Auld traditions alive in Dunderry.

If there is anything worse than the needy it is the greedy.A few years ago the greedy professional Rugby crowd fixed a match in Thomond Park between Munster and Leinster for Good Friday and the greedy publicans of Limerick and elsewhere decided that it was not enough to open for business 363 days of the year but that they also needed to open up on Good Friday too ,the day of Christ's cruxifiction,to cater for the superior rugger crowd who more than anyone else had to have their thirst sated on this Holiest of days.
Of course a judge called O Donnell allowed the opening of various pubs to cater for the Rugger crowd who presumably are of his class and who deserved more than anyone else to be catered for.
I well remember that some idiotic Limerick gurriers displayed banners bragging that Rugby was more popular than Religion in Munster.
While this may or may not be true it is clear that spit roasting too is de rigeur for certain participants in this greedy sport of the privileged and one can only hope that it too is not sought special status by the Rugger crowd.
As a matter of record Munster have won nothing of significance since.Maybe they have atoned since for this blasphemy.Time will tell.
Of course the political parties have followed on in this vein in their vain efforts to shed this religious legacy of the Irish people and their fore bearers.
Given that most people check their hand to see whether all  their fingers are still all there after shaking hands with most politicians this is no surprise.
Last Friday signalled the bedding in  of Official Greed in Eire ,when for the first  time it became legal to serve alcohol in pubs and elsewhere on the most sacred of days.
So bereft is RTE of news that it identified a town in Cork where the Pubs choose not to succumb to greed and stayed closed.
I am glad to report that the two pubs of Dunderry,Horans and Geraghty's had the backbone not to hop on this populist and greedy horse and chose to remain closed for the day.
Fair dues to them
As the pub in Robinstown has closed some time ago are were we  the only dry Parish in Ireland  on Good Friday.