicklow free taker move the sliotar back by minute distances thereby distracting him unfairly I thought.
Young hurlers giving of their best ought not be put through this sort of thing.Certainly the attendance was utterly confused at the refereeing so the players must have been bewildered also.
Aside from that Wicklow clawed their way back into the game and led by 2-5 to 1-5 by half time.I was not unduly concerned as we had a strong wind in our backs in the second half.And bit by bit our lads clawed their way back to parity against a game Wicklow side.
You often read in reports about Wicklow men being sent off at vital moments in matches and might assume that they are dirty savages that deserve what they get.Well you should disabuse yourself of that notion.A competitive Wicklow player saw red for a tackle on our own Lukie Martyn.Lukie fair play to him didn't even go down and went on to play a vital roll in our eventual victory displaying his full range of athletic abilities and hurling skills ,so whatever happened didn't effect him at all.
But it tilted the contest entirely in Meath's way as Wicklow eventually wilted and Meath ran out deserving winners .Most unfair on Wicklow I thought but having said that I didn#t see why the Ref blew the player up and sent him off.
Certainly he and his umpires took no action when A Wicklow player subsequently and in full view of the attendance had his body nearly bent in two by a high tackle on the middle of his back while off the ground.But there you go.
Anyhow Meath took full advantage of the situation and hurled well enough to deserve their victory.That their free taking was impressive was most important in this free riddled match as they availed of the many opportunities presented with aplomb.
Our three boys did well.Dempsey was solid if unspectacular and did all that was demanded of him.Lukie outplayed his man and made some vital contributions that swung the match the Royals way,particularly in the second half and Alex too had a good second half securing a goal in the process.
There will be stiffer challenges along the road,
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Dennis the Menace has it right.
I loved the Beano comic when I was a kid.I came across it again last Sunday when it fell from The Irish Mail newspaper.
In Dennis the Menace Fan Club page the question is posed "How can I tell if a politician is lying "?The reply is "Body language is your friend--if they're lying their lips will be moving."
I thougt of this when I read the comments of certain bankers regarding people with mortgage arrears which they cannot pay,one of which was to the effect that one bank alone would be evicting between 3.000 to 5,000 owners.And this is only one Bank.
I also thought of it when I heard another Banker say that the only circumstances in which they write off secured debt is where there has either been a bankruptcy or liquidation of the owner and no or less than full funds are available to meet the debt.
This of course is a total nonsense as the law governing insolvency discounts the debt and there is absolutely nothing the Bank can do about it.
And if memory serves me right both Charlie Haughey and Garrett Fitzgerald had debt written off in their day'
I also thought of all the praise his political colleagues heaped on Alan Shatter for the utter brilliance and cleverness of his breathtaking foresight in the area of law reform and important legislation enacted.
All this bullshit about pips and peps and all the insolvency legislation makes no difference to those driven to despair by impossible demands from not only State owned banks but also a myriad of other Government Departments trying to squeeze the last drop of blood from stones long since parched by arid policies.Shatter for all his alleged brilliance has done not one iota for these people.
This Government is positively Cromwellian in practise,
It has presided over mass unemployment ,mass emigration,mass sale of huge chunks of the country to outsiders,mass loss of hope ,mass suicide ,and mass breakdown of the rural hinterland where seventy year olds have to cycle over 30 miles at night to gain shelter and where hundreds of thousands of rural isolated are hunkering in fear behind barricaded doors hoping it won#t be their turn tonight.
And now Mass eviction is imminent.The Government is cracking the whip over the Central bank who is passing the pressure onto the commercial Banks to do this.
When you consider that the very same taxpayers whose money was used to bail out the very same banks who are now about to evict them you must realise the outrageous nature of the betrayal.
In the Pat Kenny debate before the General Election ,when questioned on their attitude to eviction the current Taoiseach said "Guarantee you won't lose your home "and the current Tanaiste said "Head off the Bailiffs "
I'd have to say that Dennis has it right.
In Dennis the Menace Fan Club page the question is posed "How can I tell if a politician is lying "?The reply is "Body language is your friend--if they're lying their lips will be moving."
I thougt of this when I read the comments of certain bankers regarding people with mortgage arrears which they cannot pay,one of which was to the effect that one bank alone would be evicting between 3.000 to 5,000 owners.And this is only one Bank.
I also thought of it when I heard another Banker say that the only circumstances in which they write off secured debt is where there has either been a bankruptcy or liquidation of the owner and no or less than full funds are available to meet the debt.
This of course is a total nonsense as the law governing insolvency discounts the debt and there is absolutely nothing the Bank can do about it.
And if memory serves me right both Charlie Haughey and Garrett Fitzgerald had debt written off in their day'
I also thought of all the praise his political colleagues heaped on Alan Shatter for the utter brilliance and cleverness of his breathtaking foresight in the area of law reform and important legislation enacted.
