Devaluation of Marriage .

In  a STATE dominated by a homosexual ethos ,under the stewardship of a homosexual Taoiseach and reported and commented on by a tame media totally fearful of standing up for heterosexual values and norms it is little wonder that such is the disrespect for the institution of  marriage that we now have two heterosexual men marrying for tax advantages.
This follows on from the lie that marriage between a man and a woman is no different than the union of a man to a man nor a woman to a woman.It is clear that they are not the same,no matter what the referendum result was.
I await the next absurdity.

Tommy Tiernan.Arsehole Supreme.

There is little doubt that the Electronic Media is totally in the firm control of Satan and his empire of evil.For example on RTE Radio today we had serial panellists ,known for their wish to enable the murder of  the defenceless unborn ,pollute a programme ,the alleged purpose of which was to celebrate the lives and achievements of note in 2017,
On the deaths of Cardinal Connell and Bishop Casey they made so little of them that were I Primate of Ireland I would bar them for life and in death from Consecrated ground.
Both their hatred of the Catholic Religion and that of the presenter  was so palpable that it could be felt in the very air that emanated from the studio.
It is no coincidence that the Justine thing was a permanent fixture on the Vincent Brown anti Catholic shambles that set out to do down Catholicism at every hand's turn.
She has found a home in the squaddie Duffy's show which abhors everything Republican and Catholic.
They had better hope that God's capacity for forgiveness is greater than mine as like the Brown fella they will be meeting him soon enough,no more than myself..
While snoozing on the afternoon of Christmas Day I think I  heard a contributor on a show presented by wrinkle puss O  Leary on RTE Radio ,another Catholic hater ,drone on about abuse by  Christian Brother
.In my  own experience the only abuse I suffered was at the hands of a lay teacher educated ,if that is the word,at University just like herself and around the same time I would say.
They really love the  sound of their own hateful voices and on The Birthday of Jesus too.Absolutely no respect .
But the worst of all was the performance of Navan creature Tommy Tiernan on an offshoot of TV3 this evening.In a display of hatred ,which ISIL would be proud of he blasphemed Christ's teaching as much as he could,liberally interspersing his sneering of the Sacred teachings with as many  curse words as he could muster ,especially the word "CUNT"
I don't know whether his parents are alive or not and whether hay are buried in the Christian rite,and  I don't know whether he is married or has children and if he has ,whether he thinks it OK to teach them such language and feels proud to let them see such performances ,but in my book he is a disgrace to humanity a bigot of the most extreme type, a man  unfit to rear children if the language he uses in the Show is used at home in front of them and the biggest disgrace of an excuse of a creature yet to go into exile from Navan.
I think he lives in Galway.They are welcome to him down there.
That the two biggest Stations chose to revile God and his Church and His  Teachings on the occasion of his birthday must have Satan and Hell rocking.
Soon enough Satan will be welcoming the programmers and presenters into his Kingdom of Evil.

That says it all really.

I know that those currently running the GAA Club are not long enough hereabouts to appreciate the sort of responsibility they are momentarily in charge of and the traditions they are charged with nurturing and continuing to protect.
Today at Christmas Mass I spoke to a man in his seventies who ,although he does no longer live here has never missed Christmas Mass here since his parents died.He is Dunderry to the backbone and so were his parents.
At 16 he played with the Intermediate Team ,which was the prime football team at the time .His father was still playing.
I asked him had he played with Francie Tuite who I think is the oldest living ex Dunderry footballer.He said he hadn't.I suspect that Tim Coffey might be the next oldest and I asked had he played with him, but Brendan Rogers and Paddy Conway may be older
.He said he was coming on the team at the time Tim and the Major Cregan were in the backs and the Goat Stanley was in goals.
Such was the reputation of these guys throughout the County that every forward line in the County feared them thoroughly.
Our man told me that he himself was afraid to play with these Dunderry legends,even though they were on the same team.
Incidentally I think  I  saw young Pat Conway and a clatter of Dooleys at Mass today.
Home really is where the heart is.
I'm going on the beer tomorrow and will keep ye informed of what is happening.
The same Brendan I mention above is home recovering from  fairly serious opration and we wish him well..

