Minor Silverware arrives in Dunderry.

Pairc Tailteann is a big place for adults,never mind juveniles and there is no hiding place.Anyone who played there knows that.It is especially big for thirteen a side teams,which is the norm for the Div.5 .M.F.C.,where we met Nobber in the Final last Sunday.
T'was cold enough but the pitch was immaculate.
I can only take my hat off to a young female steward who was kindness itself to yours truly,a total contrast to the behaviour witnessed in the Vodaphone shop in Trim a fortnight ago (see article "Bullied etc in Trim,"in earlier blog).Faith in human nature fully restored.
From the  go we had an exciting contest between two well matched teams who tried to the bitter end and who were only separated by a point after 70 minutes of intense football.
I suppose our more prominent players are Luke Martyn and Mark Kane.Both ooze potential in this grade and both excelled.To be fair both their markers were no daws either and both had their hands full ,but both contributed massively to our cause.
No one man wins a match on his own and the supporting cast gave it their all (and more) in pursuit of the laurels.Nobber forged ahead in the early play and coming up to half time we were in trouble .But a scoring burst in the run in to half time when Lukie lent  his considerable support to the attack  gave us hope.
On the resumption Nobber forged ahead again and with ten to go were ,if memory serves right ,six points ahead and looked comfortable.but Kane was still using his speed and accuracy to advantage and splitting the posts and Brady was playing the way his father used to,that is going only in one direction; forward.
Daly and Casey minor made up for their lack of bulk by playing cleverly and passing to better placed and stronger colleagues..Clarke was playing a Captain's part and winning his share of possession.ably assisted by Leonard.
Gradually we clawed our way back into contention and drew lever with  five to go.
Nobber stepped on the gas again and gallant defending was called for.Conor Dempsey and Aaron Feeney (a chip off the old block Tommy) stepped up o the mark but for me the man who really rose to the occasions was first half sub ,Cillian Conway,who not once,nor twice but thrice put in telling tackles and brave interceptions which negated sure scoring chances for a confident Nobber team.Cometh the hour cometh the man.
Mc Cabe,whose great grand uncle in the 1880's was the first Dunderry man to play in an All Ireland Senior football final did his part  and Dowdall dug deep,
Casey major made intelligent use of his kick outs and it is a tribute to his backs that he was rarely called on to make saves,
With the teams level at full time an extra 20 minutes (10 each half ) commenced.Fortunes swayed first one way and then the other and mentors Mitchell,Casey,Hickey and Dowdall and trainer Fitzie,,rang the changes using substitutes to full  advantage and we snuck it by a point in the end on a scoreline of 3-14 to 1-19,the subs, fully justifying their selection to a man.
Team was.
                                                               A,Casey
C.Dempsey (0-2)                                                                 A.Feeney

C Harten                                      L.Martyn                          R,Mc Cabe,

                                  C.Leonard                    S.Clarke,

M.Dowdall  (1-1)                               M.Kane (0-8.3 frees )         J.Brady (0-2)

E Daly                                                                                          P.Casey.

Subs used.C.Conway.A .Walsh.(1-0),C.Lawless.P.Hickey,T.O.Conaire  
The attendance stayed fully transfixed  to the end and Clarke made a brief but well modulated acceptance speech
I.n truth no team deserved to lose,but take it we will.And did.
A bonfire blazed in the centre of the Village afterwards but someone rang the fire brigade.Political correctness gone mad.Who will get the bill?
Such are the times we live in.No joy allowed.

              

A surfeit of scores for Dunderry u 21's

5-29 we racked up against a hapless Wolfe Tones this weekend.We won that hurling match and play Longwood in the final.My heart went out to Father Heaney's brother and the other Tones mentors .The former has been preaching the hurling Gospel for a long lifetime and this must hurt him.I'd say he holds some kind of record.More luck to him.
Our boys didn't rub it in and emptied the bench to give them a chance.
Longwood deservedly beat us in the under 21 football championship a few weeks ago and will expect to do the same in the Hurling Final.
We won't get 5-29 but have a fair team and will be all out as this is our last chance of adult silverware.
To auld lads like me it is sacrilege to be beaten  in Football by a recognised hurling power like Longwood.With a much lesser population we won three under 21 football championships proper in the 1990s ,as a Dunderry man in exile in the States recently  reminded me.
God be with the days.
Our Minor footballers did what our Junior B 's couldn't do and beat Boardsmill last Friday.I missed the match but am informed they played well.Nobber awaits us in this Div,5 Final.They already beat us this year  but we were short then.We have a chance.
Our Junior Camogie Team went down against a more experienced Kildalkey Intermediate Team in the League Final in Boardsmill last Sunday.They led for much of the game but were caught and just about passed in a thrilling finale.
No shame in this defeat and with the junior Championship in the bag it was a season to be proud of.
The team was.