All this bullshit about pips and peps and all the insolvency legislation makes no difference to those driven to despair by impossible demands from not only State owned banks but also a myriad of other Government Departments trying to squeeze the last drop of blood from stones long since parched by arid policies.Shatter for all his alleged brilliance has done not one iota for these people.
This Government is positively Cromwellian in practise,
It has presided over mass unemployment ,mass emigration,mass sale of huge chunks of the country to outsiders,mass loss of hope ,mass suicide ,and mass breakdown of the rural hinterland where seventy year olds have to cycle over 30 miles at night to gain shelter and where hundreds of thousands of rural isolated are hunkering in fear behind barricaded doors hoping it won#t be their turn tonight.
And now Mass eviction is imminent.The Government is cracking the whip over the Central bank who is passing the pressure onto the commercial Banks to do this.
When you consider that the very same taxpayers whose money was used to bail out the very same banks who are now about to evict them you must realise the outrageous nature of the betrayal.
In the Pat Kenny debate before the General Election ,when questioned on their attitude to eviction the current Taoiseach said "Guarantee you won't lose your home "and the current Tanaiste said "Head off the Bailiffs "
I'd have to say that Dennis has it right.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Desecration of Dunderry Church and Theft of lead from Community Hall.
Various sections of the media and the lowest sections of the political classes have repeatedly launched attacks on the Catholic Church,Catholicism and the clergy over the last 3 years in particular.
From the Vitriolic attack on the Roman Church by the Taoiseach,to the withdrawal of the Irish ambassadorship from the Vatican State, to the clear desire of the Minister of Education to abolish the religious from religious schools, to the name calling by Ivana the womb raider of the Catholic Bishop who appeared before the Dail Committee,the promulgations of a Labour Party which has been taken over lock,stock and barrel by the atheists and homosexuals it was only a matter of time until it became socially acceptable to desecrate Catholic property and attack and assault Catholic clergy .
Just consider the number of Churches torched,the number of priceless statutes and works of art stolen and the number of clergy spat at in the streets and attacked in their Churches these past three years and you will get the picture,
I never thought that it would happen In a street where I live,as it were but it has.
I should not be surprised but I am ,not only surprised but shocked and appalled.
And I feel a little guilty as well.I will tell you why.
I have cows calving and sheep yeaning this weather.I arise from my warm bed each night at about 2,00 a,m.,and go to the farm to check on them,Last Thursday night I got out of my bed at about 2.00 a.m.and went outside my house which is opposite Dunderry Church to get into my jeep to go down to the farm.The village was abandoned and not a sound to be heard .Then I thought I heard a scraping sound coming from the side of the church nearest Trim.I shone my fairly powerful torch in that general direction and the noise ceased.I reasoned that if anybody was up to mischief that it is the School they would be at and as I could see that the school alarm was working O.K.I wasn't too worried.Then a ginger cat came around the corner of the Church from the direction of the noise and I figured "That's it ,the cat was tearing at a plastic bag".No panic.And I went off on my business.
About two hours later I returned home and went to bed.I sleep with my head pointed at Dunderry Hall and am nearest to it.Just on the verge of sleep I thought I heard a tapping noise coming from the direction og f the hall.Herself was sound asleep and I roared at her "Did you hear that "?She just turned over and grunted.The tapping stopped.Whoever was there heard me even though the missus did not.
Very often in the past I have heard tapping on the window of the house as birds try to tap off the putty surrounding the window panes and a good roar moves them on.After a while I fell asleep.No harm done.
Next day I woke up to the information that the copper from the lightening rod on the Church and the lead flashing from the Halli had been stolen during the night and that I had missed two opportunities to interrupt the thief or thieves,
Saved by a ginger cat and a bird.
God only knows what would have happened if I had interrupted them and knew them.Would I be alive to tell the tale ?
I know full well that some people have more concrete evidence to pin down the identity of the perpetrators but are too afraid of retraction to come forward.I strongly suspect that the families of the perpetrators must know their identity and are protecting them.
I want it known that I am not afraid of them and consider these low lives as below contempt and if there is anything I can do to bring them to Justice I will do so.
And I would urge all other persons to do the same.
From the Vitriolic attack on the Roman Church by the Taoiseach,to the withdrawal of the Irish ambassadorship from the Vatican State, to the clear desire of the Minister of Education to abolish the religious from religious schools, to the name calling by Ivana the womb raider of the Catholic Bishop who appeared before the Dail Committee,the promulgations of a Labour Party which has been taken over lock,stock and barrel by the atheists and homosexuals it was only a matter of time until it became socially acceptable to desecrate Catholic property and attack and assault Catholic clergy .
