Changing the Clock.

Confused  about whether to put the clock forward or backwards an hour for winter or summer time.
Remember this ditty "Spring forward Fall back".Geddit.

Protect the lives of the Living unborn.Rosary at 2.30 tomorrow Sunday 19th March 2018 at Retaine Graveyard.

I am a passionate believer that human life begins at the moment of conception and that a soul attaches at that stage.Certainly everybody ever born was conceived at the some stage and it is therefor impossible to be born without being conceived firstly.The mass of cells that begin to develop after conception in human reproduction are human and nothing else.They are not an alien being that science deniers call a foetus in order to dehumanize them.
The Nazis dehumanized the Jews ,other races and the mentally and physically disabled in order to murder them.
Under the Irish Constitution the Supreme Court has decided that the only protection the unborn human being has is the right to be born enshrined in the Constitution by the Eight Amendment .
Remove this and there will be NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION WHATSOEVER available in favour of the living unborn AND THEY MAY BE KILLED RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH.
Those who favour the State killing of the living unborn say we can rely on the politicians who inhabit the Dail to protect the living unborn by legislation they pass there.
If you believe this you will believe anything.Consider for example the way Fianna Fail ,a decidedly pro life party  has been betrayed in this regard by its leader Michael Martin and other mainly Cork based front bench spokesmen.You couldnt trust them as far as you throw them.
IT is an accepted fact that if you make something legal that the underlying ethos will make its practise more normal and its practise will become more acceptable as time passes.
This is why UNBORN KIDS WITH DOWNS SYNDROME and other congenital conditions such as Edwards Syndrome are aborted in vitro in other countries where abortion is prevalent.
Once the principle of taking life of the unborn beds in the legal system of a society it is only a matter of time until until it permeates other matters of life and death in that society.
I have personal but unwitting experience of an elderly but well enough old person being administered an injection to stop her heart beating and "help on her way"in Great Britain in recent years.This form of murder was and is commonplace in the nursing home where she resided and I suspect throughout that country.
In the Gaeltachs of this country special kids were and are regarded as a gift from God by families who were lucky enough to have them entrusted to their care and are regarded  as" leanai speisealta"",not sub humans to be put to death before being born.
It is no coincidence that the surnames of those leading the campaign for the murder of the innocents are as far from being Irish  as you could get and it is also no surprise that other with Irish surnames are leading the campaign for legalizing the taking the blood of the innocents.You should remember that the BRITS HAD TO HAVE THE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF MANY IRISH to keep their neighbours down and dead if necessary for nearly a 800 years
The spawn of the squaddy still abounds,especially now in Sinn Fein  under the leadership of Mary Lou .
My grand uncles risked their lives fighting the Brits for Indepence in WAR OF Independence  for IRISH FREEDOM.
To see Mary Lou leading a Party campaigning for the murder of the most defenceless Irish people imaginable is as far from their activities as is imaginable and a betrayal of the entire Republican ideal and sickening.

Now these  are my personal views.

And all over Ireland tomorrow at 2.30 a Rosary will be held to retain the right of the unborn to life .
In Dunderry Parish the Rosary will be held in Retaine Graveysard at 2.30.

Dunderry is swamped by deaths

The latest casualty is Maureen Mc Connell,nee Herbert.She died today.Mickey Daly died on Tuesday.Adam Cosgrove was buried on Monday,just 17 years old.Mrs Farrelly from Clonbun ,but in Dunderry Parish ,is being buried on Saturday.
Where will it end.
Mrs Clarke from Macetown is dead as also are John Bligh from Kilbride and Michael Vaughan who also lived in Kilbride and was married to a sisater of Dinny Gogarty.
May they all rest in peace.

Death of a Gent.Mickey Daly.died 13/02/2018

His death did not surprise Mickey Daly from Dunderry.He knew for sure it was imminent.As a friend of long standing I am devastated.
Last November he gave me the low down on his health.He had cancer and after consideration had decided to meet it head on without the application of chemo and radiotherapy.He has seen too much suffering caused by these to no avail.
This brave, principled and affable man died as he lived ,without fear nor fanfare.
He once said to me after burying a young grandaughter who died in a freak accident  that he had climbed many hills in his lifetime but didn't know whether he could climb that one.
He survived that one ,greatly diminished.
The present one was a step too far.
Maghera's  loss was Dunderry's gain.Dunderry's loss is Heaven's gain.
His presence graced the fields ,streets and streams of Dundrry,particularly the GAA Club where he and all his sons were life members.
Reposing in his home today Thursday  4.00 to 8.00 p.m.and Funeral Mass tomorrow at Noon in Dunderry.
To his wife ,children and grandchildren ,wide circle of in laws and massive circle of friends we offer our condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a a hANAM Dilis.

