Theses last few years I have attended as many adult Dunderry matches as I was able to and have been so doing for many many years.
In the late 1990.'s we had three Senior Teams in the Parish,Football,Hurling and Camogie,the only rural Meath Club to be so endowed until Blackhall Gaels joined us.
Theses last years we have just the one Senior Team ,the Hurling team and are getting it fierce hard to make the step up to Senior in Football as indeed are the Ladies at the Camogie.
I am full of admiration for the dual players who put so much effort and time and pride into the jersey for so little reward at the end of the day.
On a personal level all my four daughters and three sons have played the Gaelic Game for Dunderry as long as they were able,reflecting the ethos of myself and my eight siblings who played for St.Brigids ,Blanchardstown in our day.
Before us again my uncles and grandfather's family played for Dunderry.My grandchildren are now involved.
So you can see the reason I regard the affairs and direction of Dunderry GAA as akin to a sacred trust that must be perpetuated in an honourable fashion ,
Getting back to 2016 the Hurlers were never going to win out as Kiltale are miles ahead of any other Club in the County and were never going to be caught out by us.We did well to survive in 2016 and will need to be in top form in 2017 to stay up.
Our cause has been greatly hurt by the retirement of our Evan who gave it his all for the Club in both hurling and football since he was a teenager .He owes us nothing and has been persuaded to be a selector with the footballers for the coming year.
On the plus side two talented players Jamie Leavy and Tommy Conroy have graduated up from minor ranks and I expect good things from them.
On the football side in 2016 it was a case of so near and yet so far.We were beaten in a Final replay by Saint Colmcilles who went on to contest the All Ireland Club FINAL only to lose out to Westport.
Many say that we should have taken Colmcilles the first day when Graham Reilly got gate but I disagree.Both our Evan and Conor O Shea suffered serious injuries before the replayed Final and I contend that their presence would have more than cancelled the full fifteen for Colmcilles in the replay.
In my view by far the most important player Colmcilles had in 2016 was the Rugby man Neill Ronan .who was the fulcrum of the team notwithstanding the many other fine players they had.,
Evan is gone for this year..Paddy Kenneally is again injured and Simon Carty is gone to the USA for the year.Three huge losses and three men who were instrumental in last year's surge,
On the plus side Jamie Leavy,Thomas Conroy and Barry Calleghan's son Morgan have been added to the panel and Liamie Dempsey has has a long overdue groin operation and will be back in harness sooner rather than later,
And the lift that last years run gave us has made us believe in ourselves again ,an indefinable quality but one which is nevertheless very real.
The residual fitness we have as a result of last year's run will give us an early season edge but we will be the team to beat and everybody will be having a cut at us.
Here's hoping.
I have been either watching OR PLAYING Gaelic Games for over 60 years now and cannot understand why the Mc Entees have not given Stephen Coogan and Conor Farrell a chance at County level .They are good enough and deserve that chance..
On the Camogie front it is well past the time that we adorned the Senior ranks and it escapes me why we have failed to convert our undoubted talent into tangible results.I fully expect this year to be the year but we will have to find more scorers than Aoife Minogue.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Miracle in Meadstown.
Last evening I drew a bale of silage from the hayshed down to the field where the cattle spend their time.Having stripped the plastic from the bale and dropped it there for consumption I went and got another bale.When I returned with the second bale I copped that one heavily pregnant cow had rolled over on her back and with her four feet in the air was in danger of suffocating.
As I was dropping the second bale so as to attach a rope to her legs on one side and straighten her up the Miracle happened and it went like this.
Another cow went to her assistance and having tried to rescue her from a few angles finally figured it out ..She put her head at ground level at the cow's belly and pushed her over until the set of feet nearest the ground hit the ground and kept pushing until all four feet were under the cow and she was able to get up.
I believe in God the Father Almighty.
This cow has more nature in her than the combined membership of Dail Eireann especially the arrogant female spawn of Cromwell who want to resurrect his policies,rewrite history to their agenda and seize the assets of the religious Orders without due process.