Just consider the number of Churches torched,the number of priceless statutes and works of art stolen and the number of clergy spat at in the streets and attacked in their Churches these past three years and you will get the picture,
I never thought that it would happen In a street where I live,as it were but it has.
I should not be surprised but I am ,not only surprised but shocked and appalled.
And I feel a little guilty as well.I will tell you why.
I have cows calving and sheep yeaning this weather.I arise from my warm bed each night at about 2,00 a,m.,and go to the farm to check on them,Last Thursday night I got out of my bed at about 2.00 a.m.and went outside my house which is opposite Dunderry Church to get into my jeep to go down to the farm.The village was abandoned and not a sound to be heard .Then I thought I heard a scraping sound coming from the side of the church nearest Trim.I shone my fairly powerful torch in that general direction and the noise ceased.I reasoned that if anybody was up to mischief that it is the School they would be at and as I could see that the school alarm was working O.K.I wasn't too worried.Then a ginger cat came around the corner of the Church from the direction of the noise and I figured "That's it ,the cat was tearing at a plastic bag".No panic.And I went off on my business.
About two hours later I returned home and went to bed.I sleep with my head pointed at Dunderry Hall and am nearest to it.Just on the verge of sleep I thought I heard a tapping noise coming from the direction og f the hall.Herself was sound asleep and I roared at her "Did you hear that "?She just turned over and grunted.The tapping stopped.Whoever was there heard me even though the missus did not.
Very often in the past I have heard tapping on the window of the house as birds try to tap off the putty surrounding the window panes and a good roar moves them on.After a while I fell asleep.No harm done.
Next day I woke up to the information that the copper from the lightening rod on the Church and the lead flashing from the Halli had been stolen during the night and that I had missed two opportunities to interrupt the thief or thieves,
Saved by a ginger cat and a bird.
God only knows what would have happened if I had interrupted them and knew them.Would I be alive to tell the tale ?
I know full well that some people have more concrete evidence to pin down the identity of the perpetrators but are too afraid of retraction to come forward.I strongly suspect that the families of the perpetrators must know their identity and are protecting them.
I want it known that I am not afraid of them and consider these low lives as below contempt and if there is anything I can do to bring them to Justice I will do so.
And I would urge all other persons to do the same.
Rock me mammy
She sings "Rock me Mammy like a wagon wheel ,Rock me mammy any way you feel ,etc...." and she wonders at the baby lambs playing "Tag " as they play in the fields.
Guess where this lovable three year old lives ?
Guess where this lovable three year old lives ?
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Donaghmore Ashbourne 1-4.Dunderry 2-13.Adult Hurling,
This Davis Cup Adult Hurling match played this evening in Ashbourne was a one sided affair.They had a few good players ,including an excellent goalkeeper ,while we had a good few players on a different level.
We won no sweat and advance to the next round.
Team.
Bomber
Joey O Shea Feeney
Clarke Ted Demps.C,
Liamie Johnny Moran
Gilky Lukie Casey
Harrow Bernardo Alex
Introduced. Finn,Leonard.Mickey Dowdall.
Some nice hurling played but we were never in danger.Their goalie saved them further embarrassment,
We will have stiffer challenges.
We won no sweat and advance to the next round.
Team.
Bomber
Joey O Shea Feeney
Clarke Ted Demps.C,
Liamie Johnny Moran
Gilky Lukie Casey
Harrow Bernardo Alex
Introduced. Finn,Leonard.Mickey Dowdall.
Some nice hurling played but we were never in danger.Their goalie saved them further embarrassment,
We will have stiffer challenges.
Men in suits betray the GAA.
I have spent 40 years in two counties promoting the ethos of the GAA for free.No it was not for free.It cost me a small fortune in monies spent ,cars prematurely consigned to the scrap heap ,not to mention opportunities forgone because I neglected aspects of my life that could more profitably be exploited had I not been so committed to spreading the voluntary,all inclusive and inherently Irish message of the GAA.
It was not from the ground I licked it.My mother's people the MC Cormacks from Dunderry have been involved since the foundation of the Association ,my uncle Tommy Mac Cormack in particular ran the Club practically from his own pocket as did a lot of those involved in his time.All my brothers have likewise been totally immersed in the Association and so are THC next generation
Neither them nor I are wealthy men and we all know people like them whose love of the association bordered on the fanatical because of the fact that it was the ordinary people's Association and it mattered not a whit whether you were a farm labourer nor a schoolteacher nor a highly paid professionally in the GAA ,your voice was as good as anyone else sand your contribution judged solely on its merits.
The Bank Manager,the Judge,the Solicitor and the Doctor were more sat home in the rarified confines of the local Rugby,Tennis or Cricket Club but the ordinary Joe Soap and Josephine ,his wife had their own GAA Club where class didn't matter and where everybody was equal and unified and one was not looked down because he had less money than his neighbour.
