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Every Sunday Gerry and Rita Doherty drive Gerry's 92 year old mother down to 11.00 a.m.Mass in Dunderry ,ensconce her in the side isle a...

It's 4.00 a.m.Myself and she who must be obeyed are sitting in a queue of cars in Navan Hospital awaiting a bus that hopefully will brin...

In the run up to the All Ireland Final today I was watching RTE 2 with one of my three year old grand daughters sitting on my knee playing w...

Reports are filtering in from concerned parishioners of the bullying and intimidation of a highly respected community and GAA leader by a me...

In contrast to my earlier life ,when I was in the City almost daily ,I rarely visit Dublin now. Within this last two weeks I had reason to ...

If the first half of the replayed semi final today wasn't the best exhibition of football served  in my lifetime I don't know what w...

As long as I can remember Kilkenny were the bees knees in Hurling.Tipp and Cork run them closest but whatever it is about Kilkenny they are ...

This Sunday was my idea of GAA Heaven.My beloved Club playing at 1.45 p.m and the Dubs V Mayo in the All Ireland semi final at 3.30 p.m.It d...

Dot and Vincie or Vincie and Dot are 47 years together this year.Married for 47 years that is.Never a night apart.Correction.She took bad a...

I t is one thing to be beaten by a superior team after giving your best shot at it, It is another to come out with the white flag of surren...

I have just heard that Mona Travers ,formerly of Boyerstown and latterly of Navan has died.She was A Bishop before she married John Travers ...

The eleven o clock Mass last Sunday in Dunderry was an anniversary Mass for Clement Daly of TULLAGHANSTOWN ,who is deceased a good while but...

John Darcy of Ballardin,Dunderry,(beside the football pitch )died last night Sunday 16/08/2015 after a short illness aged,as far as I know,7...

I have been distracted of late,snowed under with a huge volume of work,as busy as a bee and have not published a blog for ages. For those w...

It's a  great little country for business promotion and to mind our sick and indigent isn't it  And Inda keeps his word to head off ...

I have compared the Irish political establishment to the Jewish Kapos who implemented the will of the Nazi's against the inmates of the ...

Alfie Mc Connell from Tullaghanstown (Navan side of bog cross going to Athboy )died yesterday after a struggle with cancer only diagnosed mo...

Saturday July 11th. Vigil Mass Dunderry 7.30 p.m.Blessing in Dunderry Graveyard afterwards. Sunday 12 th July .11.00 a.m.Mass Dunderry.Ble...

Today the Club hosted Baltinglas GAA juveniles ,under 8 and 10 I think,in football challenges prior to the Wicklow /Meath game today in Nava...

Lovely day Thursday.Sun splitting the stones.First real day of summer.So down with me to the graveyard to spice up the Mc Cormack's grav...