Din 2 F.League .28/01/2018 .Dunderry 3-6.Trim 1-11.

This was our first match of 2018,as far as I know.We have been training a while.Phil.Fay Jnr.is concentrating on the Meath Ladies Football,where his daughters are involved and has quit as a selector .His place is taken by Gary Newman as far  as I know.Ted is still Manager and our Evan,Lee Mulligan and Declan Mahon are also selectors.
I think that a fourth Garry,Michael  ,a son of the Bear's togged out as a sub today.T.J.,  Martin and Alan  have given full service to us before emigrating.Martiin is back  but the other pair are still abroad .Wouldn't it be great to see all four together again in the one Dundeery Team.
Played in Trim this morning on a great pitch there was a strong wind into which we played in the first half.
Only three of the last Senior Team Team to play in 2005 are on the present Panel.ie.Davy Jennings,Davy Mac and Kevin Bruton.There are four e new graduates to the Panel ,Ronan Brady ,Dermot Kelly Shane Heffernan and Jamie Leavy..Ronan is John's son,Diarmuid is Sean's son,Jamie is Timber's son and Shane is the son of  a decent Limerick man ,who has four of them,one bigger than the other.
It is noticeable that the new guys are all strapping guys well over six feet tall.
Our senior County Football panellists,Conor Dempsey,Paddy Kenneally and Luke Martin were unable to play ,it was rumoured ,because of County commitments and injury .Darren Callaghan is rumoured to have retired.
Stephen Coogan is Captain and uniquely,Hurling Captain also.
Trim too were short 4 or 5 players due to County committments.
Team was
                                                      Jennings
A.Newman                                    Davy Mac.                     A.Feeney.

Oisin Martin.                                   O.Dempsey                  M.Kane.

                                            L.Dempsey             C.O.Shea.
R.Brady                                           Bomber Farrell.            Gooch Daly.

A,Watters                                        S.Coogan                      D.Kelly.
Used during the game also were Shane Heffernan,and Jamie Leavy and a full list of the other subs are not yet to hand .
There was a fair bite in the game from the first whistle and plenty of short inter passing.We are fairly adept at this,probably a bit wiser than Trim at it.
Trim scored the first point but  a surge of speed by Kane followed by some slick inter passing ended with Liamo rattling the onion bag.
And then Coogan repeated the dose.Looking good and against the gale too.
But WE died and Trim took over,scoring 7 points in succession without reply before the half time whistle shrilled
Half Time Us.2-0.Them 0-8.
O Shea was our best in the first half I thought,manning the breaches manfully.He is as strong as a young ass.
With the wind in our backs I thought we ought shade it in the second half.
Trim opened with an early point,but Googan with a free and Liamo with another  goal  and a point put us in the lead again.
Trim pulled back with another point before Kane and Coogan increased our lead with minors.Trim score another minor before another brace of points by Coogan from  a free and a fifty put us well ahead but Trim refused to die bulging the net from play.
That left us a point up as Trim laid siege to our goal but our backs held out tenaciously to keep the lead in a tense final five minutes.
We won by 3-6 to 1-11 .
Our cause was greatly helped by Trim calling the influential Frankie Murphy ashore ,the one move you would make to help us to victory.Our mentors would hardly be so unwise.Inexplicable.
There was little between the teams,it was a good game overall and our debutantes did well.No fears there.Our substitutions were on the ball and this was probably the deciding factor in our win.
A fair display all round I thought.
When all our players are available for selection our mentors will have their work cut out.Nice problem to have.
That two intermediate teams could have 6 or 7 players on the County panel is extraordinary in my humble view.Maybe a good omen for both Clubs.
Sub's bench.J.Leavy,S.Heffernan,Jack Brady,M.Garry,Mick Garry,Jack Dempsey,Tomas Conroy,Kevin Bruton,Garrett Dooley,Dec.Mahon.

