The above who was in his seventies emigrated to England and settled in London.A native of Carnaross he was a brother of Etna Dowd ,nee Campbell,the the wife of Tommy Dowd and the mother of Tommy the Allstar,Cathy,Dolly and Kevin.
He is survived by a son.
Well Etna and Cathy travelled over to London to bury him at what she says was a very well attended funeral.
Ar dheis De go raibha hAnam dilis.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Computer mice busy as bees.
Now that the GAA Seasons are over for most and that the serial Managers have burnt their boats at their present Clubs there is fierce activity on the Internet in order to establish ;
A.The name and nature of the Chairmen of prospective new Clubs.
B.The names and nature of Secretaries and Treasures of prospective new Clubs.
C.And most importantly whether all other things being equal what Clubs have a strong and successful Lotto.
Dunderry excepted.
A.The name and nature of the Chairmen of prospective new Clubs.
B.The names and nature of Secretaries and Treasures of prospective new Clubs.
C.And most importantly whether all other things being equal what Clubs have a strong and successful Lotto.
Dunderry excepted.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Death of Brendan Rogers ,Boyerstown,Navan.
Brendan Rogers was one of ,if not ,the oldest surviving former footballers of Dunderry GAA Club.He played with my uncles Joe,Paddy and Tommy Mc Cormack and a host of other men long since gone to their eternal reward and I think that he won Intermediate Championship medals with them in the 1940.s but I could be wrong.
His father before him Mattie ,better known as the Buller was one of Ireland's,Leinster and Meath's greatest footballers and had and indeed has legendary status amongst true Gaels.
He drove my mother to Dublin to give birth to my late brother Robert 6 decades ago in one of the former Parish Priest's cars he always had in stock all those years ago.
Brendan had not been well at all in recent times and was in and out of hospital and had the appearance of bad health.This did not diminish has keen interest in all matters agricultural and his wider family ,which he kept up until his untimely death.
His granddaughter Zara is a keen Camogie player with Dunderry Camogie Club and plays Senior and her father Brendan Junior is deeply involved with supporting his daughter's involvement.
The deceased was I understand reared partly with his granny King beside my mother's people alongside the riverbank of the river Clady and they were lifelong friends.
As long as his health allowed he got daily Mass in Dunderry Church ,a fact I know because I often saw him coming or going.
His funeral Mass is in Boyerstown Church this coming Saturday at 3.30 p.m.with burial in the adjoining cemetery afterwards.
To his wife Joan,children David,Joseph,Brendan,George,Joan,Agnes,Anne,Mary and Olive,his survining siblings Micheal ,Tommy,Agnes,Olive,lilly and Brigid .his numerous in laws,and grandchildren and other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a h anam dilis.
His father before him Mattie ,better known as the Buller was one of Ireland's,Leinster and Meath's greatest footballers and had and indeed has legendary status amongst true Gaels.
He drove my mother to Dublin to give birth to my late brother Robert 6 decades ago in one of the former Parish Priest's cars he always had in stock all those years ago.
Brendan had not been well at all in recent times and was in and out of hospital and had the appearance of bad health.This did not diminish has keen interest in all matters agricultural and his wider family ,which he kept up until his untimely death.
His granddaughter Zara is a keen Camogie player with Dunderry Camogie Club and plays Senior and her father Brendan Junior is deeply involved with supporting his daughter's involvement.
The deceased was I understand reared partly with his granny King beside my mother's people alongside the riverbank of the river Clady and they were lifelong friends.
As long as his health allowed he got daily Mass in Dunderry Church ,a fact I know because I often saw him coming or going.
His funeral Mass is in Boyerstown Church this coming Saturday at 3.30 p.m.with burial in the adjoining cemetery afterwards.
To his wife Joan,children David,Joseph,Brendan,George,Joan,Agnes,Anne,Mary and Olive,his survining siblings Micheal ,Tommy,Agnes,Olive,lilly and Brigid .his numerous in laws,and grandchildren and other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a h anam dilis.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YA.
Electric Picnic is hailed as a great family day out.I don't go but expect it is fairly expensive to attend.A guy went on Joe the Squaddie's show last week to complain ,justifiably ,that he was waiting 8 years to get a hip replacement operation in Navan Hospital but that it was cancelled at the last moment.
The Health Board gave out free Johnnies at Electric Picnic.The guy still awaits his operation and over one million people await in line to see consultants.
Give them all Johnnies says I.
Sodom and Gomorrah spring to mind.Or should that be Gonorrhea.
This is the Leo and Simon way.
God and Pope Francis help us.
Hope HE does not zappone us .
"A Johnny in my time was the name given to a French Letter or a piece of rubber you put on your bud to prevent the contents of your sack from spilling outwards".
The Health Board gave out free Johnnies at Electric Picnic.The guy still awaits his operation and over one million people await in line to see consultants.
Give them all Johnnies says I.
Sodom and Gomorrah spring to mind.Or should that be Gonorrhea.
This is the Leo and Simon way.
God and Pope Francis help us.
Hope HE does not zappone us .
"A Johnny in my time was the name given to a French Letter or a piece of rubber you put on your bud to prevent the contents of your sack from spilling outwards".
Friday, August 24, 2018
Time to drain the RTE Cesspool
I happened by mistake to hit the wrong dial on the Radio this evening.I say by mistake because that abomination of a radio station is leading a witch hunt against Catholicism and the Pope's visit to this Country.
Not for the first time the station has been taken over lock stock and barrel by a cultish gang of bowsies ,to whom the Station employees are in thrall.
Those of us a bit long in the tooth will remember when the writ of the Stickies ran riot there and their contorted views held sway .Thankfully the many guises they morphed into were copped onto by the electorate long since and they are long gone from the scene .The cowardice of their armed wing was dubbed "The Irish Ran Away "when they ran and hid from rampaging Loyalist and murdering British forces during the Troubles and real fighters had to take their place.
I well remember the total adherence of all the Journalists there to the writ of Conor Cruise O Brien that suppressed the interview of Sinn Fein and IRA members on the same War in Northern Ireland ,the genesis of which lay in absolute discrimination against Catholics and in which basically the majority of Catholics there and many here gave tacit if not actual support.Thankfully Burton has led his Labour Party into the void.
The only brave journalist to break ranks was Kevin O Kelly and he did jail time for his courage.
And it is not that long since the Cesspool had to pay substantial damages for lying about the activities of a Priest.Actually we the citizens who largely fund RTE had to pay the damages and legal fees.
The hatred of Catholicism endemic in the place was passed off as "group think"by the journalists and programmer makers etc.