The glue holding this whole hotchpot of people together was its totally voluntary ethos ,its embedded ness in the local community and the total acceptance that it was different from all other sporting bodies in that every penny generated locally was spent locally and an unwritten but well understood quid pro quo that it looked after its own at all times.
It was never part of the deal that they they would turn their backs on their faithful apostles for monetary gain as they have indisputably done in confining 14 of 42 championship matches to SKY television for the next three years ,without consulting e with their members at all.
Are the well paid ex schoolteachers whose paymasters are the voluntary unpaid members of the Association so out of touch with ordinary people that they have failed to recognise that there is huge suffering being experienced amongst the ordinary members because of the deliberately imposed austerity measures of the politicians and do they not know that many many people are so financially distressed that they cannot feed their children ,much less pay for Sky television to see their county or club men playing.
Maybe they are too used to hob nobbing with the Politicos who misuses the GAA to promote their own political careers to remember how ordinary people are faring and it may have escaped their attention that rural parishes are being decimated by the scourge of emigration.
Surely they have noticed that the tumbleweeds are racing through the towns and villages of rural Ireland and that the pubs of Ireland have been decimated by the flight from the countryside and that most of those surviving are hanging on by their fingertips.
It may have escaped their attention that that many GAA clubs are getting it hard to pay their way already and that it is getting increasingly more difficult to get volunteers to fill positions at the AGM.s.
And truth to tell Rugby is making huge inroads into GAA territory due in the main to the treachery of another former President whose proudest moment was in his own words "The rugby match in Croke Park between Ireland and England"and the way he had manoeuvred this stroke.Not a word about his own county winning an All Ireland.
And believe you me Rugby is actively targeting strong GAA territory in order to harvest the innate sporting prowess of the gene pool.
And now this kick in the face to its very own apostles.No matter what they have done to advance us and no matter what personal sacrifices they have made in our name ,if they can't afford to pay for viewing the 14 matches and if they can't afford to go to the games ,fuck them ,its not our problem.
These arrogant employees have crossed the Rubicon and caused untold damage to those idealists on whom the Association is built.
Having survived the money grab of the Government by grabbing the Lotto as another form of taxation and seetting up local lottos to pay for local clubs this retrograde step will I predict cause huge local problems in fund raising and totally disillusion many thousands of volunters who will look on aghast to what has been done to them.
And all this nonsense about catering for the diaspora.Yep screw the locals to pay for the diaspora.Now if those in charge of the Association,being as obviously educated as they are ,cannot come up with a better solution they simply don't deserve to be in their jobs.
And dare I say it,the same arrogance displayed by fine Gael is percolating through to the GAA spokesmen I personally saw on TV ,Nicky Brennan and Padraig Duffy whose attitude to opponents of the deal was arrogantly and belittling dismissive to say the least.
These two buckos would be better off figuring out why two proud parishes like Dunderry and KIlmessan have to combine to field an under 16 hurling team.And why we have fallen from Div 1/2 status to Div 5/6 status in under age football over the last 10 years.And how so many clubs are similarly afflicted.
And maybe they should address why it is that so many people of my generation feel excluded from taking office with clubs because thet feel so unprepared to tackle the technological challenges so rigoursly applied in all inter GAA communications these days.
It may strike them that betraying their own voluntary mentors isn't the answer.
While I am the Community Officer for Dunderry GAA Club these views are strictly my own.
It was not from the ground I licked it.My mother's people the MC Cormacks from Dunderry have been involved since the foundation of the Association ,my uncle Tommy Mac Cormack in particular ran the Club practically from his own pocket as did a lot of those involved in his time.All my brothers have likewise been totally immersed in the Association and so are THC next generation
Neither them nor I are wealthy men and we all know people like them whose love of the association bordered on the fanatical because of the fact that it was the ordinary people's Association and it mattered not a whit whether you were a farm labourer nor a schoolteacher nor a highly paid professionally in the GAA ,your voice was as good as anyone else sand your contribution judged solely on its merits.
The Bank Manager,the Judge,the Solicitor and the Doctor were more sat home in the rarified confines of the local Rugby,Tennis or Cricket Club but the ordinary Joe Soap and Josephine ,his wife had their own GAA Club where class didn't matter and where everybody was equal and unified and one was not looked down because he had less money than his neighbour.
The glue holding this whole hotchpot of people together was its totally voluntary ethos ,its embedded ness in the local community and the total acceptance that it was different from all other sporting bodies in that every penny generated locally was spent locally and an unwritten but well understood quid pro quo that it looked after its own at all times.
It was never part of the deal that they they would turn their backs on their faithful apostles for monetary gain as they have indisputably done in confining 14 of 42 championship matches to SKY television for the next three years ,without consulting e with their members at all.
