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As I understand it there is  a new sport to be introduced for the Olympic Games in the future,a form of rugby sevens ,I think. Everybody kn...

The person first. There was this woman who fell on hard times through excessive drinking.She lost all her worldly possessions and took to s...

I voted "No" in the recent plebiscite to change the definition of a family in the Constitution. In this I was swam against  the t...

In 1641 /42 Charlie Coote (Sir ) led a  murder squad which murdered Mrs Eleanor Taaffe of Tullanogue,a sixty year old woman and six female c...

The world should know that every political party in Ireland,that is Fine Gael,Fianna Fail,Labour,The Greens,Sinn Fein and the Worker's P...

Mick and Janette Glynn and family live in Iskaroon in this Parish and are good friends of ours. Mick's younger brother Thomas,who I don...

I listened last night to the debate on RTE Radio 1 concerning the upcoming referendum on the redefinition of the family chaired by a lassie ...

Dunderry Fair is in full swing around me as I write this. But I just had to drag myself away to write this up lest I forget.Last year I bou...

Last week Sean O Rourke interviewed Michaael Noonan the Minister for Finance on his radio show on RTE 1 midweek. He had the temerity to bri...

It has been brought to my attention that my history of bicycle racing a lifetime ago has a glaring omission in that there was a third and un...

A lifetime ago there used be a bicycle race in Dunderry.I well remember the most intense of competitive of races between Frank Smith a.k.a ...

My recent foray into the so called  debate on the issue of the forthcoming referendum seeking to redefine the notion of marriage from being ...

No sooner have the burial arrangements of Sean Cleary and Tommy Garry been finalised than the nearest neighbour to the Garrys is also called...

To distract myself from all the grief and bad karma around the Parish  I am just finished watching the National League hurling semi final be...

Meadstown was hammered again with the too soon deaths of two very decent fellas in the recent past. Tommy Garry was  hammered by cancer.Sea...

Now that her only son has come out of the closet  and declared that he is a homosexual ,the penny finally drops ,as it were,on why she is so...

Our friends will know who I refer to. His suffering ended about an hour ago. May the Lord have Mercy on his soul. Tommy Garry is 62 years...

Certain ladies who I formerly coached in the skills of Camogie were on the rampage in Dunderry tonight. It seems that older and more experi...

Near Bective Bridge today the mortal remains of Sean Cleary were found. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.

A contemporary of my own who has cancer is under pressure and fighting the good fight. Killian is getting slowly stronger and there is stil...