Longest living ex Dunderry Player under pressure.

Nearly ninety years young Francie Tuite is the oldest living ex Dunderry player alive.If ever a man needed prayer he does.

Not much Christmas Spirit in parts of Navan.

Today I drove to Navan to collect specs from Specs savers Navan.
In I drove and parked in the  car Park alongside the Credit Union  the town centre side of it.It is opposite the Shopping Centre on Kennedy Road and seems to be in private ownership.
There was a little queue to get in and the owner or  manager,I don't know which , had the manners to get me a two Euro ticket .I parked and went off about my business.
I am very visibly disabled and cannot walk without walking stick.Even then I HAVE A PROFOUND LIMP AND AM AS SLOW AS A SNAIL.
Additionally my left arm is fairly useless and is always swollen and visibly so.
I say this because when I returned to my car I was verbally artttacked and intimidated by the owner /manager who maintained that I was in huge trouble because I was an eighth of an inch away from the entrance  to his house and if I let the car slip that much forward there would be hell to play.
Now I was coming from the opticians and was wearing brand new glasses All I could see in front of me was a fence similar to the other fencing around the Car Park.No front door,no windows,no steps no nothing,Nor could I SEE anything prohibiting me from parking where I was..This creature then leaned across windshield saying I had overstayed my welcome by a half hour.,I would guess he won't see seventy again.
I told ;d him he was not a nice guy at all.He retorted that he n most certainly was not.
NOW I have noticed since I got my stroke and  am disabled that there are certain people,usually small men ,who tend to pick on people like me in the knowledge that I AM UNABLE BECAUSE OF MY DISABILITY TO DEFEND MYSELF.
These cowardly little shits would never pick on fully fit and functioning men for fear they might get a belt back.
IN MY EXPERIENCE SUCH WAS THE NATURE OF THIS LITTLE SHIT.
He either owns or manages the car park beside the Credit Union and seemingly lives in a house the Credit Union side of it through the fence according to him.
I take solace in the Biblical saying that it is harder for a rich m,an to get into the Kingdom of Heaven  than for a camel to get through the eye of a needle.

Death of Lilian Weldon ,Churchtown,Dunderry.

Anyone who has in the past habituated the streets of Dunderry and Churchtown in particular in recent years cannot but have come across Lillian walking her dog regularly on the roads .particularly on the Retaine Road ,which even today is fairly quiet.Day after day and season after season she graced these roads.Most of us knew she had cancer and all of us hoped that she would overcome it.Certainly you felt that such was the exemplary life lived by this lady that God would have to cut her some slack.And if there is anyone sounder nor her husband Mickey I have yet to meet him .The Weldons are amongst the most decent of people and their big kids now Ronan and Paul  are cut from  this cloth.
She was a Shiels from Kilmessan abnd I hear that her father was killed demolishing Trim Jail  in the 1950.s but might be wrong.
She hasn't been around in recent months and while there is no convenient time to die it is my understanding that it was not unexpected .
Her neighbourly chastisement of Dot over her wandering hens and Dot's over  Lilian's snooping dog are long since forgotten and I spotted Vince out today tidying the hedges and road on the funeral route.
She couldn't but have good neighbours as she  herself was a rare one.And I hear that they did all they could for  herself and Mickey in recent months.
Personally I didn't know her very well but as there is no such thing as a bad Weldon I know from her demeanour that she was of he highest  standard and the most decent of women.
She is being waked tomorrow Wednesday from 2.00 to 9.00 in their house in Churchtown and will arrive in Dunderry Church on Thursday at 30 minutes past Noon for the Funeral Mass.
AR Dheis De go raibh a hANAM DILIS.

Return of Penal Laws in Ireland.

The Penal Laws ,enacted in Ireland when the British Empire was at its zenith prohibited the celebration of Catholic Masses and placed a bounty on the heads of Catholic Priests.
Saint Oliver Plunkett was hung,drawn and quarted as an example.
Nowadays the Esquire from Enniskerry and the entire Fine Gael,Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein establishment ,to name but a few,are set to make it an offence for anyone to have any alcoholic drink on them at all when driving.
So any Priest who has celebrates Mass that day can be done by any policeman who has a mind to if he is driving from Mass that day..
These shower of shits ought rot in hell.