Are the well paid ex schoolteachers whose paymasters are the voluntary unpaid members of the Association so out of touch with ordinary people that they have failed to recognise that there is huge suffering being experienced amongst the ordinary members because of the deliberately imposed austerity measures of the politicians and do they not know that many many people are so financially distressed that they cannot feed their children ,much less pay for Sky television to see their county or club men playing.
Maybe they are too used to hob nobbing with the Politicos who misuses the GAA to promote their own political careers to remember how ordinary people are faring and it may have escaped their attention that rural parishes are being decimated by the scourge of emigration.
Surely they have noticed that the tumbleweeds are racing through the towns and villages of rural Ireland and that the pubs of Ireland have been decimated by the flight from the countryside and that most of those surviving are hanging on by their fingertips.
It may have escaped their attention that that many GAA clubs are getting it hard to pay their way already and that it is getting increasingly more difficult to get volunteers to fill positions at the AGM.s.
And truth to tell Rugby is making huge inroads into GAA territory due in the main to the treachery of another former President whose proudest moment was in his own words "The rugby match in Croke Park between Ireland and England"and the way he had manoeuvred this stroke.Not a word about his own county winning an All Ireland.
And believe you me Rugby is actively targeting strong GAA territory in order to harvest the innate sporting prowess of the gene pool.
And now this kick in the face to its very own apostles.No matter what they have done to advance us and no matter what personal sacrifices they have made in our name ,if they can't afford to pay for viewing the 14 matches and if they can't afford to go to the games ,fuck them ,its not our problem.
These arrogant employees have crossed the Rubicon and caused untold damage to those idealists on whom the Association is built.
Having survived the money grab of the Government by grabbing the Lotto as another form of taxation and seetting up local lottos to pay for local clubs this retrograde step will I predict cause huge local problems in fund raising and totally disillusion many thousands of volunters who will look on aghast to what has been done to them.
And all this nonsense about catering for the diaspora.Yep screw the locals to pay for the diaspora.Now if those in charge of the Association,being as obviously educated as they are ,cannot come up with a better solution they simply don't deserve to be in their jobs.
And dare I say it,the same arrogance displayed by fine Gael is percolating through to the GAA spokesmen I personally saw on TV ,Nicky Brennan and Padraig Duffy whose attitude to opponents of the deal was arrogantly and belittling dismissive to say the least.
These two buckos would be better off figuring out why two proud parishes like Dunderry and KIlmessan have to combine to field an under 16 hurling team.And why we have fallen from Div 1/2 status to Div 5/6 status in under age football over the last 10 years.And how so many clubs are similarly afflicted.
And maybe they should address why it is that so many people of my generation feel excluded from taking office with clubs because thet feel so unprepared to tackle the technological challenges so rigoursly applied in all inter GAA communications these days.
It may strike them that betraying their own voluntary mentors isn't the answer.
While I am the Community Officer for Dunderry GAA Club these views are strictly my own.
Friday, April 4, 2014
A week of emotional extremes in Dunderry
What a week.
I was at the joyful wedding of our own Garret Dooley to Elaine Murphy from Blanchardstown .The marriage took place in St.Brigid's Church in Blanch where I served Mass for many years and of which I have such happy memories ,having been treated like a king by the then clergy involved .
I know Elaine's father this while back but not that well I wrongly thought.Because at the reception in Cabra Castle afterwards a man presented himself to me and shook the hand off me."Bet you don't know who I am " said he in the best of Blanch accents."I don't " said I ."well I am Mick Mulvaney from Godamendy " said he "and you used look after me playing juvenile many years ago "."Jasus I have ya now,its many many moons since I met you "."It is " said he "35 years.".
He had emigrated to New York then and has lived there since.And we chewed the cud.He is the bride's uncle on the mother's side and was home for the wedding.His accent was pure Blanch .Unlike the gob shites from my youth who used go to Butlins for a fortnight and come home with a Northern accent because there used be a big North of Ireland clientele there on holidays too.
A pure gentleman.
And Derek Williamson is married to the sister of the bride's mother. .Derek too is a gentleman and I still have the photograph of me being carried from O Toole Park in 1980 when I captained St.Brigids to their second ever I.F.C.Final victory and Derek was one of those hoisting me from the pitch.( I was a lot lighter then .)He was there too with his wife and we spoke of old times too.
Now I have the breed of Elaine .Sound as a pound.
She is a physio and has that lean and hungry look the mark of that profession.She and all her family are true Blues and adore the Dubs.She played with distinction with Brigids and Dublin for many years at ladies football and is one nice woman.Garret adores her and said so repeatedly at the wedding.I wouldn't blame him.She is a dinger.
Garrets brother Niall was home from England for the wedding as were his sisters Lisa and Evonne home from Australia.Garret was educated at third level in England and Scotland and won an All Ireland Club with James Mitchells while living in Liverpool where he also met his wife.A fair double.
