Death of Jackie O Connor,Robinstown.

Former talented Dunderry Football player,puller of pints par excellence,the very best of company ,a great drinking buddy and gentleman to his fingertips Jackie O Connor has lost his short AND VALIANT  fight against the big C and has gone to met his Maker,where he will be pulled through the Pearly Gates to meet again all those he he greeted throughout a lifetime full of joy and craic and decent living.
He will be missed most by his loving wife Olive,daughters Lorraine and Jackie and son Randal and their spouses ,his grandchildren ,sole surviving sister Maura and extended family and friends who are legion.
I don't know Lorraine and Randal as well as Jackie his daughter who I coached and managed through many years of Camogie competition for Dunderry and who I hold in the highest regard as both a competitor and as a human being.
Like her father she is the real deal.
M y late uncles told me many's the time that Jackie was a footballer of the highest talent but not overfond of training.
As  a puller of pints both they I and a host of others from near and far thought the world of him and have only pleasant memories of him.
He will be reposing in 14 Rochford Manor ,Trim the home of his son Randal and his family from 4.00 pm. to 8.00 p.m Friday 28 th APRIL
The following day ,Saturday he will leave his family home at the Old Terrace ,Robinstown to arrive in Robinstown at noon with funeral afterward to Dunderry Cemetery,where he will be laid to rest beside a host of his old friends.
AR DHEIS DE GO RAIBH A HANAM DILIS.

Further developments Re Dunderry Day of Shame.

The shameful incidents that happened in Dunderry on Easter Monday have been broadly outlined by me in my most recent Blog.
You will notice that I named no names as I did not witness the incidents personally.Presumably the identity of those e will become clear at a later date.
For drawing attention to this outrage I have been informed that Dunderry is a corrupt place and that at least one of those who objects to what I wrote has particulars of unlawful activities which allegedly occurred in Dunderry ,the inference being that the said person is prepared to use this alleged knowledge against anyone who voices disapproval of the events that occurred,especially me ..
The sources of any rumours or unpleasantness that happens to you regarding past activities,real or imagined , will not be hard to figure.
Naturally actual knowledge of what these alleged  activities are would probably involve unlawful activity of the associates of the person making the veiled threats.
Being far from perfect myself I await developments but will not be blackmailed into silence.

Beruit visits Dunderry

Yesterday,Easter Monday evening , a vicious series of assaults involving serious injury ,as far as I know,were perpetrated on men and women in the centre of this Village,which is inhabited mainly by pensioners,who live in fear of cowardly bowsies who think nothing of terrorizing the inhabitants.
I witnessed nothing of what happened myself so I am reluctant to say anything much about the awful events that went down except to say that reports of multiple ambulances ,police cars and even a specialist Guard unit have been verified to me.
I have previously written about the prevalence of theft hereabouts and am afraid to say that there appears to be an acceptable level of theft tolerated by the decent people hereabouts to the extent that most people don't even  report it any more in the expectation that the perpetrators will never be apprehended and will walk free even if caught.
However if the level of violence on display last evening is not addressed immediately and forcibly there is no point in living here at all.
The Government and Michael Martin,instead of sneering at and putting decent Catholics down and advocating the seizure of lands and assets from Religious Orders--Catholic ONLY--- at every opportunity ought to do more to protect us from these odious low lives ,none of whom ,I guarantee ye have seen the inside of A Church for years .
It is no coincidence that Trim R,CHURCH WAS VANDALIZED  on Easter SATURDAY and despite an orchestrated campaign by the Atheists whose views hold primacy in the State broadcaster,T V 3 ,across the political spectrum and by  by some  proponents of Educate Together Schools, who treated Catholics as lowly educated gob shites who they tried to persuade to deny their religion in the recent census ,I  draw strengtht from the actual Census results , which verify that despite all the vilification heaped upon the Catholic Church by the media in general ,c.90 percentage of the populaces are still religious and consider themselves Catholic.
Its an awful pity that these thugs,undoubtedly taking their lead from the parties mentioned above, don't put as much effort into their prayers as they do into causing mayhem.
When I hear more I will let ye know.
PS.Only recently two decent Kilmessan men had their faces slashed on the main street ,from ear to throat I am told ,because they questioned the occupants of a car speeding through the Village ,as they were outside Fergies having a smoke.
Another unintended consequence of Michael's attack on smokers.But what the Hell.Another garland for the Mickser.The same Mickser that wants to shut out the Religious Orders from partucipation in public life.
What a shower of shits..