This hatred , anti Catholic bigotry and group think has festered since and is glaring in its bias against all things Catholic and its sycophantic nodding and benign approval to anti Catholic bigots and homosexual practitioners is sickening.
Its glorification of those who facilitate the murder of the living unborn is constant and it never ceases to champion those who celebrated and danced in Dublin Castle, on the evening of the result of the Referendum for State execution ,on the graves of those who will be exterminated in the future .
Now I happened to hear Miriam Mc Gurk ,Carson O Callaghan sink to new lows yet again yesterday.
You would have to ask how she would even have the neck to interview anybody on matters Catholic ,when the Catholic view on marriage is that it is for life and between a man and a woman and that she herself has two living husbands so far .The point being that it is clear that she could hardly be seen be unbiased personally on Catholic mores and ought excuse herself as a neutral arbiter on matter Catholic.
Earlier this week I had heard Gabriel Byrne mock the Dublin he had grown up in and denigrate Ireland from his perch somewhere in New York where he had emigrated to decades ago.True to form he was also denigrating about a half of his new neighbours and indeed the USA.
It appears that he had been molested whilst studying for the Priesthood by a deviant homosexual before he bailed out.
He progressed then to sneer and belittle Mick Cleary AND Eamon Casey because they broke their vows of chastity,which by the way is contrary to cannon law but absolutely not contrary to civil law.
This was followed by the ultimate political insider Mainin the ex President ,who like Henry the Eight before her wants the Catholic Church to change its laws,in her case to allow gay marriage and the practice of homo sexual sex to be allowed under its rules because one of her sons is a homosexual.
Might I suggest to her that she and her family and her supporters can and should defect to the Church founded by the aforesaid Henry where all the things she so screechingly demands are de rigour and allowed or why not set up her own and fund its start up from the substantial pension us poor plebs pay her.
She again mocked Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey ,both of whom are dead and cannot defend themselves.
Earlier yesterday I could not believe my ears when on The Cesspool Radio I heard Miriam interviewing a son of the aforesaid Mick.
She did her best to get him to say he hated his father.Thankfully he wasn't tricked into saying this and professed his absolute love for him.She can presumably dig lower tomorrow and dig up Mick Cleary's bones and interview and mock them also.
Interestingly he made reference to journalists of the time hiding in bushes to try and confront him and his siblings,mere children then.No change in journalistic behaviour since seemingly
Then last evening I strayed into the end of an interview in the Prime Time Studio where a decent Bishop was tricked into attending a hostile and vicious attack by her as a supposed neutral interviewer and where many of the imbalanced audience would seem to have been drawn from those dancers and singers who attended Dublin Castle.
Her bias was particularly evident when she knowingly said the homosexuality was against Catholic teaching ,when it is not.Its practise is.
Certainly had those devious and depraved homosexuals that snuck into the Church using the Priesthood as a veil to rape and sodomize young boys in their control kept their dicks in their pockets the odium they brought on the Church would be avoided.
I try.often without success , to be a follower of the Cross and forgiving and aside from murder ,including the murder of preborn human beings ,the rape and sodomizing of anyone especially a child is as vile as it gets and I think I would gladly kill anyone who did to a relation of my own
The question of how enough of these depraved homosexual got into the Church must be examined as must the probability of the existence of a cell of these subhumans and whether there was a conspiracy between them and others of their ilk to get in and keep it secret.
I heard Colm O Gorman po poing such a scenario implying it would be wrong even think of such a probability and this was let go unchallenged by Mrs.Carson.
O Gorman for a long time now has gone out of his way to denigrate all things Catholic and is devoured by hate.What has he got to fear by by an investigation on the lines I outline or does he think that only the Catholic Church should be instigated and that these group of homosexual degenerates ought exempt from further scrutiny.
I haven't read the Philadelphia Report yet but it also seems that what happened here happened there.ie there was rape and sodomy of boys be men and forced oral sex .
This leads me to speculate that this raping and sodomizing of defenceless boys by men was fairly widespread and in roughly the same timeline and I wonder whether these degenerates had a wider communication than thought heretofore.
Personally I think such heinous crimes by these people could not be kept totally secret from wider society and that all citizens, homosexual and hetero and in between and of none ought come clean if they already have not, if they information they think relevant..
I believe in goodness and evil and think that the Devil could do no better than to plant a bunch of evil dec deviant homosexual predators into Christ's Church to pass themselves off as Priests and wreak the havoc they have
On a personal level I am 67 years old ,grew up in Ireland ,was in regular touch with the Clergy,served Mass for years,went to the Christian Brothers,played Hurling and Football for decades and was never once abused nor beaten by any religious nor Priest nor Christian Brother.Maybe we had the Angel Gabriel on our shoulders and he saw the evil beasts off.
I have the height of respect for the Catholic Clergy and Brothers I met and they were many and know full that outside of the Cess pool and the other media outlets there are millions like me.
78 PER CENTAGE OF US DESCRIBED OURSELVES AS CATHOLIC IN THE RECENT CENSUS
BUT OF COURSE THE CESSPOOL AND THEIR SERIAL PANELLISTS THINK US TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW TO FILL THE FORM .
Mickey Harte is bang on the money to have nothing to do with the Cesspool and more Counties ought follow the example he has adopted.
And one final thing, only a very small percentage of those who snuck through the nets of the Priest hood were perverts and the enemies of Catholicism ,including the members of the Cesspool and their journalistic friends ought stop implying that all Priests were in this Demonic league.
To refuse to do so is similar to saying the all journalists are child molesters just because one well known Journalist was so convicted.
Not for the first time the station has been taken over lock stock and barrel by a cultish gang of bowsies ,to whom the Station employees are in thrall.
Those of us a bit long in the tooth will remember when the writ of the Stickies ran riot there and their contorted views held sway .Thankfully the many guises they morphed into were copped onto by the electorate long since and they are long gone from the scene .The cowardice of their armed wing was dubbed "The Irish Ran Away "when they ran and hid from rampaging Loyalist and murdering British forces during the Troubles and real fighters had to take their place.
I well remember the total adherence of all the Journalists there to the writ of Conor Cruise O Brien that suppressed the interview of Sinn Fein and IRA members on the same War in Northern Ireland ,the genesis of which lay in absolute discrimination against Catholics and in which basically the majority of Catholics there and many here gave tacit if not actual support.Thankfully Burton has led his Labour Party into the void.
The only brave journalist to break ranks was Kevin O Kelly and he did jail time for his courage.