 

Do you trust women.

Somewhere there exists a cabal of people who want to kill preborn children at the behest of their  mothers and these people think up trick questions to trap out the protectors of preborm children .They have thought up this question.
I heard the apparently fragrant Claire Byrne spring that question on the Liberal's favourite Cleric and serial panellist ,Brian Darcy yesterday.
"Do you trust women "she asked fluttering her eyelashes at him.Given that he is a trendy liberal priest appearing on  a Television Station awash with anti Clerical bigots what could he say only "Yes"
This was a cowardly question by her and a cowardly answer by him,

What he should have said  was that some people are trustworthy and some are not and women are no different than men in this regard.
And as the way God designed the procreation procedure is for a man to impregnate a woman and for her to carry the child to fruition in her womb t men too must have an equal right to decide on these maters.
I am quite sure that thee are many fathers  out there who are devastated because their female partners chose to have an abortion without consulting them .
Just as there are many fathers out there that are glad it happened,

Michael Martyn drives nail into lives of unborn.

Michael Martin is the leader of Fiannna Fail,the first leader of that Party never to be Taoiseach.The membership of that PARTY  and the Parliamentarians of that Party recently voted overwhelmingly to oppose any moves to kill the living unborn,
At his insistence a rule was brought in allowing freedom of conscience when voting either for or against the killing of preborn children inside that Party.
As leader he has a duty to reflect the majority views of his members.
By insisting on the freedom of conscience rule he set up a cocoon of safety for himself by coming out in favour of the killing of unborn children in recent days in the Dail  without informing his Parliamentary colleagues or Party members in advance of  his declaration..
He would nearly have you feeling sorry for him in describing the tortuous  journey he travelled in making this decision and all the reading he did.
God help him.
Does he not realize how lucky he is in being able to consider the ethical problems involved and being able to read all this information .
If his vile turncoat activities result in legislation allowing the killing of the living preborn. they will not be able,on account of being denied the fundamental right to be born of making these ethical decisions or doing this reading because they will not exist.
THE king of the Fir Breaga and a disgrace to the Irish people.And I guess the death knell of Fianna Fail..

Tubridy joins the Gallery of arseholes.