Back to the one Muskateer .

Just mise last Friday.I'd say that Leo and Carmel were minding the pub,what with Fiacra and Leanne on the honeymoon,No word yet on Liam and Deirdre.
With the realisation that the barbarity of Love/Hate is dwarfed by the real life dismemberment of a human being in Blanchardstown it is clear that evil and its proponents are on the march.
The atheist and anti Christian bigots who dominate the media  and facilitate the anti life  agenda must be pleased.
No doubt the Catholic clerics who speak out against this type of thing are no more than "sky pilots" as the" Independent" scribe resident in Leitrim so sneeringly labelled a Catholic Priest who committed the "sin" of standing up for the defenceless preborn.
Yep you gets what you pay for.
I hope we get what I pray for.The beat goes on.

History made by Dunderry Gaels this weekend.

History was made today when the Dunderry u 16 Camogie Team played Rathoath in Martry this afternoon.I doubt if hurling was ever played in Martry before,much less camogie.Very kindly St.Ultans lent the girls the pitch as our own pitches at Dunderry and Rathcairn were unplayable.Can't beat good neighbours.
Although narrowly beaten the girls have great pride in the Dunderry jersey and fought to the bitter end..
The under 21 hurlers played their match in Dunganny ,having been rerouted there from KIldalkey which too was unplayable.The place was bitterly cold and I had to scarper before half time I was so perished.The boys were in total control at that stage and ran out comfortable winners in the end against Clanna Gael,who were short on the day.
Our boys have enough pride in the Dunderry jersey to make the effort to appear despite having had double cause for major celebration over the bank holiday weekend.
And now to history of a kind I would rather not report.Last year I got involved with an under 14 football team who did the unspeakable of awarding a walk over in the Football Championship.Subsequently they were unbeaten and were the only football team in the Club to win silverware.
A month ago I was again invited by Juvenile Chairman Darren Yourell to join him and Derek Hickey and get involved ..I did so gladly.To my astonishment I discovered that a few of the better players from last year had retired from the team and gone elsewhere to play other sports and that about half the team hadn't trained with the Club  in the interim but were plying their sporting trades  and training with assorted non GAA clubs around the County.
It was normal procedure for these players to play with us even though they don't train with us.This is totally alien to my concept of Club loyalty and totally at variance with my notion of promotion of our native games.which in Essenes means being available for training  and matches in a condition mentally and physically to participate meaningfully.
I outlined this scenario.And then found that about five players were coming to our Saturday afternoon matches straight from the  soccer fields of Meath totally exhausted after giving their all there.They were in no condition to play our matches in any meaningful way.
We were beaten so comprhensively by Dunsany and Oldcastle that it was a total embarrassment to the Club and an insult to the jersey.And this is in Division 5.
I totally qualify this by stating that there are a number of players who do respect the jersey and do their level best but worry that this total disrespect for the jersey and by extension the mentors and indeed the Club will too permeate their thinking.
Last week only 6 out of thirteen were willing to field and give preference to our native games.So we gave a walkover.
No sense of loyalty ,no sense of community and and some actually despise the game.
I am flabbergasted how it is possible that so many players ,who have been involved,coached and looked after by our club for over 5 years  have so little respect for it and for our mentors.
I have discussed the matter with Darren and we are resolved to give top class coaching and attention to those willing to commit to Dunderry and restore pride in the jersey at that level,
This coaching will recommence this week .
I am mindful of the boast of Robinstown Club in the 1987 Meath  yearbook,over a photograph of soccer posts fronting GAA goalposts that sporting harmony was the way to go.Not for Robinstown it wasn't.It ceased to exist permanently very  soon afterwards.
We won't be making this mistake.
This is a rally to arms ,as it were for Gaels of this age group.

Bullied,threatened and intimidated in Trim.