Government hell bent on closing down rural Ireland.

You just have to listen to the Esquire from Enniskerrry --Minister Ross---and his Taoiseach Leo plus 6 years--him and his Castleknock neighbours live six years longer than the people of Blanch and Mulhuddart just across the M50.--talking for a few minutes to realize that they inhabit a different planet than the people of the other Ireland ,with which they have no empathy ,as they gaze down from their ivory towers on rural and provincial drones who pay their inflated wages and keep them in luxury.
In Dunderry ,where I live there is not and never has been public transport of any description.The nearest bus stop is 6 miles away in Navan or Trim.
We are fierce lucky to have a shop and two pubs.The local Hall has closed down after being opened continuously for over 70 years.
Most evenings the place is like a ghost town and were it not for the local GAA Club we might throw our hats at it entirely.
Since the death of the Celtic Tiger many dozens of our people have taken the boat or the plane and if they return at all it is only for a holiday or the death of a family member..
A lot of the misery was and is being inflicted by power hungry politicians who have demonized cigarettes and are now demonizing alcohol.
This is being done on the advice of the medical profession who in general suffer from A God Complex and regard themselves as superior to us mere mortals .
Not all of them mind you but enough to have influence.
I will say no more about this than to point out that Hitler despised smoking and drinking,as well as anyone who didn't fit his view of what a proper Ayrian ought look like.
It is a sad day when the difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is indiscernible and it is impossible to distinguish one from the other and there is a de facto governing agreement between them.Bad for democracy.
And Sinn Fein ,with the physical activists taking time out ,are morphing into what the Workers Party became.
If you doubt me just listen ti one of these new fangled members rabbit on about whatever takes their fancy.
Put the clock back 20 years and you will hear pure Sticky  propaganda.
Has anyone the interest in forming a Christian Democrat Party .

One brutal Week.

Early this week I had business in Trim and drove in .I followed a few cars into the car park behind Brogans Hotel.The place turned out to be full.The cars in front of me had driven down to the far end of the car park before this became obvious and had to reverse back towards me to enable entry into a turning space.I signalled to the car behind me to reverse also.
Well the passenger got out of the car and subjected me to the most vile and foul mouthed oral abuse I have heard for some time.This he did in the presence of his lady friend and child who thought it great fun.
The fact that I am disabled encouraged them more.The car they drove was a Longford Registration and unfortunately I hadn't my phone to ring the Gardai,
Midweek I was in Navan Hospital on business.I witnessed a male orderly pushing a frail and clearly very sick old man down a corridor.The orderly asked the old man his name.The old man gave his name and address in Irish.The orderly thought this hilarious and boomed out for all to hear"We don't speak that foreign language here.We only speak English".

I wonder whether this cretin speaks so insultingly to all the foreign doctors who work there in c similar vein.

Later in the week I  drove past the Church in Trim towards the ring road by the Secondary school and checked the ring road out before emerging on to it .I noticed  a vehicle with blue flashing lights in the distance and with plenty of room to spare went onto the road and turned left towards the roundabout that can bring you to the Dublin Road.
As I  went to enter the roundabout I looked in my mirror and saw that the vehicle with the flashing lights was directly behind me No siren I  stress.
Thinking it was an ambulance I went through the roundabout and pulled into a lay by the Navan side of the roundabout to enable the vehicle pass,doing as I thought my civic duty,
Instead of passing the vehicle pulled up and one of the occupants ,who was a Garda ,proceeded to berate me for making inadequate signals when exiting the roundabout and pulling in to let him pass.When I say berate I  mean he  spoke down to me as though I am a piece of shit.
I bit my tongue and told him he was not a nice guy.
This is no country for disabled pensioners.
I am reminded of the spake peculiar to Cavan that ""Some people are as ignorant as the pig that ate his own bedding."
Unlike the female Dub.who took exception to being told the following words ,Iwould be delighted were any woman  to say to me "You look so well I'd nearly have sex with you ".