And it is not that long since the Cesspool had to pay substantial damages for lying about the activities of a Priest.Actually we the citizens who largely fund RTE had to pay the damages and legal fees.
The hatred of Catholicism endemic in the place was passed off as "group think"by the journalists and programmer makers etc.
This hatred , anti Catholic bigotry and group think has festered since and is glaring in its bias against all things Catholic and its sycophantic nodding and benign approval to anti Catholic bigots and homosexual practitioners is sickening.
Its glorification of those who facilitate the murder of the living unborn is constant and it never ceases to champion those who celebrated and danced in Dublin Castle, on the evening of the result of the Referendum for State execution ,on the graves of those who will be exterminated in the future .
Now I happened to hear Miriam Mc Gurk ,Carson O Callaghan sink to new lows yet again yesterday.
You would have to ask how she would even have the neck to interview anybody on matters Catholic ,when the Catholic view on marriage is that it is for life and between a man and a woman and that she herself has two living husbands so far .The point being that it is clear that she could hardly be seen be unbiased personally on Catholic mores and ought excuse herself as a neutral arbiter on matter Catholic.
Earlier this week I had heard Gabriel Byrne mock the Dublin he had grown up in and denigrate Ireland from his perch somewhere in New York where he had emigrated to decades ago.True to form he was also denigrating about a half of his new neighbours and indeed the USA.
It appears that he had been molested whilst studying for the Priesthood by a deviant homosexual before he bailed out.
He progressed then to sneer and belittle Mick Cleary AND Eamon Casey because they broke their vows of chastity,which by the way is contrary to cannon law but absolutely not contrary to civil law.
This was followed by the ultimate political insider Mainin the ex President ,who like Henry the Eight before her wants the Catholic Church to change its laws,in her case to allow gay marriage and the practice of homo sexual sex to be allowed under its rules because one of her sons is a homosexual.
Might I suggest to her that she and her family and her supporters can and should defect to the Church founded by the aforesaid Henry where all the things she so screechingly demands are de rigour and allowed or why not set up her own and fund its start up from the substantial pension us poor plebs pay her.
She again mocked Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey ,both of whom are dead and cannot defend themselves.
Earlier yesterday I could not believe my ears when on The Cesspool Radio I heard Miriam interviewing a son of the aforesaid Mick.
She did her best to get him to say he hated his father.Thankfully he wasn't tricked into saying this and professed his absolute love for him.She can presumably dig lower tomorrow and dig up Mick Cleary's bones and interview and mock them also.
Interestingly he made reference to journalists of the time hiding in bushes to try and confront him and his siblings,mere children then.No change in journalistic behaviour since seemingly
Then last evening I strayed into the end of an interview in the Prime Time Studio where a decent Bishop was tricked into attending a hostile and vicious attack by her as a supposed neutral interviewer and where many of the imbalanced audience would seem to have been drawn from those dancers and singers who attended Dublin Castle.
Her bias was particularly evident when she knowingly said the homosexuality was against Catholic teaching ,when it is not.Its practise is.
Certainly had those devious and depraved homosexuals that snuck into the Church using the Priesthood as a veil to rape and sodomize young boys in their control kept their dicks in their pockets the odium they brought on the Church would be avoided.
I try.often without success , to be a follower of the Cross and forgiving and aside from murder ,including the murder of preborn human beings ,the rape and sodomizing of anyone especially a child is as vile as it gets and I think I would gladly kill anyone who did to a relation of my own
The question of how enough of these depraved homosexual got into the Church must be examined as must the probability of the existence of a cell of these subhumans and whether there was a conspiracy between them and others of their ilk to get in and keep it secret.
I heard Colm O Gorman po poing such a scenario implying it would be wrong even think of such a probability and this was let go unchallenged by Mrs.Carson.
O Gorman for a long time now has gone out of his way to denigrate all things Catholic and is devoured by hate.What has he got to fear by by an investigation on the lines I outline or does he think that only the Catholic Church should be instigated and that these group of homosexual degenerates ought exempt from further scrutiny.
I haven't read the Philadelphia Report yet but it also seems that what happened here happened there.ie there was rape and sodomy of boys be men and forced oral sex .
This leads me to speculate that this raping and sodomizing of defenceless boys by men was fairly widespread and in roughly the same timeline and I wonder whether these degenerates had a wider communication than thought heretofore.
Personally I think such heinous crimes by these people could not be kept totally secret from wider society and that all citizens, homosexual and hetero and in between and of none ought come clean if they already have not, if they information they think relevant..
I believe in goodness and evil and think that the Devil could do no better than to plant a bunch of evil dec deviant homosexual predators into Christ's Church to pass themselves off as Priests and wreak the havoc they have
On a personal level I am 67 years old ,grew up in Ireland ,was in regular touch with the Clergy,served Mass for years,went to the Christian Brothers,played Hurling and Football for decades and was never once abused nor beaten by any religious nor Priest nor Christian Brother.Maybe we had the Angel Gabriel on our shoulders and he saw the evil beasts off.
I have the height of respect for the Catholic Clergy and Brothers I met and they were many and know full that outside of the Cess pool and the other media outlets there are millions like me.
78 PER CENTAGE OF US DESCRIBED OURSELVES AS CATHOLIC IN THE RECENT CENSUS
BUT OF COURSE THE CESSPOOL AND THEIR SERIAL PANELLISTS THINK US TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW TO FILL THE FORM .
Mickey Harte is bang on the money to have nothing to do with the Cesspool and more Counties ought follow the example he has adopted.
And one final thing, only a very small percentage of those who snuck through the nets of the Priest hood were perverts and the enemies of Catholicism ,including the members of the Cesspool and their journalistic friends ought stop implying that all Priests were in this Demonic league.
To refuse to do so is similar to saying the all journalists are child molesters just because one well known Journalist was so convicted.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Auld traditions die hard in Limerick.
I wrote some time ago about the naked greed of the Rugby fraternity in fixing an important rugby match for them in Limerick on a good Friday in the hope of maximizing their financial rewards and those of their political and financial groupies.
Professional Rugby has for decades wheeled out Limerick as an example of how this snob game is embraced by the working classes.
Thanks be to God that the Limerick hurling team won the All Ireland Hurling last Sunday and that 90,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO GREET THEM HOME ON MONDAY.
Proof ,if ever proof was ever needed ,of where the true sporting loyalties of ordinary Limerick people lie.
It is in the DNA of all true Gaels and you either have it or not and no amount of nonsense nor money can purchase this loyalty .