Today 25/10/2013 is a day to remember.Our Fiachra Geraghty from Duderry married Leane Darcy from Cortown.A Union made in Heaven, about which more anon.I was at the solemnisation in Cortown and afterwards dropped a number of family members off at the Castle Hotel for the reception and proceeded to the Vodaphone Shop opposite Coogan's Butcher's shop in  Trim where I had some business to transact.
On entering the shop I observed that there was one woman behind the counter serving a male customer and there was another male customer next in line,a well known local sports journalist who I know well.All very serene.
Just as the man being attended to by the Vodaphone lady,Ciara I believe her name is,had finished his business and before the sports journalist or indeed myself could begin our business two physically imposing males burst into the shop,brushed us aside and aggressively and with menace tore into the unfortunate and visibly distressed Ciara shouting her down and demanding a refund of e50.00.
Never have I seen such aggressive,ignorant ,threatening ,menacing and indeed frightening behaviour in public ,nor indeeed private before.
The sports journalist objected to the behavior but was totally ignored and these two boys proceeded too bully and intimidate Ciara,
I had enough and as civilly as possible in the circumstances pointed out to them that there was a queue,that they were third in it and their manners towards us and especially towards the lady was totally unacceptable.I worked my way to the counter to position myself between them and Ciara and have my business attended to .I was brushed aside and glared at with menace.All the time these heroes kept their heartening and nakedly aggressive row with Ciara,who was visibly distressed ,shaking with fear,trying to get clear instructions over the phone and hold herself together.
I don't take intimidation too readily and even though disabled,relying on a walking stick for mobility and having one useless arm ,permanently in my pocket ,continued to face up to theses bullies,pointing out to them that bullying older men and women was the mark of a coward.
For this I was called a "four eyed c..."and invited to the car park around the corner to "sort it out".I might point out that I am 62 years old and would have difficulty walking as far as the car park and these two gents would be under thirty ,well muscled and were in full flow.They are obviously athletes of some description,boxing I would guess.
I can say with certainty that were this challenge put to me before my stroke I would give it a lash.Not now however but still I was not prepared to be cowed.
I threatened to call the Gardai.The sports journalist said he would have done so before now only his phone was broken,hence his presence in the shop.They dared me to so,so I did despite stares and body language designed to intimidate,but having the opposite to the desired effect.
I outlined the position to the Gardai and was assured they would be down shortly.I announced this but the news had little effect on their behaviour except to motivate one of them to go outside the door and talk into a car that was idling outside the shop.I went out the door to take the registration of the car and came back into the shop and borrowed a pen to write it down,not attempting to conceal what I was doing.I was barked at to give up the piece of paper but refused putting it in my pocket.
I sat down on the window ledge with my back to the road watching the proceedings unable to do much more except await the arrival of the Gardai.Maybe ten minutes I saw the Garda van drive slowly by out of the corner of my eye but it did not stop.Surely said I the squad won't be too far behind.But divil a sign of it.I have since deduced that the van  drove slowly by,observed no fighting and kept going.
Realising that the Gardai were not coming I went outside the shop,to have the younger coward put his face in mine calling me a "four eyed fat >....who never washed ,was also smelly and asking me again around the corner to sort it out"I told him that him and his ilk didn.t scare me and I would be making a phone call to a lad near his own age to see how brave he really was,or if his courage disappeared when dealing with other than disabled people and women.I must say I seriously considered giving one telling belt of my walking stick and feck the consequences ans was nearly goaded into it.
I reentered the shop and in full view of the two bullies did phone a friend and asked him to appear quam cellerime as I feared for my own safety and that of the others involved.These boys continued their abuse as though invincible.
A smaller male customer who seemed to know them entered the shop,said he knew them having boxed against them and asked them to calm down and leave.Not a word about it.
My friend arrived .He matches them for physicality.I asked them to repeat the threats they had made to me and invited them to challenge him to the car park to sort it out.
You never saw such a climb down in your life.They proceeded to regale him with the details of their claim against Vodaphone and denied they ever intimidated anyone.As regards the car park to sort it out,not a mention of it .
Typical cowards and bullies,.thugs.
Afterwards I contacted the gardai and gave them the registration number of the car outside.
This is rural Ireland for you and in the capital of Meath,

Keeping your word,

On 21st.October,according to newspaper reports ,a woman in the course of an eviction by the Sheriff',backed up by the Gardai,was found to be dead,when they went in to the property in Dublin.
She had been alive the previous Friday when discussions on "voluntary" vacation took place.
The death of the woman has been described as a "personal tragedy"although no official cause of death has yet been disclosed.
Before the most recent election Enda Kenny and Eamonn Gilmore gave the following commitments on the subject of evictions,"Guarantee won't lose home " and "Head off the Bailiffs"
I wonder whether the poor misfortunate woman  and indeed everyone who has been evicted since then actually believed these men ?
I know a number of people who have been voluntary evicted .These are all personal tragedies.
Government T.D.s complain vociferously when citizens picket their homes,(Too" personal" they say).
I can think of little more" personal" than being evicted.
It seems to me that the pre-election commitments of these men should be taken at face value and that anyone threatened with eviction should buy a tent and try to gain access to the "personal" accommodation of their local T,D,s pitch it there and stay  there until these bucks deliver on their promises.
And to make it more "personal"their local Government canvasser should be approached for" tent" space on the canvasser's property  until the matter is resolved.
And by the way the printed and electronic media are so totally in the Government's pocket as to be useless,so media coverage of the above woman's death has been so muted as to be non existent.
Imagine the the media uproar that would ensue were she to die in a religious institution in rural Ireland..The atheist hacks and their fellow travellers would be salivating with indignation.
The one environment this Government have created is one where suicide is rampant and widespread and getting commonplace and hope is dying a tortuous death,

Anti Catholic Bigot sneers at Bishop on RTE.