Like Grandfather like grandson

The present graveyard in Dunderry was gifted by Pat Darcy deceased to the Parish when Father Flood was the Parish Priest.
This man was the father of John,Billy and Paddy all deceased .Cyril is the only living son and I understand that there was a short lived daughter Marcella,who died either at birth or shortly afterward.
Any house hunter will be acutely aware that it is nigh impossible to buy a house in the Parish .
As for building a house the number of hurdles that must be jumped are limitless and soul destroying.
As it is with the living so it is with the dead.
There are no more plots available in Dunderry graveyard and those with family plots in older graveyards find it nigh impossible to get a grave opened because of County Council Regulations relating to disturbing possible ancient relics.
One would think it great therefor were a Parishioner to donate more land for use as a graveyard.
Well Willie Darcy ,a grandson of the aforementioned Pat has offered a plot beside Retaine graveyard to Meath County Council For FREE and guess what.They are unwilling to accept this gift.
So soon you will have to bury your next of kin outside the Parish while these officious bureaucrats do all in their power to deny  the decent folk of the Parish the possibility to be buried locally.
AND YOU WONDER WHY SUCH A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE FLED THIS COUNTRY OVER THE DECADES.
Surely thee is a limit to nonsense.Seemingly not.

Death of Anne Foley,Yellow Walls.

Anne Foley --nee Sherry--- from the Yellow Walls ,Dunderry has died unexpectedly in Navan Hospital.She survived her late husband Dermot by a number of years.
The best compliment I can pay them is to say that one was nicer and more decent than the other.
The same applies to their children Catherine,Noleen,Anne,Patricia,Valery and Patrick.
Catherine,Noleen and Patrick live locally and all the family are highly respected and as honest and decent as the day is long.
Dermot never lost his Kerry accent nor Anne her Meath one
.It is only a short time since Seamus and Eugene Smith and Sheila Bird and Mrs Tim Coffey from the Yellow Walls also passed away,so there is a massive loss of decency from that Townland.
Locals will know that her son Patrick had a misfortunate accident whilst a young child and that he requires constant care since and My God he got and gets it in spades from the entire family in the home place ,especially from  Anne ,who carried the responsibility with dignity and good grace as indeed do the rest of the exemplary family .
She was one lovely and gracious lady from the very top drawer of humanity.
Her remains will be reposing in St.Joseph's Chapel of rest in Johnstown from 4.00 to 6.00 P.M. .tomorrow Wednesday 25 th October to arrive at Dunderry Church at 7.00 P.M.
Funeral Mass is at Noon on Thursday 26th October ,with burial in local graveyard afterwards.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

Its beginning to make sense.

At a most enjoyable wedding yesterday I  had time to think outside the box for a few minutes and absorb the concealed rage simmering within my breast.
Taking it in age order.
One guy at my table of pension age had over half his siblings living for decades in England ,some of them having died there.
Another guy of similar age had two sons living in the States and one in Sas.The States guys were working for another bloke from the Parish and they had recently  been joined by another young lad from this Parish.UP to ten guys from this Parish socializes regularly in that part of the States .
I myself  have IRISH relations under 35 living in France,Australia and Canada.
Over 100  yeas ago 8 of my grandfather's siblings emigrated to the States never to return.
During the wedding announcements congratulatory notices were read from as far away as California,Boston ,Dubai and Australia.
One wedding guest lives in Scotland ,as does her sister.Both are under 30.
A common theme running through our conversations was the living hell being experienced by relations of people needing serious heart surgery and their inability to get to the top of the huge queues and the fear that the sick would die before their turn for operations came.
I conclude that one generation of politicians is as bad as the other and that little has changed in real terms over the years.
Membership of the EU has not changed a thing and I don't see why people are so fired up about Brexit or remaining.
As far as I can see it makes no difference whether The Brits of the Europeans pull our strings.
We still are served the same shit.
Only The clowns running the circus change .The circus remains the same.
Possibly the only way to change things for the better is to do to politicians what an uncle of mine wanted to do to referees and that is to shoot a random one every Sunday.
It mightn't be fair but would surely sharpen up the rest

Time for Catholics to leave Fine Gael.

