Bob's Boulevard.

Meath County Council are currently laying down a footpath from the Village of Dunderry down to the Graveyard.Not before the time you might say and I know that no one lobbied more vehemently for it than Nancy Horan.
But Bob Lee ,God Bless him was also a fervent supporter of such a pathway.
For those more recently arrived in Dunderry ,and there are many,Bob lived the far side of the Graveyard from Dunderry,the first house on the left after it.
Bob was a Galway man who spent much of his working life in England and returned here with his wife Etna and three fragrant daughters in the latter years of his working life,never actually retiring until stricken with a stroke which downed him entirely.
He was the strongest man I ever met and in a place renowned for strong men that was no idle feat.He could lift two full barrels of Guinness side by side with one hand .
Bob liked a pint of Guinness and told me that one reason he chose to live where he did was because the house was beside the Village and within walking distance of two good pubs and I would say that Horans was probably his favourite being slightly nearer his home.
With the drink driving laws that have contributed so much to the devastation of the pub trade in rural Ireland and to the devastation and emptying of it ,he was afraid to chance driving home with over two pints on him and used risk life and limb walking the half mile home on an unpaved and unlit road.
He frequently wished for what is now being constructed.
Too late for Bob but I like to think that he is beaming down from Heaven satisfied that his word with the Man had a big bearing on the matter,
Bob's Boulevard has a nice ring to it,don't you agree.