I relapsed into a former habit of watching other than sport on RTE tonight.I  have long since given up the ghost on any notion that Christians and especially Catholics would receive a balanced hearing from the hateful and vociferous atheists and agnostics that infest the station as staff and as  guest panellists.The stickies of the sixties and seventies who dominated RTE seem to have morphed into a sneering cabal of hateful knowalls who get their jollies from belittling religions of any sort except Islam (because these cowards know that Muslims will strike back).
True to known form an atheist blogger showed his total ignorance by making a snide remark about Jesus appearing in a pub in Coronation Street,pontificated disparagingly at length about the rules of Catholicism,belittled the 86% of the population who claimed to be Christian in the census as being too stupid to know what their religion was and making the ludicrous claim that the Church censored  Irish writers over the centuries (the Censor was never a clergyman ,always a Government employee.)
I am beginning to fully believe a clergyman I admire who claims that the Devil is fervently at work in the media conditioning the populace into the acceptance of evil by  the drip.
Given the preponderance of aggressive atheists,prejudiced anti Catholic bigots and outright liars that populate the electronic and written media he may just  be right,
Let me clarify that Des Peelo the presenter was fair to all sides.
But why was that hateful prick of an atheist even given air time to sneer sat decent people?
Sport only from now on.

The refusal of people to abolish the Seanad.

The politicians,the pet media commentators both electronic and written,the useless pollsters,and the bookies all got it wrong.These gob shites live in a bubble totally divorced from the reality that is most peoples lives.
The inescapable facts of the matter are that it is dawning on the populace that they were totally duped by the unholy alliance who are running the country into the sands,
I repeat for the umpteenth  time that Enda and Eamonn pledged that there would be no evictions from the family homes of Ireland on their watch.These are happening daily and this government went to the trouble of ensuring they would continue by legislating to remove a judicial block imposed for a period by the Courts.
Driven by a Central Bank and Regulatory offices  that fanned the flames of greed  in the first place,whipped up by mouthy mini Ministers who use the language of deceit to disguise their real intentions,ponied up by banks who betrayed our trust in the vilest manner possible, executed by grippers who owe their ancestry  to feudal Norman and Anglo Saxon invaders and presided over by the fir and mna breaga who have broken the hearts of the population.,the "no" vote is the clearest possible sign that we have had enough.
These spiritual successors of Cromwell have implemented eviction on a massive scale,taxed the right to own your own home,the right to drink water ,the very air we breathe (carbon tax) ,the right to dispose of your own shit in your own land and have placed the cost of electricity and heating fuel out of reach of most people.
They have legalised the murder of the unborn and assumed the right to lecture the religious leaders of the majority Churches all the time pushing the secular theism of a Labour Party in total free fall.
Well liberal Ireland,secular Ireland and all the main parties got it up the Khyber and properly so.
For once the Pale got it right.
The simple fact of the matter is that the majority of people just hate this Government with an unbridled hatred because of what they are doing to us.Pure and simple.

The curse of cancer.

The older I get the more people I know who are afflicted  with the curse of cancer.I would say that one of every two people I know who are ill have it.It is the scourge of our times.
Now I know very little of the forms of cancer that mostly afflicts women.I am a bit like that man in the Lotto ad.who cringes when a female employee tells him that she suffers from "women's problems."
Nevertheless I must keep a promise I gave to a female friend of mine to implore all ladies,especially younger ones,who think they may be immune on account of their youth,to frequently and regularly check for the tell tale signs of breast cancer.
I am sure that they know better than me what these signs are.
So over to ye ladies.
And by the way I am the world's worst to get check ups myself and hate being lectured to on the subject.
So do as I say not as I do.

Thr Drudge is under pressure, a little.

Jim Newman a.k.a as the Drudge is hobbling around the village on two crutches.He recently got the hip done for the second time in Navan Hospital,because the first one put in  wasn't up to scratch,.He says he was  treated well in the hospital and asked me to say he is getting on the finest.
Rumour has it that he will be going in to training for the Intermediate Team for next year.Jim himself refused to either confirm or deny these rumours.

Dunderry V Drumree Junior Camogie Final 28/9/2013

Dunderry v Drumree.Junior Camogie C.Final.28/9/2013

 

On an Autumn evening stolen from Summer Dunderry Gaels gathered in the well appointed Longwood Grounds hoping that their young team would continue the tradition  of bringing home a junior championship cup in each decade since the foundation of the Club.The elder sisters ,mothers and aunts of the present crew had brought home the Laurels in the 1990’s the 2,000’s and we were hoping that this talented team would repeat the dose again today.