Time was when Fine Gael was the Party of Conservative Catholicism.Take Liam Cosgrave as an example.Even though his father was the instigator of the murder of 4 jailed Republican for pure retaliatory reasons ,without the benefit of charge or trial of any description,he professed a deep Catholic Faith even to the extent of voting against the Bill of his own Party to liberise the availability of condoms.
I feel that he may have had a point in this as it seems certain that the plight of the children of lone parents is worse than that of the children of married parents and even divorced parents and the casual approach to sexual activity encouraged by the availability of condoms is an inevitable cause of the proliferation of one parent families.
One good thing about the change in values of this society however is that the supposed shame of producing children outside of wedlock is not what it was and many parents do not feel for example the necessity to emigrate to protect their secret children and have the support and courage to balls it out.
Nor do they feel the need to abort them thank God.
Anyhow back to the Blue shirts.
Not for the first time I heard a serial Fine Gael panellist from Louth named O Dowd slag off the Catholic Church for failing to ordain WOMEN into the priesthood and tie this fact into the rape of women vis a vis the serial riding of a  guy called Weinfield ---hardly a Catholic name I suggest ---of Hollywood film stars.
This is not the first time I have heard this political  non entity belittling Catholic teaching and I wonder what his beef with Catholics is.
He would be better served by getting his buddies to treat  those women of Ireland who devoted their time to rearing their  children full time as equal citizens and granting them equal pensions to their sisters who worked outside the home..
Seemingly equality only applies if you are like his leader and prefer people of your own sex to that of the opposite sex and fix  your public appearances to coincide with the nearest gay pride march.
But he is not the only Blueshirter to do his best to undermine Catholic teaching.
Another Senator called Noone is in the frame for blatantly promulgating the pro choice side over the pro life side by two members of the Oireachtas Committee she chairs on the issue of repealing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution ,which accords equal importance to the lives of unborn child and its mother,
The two members of the Committee are an Independent Dail member Mattie Mc Grath and a Senator Ronan Mullins and are so pissed that they are threatening to resign unless fair play is given.
Given that the Mistress of the National Maternity Hospital thinks so little of the lives of the ill unborn children entrusted to her care that she downplays the sanctity of their right to life at every opportunity and that a former Master is so hostile to the ownership of a Hospital by A Catholic Order of nuns that he regards their right to hold religious views ,ensure the practise of these views and their right to hold property in the same light as the framers of the Penal  Laws ,one wonders whether the men and women of 1916 and the War of Independence fought in vain to throw off the yokes of Oppression by Masters and Mistresses and hostility to Catholicism .
Who the fuck are these condescending shites to decide what is appropriate or not.Maybe they believe that their titles entitle them to  GOD status.Well not in my book.
The sneering hostility towards Catholicism was further aired on RTE  by an academic called Crow on the Sean O Rourke show this week when she belittled the dress mode of Catholic Bishops when making the ridiculous claim that Catholicism was a parallel Government to the State in recent decades.
She ought consult her fellow legal academics on this issue and she would discover that Canon Law never held sway in this State.She will recognise them from the mortar boards, gowns and sashes they wear,
What is really worrying is that the State broadcaster would give unfettered air time to such a clear anti Catholic Bigot and that her remarks were allowed to air without contradiction.
And her sickening efforts to cloak her bigotry  by contrasting well known Catholics such as Father Mc Verry.SisterStan etc to the men with the funny clothes--an old Brit thing of divide and conquer ---speaks for itself..She did learn well indeed .
Of course RTE have form in this regard..Didn't the taxpayer have to payout defamatory millions to a Priest they accused of fathering children he didn't father.
As is said hereabouts "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT".
But back to ther Blueshirts.
Bruton of the thousand acres uses every opportunity that comes his way to chip away at the use of Catholic ethos in Catholic Schools ,on the basis that State money cannot be used to further religious morals.
Firstly the State generates no money.It gathers it from the populace.85 per centage of the populace defines itself as Catholic.Despite the hostility towards Catholicism displayed by people like him and his ilk this 85 per cent must surely be entitled to have their ethos promulgated in the schools.
What is being promulgated by the anti Catholic brigade is that no religion is the same as the State position. This is a huge con.And it is time it was called out.
Then we have a Minister of Health ,who IS RESPONSIBLE for heading a hospital waiting list of over 700,000 in  A COUNTRY OF LESS THAN 5 MILLION ,belittling a Catholic Bishop who dared question a medical programme he is responsible for.
I recently spent 24 hours in a corridor in an A and E.dept with a sick pensioner on a trolley along with many other elderly sick patients because the heroic staff were overworked and ill equipped facility wise to deal with the patients with the  standard of care they deserve.
Were I Simon Harris I would hang my head in shame.
As for the Esquire from Enniskerry ,he will not rest until he has denuded Rural Ireland of people, bar the super rich like himself , and drives the few remaining inhabitants into total and absolute isolation .
T'WOULD SICKEN YOU ENTIRELY.