And fair dues to the Gaels of Na Piarsaig for successfully promoting our beautiful game of hurling in the huge shadow of overpaid professional sportspeople of Thomond Park.
Professional Rugby has for decades wheeled out Limerick as an example of how this snob game is embraced by the working classes.
Thanks be to God that the Limerick hurling team won the All Ireland Hurling last Sunday and that 90,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO GREET THEM HOME ON MONDAY.
Proof ,if ever proof was ever needed ,of where the true sporting loyalties of ordinary Limerick people lie.
It is in the DNA of all true Gaels and you either have it or not and no amount of nonsense nor money can purchase this loyalty .
And fair dues to the Gaels of Na Piarsaig for successfully promoting our beautiful game of hurling in the huge shadow of overpaid professional sportspeople of Thomond Park.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Trim Church full this evening.
After a day when Radio Eireann reached a new low in puke journalism insofar as it broadcast as many mocking and anti Catholic stories as it could I donned my Pope Francis cap and headed into Trim Church to celebrate the start of the World Meeting of Families at 7.30 this evening.
The Church was full with the finest of people ,including a number of Dunderry people.
Father Hornick played a part in the engaging Service.
I stayed late to contemplate the deranged, outrageous ,spiteful and bitchy contributions that I had heard from the usual waggons these last few days ,led by the former political insider Mc Aleese who is lashing out blindly at everything Catholic ,just because she has a son who is homosexual and the Catholic Church regards the practise of homosexuality as wrong.
She wants the Church to change its teachings to suit his condition and sexual preferences.
I thought to myself that the desire to satisfy the bud has lead to discord for centuries.
We still have in this Parish the ruins of Churches destroyed by King' Enery because the then Pope wouldn't change Church law to allow him remarry .
As we all know his inadequate bud failed to produce a male heir after several females were serviced by him and beheaded as a result of his failure and the Church of England founded with him as its head and a fundamental rule to this day that no Catholic can become Monarch of England.
This breakaway organization allows women Priests,married Priests and homosexual ministers,issues which moaning MAININ bleats about all of the time.
She should make a beeline there and save us the perpetual screeching.
And if she thinks that her hectoring and bullying misuse of her former status as President to change Church law to suit the use of he son's bud is likely to succeed she is mistaken.
There is one thing that puzzles me about this witch hunt and it is this.
From my reading of the reportage it seems that the buggery and sodomizing was done overwhelmingly by men who preyed beneath the radar on young and defenceless boys,ie by same sex perverts.
You would imagine that homosexual organizations would be anxious to establish why these tendencies seem to exist so extensively in that area of sexual endeavour.
I wonder whether independent studies have been done and what the results are.
Now Mainin the ex had no problem calling Mick Cleary and Bishop Casey hypocrites because they did what she and her consort did i.e they had sexual congress with members of the opposite sex and had children.
Sure isn't this is what she and her ilk is campaigning for.
I knew Mick and some of the family and I would think more of his disgarded small toe nail than I DO OF ALL THESE BIGOTS.and their fellow traverrers.
Of course as a lawyer and former student of Enery's Lizzies Uni,she knows that the dead cannot sue for defamation.
I am certain the the families of Mick Cleary and former Bishop Casey are grievously hurt by her comments and unless she is stupid ,which I doubt, those comments give the lie to her supposed concerns about Christian mores.
She is no more Catholic than the woman in the moon and were I to get into Heaven in the afterlife and see her and her hateful fellow travellers I would opt for relocation to the other place for eternity,where I fully expect to see the sexual predators who preyed on the defenceless young ,those who covered it up,the herd of anti Catholic bigots currently in full bray and the facilitators and enablers of the murder of defenceless living unborn ,intermingle and compare notes .
Finally I find it disgusting that those political facilitators whose fangs are dripping with the blood of the defenceless unborn and those who profit from painful divorce brigade, have the temerity to advise anyone especially God's man on earth how to run his and my Church.
Realizing as I do that the journalistic profession includes in its numbers at least one sexual predator about which little is heard from fellow journalists and that Mussolini was a journalist before he became a fascist Dictator ,I ought not be surprised by the ignorance and bigotry displayed by Miriam O Callaghan and her hateful colleagues,both electronic and written , today in their one sided reportage and choice of guests .
And if you ever want to hear an ignorant,spiteful and badly researched interview just listen to the mocking interview with the Bishop of Raphoe this morning on "Morning Ireland",when the Bishop was queried about the attendance of a former Bishop SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA at the Congress of families.
This interview was done by Cathal Mac Coille and a colleague ,who again today sneered at Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey deceased in the full knowledge that they are dead and cannot sue and knowing full well that the people they hurt are people like me and the relatives of these men.
These excuses for reporters are bully boy anti Catho;ic bigots ,who have earned for me the appelation of RTE as "RTE ,the home of the bigots".
This was followed up by Pinkie Miriam calling Sean Spicer a liar on radio.
This is what we pay their wages for.
Mickey Hatre is right to have nothing to do with this shower of ignoramuses .
The Church was full with the finest of people ,including a number of Dunderry people.
Father Hornick played a part in the engaging Service.
I stayed late to contemplate the deranged, outrageous ,spiteful and bitchy contributions that I had heard from the usual waggons these last few days ,led by the former political insider Mc Aleese who is lashing out blindly at everything Catholic ,just because she has a son who is homosexual and the Catholic Church regards the practise of homosexuality as wrong.
She wants the Church to change its teachings to suit his condition and sexual preferences.
I thought to myself that the desire to satisfy the bud has lead to discord for centuries.
We still have in this Parish the ruins of Churches destroyed by King' Enery because the then Pope wouldn't change Church law to allow him remarry .
As we all know his inadequate bud failed to produce a male heir after several females were serviced by him and beheaded as a result of his failure and the Church of England founded with him as its head and a fundamental rule to this day that no Catholic can become Monarch of England.
This breakaway organization allows women Priests,married Priests and homosexual ministers,issues which moaning MAININ bleats about all of the time.
She should make a beeline there and save us the perpetual screeching.
And if she thinks that her hectoring and bullying misuse of her former status as President to change Church law to suit the use of he son's bud is likely to succeed she is mistaken.
There is one thing that puzzles me about this witch hunt and it is this.
From my reading of the reportage it seems that the buggery and sodomizing was done overwhelmingly by men who preyed beneath the radar on young and defenceless boys,ie by same sex perverts.
You would imagine that homosexual organizations would be anxious to establish why these tendencies seem to exist so extensively in that area of sexual endeavour.
I wonder whether independent studies have been done and what the results are.