The  dearth of silverware quarried this few years back by their hurling and football brothers and husbands hurts and we are all there  willing them to come up trumps.

There is history between Dunderry and Drumree.Both are rural clubs flying the Gaelic flag in the face of adversity.Both are deeply embedded in the communities they serve and some families have been trumpeting the Games of the Gaels for over a century in their Parishes.Both know that families are the backbone of rural clubs and that in no circumstances should staunch and loyal members be treated without due respect.Ted Dowd coached Drumree for a few years recently at Adult hurling.In revenge Drumree  have sent G.T.Troy to us to coach this Camogie team.He has done so assiduously as Ted did when the roles were reversed.

Kit Doyle whose family  is synonymous with Drumree Gaels played here for a year when living in the Parish.When he ceased  to reside here he transferred  back home quam celerrime.

Maureen Doyle (nee Maguire) is a leading light in Drumree Camogie.Her sister is married to my brother Martin,She captained KIlmessan to a Senior Camogie Championship at seventeen years of age c.1968.The next Senior Championship Kilmessan won was captained by my daughter Margarita many years later.Margarita was a driving force in initiating many of the younger members of today’s panel into the  game.Families and tradition.Ya can’t bate it.

The appointed referee Pat Gannon is a referee of probity.From a family of traditional Gaels.He played hurling.He coached club and County Teams.He knows  his onions.The nuances and the beauty of the games are second nature to him.Was delighted to see him nominated to take charge in full confidence that fair play would prevail.And it did.

The teams lined out as follows.

DUNDERRY.

1,Rebecca Scannell

2.Laura O Malley.

3.Grainne Dowd.

4.Michelle Daly.

5.Aisling Mc Donagh.

6.Emily Bray.

7.Danielle Clarke,

8.Jane Martin.

9.Labaoise Martyn.

10.Aoife Mc Cormack (Cap)

11.Julianne Griffin,

12.Sinead Broderick.

13.Aoife Minogue.

14.Emer Daly.

15.Jade Fitzsimons.

16.Leah Fitzsimons.

17.Freda O Leary.

18.Michelle Smith.

19.Aoife Gillick.

20.Niamh Quinn.

21.Muichelle Clarke.

22.Megan Byrne.

23.Sile Mc Kenna.

24.Emily Fleming.

25.Emer O Shea.

26.Tracey Fitzsimons.

27.Eveline griffin.

 Manager .G.T.Troy.

Selectors.Eveline Griffin,Grainne Dowd and Tracey Fitzsimons.

Four and fourteen are twin sisters.Five and ten are second cousins.Twenty seven is the mother of eleven.Twenty six is Club Secretary and the mother of fifteen and sixteen.Twenty two is the daughter of Tom Byrne Club Chairman.

Emily Fleming injured her hand in the last match and wasn’t available for selection.Emer O Shea could not be present due to an unavoidable family commitment.Two huge losses.

Aisling Mc Donagh is the daughter of my daughter Jacinta and Jacinta was one of the first to play with the Club when it was founded in 1988.I’d say she is unique in this respect.Aisling and labaoise are the babies of the Team.

Aoife Minogue is daughter of GAA Club Chairman Mick.Niamh Quinn is sister in law to Jane Martyn.

Families.Danielle Clarke is sister to Swiss a fair footballer.

 

DRUMREE Team.

 

1.Anne Marie Rattigan.

2Jessica Wall.

22,Lisa Donnelly.

4.Emer O Reilly.

5.Muireann O Hora.

6.Alannah Chalkey.

7.Hannah O  Brien.

8.Loise Griffin

9.Aine Brennan

10.Gemma Flanigan.

11.Clionadh O Riordan.

12.Cliona Murphy.

28.Aldi Pritchard.

14,Cliona Delaney.

15.Trish Monks.

3.Rosie Hand.

13.Emma Kenneddy.

17.Marissa Horan.

20.Sarah jayne Brady.

21.Bronagh Gavin.

22.Chloe Byrne.

23Cisara Jones.

25.Niamh Gallogy.

26.Emma Doyle.

29.Kim Slater.

30.Sarah Keane.

 A short time ago these teams met in the Junior League in Dunderry.Neither management showed their full hand ,putting out shadow outfits .Today is the business.

Drumree put two players on Aoife Minogue our scorer in chief.Both teams go out full blast.No quarter given nor asked.Hard and fair as it should be.Tit for tat for a while .Rebecca misjudges a probing ball and we concede a goal.The only mistake she makes in an impressive outing.Her puck outs are deadly.Grainne leads her full back line from the front,fearlessly.Her corners are rock steady.Emily is not easily brushed aside at centre back and Aisling and Danielle hold their ground well ,tidying up any loose ball that stray into their paths with aplomb. There is a battle royal in the middle and Jane and Labaoise shade it ,just.Julianne is causing problems and Aoife must have glue on her stick as she dances hither and thither helping herself to two goals.Sinead prospers at the fringes of the acr tion and feeds the ball to Aoife Minogue at every opportunity.Jade and Eimear get stuck in and take the pressure off Minogue.