Glad day for Dundrrry Camogie.

The first ever Intermediate Camogie All Ireland  Medal came to Dunderry yesterday ,when Aoife Minogue played a significant role in Meath's defeat of Cork in  replayed final in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.
It is never easy to beat Cork in anything GAA and it is a noticeable scalp for Meath Camogie.
It seems a long time now since John Davis and for a while his son,took over as team manager and in that time .Meath have clawed their way up the ranks.
As president and founder member of the Club I  couldn't be prouder.
All those who kept the Camogie going in years gone bye and those currently at the helm should take a bow.
We hope that Meath will make their mark at Senior level now that they have got there.
Claire Coffey ,whose mother is descended from Aggie Commons from Betaghstown and resides in Baconstown was team captain.
Her father Matt is a friend ,except on match days when our Clubs oppose each other.
No doubt Aoife gets her hurling genes from her Beaumount mother Miriam.

Sad day for Dunderry

The old FAS logo was decommissioned some years ago.This probably was because there were investigations into how it was run at nationakl level and renaming it was peobably the best way of making people forget how badly tarnished it had become.
Anyhow there has been a Fas Scheme or its equivalent since before I  came to live here in 1986.
The people who worked in it over the years looked after the GAA grounds ,the grass cutting around the Churches and the graveyards and tidied up around the Hall.
Father Heany ,the PP at the time it was set up ,was the Sponsor of the Scheme and its unbroken run from then to date was brought to an end by the current PP  Father Hornick ,who I suppose has decided that he has not the resources to properly oversee it.
Not only has the former FAS Scheme come to an end but Parochial ownership of the Local Hall came to an end a few months ago.
At that time the GAA Club,which over a decade ago were prepared to pay E.70,000.00   to buy it and whose plans were thwarted by the objections of a vociferous minority ,were not interested in buying it.
Needless  to say the people who then objected were not recently willing  to themselves take it on.
It strikes me that as a community we are regressing and that despite the relatively significant growth in population and apparent prosperity.
This is sad.

Walk and Fund raiser for ill child well suported.

I am not on the fund raising committe for the fund raisers.As far as I can see the GAA Club is fully behind it but it is GAA friends of Swiss and his wife's sisters who are driving it rather than the GAA Club as such.
In any event I spent a few hours on Saturday last watching the people who participated in the walk/run as they passed through Dunderry.
I wqould guess that about 500 people ,men,women and children participated.Many of these were not from the Parish ,fair dues to them.
They came on all forms and shapes.Ispotted Trevor Giles among them looking as fit as ever.Swiss himself participated.
A lovely Bird --her married name---from Rathcairn pushed her child around the course.
This most compassionate of nurses nursed me during my stroke in Navan Hospital 8 years ago AND I CANNOT PRAISE HER ENOUGH.
It was particularly pleasing to see the number of men and women pushing prams around the course.
Afterwards a concert and auction was held in Rathcairn Hall.
It was well attended too and the Auction was well supported.
Thus far a raffle has been held in Kilbride school ,a non uniform day in Dunderry School,a fully subscribed   raffle in  KILMACUD CROKES AT THE all Ireland Club sevens ,the walk ,a draw,the reception in Rathcairn and the AUCTION ,ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.
Just shows how decent people are when the cause is right and the organisers are trusted.
I hope and pray that the fiunds raised help the misfortunate young chap in the coming times.