Three of the Dooley siblings are living abroad and three at home ( Garret ,Emma and Tommy )which says it all for the masters of the universe who have destroyed this country and brought it to its knees.
The Dooleys are bursting with brains and have pushed themselves by the dint of hard work and sweat to where they are today.Garret is a chemist and Niall they say is actually a rocket scientist.
A rumour circulated at the wedding that he was involved in the search for the missing plane in the Indian Ocean.
Niall I remember well from his limited hurling career when his gigantic glasses and frail physique didn't prevent from feats of the utmost bravery and fearless tackling of much bigger opposition ,This was when I was able to snatch him from his part time job of gathering glasses and pulling pints in Geraghty's for a few bob.
All the Dooleys are decent people and the progeny of the latest union will be well bred at least.Dubs or Meath .This is the question.
Dunderry and Brigids were well represented at the reception and the meal was out of this world.I kid you not.The band was brilliant,the speeches grand ,the company brilliant and the craic mighty.
Herbie and Mona Hughes joined up with us and I thoroughly enjoyed their company as always.Herbie is 80 years young .a real native of Blanch for generations back,having been reared in Ballycoolin where his father and mother reared 7 kids on a 5 acre market garden allotment.He is President of Brigids and one of nature's gentlemen.
We discussed a whole range of topics including his football career.
He may have a unique record.He played with Dublin in the 1950.s but got only limited playing opportunities as Vincents lorded the county scene at one stage filling the fourteen outfield positions on the Dublin team.
Modestly enough he reckons that Johnny Brophy ,another Brigids man was one of the best forwards in Ireland but never got a chance because of Vincent's dominance and that a Margaret's man called Scally was the best half back he ever saw but got no chance either.
Mick and Tom Kennedy's mother was a sister of this man.The apple never falls far from the tree.Mick won all Ireland's with Dublin much later on,
Now to Herbie's record,Despite the ban on playing foreign games he played in the one year in Croke Park (Brigids won IFC). Dalymount Park (Tolka Rovers won championship Cup ) and Landstown Road (Won league with Railway Union ).
Anyone equal this ?
Paddy Duffy is a Mayo man loving in Blanch for years,A Brigids man to his fingertips.He is not well.He is a total gentleman and I know him well.He used work in the Dept of Agriculture.He worked in Abbotstown in the 1950 as as did a lot of the locals,
From time to time in those hungry fifties an odd bag of oats or barley used go walkies,Paddy's job was to stamp this out.
On a non working Saturday he was cycling in the gate to do a surprise check when he met a worker,a father of thirteen ,cycling out with a bag of oats on the carrier of his bike."Where are you going with that " said he,"I have a fierce sick beast "said the other .The man was so stretched he couldn't afford even a cat but he had to say something."Well said Paddy "If he's that sick he won't be able to ate it,Better lave it back."
And that was that.
The day after the wedding I was invited to and attended the 21 st ,Birthday Party of the Keaveney triplets ,Elaine,Catherine and Michael in their father#s farmyard in the Black Road.
Kevin and Margaret and his mother and the triplet's two sisters are smashing people as are the triplets.One is nicer than the other and I think much of the entire family.They all occupy a large space in my affections, particularly Kevin ,who was treasure of the GAA Club when I was Chairman in 2009 and who along with Secretary Billy Bligh visited me nearly daily in Navan Hospital when I suffered a stroke and made me feel I was still in the Chairman's saddle so to speak.We did run the Club from my hospital bed but the two boys were in reality the movers and shakers.
The place was buzzing and the Camogie training I inflicted on many of the young wans there,including Catherine and Elaine stood them in good stead as they boogied the night away.
An occassion of joy and happiness all round and I guess a large sigh of relief from the parents as they have brought the triplets this far without faltering.It can't have been easy.
And then the news that the house where Timmy Kennedy and family used live in Oak Court was burned to the ground.Timmy sold out some years ago and people called Rispin bought it.I don't think I know them but am informed that it has been vacant for some time and is for sale.
I have no idea of the cause of the fire but it is a desperate thing to have happened.;
Everybody around here is in a state of shock..
I was at the joyful wedding of our own Garret Dooley to Elaine Murphy from Blanchardstown .The marriage took place in St.Brigid's Church in Blanch where I served Mass for many years and of which I have such happy memories ,having been treated like a king by the then clergy involved .
I know Elaine's father this while back but not that well I wrongly thought.Because at the reception in Cabra Castle afterwards a man presented himself to me and shook the hand off me."Bet you don't know who I am " said he in the best of Blanch accents."I don't " said I ."well I am Mick Mulvaney from Godamendy " said he "and you used look after me playing juvenile many years ago "."Jasus I have ya now,its many many moons since I met you "."It is " said he "35 years.".