Despite the close attention she registers 3-3 by half time at which we lead by 5-3 to 1-1.

The biggest Drumree cheer of the first half registers when Troy is put outside the wire by referee Gannon.I was too far away to witness what happened.G.T.is not flavour of the month in Drumree for sure.

The second half is a horse of a different colour.Drumree employ a sweeper.Aisling likewise lines up as our sweeper.The initiative passes to Drumree and cheered on by  their fanatical supporters they register 1-3 to nada for us in the first twenty minutes after the whistle.

Spurned on in particular by Lisa Donnelly.Muireann O Hara,Louise Griffin ,Gemma Flanigan  and Claire Delaney they bring the game to us and you would be anxious for our lassies.

But not for nothing did we labour in the training field all year.Aoife Mac quarries another minor,Julianne drives over and Eimear Daly rattles the onion sack.

We lose the second half on a scoreline of 1-4 to 1-3 but paddle safely through on the strength of the 5-3 banked in the first half.

Shelly Smith and Aoife Gillick were introduced after half time and did their bit to stem the Drumree mini revival.

All those nights in the training field have achieved their reward and the celebrations begin.Feed in the Lodge for starter.Disco in Geraghtys and Grainne and a few other can look forward to their second Junior medal with the Fort of the Oaks.

We have a young team tempered with the required experience and a stream of players coming to replenish the ranks.The mammies and daddies of the girls who do the coaching know their onions and are on the ball.We have a good thing going .

With proper nurturing the sky is the limit.

 

D.V.

 

Brutal seven days for Dunderry Gaels

In the last week we lost successively,the quarter finals of the Intermediate Football and Hurling Championships and the quarter final of the Junior B Football championship .Not a great week .Reports in due course.

Pressure on Muskateers continues.

Deirdre has gone to Lourdes.We pray she gets healing.Liam's Ma is still under pressure.My own family need for prayer has not abated .On the plus side Liam was in England for a week visiting the new grand daughter born to his daughter.,we had another most welcoming Christening last Sunday (Kate duughter of Claire and Owen ) and Leo and Carmel are dancing jigs to celebrate the much hoped for and now imminent  marriage of Fiacra.
The Stag party returned from Berlin last evening in the very finest of fettle.I met some of them and have the hangover to prove it.

Modern day Cromwellians destroy rural Ireland

The spend on the shopping  baskets of ordinary rural residents for basic foodstuffs has ,in my opinion,declined by 8.73% in the first quarter of 2013 as compared to the first quarter of 2012.This is exclusive of the cost of petrol/diesel,luxury  and tobacco products.The unjust and inequitable property tax imposed by Cromwell's successors has worsened the situation of ordinary people and the eviction of rural people from their homes ,whether by agreement.(holding a gun to people's head ) or by the employment of the assorted grippers who fit so easily into the shoes of Cromwell's enforcers has driven the flight of the Irish from the country to record ever heights of 90,000 per annum plus.
Combined with the massive increase in suicides caused by the loss of hope of the inhabitants and the unquantified number of people embracing death by illness brought on by loss of hope  by their persecution by uncaring State and State endorsed activities ,we live in the most hateful of times.
It is worth noting that the people who oversee these deprivations are all female.from the head of the I.M.F.,to Angela Merkel to the Irish Attorney General,to the D.P.P.,to the Minister of Social Welfare ,to the Chair of the Revenue Commissioners to the Chief Justice.
Never in modern times has there been so much law ,so little real justice ,such an absence of compassion and such hopelessness  and in a society dominated by so many females.

Whaco and Harrow.,

Had a few bevvies with the man known as the Whacko and his  (much ) better half the Empress of the man also known as the Emperor of Eskaroon the weekend gone.Royal company indeed,I must say.This man ,who won a minor football championship with Saint Barnabus in the Bronx in 1987 played with,managed and adored the Dunderry Hurling team ,a feat achieved by his brother Donie also.He handed over a ship in good condition.
The Royal duo are heading Stateside soon to my good friend,gentleman  and former fine footballer from Bohermeen Paul the Prosecutor.His brother Jim adorned the Dunderry football team in his day before he too emigrated .Another duo for the next exile team I publish.
America won't know what hit it and we wish the Royal couple bon voyage.
We met at the twenty first of Christopher Harrington ,one of the gosons who saved my life on July 1st,2009.A good night was had by one and all with Nance in Horans.
Just to throw a spanner into the works my night was tinged with sadness when I learned that a further two of the finest young ladies in the Parish are emigrating to France to join their parents next month.
Louise and Kate will be joining up with Larry and the missus.(can;t remember her name,mea culpa.)
Is there no end to this and will the last person out turn off the light.
That the light may shine on those who (mis) govern us.Bad cess to them.