As was and is the case a SOCIALIST liberal IS SOMEONE WHO HAS FUCK ALL AND WANTS TO SHARE IT WITH EVER BODY ELSE, Brutons of the thousand acres included.
As I was dropping the second bale so as to attach a rope to her legs on one side and straighten her up the Miracle happened and it went like this.
Another cow went to her assistance and having tried to rescue her from a few angles finally figured it out ..She put her head at ground level at the cow's belly and pushed her over until the set of feet nearest the ground hit the ground and kept pushing until all four feet were under the cow and she was able to get up.
I believe in God the Father Almighty.
This cow has more nature in her than the combined membership of Dail Eireann especially the arrogant female spawn of Cromwell who want to resurrect his policies,rewrite history to their agenda and seize the assets of the religious Orders without due process.
As was and is the case a SOCIALIST liberal IS SOMEONE WHO HAS FUCK ALL AND WANTS TO SHARE IT WITH EVER BODY ELSE, Brutons of the thousand acres included.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Media and Democrats are Russia's best friends.
If it is true that the USA and Russia are vieing for the hearts ans souls of the rest of the world and it probably is ,then the constant attempts of certain sections of the USA media ,the defeated and ungracious Democrats and a dysfunctional E.U.to undermine the democratically elected President of the USA must be sweet music to Putin and indeed the Chinese.
They are doing the jobs of Putin et al by frustrating the President and his Government in making the USA ungovernable.
In my view all Putin has to do is sit back and let these seditious traitors bring down the President and sink America into civil war,which appears to be their aim.
I have never been anywhere much but better travelled people than me have informed me that New York and indeed London might as well be anywhere at all in the world as the majority of the immigrant inhabitants haven't a patriotic bone in their bodies and aside from turning a quick buck have no loyalty at all to America and BRITAIN.
It is no surprise therefor that the sneering and condescension towards those who voted for Brexit and Trump are based in these unpatriotic bastions of selfishness and greed.
A few turns of military duty in Afghanistan and anywhere in the Middle East would do them no harm at all to these whinging know alls and they might find the opportunity to meet a few Cossacks up front and personal informative and educational.
Instead of pissing on the Country that gave them succour they should support it.
Of course the ludraman Blue Shirt Taoiseach and his acolytes who has presided over mass emigration and unprecedented homelessness has seen fit to lecture the God's man on earth and stigmatize all our ancestors for the sort of society we were and are.
I m proud of my ancestors and the sort of people they were and are.
The little they had they shared with the less fortunate,often going hungry themselves and wherever they dipped their wick they paid for the oil.They put nobody into institutions nor wre they cruel to others.
A number of them took on the might of the Empire so as we could decide our own futures as a sovereign Nation.
If thy thought that Blueshirt ludraman Kenny was going to sneer at the sort of society they fought and died for was to be vilified by this ignorant excuse for a man I doubt they would have bothered.
How dare he besmirch their memory and lives.
They are doing the jobs of Putin et al by frustrating the President and his Government in making the USA ungovernable.
In my view all Putin has to do is sit back and let these seditious traitors bring down the President and sink America into civil war,which appears to be their aim.
I have never been anywhere much but better travelled people than me have informed me that New York and indeed London might as well be anywhere at all in the world as the majority of the immigrant inhabitants haven't a patriotic bone in their bodies and aside from turning a quick buck have no loyalty at all to America and BRITAIN.
It is no surprise therefor that the sneering and condescension towards those who voted for Brexit and Trump are based in these unpatriotic bastions of selfishness and greed.
A few turns of military duty in Afghanistan and anywhere in the Middle East would do them no harm at all to these whinging know alls and they might find the opportunity to meet a few Cossacks up front and personal informative and educational.
Instead of pissing on the Country that gave them succour they should support it.
Of course the ludraman Blue Shirt Taoiseach and his acolytes who has presided over mass emigration and unprecedented homelessness has seen fit to lecture the God's man on earth and stigmatize all our ancestors for the sort of society we were and are.