Now Mainin the ex had no problem calling Mick Cleary and Bishop Casey hypocrites because they did what she and her consort did i.e they had sexual congress with members of the opposite sex and had children.
Sure isn't this is what she and her ilk is campaigning for.
I knew Mick and some of the family and I would think more of his disgarded small toe nail than I DO OF ALL THESE BIGOTS.and their fellow traverrers.
Of course as a lawyer and former student of Enery's Lizzies Uni,she knows that the dead cannot sue for defamation.
I am certain the the families of Mick Cleary and former Bishop Casey are grievously hurt by her comments and unless she is stupid ,which I doubt, those comments give the lie to her supposed concerns about Christian mores.
She is no more Catholic than the woman in the moon and were I to get into Heaven in the afterlife and see her and her hateful fellow travellers I would opt for relocation to the other place for eternity,where I fully expect to see the sexual predators who preyed on the defenceless young ,those who covered it up,the herd of anti Catholic bigots currently in full bray and the facilitators and enablers of the murder of defenceless living unborn ,intermingle and compare notes .
Finally I find it disgusting that those political facilitators whose fangs are dripping with the blood of the defenceless unborn and those who profit from painful divorce brigade, have the temerity to advise anyone especially God's man on earth how to run his and my Church.
Realizing as I do that the journalistic profession includes in its numbers at least one sexual predator about which little is heard from fellow journalists and that Mussolini was a journalist before he became a fascist Dictator ,I ought not be surprised by the ignorance and bigotry displayed by Miriam O Callaghan and her hateful colleagues,both electronic and written , today in their one sided reportage and choice of guests .
And if you ever want to hear an ignorant,spiteful and badly researched interview just listen to the mocking interview with the Bishop of Raphoe this morning on "Morning Ireland",when the Bishop was queried about the attendance of a former Bishop SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA at the Congress of families.
This interview was done by Cathal Mac Coille and a colleague ,who again today sneered at Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey deceased in the full knowledge that they are dead and cannot sue and knowing full well that the people they hurt are people like me and the relatives of these men.
These excuses for reporters are bully boy anti Catho;ic bigots ,who have earned for me the appelation of RTE as "RTE ,the home of the bigots".
This was followed up by Pinkie Miriam calling Sean Spicer a liar on radio.
This is what we pay their wages for.
Mickey Hatre is right to have nothing to do with this shower of ignoramuses .
Friday, July 27, 2018
Were GAA ambushed by Miller Committee.
Media reports indicate that amongst those organizing the soccer match for the late Liam Miller's family is a GAA member of the GAA Clb that Miller played with as a juvenile .His name appears to be O Flynn..
As such he would have known that by rule the GAA is prohibited from allowing its pitches and premises from being used to promote field games it competes with.
That being the case one wonders whether the approach to use Pairc Ui Caoimh to host the match was deliberately made to stroke up controversy and as an opportunity to savage the GAA by the many opponents it has in Irish society ,who are envious of the ability of the GAA to secure their own premises and pitches by careful use of its funds and by implementing its amateur ethos by its thousands of volunteers working for and playing its games for free instead of paying its players.
It is hard to conclude otherwise than that an ambush was sprung and well orchestrated by both social media and regular media begrudgers who despise the GAA and all it stands for,including power hungry politicians who want to make the GAA as inefficient in administering its affairs as they are with administering those areas of responsibility they themselves control such as health,policing and housing to name a few.
That the Judas goat Sean Kelly,former GAA President who misused his power to promote the game of rugby over the games he was supposed to nurture is again weighing in on the side of those who want to drive a coach and fours through GAA rules,comes as no surprise.He has well earned his pieces of silver for his treachery.
Those of us who labour on the on the coal face of promoting our National Games know only too well of the targeting of our schools by the soccer and Rugby people in order to deplete our ranks and promote their own and their trips to lANDSTOWN ROAD --"No phones or cameras please for fear you violate the image rights of our players".
In this former GAA stronghold rugby and soccer have seduced at least a half dozen of our better players to their ranks at the expense of our adult teams with the implied promise of money and fame.
And we are supposed to laud them by giving the use of our grounds to further promote their advances.You must be joking.
I hope those in charge of our rules and games do the honest thing and implement the rules as all true GAA people understand them,come what may.
And a lesson ought be learn ed here .Never again seek money from the State to promote our games and when we are treated unfairly and threatened by the State because they gave us taxpayers money .let all GAA taxpayers just cease paying their taxes and funnel the money saved into our local and National branches.
As such he would have known that by rule the GAA is prohibited from allowing its pitches and premises from being used to promote field games it competes with.
That being the case one wonders whether the approach to use Pairc Ui Caoimh to host the match was deliberately made to stroke up controversy and as an opportunity to savage the GAA by the many opponents it has in Irish society ,who are envious of the ability of the GAA to secure their own premises and pitches by careful use of its funds and by implementing its amateur ethos by its thousands of volunteers working for and playing its games for free instead of paying its players.
It is hard to conclude otherwise than that an ambush was sprung and well orchestrated by both social media and regular media begrudgers who despise the GAA and all it stands for,including power hungry politicians who want to make the GAA as inefficient in administering its affairs as they are with administering those areas of responsibility they themselves control such as health,policing and housing to name a few.
That the Judas goat Sean Kelly,former GAA President who misused his power to promote the game of rugby over the games he was supposed to nurture is again weighing in on the side of those who want to drive a coach and fours through GAA rules,comes as no surprise.He has well earned his pieces of silver for his treachery.
Those of us who labour on the on the coal face of promoting our National Games know only too well of the targeting of our schools by the soccer and Rugby people in order to deplete our ranks and promote their own and their trips to lANDSTOWN ROAD --"No phones or cameras please for fear you violate the image rights of our players".
In this former GAA stronghold rugby and soccer have seduced at least a half dozen of our better players to their ranks at the expense of our adult teams with the implied promise of money and fame.
And we are supposed to laud them by giving the use of our grounds to further promote their advances.You must be joking.
I hope those in charge of our rules and games do the honest thing and implement the rules as all true GAA people understand them,come what may.
And a lesson ought be learn ed here .Never again seek money from the State to promote our games and when we are treated unfairly and threatened by the State because they gave us taxpayers money .let all GAA taxpayers just cease paying their taxes and funnel the money saved into our local and National branches.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Currrent Sinn Fein leadership betrays Republican traditions.