He had emigrated to New York then and has lived there since.And we chewed the cud.He is the bride's uncle on the mother's side and was home for the wedding.His accent was pure Blanch .Unlike the gob shites from my youth who used go to Butlins for a fortnight and come home with a Northern accent because there used be a big North of Ireland clientele there on holidays too.
A pure gentleman.
And Derek Williamson is married to the sister of the bride's mother. .Derek too is a gentleman and I still have the photograph of me being carried from O Toole Park in 1980 when I captained St.Brigids to their second ever I.F.C.Final victory and Derek was one of those hoisting me from the pitch.( I was a lot lighter then .)He was there too with his wife and we spoke of old times too.
Now I have the breed of Elaine .Sound as a pound.
She is a physio and has that lean and hungry look the mark of that profession.She and all her family are true Blues and adore the Dubs.She played with distinction with Brigids and Dublin for many years at ladies football and is one nice woman.Garret adores her and said so repeatedly at the wedding.I wouldn't blame him.She is a dinger.
Garrets brother Niall was home from England for the wedding as were his sisters Lisa and Evonne home from Australia.Garret was educated at third level in England and Scotland and won an All Ireland Club with James Mitchells while living in Liverpool where he also met his wife.A fair double.
Three of the Dooley siblings are living abroad and three at home ( Garret ,Emma and Tommy )which says it all for the masters of the universe who have destroyed this country and brought it to its knees.
The Dooleys are bursting with brains and have pushed themselves by the dint of hard work and sweat to where they are today.Garret is a chemist and Niall they say is actually a rocket scientist.
A rumour circulated at the wedding that he was involved in the search for the missing plane in the Indian Ocean.
Niall I remember well from his limited hurling career when his gigantic glasses and frail physique didn't prevent from feats of the utmost bravery and fearless tackling of much bigger opposition ,This was when I was able to snatch him from his part time job of gathering glasses and pulling pints in Geraghty's for a few bob.
All the Dooleys are decent people and the progeny of the latest union will be well bred at least.Dubs or Meath .This is the question.
Dunderry and Brigids were well represented at the reception and the meal was out of this world.I kid you not.The band was brilliant,the speeches grand ,the company brilliant and the craic mighty.
Herbie and Mona Hughes joined up with us and I thoroughly enjoyed their company as always.Herbie is 80 years young .a real native of Blanch for generations back,having been reared in Ballycoolin where his father and mother reared 7 kids on a 5 acre market garden allotment.He is President of Brigids and one of nature's gentlemen.
We discussed a whole range of topics including his football career.
He may have a unique record.He played with Dublin in the 1950.s but got only limited playing opportunities as Vincents lorded the county scene at one stage filling the fourteen outfield positions on the Dublin team.
Modestly enough he reckons that Johnny Brophy ,another Brigids man was one of the best forwards in Ireland but never got a chance because of Vincent's dominance and that a Margaret's man called Scally was the best half back he ever saw but got no chance either.
Mick and Tom Kennedy's mother was a sister of this man.The apple never falls far from the tree.Mick won all Ireland's with Dublin much later on,
Now to Herbie's record,Despite the ban on playing foreign games he played in the one year in Croke Park (Brigids won IFC). Dalymount Park (Tolka Rovers won championship Cup ) and Landstown Road (Won league with Railway Union ).
Anyone equal this ?
Paddy Duffy is a Mayo man loving in Blanch for years,A Brigids man to his fingertips.He is not well.He is a total gentleman and I know him well.He used work in the Dept of Agriculture.He worked in Abbotstown in the 1950 as as did a lot of the locals,
From time to time in those hungry fifties an odd bag of oats or barley used go walkies,Paddy's job was to stamp this out.
On a non working Saturday he was cycling in the gate to do a surprise check when he met a worker,a father of thirteen ,cycling out with a bag of oats on the carrier of his bike."Where are you going with that " said he,"I have a fierce sick beast "said the other .The man was so stretched he couldn't afford even a cat but he had to say something."Well said Paddy "If he's that sick he won't be able to ate it,Better lave it back."
And that was that.
The day after the wedding I was invited to and attended the 21 st ,Birthday Party of the Keaveney triplets ,Elaine,Catherine and Michael in their father#s farmyard in the Black Road.
Kevin and Margaret and his mother and the triplet's two sisters are smashing people as are the triplets.One is nicer than the other and I think much of the entire family.They all occupy a large space in my affections, particularly Kevin ,who was treasure of the GAA Club when I was Chairman in 2009 and who along with Secretary Billy Bligh visited me nearly daily in Navan Hospital when I suffered a stroke and made me feel I was still in the Chairman's saddle so to speak.We did run the Club from my hospital bed but the two boys were in reality the movers and shakers.