Thievery rife around Dunderry.

Yesterday between 6.00 and 7.00 p.m in full daylight a green Almeria 02 car containing two males drove onto our land in Churchtown in broad daylight and the occupants stole a Honda Generator and a  tractor towing chain.The stolen items were so far off the beaten track in  that you would have to have walked the land beforehand to even know where they were situate.
I strongly suspect that the information of the whereabouts of the stolen items was passed to these odious thieves by persons who had trespassed on the lands with broken down greyhounds and lurchers hunting rabbits and hares.
I know the identity of one of the thieves and will soon know the identity of the other .
If the Gardai do not recover the stolen items I will seek restitution personally from the thieves.
Outside of the Red Cow rural Ireland is living in Constance fear of thieves such as these who seem to operate with impunity even during daylight hours and the liberal media ,both electronic and paper based weep copious  tears for these  poor thieves and their ilk.
In the very village that I live in every house and business has been burgled to some extent or another in recent years and many many houses in the Parish have also been violated.
It is not that long since seven vans had their back windows broken their back tires slashed and all the tools therein robbed in the Village on the same night.
THE GARDAI WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO CATCH THE PERPETRATORS AND ONE AT LEAST DID TIME,FAIR DUES.
Since then dozens of houses and businesses hereabouts have been robbed and in one case at least the occupant has been terrorized by the threat of a massive butchers knife being waved in her face.The roof of the local Church and Community Hall has been stripped of lead and there is hardly a local farmer whose diesel has not been lifted.
Unconfirmed reports are drifting in that the GAA Club was burgled too in the last few days.
It is about time that the Government took its finger out of its hole and did something useful for rural Ireland instead of further persecuting the poor natives who are brave enough to continue to live there by draconian penalty for harmless amounts of alcohol in their systems.
Red Cow Ross and his city acolityes who have double Luases ,trains and boats and planes and frequent buses at the snap of their fingertips subsidized by all of us might like to swap with us for a couple of months and get a proper perspective on real life hereabouts.

Cowslip time.

For all our buddies abroad or in huge cities ,you can close your eyes and imagine  the joy the  first signs of cowslips give rise to in the heart.They are springing out all over the place,mainly in unmanured land i.e.mine.
I don't know the scientific name for them and wonder if they are unique to Ireland.
Any how they are emerging and the darling buds of May are all over the shop also.
Would cheer ya up.

Brexit.Is it much ado about nothing.

Does anyone remember the Millennium bug ? Well I do.Remember all those predictions from the creme de la creme of the expert's experts that  the world would probably grind to a halt because the computureware of the known world would probably not be able to recognize the arrival of the new Millennium and untold chaos would result.
Nearly everybody was scared shit less.
And what happened?
Well aside from the computer geeks earning a fortune tweaking programmers galore and making personal fortunes Nothing did noR did the world end either.
Nor will the exit of the UK FROM THE EU  SIGNAL THE END OF the known world AS WE KNOW IT.
It is not that long since Hitler's 1,000 year Reich was birthed and I am surprised that the EU has lasted the 60 years that it did.
Germany has been the greatest beneficiary because it was able to sell its ware into every corner of the EU AND IT HAS GONE FROM TO STRENGTH.
When we were in the shit they and the rest of our friends just screwed us into the mire as they are now doing to Greece,Spain et all.
Remember the camps set up at Calais where illegal refugees did all they could to get into the UK.because THE REST OF THE EU wasn't good enough for them.
Well expect Ireland to become the next staging post to get into the UK if it takes off post Brexit.And given its Former Empire I guess it will.
IT IS IRONIC AND WRONG THAT IN THE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE WE CARVED OUT OUR FREEDOM THE JUDAS GOATS THAT PASS THEMSELVES OFF  AS STATESMEN HAVE GIVEN AWAY OUR SOVEREIGNTY TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT WE CAN'T EVEN NEGOTIATE FOR OURSELVES OUR FUTURE BUT HAVE GIVEN THAT FUNCTION  TO STRANGERS.
We should have the self belief the Brits have and paddle our own canoe.