I never was a member of Sinn Fein.I never took up arms to shoot enemies of Republicans.It is probably to my shame that I did little to help those Republicans who fought the British Empire.the Irish Republic and the failed Northern Ireland entity in order to get equality for Catholics from the early 1920 s until the passage of the Good Friday agreement.
I have nothing but admiration for those that did.
Three of my granduncles,Mallons from Bohermeen joined the IRA during the War of Independence and fought the better equipped forces of the greatest Empire the world has ever known .including the Royal Irish Constabulary and the professional murderers and thugs of the Black and Tans.
They lived day to day and hour by hour as they set their sights on a better resourced and equipped enemy.
I am absolutely sure that they never would have contemplated setting their gun sights on the bodies of the unborn children of Ireland.
We now have Sinn Fein .which claims to be the successors of these heroes doing precisely this and because the leader is a woman ,blood thirsty to introduce human sacrifice into this republic's laws and culture ,no one of significance in that Party has the balls to stand up and call halt.
It is no surprise to me that Fine Gael thinks that little of the living unborn ,especially if they are Christian Irish ,have their eyes on stalks seeking to make the murder of the living unborn part of our legal culture.
Every chance their frontbenchers get they attack the Catholic Ethos but not the ethos of the minority Churches whose members they represent.
Yep fuck the Catholics.Put them down at every hands turn..Life will be a lot easier for us when we have cowed them out of comment and we have a free run at our form of secularism.
In this regard their Ministers are a thundering disgrace.
And as for certain Fianna Fail Ministers who support the introduction of human sacrifice into our laws and culture fuck them and the horses they rode into town in.
They all can cultivate friendship with that half XCHINESE ABORTIONIST WHOSE CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE HAS MURDERED OVER 40,000 UNBORN BABIES.
THEY SHOULD ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE IN HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
I have nothing but admiration for those that did.
Three of my granduncles,Mallons from Bohermeen joined the IRA during the War of Independence and fought the better equipped forces of the greatest Empire the world has ever known .including the Royal Irish Constabulary and the professional murderers and thugs of the Black and Tans.
They lived day to day and hour by hour as they set their sights on a better resourced and equipped enemy.
I am absolutely sure that they never would have contemplated setting their gun sights on the bodies of the unborn children of Ireland.
We now have Sinn Fein .which claims to be the successors of these heroes doing precisely this and because the leader is a woman ,blood thirsty to introduce human sacrifice into this republic's laws and culture ,no one of significance in that Party has the balls to stand up and call halt.
It is no surprise to me that Fine Gael thinks that little of the living unborn ,especially if they are Christian Irish ,have their eyes on stalks seeking to make the murder of the living unborn part of our legal culture.
Every chance their frontbenchers get they attack the Catholic Ethos but not the ethos of the minority Churches whose members they represent.
Yep fuck the Catholics.Put them down at every hands turn..Life will be a lot easier for us when we have cowed them out of comment and we have a free run at our form of secularism.
In this regard their Ministers are a thundering disgrace.
And as for certain Fianna Fail Ministers who support the introduction of human sacrifice into our laws and culture fuck them and the horses they rode into town in.
They all can cultivate friendship with that half XCHINESE ABORTIONIST WHOSE CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE HAS MURDERED OVER 40,000 UNBORN BABIES.
THEY SHOULD ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE IN HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
HEART RENDING DEATH OF NAOISE CLARKE LAMBAY
This morning a young child ,little more than a baby,flew from this life straight into the arms of the Angels.His departure was anticipated but is nevertheless shocking to all in Dunderry .neighbouring Parishes and indeed further afield.
His parents Damian and Eadaoin,his sister Muireann and all his relatives and his neighbours smothered him with love from birth until his premature departure and they left no stone unturned to make his life as comfortable and stress free as possible.
Our hearts bleed for them and hopefully our prayers will offer them some sort of limited succour.
His Funeral Mass is on Monday next 14th May at noon in Seipeal Naomh Padraig,Rathcairn, followed by burial Saint James Cemetery, Athboy.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Words alone cannot express the devastation and loss felt here for all involved.
A terrible tragedy.
His parents Damian and Eadaoin,his sister Muireann and all his relatives and his neighbours smothered him with love from birth until his premature departure and they left no stone unturned to make his life as comfortable and stress free as possible.
Our hearts bleed for them and hopefully our prayers will offer them some sort of limited succour.
His Funeral Mass is on Monday next 14th May at noon in Seipeal Naomh Padraig,Rathcairn, followed by burial Saint James Cemetery, Athboy.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Words alone cannot express the devastation and loss felt here for all involved.
A terrible tragedy.
Monday, April 23, 2018
Death of S.V.Mc Cormack
Seamus,formerly of the Meadstown Road,Dunderry and latterly of Navan has passed away this morning after a long illness bravely endured.
He had made his peace with God and everybody else.
He was one of life's characters and during his 72 years on this earth he made many many people smile and laugh.
He was irrepressible .
To his wife Claire and three children ,Derek,Brian and Niamh and grandchildren ,Nina and Aoife especially we offer our sincere condolences.We also sympathise with his only brother Pat.
When we were much younger Jimmy and Nan,Seamus's parents, took in my siblings and I when my mother would be in Hospital having the latest baby.Seamus and Patrick were older and were kind to us.
They were fierce interested in racing bikes then and indeed subsequently.I had never seen one, especially one with a fixed wheel and had no idea how it worked.
In any event they gave me an old one and challenged me to a race up the Meadstown Road past I think WOOD's shop .
Wishing to give a good account of myself I pedalled like the clappers until I came to the finishing line ,when I stopped pedalling and was thrown over thee handlebars and nearly kilt.To this day I don't know whether this was their idea of a joke or not.If it was it was in poor taste.
Our house in Blanch was a pit stop for all Dunderry people,especially our relatives and the Meadstown Mc Cormacks called in many many times when passing through Blanch.
There were nine kids in the house and had my mother notice of arrivals one of us would be dispatched to Shaw's shop -----now Maccarris Chipper---- to get provisions .
But one day they called out of the blue and provisions were low,so the best the Ma could do was to produce a plate of cheese sandwiches,which everybody tucked into bar Pat".Whats wrong Pat "said the Ma."Aunt Peggy I am not very enthusiastic about cheese ".After a very pregnant silence the Ma said "For a ten year old he has a fierce command of the English language ,hasn't he."And so it went.
Much later ,when Seamus was in his early twenties the Ras Tailteann was going through Blanch on its way to Navan.We were in our back and only kitchen having a cup of tay ,when this vision in Lycra came in the back door breathless and shining with sweat with the bike on his back.