25 th August 2013.Seminal Week for Dunderry GAA and Camogie.

On Sunday 25th a heap of Dunderry women won All Ireland Camogie Medals with Meath at under 16 and Junior B level thus adding considerably to the sole All Ireland held by our Mags.
This Tuesday our Junior Camogie Team play Trim in DunderryA win would qualify us for the Final.
On Sunday our Intermediate Hurlers hammered an out of sorts KIlmessan ,scoring 8-17 in the process,a resurrecting a thus far disappointing campaign.I understand we face old adversaries Wolfe Tones in the playoffs.
On Friday we play Clanna Gael in Cortown in the Intermediate Football Championship.We need to win this to assure our place in the playoffs as far as I can see.
Certainly if we score only 6 points ,as we did against Michaels last  Sunday week we will be pissing against the wind.
For the likes of Swiss ,Finn ,Ted ,Spongee,Jennings,Lar .Peadar   and a host of others who have burst a gut countless times I hope we rise to the occassion.We owe it to ourselves to so do.
Come on the boys and the girls.
Si gra mo croi,si Dunderry.
I had a fair article just completed on the above ,which took me over two hours to complete but I lost it due to a malfunction.You have no idea how frustrating this is.

Devil's Spawn polishing hooves

Following on from Bishop Smith's very proper directive to keep Funeral Masses Christian and Catholic in nature,the serried ranks of womb raiders,anti Catholic bigots,aggressive atheists, anti Catholic gonad idolaters and and their many media collaborators  are furiously planning their next Satanic attack on Catholicism in Meath and Countrywide.
I know this because my blog has been extensively researched by persons targeting all articles in which I mentioned Masses.
Be warned.

Egyptian Secularists primarily responsible for their countrymen's deaths.

Those armchair Egyptian secularists ,mostly preaching from  the safety of exiled academia ,who stoked the fires of unrest in their homeland and kickstarted the military coup turning democracy on its head,are personally responsible for each and every death in that Country.
America,the West,the European Union and the United Nations,all cheerleaders for secularism ,by their tacit support for the military there are like tits on a bull,totally useless .
What sort of a world have we got when every decent person knows that military dictatorship is an abhorrence and that the building by Zionists of houses in Palestinian lands is the Jewish equivalent of the plantation of Ireland by the British Empire and not one political leader is prepared to stand up and unequivocally condemn them..
That such wimps occupy positions of  power would drive you to despair.

Pulling pints.

The story goes that in a rural pub in Meath and definitely not Horans or Geraghtys about forty years ago,a newly married wife of the Publican made her debut behind the counter.There was a big crowd in ,she had no experience whatsoever of the bar trade and her husband was called awy on urgent business.Her ageing mother in law was called into action but she was as slow as wet week.It being thirsty weather and Guinness being the favourite tipple the customers were gasping with the thirst and the murmurs of discontent grew with the dearth of service.
A man,shall we call him the CAT,breezed in with Join Mac."Pull two pints "said he "horrid quick ."We are parched with the thirst cocking hay all evening"Under pressure she said",Paidin ,Seamin and Mickey are before ye"Take your time".
After an age still no pints."For Jasus sake where are them pints"said the Cat."Look" she said"I'm pulling Mickey's and when I'm finished pulling his  I'll start pulling yer's ."
At which stage the Customers went into convulsions of laughter.

Female Guile.

Maybe 100 years ago a single lady lived in this Parish.She was cracked about one man and one man only,the local Postman.He was aware ,polite but had no interest whatsoever.If anything this intensified her unrequitted love which in turn made him more disatant.
She did get her weekly fix of his presence by writing and posting a letter to herself every week.He had to deliver ,grin and bear it.
She did not snare him.