I m proud of my ancestors and the sort of people they were and are.
The little they had they shared with the less fortunate,often going hungry themselves and wherever they dipped their wick they paid for the oil.They put nobody into institutions nor wre they cruel to others.
A number of them took on the might of the Empire so as we could decide our own futures as a sovereign Nation.
If thy thought that Blueshirt ludraman Kenny was going to sneer at the sort of society they fought and died for was to be vilified by this ignorant excuse for a man I doubt they would have bothered.
How dare he besmirch their memory and lives.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Circle of hate at it again.
Having pissed on the grave of Cardinal Connell by their pointed absence from his funeral the political establishment ,led by a Taoiseach who according to ex Minister Shatter has only a passing connection with the truth, and who is in a Cabinet some of whose members invent conversations which never took place ,are again lining up to denigrate the Catholic Church ovr the discovery of human remains in the grounds of a mother and child home in Tuam,Co.Galway,led d by the charm free zone called Burton.
This is the Burton who led the Labour Party into near oblivion in the last election and who has a huge chip on her shoulder because her mother gave her up for adoption and whose parents chose not to keep her as a baby it seems.
She and her ilk want to retrospectively blame the Christian Churches for giving succour and shelter to expectant mothers and babies whose own parents and families didn't want them and want apologies and compensation for the acts of compassion and charity which was shown to them.
Of course the Labour Party which she has led to the brink of extinction is around since the time of James Connolly and was in existence at the times when these burials took place and indeed was in Government for part of the time and had undisputed legal and moral control over all matters legal in the State .
Neither they nor any other of the political parties lifted a finger to help these people so the political hand wringing now is pure hypocrisy.
We can see from the repeated rape of a mentally challenged lady while in secular and State custody these last decades,some of which time the Labour Party was again in Government ,that heinous crimes are inflicted on the innocent on the sole watch of the Secularists.
She might start by apologizing for the woeful inadequacy of her own Party in this regard and offering compensation from Labour Party assets for the wrongs committed during their watch in the Dail.
As indeed might Enda Kenny.
As far as I know my own people did no wrong to people in unfortunate circumstances over the centuries ,in fact they only did good and ENDA kENNY HAS NO RIGHT TO APOLOGISE ON BEHALF OF MY PEOPLE NOR INDEED MILLIONS OF OTHERS FOR WRONGS INFLICTED BY A NEGLECTFUL STATE WHEN HIS PARTY WAS IN POWER.
It doesn't wash with me.
This is the Burton who led the Labour Party into near oblivion in the last election and who has a huge chip on her shoulder because her mother gave her up for adoption and whose parents chose not to keep her as a baby it seems.
She and her ilk want to retrospectively blame the Christian Churches for giving succour and shelter to expectant mothers and babies whose own parents and families didn't want them and want apologies and compensation for the acts of compassion and charity which was shown to them.
Of course the Labour Party which she has led to the brink of extinction is around since the time of James Connolly and was in existence at the times when these burials took place and indeed was in Government for part of the time and had undisputed legal and moral control over all matters legal in the State .
Neither they nor any other of the political parties lifted a finger to help these people so the political hand wringing now is pure hypocrisy.
We can see from the repeated rape of a mentally challenged lady while in secular and State custody these last decades,some of which time the Labour Party was again in Government ,that heinous crimes are inflicted on the innocent on the sole watch of the Secularists.
She might start by apologizing for the woeful inadequacy of her own Party in this regard and offering compensation from Labour Party assets for the wrongs committed during their watch in the Dail.
As indeed might Enda Kenny.
As far as I know my own people did no wrong to people in unfortunate circumstances over the centuries ,in fact they only did good and ENDA kENNY HAS NO RIGHT TO APOLOGISE ON BEHALF OF MY PEOPLE NOR INDEED MILLIONS OF OTHERS FOR WRONGS INFLICTED BY A NEGLECTFUL STATE WHEN HIS PARTY WAS IN POWER.
It doesn't wash with me.