The place was buzzing and the Camogie training I inflicted on many of the young wans there,including Catherine and Elaine stood them in good stead as they boogied the night away.
An occassion of joy and happiness all round and I guess a large sigh of relief from the parents as they have brought the triplets this far without faltering.It can't have been easy.
And then the news that the house where Timmy Kennedy and family used live in Oak Court was burned to the ground.Timmy sold out some years ago and people called Rispin bought it.I don't think I know them but am informed that it has been vacant for some time and is for sale.
I have no idea of the cause of the fire but it is a desperate thing to have happened.;
Everybody around here is in a state of shock..
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Death of Eileen Larkin( nee King.) and Tribute to her.
I nearly dropped today when I was informed that Eileen King of Lambay was dead.Surely a mistake I said.She is far too young.It must be someone by the same name but not the pleasant young woman with the unmistakable rouge lipstick and and tastefully applied makeup who is as pleasant a person as you would meet in a long day's walk.But I was wrong .It is her.
I hear now she was sick for a while .I don't know the details.
She was a stunner and was inseparable from her son Tom Larkin junior.
He was always by her side.And her husband Tom Larkin is devastated as are her her own siblings ,Maureen,Peter and P.J.and all her neighbours and all that knew her.
They are great friends with and close neighbours of the Mac Donaghs of Lambay and despite the age difference she was great with Mary Mac Donagh the mother of Terry ,my son in law.
I know that the Mac Donagh clan and all who knew her think the world of her and her family.
And I do too.
I have an abiding memory of her stopping to give a rather damp Jim Newman a lift in her car from Trim to Dunderry many moons ago after he had visited an abandoned cattle market in Trim after a night on the tear.She didn't bat an eyelid at his dampness.
That was her ,a great one and one of ours.
Snatched far too early from this life.
Her remains will be reposing in Heffernans on Wednesday 2 April from 3.00 p.m until 7.15 ,whence she will be removed to Kilbride Church arriving at 8.00 p.m.
Her Funeral Mass is on Thursday at 12.30 with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
Ar Dheis DE go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
P.S.I was at the funeral Mass today.There was a massive crowd in Kilbride,the biggest I have ever seen there..Young and old, men and women.The ceremony was beautiful,both in Irish and English.People tend to forget that there is a corner of our Parish in Lambay where Irish is still the spoken language and where the people are proud of it.I am proud of it too.
Many of her friends were in tears and her husband,son and family in particular were inconsolable.She was indeed every body's friend.
As Terry Mac said"If she knew you you had no choice but to like her"
As good a tribute as you could get.
Father Hornick ,a reserved man if there ever was one, unusually paid her the highest tribute that she was a "nice person " and that she indeed was.And some of her female friends and neighbours paid her the ultimate compliment of wearing the chrimson lipstick and mascara she was wont to display and putting red roses into her grave.
Brought tears to a stone,God love her.
I hear now she was sick for a while .I don't know the details.
She was a stunner and was inseparable from her son Tom Larkin junior.
He was always by her side.And her husband Tom Larkin is devastated as are her her own siblings ,Maureen,Peter and P.J.and all her neighbours and all that knew her.
They are great friends with and close neighbours of the Mac Donaghs of Lambay and despite the age difference she was great with Mary Mac Donagh the mother of Terry ,my son in law.
I know that the Mac Donagh clan and all who knew her think the world of her and her family.
And I do too.
I have an abiding memory of her stopping to give a rather damp Jim Newman a lift in her car from Trim to Dunderry many moons ago after he had visited an abandoned cattle market in Trim after a night on the tear.She didn't bat an eyelid at his dampness.
That was her ,a great one and one of ours.
Snatched far too early from this life.
Her remains will be reposing in Heffernans on Wednesday 2 April from 3.00 p.m until 7.15 ,whence she will be removed to Kilbride Church arriving at 8.00 p.m.
Her Funeral Mass is on Thursday at 12.30 with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
Ar Dheis DE go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
P.S.I was at the funeral Mass today.There was a massive crowd in Kilbride,the biggest I have ever seen there..Young and old, men and women.The ceremony was beautiful,both in Irish and English.People tend to forget that there is a corner of our Parish in Lambay where Irish is still the spoken language and where the people are proud of it.I am proud of it too.
Many of her friends were in tears and her husband,son and family in particular were inconsolable.She was indeed every body's friend.
As Terry Mac said"If she knew you you had no choice but to like her"
As good a tribute as you could get.
Father Hornick ,a reserved man if there ever was one, unusually paid her the highest tribute that she was a "nice person " and that she indeed was.And some of her female friends and neighbours paid her the ultimate compliment of wearing the chrimson lipstick and mascara she was wont to display and putting red roses into her grave.
Brought tears to a stone,God love her.
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