"Jaysus Peggy I am the fuckest man in Ireland ,make us a feed "said Seamus."That's the end of my cycling days"
Seamus had many careers and was never boring.He was prone to exaggeration and could spoof with the best.He always dressed well and could and probably did sell sand to the Arabs.
Goodbye Cousin.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
He will be reposing in his residence in Ferndale ,Navan from 5.00 pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 26/4/2018 with the Funeral Mass on Friday 27/4/2018 in St, Mary's Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.
Burial after wards in St.Mary's Cemetery.
He had made his peace with God and everybody else.
He was one of life's characters and during his 72 years on this earth he made many many people smile and laugh.
He was irrepressible .
To his wife Claire and three children ,Derek,Brian and Niamh and grandchildren ,Nina and Aoife especially we offer our sincere condolences.We also sympathise with his only brother Pat.
When we were much younger Jimmy and Nan,Seamus's parents, took in my siblings and I when my mother would be in Hospital having the latest baby.Seamus and Patrick were older and were kind to us.
They were fierce interested in racing bikes then and indeed subsequently.I had never seen one, especially one with a fixed wheel and had no idea how it worked.
In any event they gave me an old one and challenged me to a race up the Meadstown Road past I think WOOD's shop .
Wishing to give a good account of myself I pedalled like the clappers until I came to the finishing line ,when I stopped pedalling and was thrown over thee handlebars and nearly kilt.To this day I don't know whether this was their idea of a joke or not.If it was it was in poor taste.
Our house in Blanch was a pit stop for all Dunderry people,especially our relatives and the Meadstown Mc Cormacks called in many many times when passing through Blanch.
There were nine kids in the house and had my mother notice of arrivals one of us would be dispatched to Shaw's shop -----now Maccarris Chipper---- to get provisions .
But one day they called out of the blue and provisions were low,so the best the Ma could do was to produce a plate of cheese sandwiches,which everybody tucked into bar Pat".Whats wrong Pat "said the Ma."Aunt Peggy I am not very enthusiastic about cheese ".After a very pregnant silence the Ma said "For a ten year old he has a fierce command of the English language ,hasn't he."And so it went.
Much later ,when Seamus was in his early twenties the Ras Tailteann was going through Blanch on its way to Navan.We were in our back and only kitchen having a cup of tay ,when this vision in Lycra came in the back door breathless and shining with sweat with the bike on his back.
"Jaysus Peggy I am the fuckest man in Ireland ,make us a feed "said Seamus."That's the end of my cycling days"
Seamus had many careers and was never boring.He was prone to exaggeration and could spoof with the best.He always dressed well and could and probably did sell sand to the Arabs.
Goodbye Cousin.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
He will be reposing in his residence in Ferndale ,Navan from 5.00 pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 26/4/2018 with the Funeral Mass on Friday 27/4/2018 in St, Mary's Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.
Burial after wards in St.Mary's Cemetery.
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Dunderry 2-14.Drumbarragh 1-9.IFC ROUND 2.
As a kind of prologue to this report mise has missed a number of football and hurling matches this year for one reason or another.Hopefully things will sort themselves out henceforth.
Generally I take the view that Dunderry has traditionally been a strong Intermediate football team through most of its existence,occasionally winning a Championship and heading upwards to Senior.
The last wave of players to go Senior stayed up a considerable time ,winning a Senior in 1996 and staying up until 2005,when we were demoted down.
We have been strong at Inter level since then .losing a final replay to St.COLMCILLES two years ago probably being the epitome of our always gallant efforts.
I have seen a number of League matches this year .The one versus Senchaelstown being the most recent.
They are a solid but currently non spectacular Senior team and in my time we have been just as good as them even though we are a grade below them.
We played them in our pitch recently and it was a draw.
Even though we were short half a team between County commitments and injury 20 men and boys togged out,so caps off to players and mentors.
I think we scored only 0-4 in the worst half of football we played for decades.
The second half was different though as we raised our game and both sides put on an exhibition that would warm the cockles.
The deciding factor was probably the dismissal of one of their players and we were cute enough to make the advantage pay.
The refereeing of that match was very fussy as are all the matches I attend and I genuinely wonder whether over fussiness has contributed to the falling through the ranks of the County Team.Put simply do guys feel they are inhibited from robust legal challenges to the extent tat they don't even try.
There again Meath is producing more more top grade Inter County refs. than any other County so the POWERS THAT BE SURE LIKE THEM.
Maybe there is a case for referees to be instructed to give the benefit of the doubt to robust play at Club level and cut back on the blowing of the whistle for little or nothing .Surely a decent level of physicality is the hallmark of our games and we shouldn't leave this aspect of confrontation to the Rugger crowd,where it is regarded as an attribute.
Now I missed the match against Longwood which I expected us to win.We lost by 3-12 to 1-13 a fair beating even if we were short a number of regulars.
So the omens were not good.
In ATHBOY ,where the gate man refused to believe that t I was an OAP we fielded as follows;-
Jennings
O Shea Dempsey Conor Watters
Martin Oisin Davy Mack A.Newman
Kenneally Dempsey Liam
Martin Jordan Bomber Dermot Kelly
Luke Martin Coogan Stephen Kane Mark
For the first time this year we were playing with a full deck.
Eoin Dempsey,and Ronan Brady ere wbrough on in the second half .
For the first quarter it was tit fot tat.The second quarter saw us string together some lovely moves and scores and we were well ahead at half time on a score of to .
After half time they rattled the onion bag but we raised our game well and were well out of sight at the final whistle Lukie scoring a first rate goal and missing an easier one.Kane scored the other.
Our scorers were Dermot Kelly 0-8 all frees.Stephen Coogan 0-2 .1 free.Lukie and Kane a goal apiece .Bomber 0-2 and Aron Newman,Jordan Maryyn a point apiece.
DERMOT AND Stephen scored 0-9 from frees, a testament to the fussy referring of Gerry Mc Givney WHO WAS PERHAPS A LITTLE WHISTLE HAPPY, BUT OTHERWISE DIED A FAIR GOOD JOB.
We were good value for our win and all played well.A massive improvement on last years contest against the same opposition.
Generally I take the view that Dunderry has traditionally been a strong Intermediate football team through most of its existence,occasionally winning a Championship and heading upwards to Senior.
The last wave of players to go Senior stayed up a considerable time ,winning a Senior in 1996 and staying up until 2005,when we were demoted down.
We have been strong at Inter level since then .losing a final replay to St.COLMCILLES two years ago probably being the epitome of our always gallant efforts.
I have seen a number of League matches this year .The one versus Senchaelstown being the most recent.