Disrespect for Ameican National Anthem is appalling.

I have always had difficulty spelling the word "appalling".
Of my grandfather's 11 siblings 8 emigrated to the USA between 1880 and 1920.Only one ever returned in the 1970's for a weeks holidays when he himself was in his seventies.He was a retired firefighter in Chicago.
I am grateful for the chance that the USA gave my ancestors and would never disrespect the Anthem of that Nation irrespective of whether Republicans or Democrats ruled the Country.
Three of my granduncles ,Mallons from Bohermeen,brothers of my granny fought with the IRA against the British Empie in the War of Independence in  and my grandparent's house was a safe house .
I don't know what their politics were after the end of that war but suspect that Fianna Fail was favoured.
Even though Michael Collins was one oif ,if not the most effective guerrilla fighters ,ever to take up the cudgels against a colonizing power anywhere in the world and struck fear into the Empire with well marshalled and brilliantly executed assassinations and such like at the time and became an icon for Fine Gael right up to the present I don't think that they were ever Fine Gael men .
In ant event every Irish man and woman I know.no matter what their political allegiance ,gives full respect to our National Anthem "Amhran na Fiann"irrespective of which Party or combination thereof is in power.
In other words respect for our flag and Anthem supersedes political allegiance.
We see now that certain well healed sportsmen and entainers think so little of the National Anthem of the country that suckled them and gave them and continues to give them such mind boggling incomes that they deliberately chose the insult and belittle the flag and Anthem of the Nation that gave such marvellous opportunity.
Do they not know that millions are just risking life and limb to get into a Country of such opportunity and must,as far as I know swear allegiance to the flag and Anthem of the USA BEFORE GETTING FORMAL ADMISSION TO FULL CITIZENSHIP.
Yet these ungrateful yobbos  chose to piss on the Country that is so good to them.
I am not surprised by this as the Democrats and certain beaten Republican contenders and many media concerns are unable to take their beating by Trump in the Presidential race and are stirring up hatred against him and his supporters at every hand's turn.
This combination of seditious forces are doing more to belittle the USA than all the combined enemies of the States put together.
There must be some law to bring these ingrates to account and if there is it should be immediately applied.
If not these people ought have the courage of their convictions and get out of a country they so despise,that is if any other Country would take them.

Michaels 1-10.Dunderry 0-11.IFC.

We died with our boots on sadly.No complaints.Our luck just ran out.Fuller report later if I am up to it.

Hail Jesus in Sport.

I note in passing that Cork Senior Camogie Team had a Team Mass before the Final.They won.
I note that Westmeath Junior Camogie Team climbed Croack Patrick two weeks ago.They won.
I read that the Waterford Senior Manager announced before the Senior Hurling Final that he is not A BELIEVER in Catholicism but would never the less would be saying a few prayers in the off chance before the game.They lost.
There is a message here.

The smal ball game around Dunderry,

Well there are positives and negatives.
On the negative side we gave a walkover to Kiltale in the Senior Hurling Championship recently.We were unable to field a team.This is not good and is a first for Dunderry in any Senior competition as far as I know.
On the positive side Jamie Leavy,the son of Tommy--Timber--Leavy captained Meath Minor Hurling Team to the Minor B hurling Championship.
For the benefit of those who don't know Jamie is the grandson of Paddy Kavanagh ,former Club Secretary ,Intermediate Football Championship winner with Dunderry and Bohermeen and  REFEREE OF  football All Ireland.He is overjoyed.
The ladies too are coming good and Aoife Minogue will be playing for Meath in the Intermediate Camogie Final against Cork this coming Sunday in Croker.
Two busses will be leaving Dunderry to attend.
As President of the Camogie Club  I couldn't be prouder.
I understand that Claire Coffey from Baconstown .whose mother is Aggie Commons from Betaghstown  of our Prish is Captain.Her father Matt is a good friend.
Following on from some unpleasantness against my own Daughter Mags some years ago she now plies her Camogie trade with O Mahony's and they will be playing Dunderry in theIntermediate Club semi final shortly.
Should be interesting.
Her DAUGHTER is a Dunderry player.
As are a few cousins.
All in a day's sport.