Earlier this week Ryen Tubridy gave his take on the overdue apology given by the Gardai to Johanna Hayes and her family for falsely accusing them of murdering a baby found in Caherciveen in Kerry in the early 1980.'s.
My memory of it went like this.
A baby was found which had been stabbed to death on the shoreline in Caherciveen .The local Gardai called in the Dublin based "Murder Squad",which specialized in solving murders, to help.
The Gardai trawled the County Kerry to identify any woman who had lost a child or given birth around that time.
Johann Hayes had given birth to a baby ,which she said had died ,and which she had buried on the family farm in Abbeydorney ,many miles from Caherciveen.She showed the burial place of the baby.
The Gardai and the State fingered her for the murder of the Caherciveen Baby even though blood tests conclusively proved that neither she nor her married lover could possibly be the parents of the Caherciveen baby.
They fell back on the most remote theory that she simultaneously had intercourse with two men and had given birth to twins with different fathers.
They got her to "confess" to the murder of the Caherciveen baby ,with no proof whatsoever save a "confession "by her which she maintained was extracted by undue duress .Other members of her family also "confessed "to that murder.
It was then clear,and it has been since clear that the prosecution was baseless and for this miscarriage of justice the State is now apologizing three decades later.
A Tribunal was set up to examine how this trumped charge was allowed to proceed and to examine the actions of the Gardai.
The tribunal personnel in the main did all they could to destroy the unfortunate lady but gave the Gardai and the other State personnel a relatively free  ride.
Both the Judge ,all the legal personnel and the preponderance of the  actors in the investigation were from that well heeled class from which Tubs springs ,yet he had the effrontery to blame the narrow mindedness of rural Ireland .and the implied morality of the yokels ,for the miscarriage of justice.
In truth the people of Abbeydorney ,which is as rural as it gets, knew well that a what was put forward by the State was bullshit and formed a cocoon of protection around the Hayes family and protected them from all outsiders.a cocoon they have in place to this day.
Not for the first time this condescending Arsehole let his bullshit liberal philosophy that he and his ilk champion slip out ,a philosophy that he and his  privileged anti Catholic workmates spout regularly about those who live outside the Pale.
In this instance it was precisely his Dublin based bullies who did all in their power to destroy a brave and ho nourable woman.
If Tubs has any balls and I doubt it he should immediately profoundly apologize to the people of Abbeydorney and all rural dwellers for branding them as he did.
It is  no surprise to me that the reinvestigation is focusing on the murder of the child and not on the actions of the Gardai.and the State apparatus.
For far too long now the Politicians and the Courts have turned a blind eye to the misbehaviour of some Gardai and let them away Scot free with unlawful activities.
The Morris Tribunal result,the industrial level of lying that produced over a million false breath tests,the wrongful prosecution of many thousands people for non payment of fixed charge notice,the persecution of decent whistle blowers who abhor wrongful behaviour and the personal experiences people see every day of wrongful abuse of power and the bullying of the populace by certain wrong Gardai does not arise by accident.
Its grandfather can be found in the treatment of Johann Hayes.
It seems to me that other convictions secured by the Gardai Unit who investigated the the Johanna Hayes case should also be examined to see if they too were tainted likewise.
Now we have certain people dumping on the Catholic Church for these abuses of State power.Particularly some by Church of Ireland commentators.and other non Catholic politicians and journalists..
Whether it is the loss of the tithes and their traditional access to and untrammeled minority rule of years ago they miss that THEY FEEL ENTITLES THEM TO DO THIS  DON'T KNOW.
Certainly they are over represented in in the professions involving the Law.
I rarely have heard Catholic commentators dumping on Church of Ireland persons and practises but the opposite does not pertain.
Simon Harris is the Minister for Health.He is a disaster in this role .Up to 500 people are lying on trolleys each day during his watch and over a half million people are awaiting specialist appointments.
God only knows how many people will die during his watch as a result.
His tiny mind has tried to link the right to kill unborn babies to the Johann Hayes case amongst others.  The  Catholic Church had no hand act nor part in the misconduct of the actors in that case.It didn't kill anyone.
Maybe his logic is that if a child is deliberately killed in the womb it won't be there to clutter up his hospitals in later life.
I have heard it said by some that the events of the handling of the Abbeydornet case is a blight on us all.This of course is nonsense of the highest order.It is not "us all"they that had control of the Gardai and the entire State apparatus that perpetrated that cruelty and torture.It was the political establishmentand and  the legal apparatus established by the politicians
There are those who are jumping on the bandwagon that it was purely misogynistic treatment of women that was the root cause of this  disgraceful near  miscarriage of Justice,
Wrong again.
Just think of the Guilford four and Binmingham 6,where innocent men were stitched by a corrupt police force and State apparatus and later exonerated.
This was in the U.K. and we were no different .
All these guys were men,not women and I am certain that had I time to research the convictions secured here in that ERA I am sure I  could come up with more.
The same political parties that ran the show then are now presiding over a State where criminals and non criminals are murdered on a weekly if not a daily basis.
It is no wonder that they are still trying to divert responsibility from  themselves to "all of us ".











































And by the way I accept that the Serpent tempted certain so called Catholics to his side in the past.Satan plys a sly game.
Satans suipreme triump will surely be Starte killing of the deferceless ouborn

The good people.

Today was a day from hell hereabouts.The chill factor alone would knock you over.There was hateful slanting rain that cut to the bone and the leaden sky was so dark and threatening that it would depress you.Outdoor livestock were huddled against the wind and rain seeking shelter against the elements.
In these conditions I  had to head to Trim.
Now the hair is long and  untidy and I wasn't dressed the best.I walk funny as a result of a stroke endured in 2009 and with the aid of a walking stick and progress is slow.I suppose I looked as miserable as I felt.
To my amazement a very able lady of my own age, I would guess ,approached me and offered me a two Euro piece to buy myself a cup of tea and get in out of the cold.I thanked her kindly and declined.
It might have been a case of mistaken identity but there again it may not have been.
Certainly the milk of human nature still flows strongly in some.
God bless her.
I also was lucky enough to meet Pat Conway from Halltown ,who was a great friend of my uncles Joe and Tommy as a child and often helped them at the farming.
He is home for the Christmas from the States ,never lost has accent and never aged a day in twenty years.A decent guy and a huge loss to Ireland and Dunderry,which as I told someone was founded the day after God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

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.