They are a solid but currently non spectacular Senior team and in my time we have been just as good as them even though we are a grade below them.
We played them in our pitch recently and it was a draw.
Even though we were short half a team between County commitments and injury 20 men and boys togged out,so caps off to players and mentors.
I think we scored only 0-4 in the worst half of football we played for decades.
The second half was different though as we raised our game and both sides put on an exhibition that would warm the cockles.
The deciding factor was probably the dismissal of one of their players and we were cute enough to make the advantage pay.
The refereeing of that match was very fussy as are all the matches I attend and I genuinely wonder whether over fussiness has contributed to the falling through the ranks of the County Team.Put simply do guys feel they are inhibited from robust legal challenges to the extent tat they don't even try.
There again Meath is producing more more top grade Inter County refs. than any other County so the POWERS THAT BE SURE LIKE THEM.
Maybe there is a case for referees to be instructed to give the benefit of the doubt to robust play at Club level and cut back on the blowing of the whistle for little or nothing .Surely a decent level of physicality is the hallmark of our games and we shouldn't leave this aspect of confrontation to the Rugger crowd,where it is regarded as an attribute.
Now I missed the match against Longwood which I expected us to win.We lost by 3-12 to 1-13 a fair beating even if we were short a number of regulars.
So the omens were not good.
In ATHBOY ,where the gate man refused to believe that t I was an OAP we fielded as follows;-
Jennings
O Shea Dempsey Conor Watters
Martin Oisin Davy Mack A.Newman
Kenneally Dempsey Liam
Martin Jordan Bomber Dermot Kelly
Luke Martin Coogan Stephen Kane Mark
For the first time this year we were playing with a full deck.
Eoin Dempsey,and Ronan Brady ere wbrough on in the second half .
For the first quarter it was tit fot tat.The second quarter saw us string together some lovely moves and scores and we were well ahead at half time on a score of to .
After half time they rattled the onion bag but we raised our game well and were well out of sight at the final whistle Lukie scoring a first rate goal and missing an easier one.Kane scored the other.
Our scorers were Dermot Kelly 0-8 all frees.Stephen Coogan 0-2 .1 free.Lukie and Kane a goal apiece .Bomber 0-2 and Aron Newman,Jordan Maryyn a point apiece.
DERMOT AND Stephen scored 0-9 from frees, a testament to the fussy referring of Gerry Mc Givney WHO WAS PERHAPS A LITTLE WHISTLE HAPPY, BUT OTHERWISE DIED A FAIR GOOD JOB.
We were good value for our win and all played well.A massive improvement on last years contest against the same opposition.
Cowslips poking heads through.
I cannot remember a worse winter than the one gone by.From Christmas until last week there were only 4 days hereabouts when it didn't rain or snow.
My uncles used say "strip the meadow ground in February and cut the meadows the first of May".
The first of May is nigh and there is more greenery on a billiard table than on the meadow ground.
Every small farmer I know is severely broke from prolonged buying of fodder and depression is widespread all over the shop.
The Government badly misread the situation and what it came up with was too little too late.
It will take years to overcome the disastrous setbacks and some will never recover.Time nor money is not on their sides.
Notwithstanding this mother nature is kicking in on a small scale .
On the fringes of unmanured fields and along ditches the very odd cowslip is starting to emerge.
You know them.They are on slim stalks with yellow bell shaped flowers hanging down from the tops of the stalks.
Signs of better things to come hopefully.
My uncles used say "strip the meadow ground in February and cut the meadows the first of May".
The first of May is nigh and there is more greenery on a billiard table than on the meadow ground.
Every small farmer I know is severely broke from prolonged buying of fodder and depression is widespread all over the shop.
The Government badly misread the situation and what it came up with was too little too late.
It will take years to overcome the disastrous setbacks and some will never recover.Time nor money is not on their sides.
Notwithstanding this mother nature is kicking in on a small scale .
On the fringes of unmanured fields and along ditches the very odd cowslip is starting to emerge.
You know them.They are on slim stalks with yellow bell shaped flowers hanging down from the tops of the stalks.
Signs of better things to come hopefully.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Death of Joe Clarke,Dunderry.
Joe Clarke ,renowned Dunderry veterinarian recently died after a very short illness.I think he was 88 years old.I had great time for Joe as he was a pleasant and decent man and easy to talk to.
Dunderry Gaels have good reason to laud his decency, as for many years prior to the Gaa Club securing and opening the present grounds in 1988, he allowed the Club the use of his field adjacent to the graveyard for the training of teams and the playing of games .
I had the honour of playing on it and I am sure that several generations of hurlers and footballers far better than me honed their skills there .
There was a family connection also as my mother's people the Mc Cormacks availed of his veterinarian services from the time he qualified until he retired.
I often heard them laud his decency saying that they had to approach him after 50 years looking for a bill for services rendered for all those years.
Fifty quid he asked for and fifty quid he got.
In recent years I asked him was that true .He said it was,remarking that some others were similarly billed but never coughed up.
He farmed and was a horse breeder of renown for decades past
He was predeceased by his wife a number of years ago and is survived by his son Thomas and daughters Cogie and Blainid and a number of grandchildren,to whom we offer our sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM Dilis.
His remains will be received in the Parish Church ,Trim this Thursday evening at 7.00 p.m.with Funeral Mass on Friday at 11.30.a.m.
Dunderry Gaels have good reason to laud his decency, as for many years prior to the Gaa Club securing and opening the present grounds in 1988, he allowed the Club the use of his field adjacent to the graveyard for the training of teams and the playing of games .
I had the honour of playing on it and I am sure that several generations of hurlers and footballers far better than me honed their skills there .
There was a family connection also as my mother's people the Mc Cormacks availed of his veterinarian services from the time he qualified until he retired.
I often heard them laud his decency saying that they had to approach him after 50 years looking for a bill for services rendered for all those years.
Fifty quid he asked for and fifty quid he got.
In recent years I asked him was that true .He said it was,remarking that some others were similarly billed but never coughed up.
He farmed and was a horse breeder of renown for decades past
He was predeceased by his wife a number of years ago and is survived by his son Thomas and daughters Cogie and Blainid and a number of grandchildren,to whom we offer our sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM Dilis.
His remains will be received in the Parish Church ,Trim this Thursday evening at 7.00 p.m.with Funeral Mass on Friday at 11.30.a.m.
Monday, April 2, 2018
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.
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.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
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.
Remember this ditty "Spring forward Fall back".Geddit.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
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.
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.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
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.
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.
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