Whatever you do don't set land in Churchtown,Dunderry

In 1870 the following incidents happened in Churchtown,Dunderry.It happened in the house that preceeded the house of Colin Boles in Churchtown ,as you pass Churchtown going for Retaine graveyard.A man called FAGAN lived there then.
 "Five or six men ,armed with pistols and having their faces covered with hankerchiefs with holes cut for their eyes,visited the house of a farmer named  Thomas Fagan  residing at Churchtown,put him on his knees and swore him on a book which they produced ,to give up possession of grazing he took some time ago adjoining his own land ,after which they demanded money ,and received 1 shilling after which they decamped.
The polis on hearing of the occurrence,at once proceeded to the place,under the command of Thomas RossEsq.S.I. and the Headconstable Bourke and have been most indefatigable in their exertions.They brought in several prisoners ,who were examined before George Mc Carthy,esq.,R.M.It is alleged that one of the party fired a shot in Fagin's house and another carried a  brass blunderbuss."
This was brought to my attention by a direct desendant of the Fagins trying to trace his ancestors.The Fagins he comes from are not necessarily this branch but definitely came from either Retaine or Robinstown
Anyone who may be of assistance might contact me.
Seemingle letting land in Churchyown was a hazardous pastime in those times.More than likely the descendants of those involved with the hold up are still living locally.Any further information may be sent to me in confidence.The Statute of Limitations has well run out.
Today someone mentioned the vendetta that some  Gardai had against Dunderry people about twenty years ago and more.What appears to have been a crime free zone was apparently under siege at times,a scene I witnessed myself.
Maybe its true that the Police have a long memory but stretching it as far back as 1870 may be pushing it.

Muskateers under pressure

Had a full quorum last Friday.Carmel is going well.Proud as punch of Monaghan.Liam is under pressure .His 96 year old ma is not the best.A close family member of my own needs urgent prayer.And Deirdre motors on.Leo is in good nick.
Oremus.

"Guarantee you won't lose your home" said Enda Kenny.

And "head off the bailiffs "said Eamonn Gilmore on the live debate on Pat Kenny show before the last election,when questioned on evictions and repossessions.
I actually believed them.Did you ?
They will surley keep their word as honorable men do.

U 14 Summer League F.F.Dunderry V Blackhall

July 30 th. 2013 was a beautiful summer's evening in Trim and our lads took on Blackhall in the Final.I have a special interest in this team as I gave a hand last year with these lads,trying to supplement the considerable effort being then put in by Jim Mitchell and Darren Yourell.. Darren didn't play much and would  not deny it.Jim spent many years gracing the playing fields of Meath with Robinstown.I played a bit with Brigids of Blanchardstown and Dunderry,although my football career with Dunderry was brief after 1986 as Father Heaney who was in charge then had a massive clean out the pensioners of which I was one.
Notwithstanding this I spent the guts of twenty years with juvenile and adult football teams here and threw in my twohalpence worth with the two lads after a walkover was given in the championship.I was given a huge welcome by the two boys,much to their credit  and the team was not beaten afterwards last year.
The stronger lads from last year have graduated to the next grade up and the guys who were underage again this year formed the backbone of the this year's team.They are supplemented by much younger troops from down the age time line to make up the numbers.
In an effort to get the juvenile teams away from the depths of the lower divisions where they have laboured these few years back it seems that a bigger effort is being put in to improve coaching of the lads at this level.In general it is needed and it is great to see the likes of Con O Neill taking on the under 8's and vowing to take them through to minor level.That is the type of commitment needed.And Derek Hickey and Stan are having a go with the under 16's.There are many other good labourers in the vineyard.
Timber Leavy and his troops have in place a great system in hurling these years back which plonks us in the premier competitions mainly.This is now being replicated in football.Not before time.
Anyhow myself and last year's lads got the old heave ho and have been replaced by Sean Kelly ,John Brady and Stephen O Rourke.I don't mind really.Sean and John have sons playing.All three played for Meath ,Sean is a current Meath selector and ,if I am not mistaken all three have All Ireland medals .Certainly all three have played with Dunderry  as boys and men and in the case of Sean and John are the fourth or fifth generation to so do.Stephen is making his own legend.All have managed or selected the premier football teams in the Club.
The team is young but had'.t been going well I had heard.So with a timely reminder from Juvenile Sec.Orla I ventured forth to judge for myself what progress was made.
A good crowd from Dunderry was there.Oisin Martyn ,a son of Gerry was hurt and didn't play.He is a class player,the polychrome of the team last year.A dreadful loss.
The selected team was( for the benefit of our emigrants, of which there are legion,I have placed the names of their fathers where they used play with Dundery in brackets after their names):-
 1.Ronan Brady (son of John a.k.a. Bunny)
 2.Adam Kelly (son of Marty)
3.Colum Flynn-- a fine footballer.
4.Donagh O Loire (son of Eoin and camogie player Freda)
5.Simon Lynch.(grandson of Joe Rowntree,whose Cavan genes are showing through and who Joe adores)
6.Adam Keenan.(Tommy's son and  Breda Gough of camogie fame.)
7.Dermot Kelly (Sean's son )
8.Shane Heffernan -another fine footballer.
9'Jack Feeney (son of Tommy and grandson of Tom )
10.Diarmuid o Curraoin (son of Colum a great prospect)
11.James O Neill (son of Donal ,a nice guy)
12.Jamie Leavy (son of Tommy and grandson of Paddy Kavanagh the only Dunderry man to referee an All Ireland )
13.Cian Eginton whose grandfather Ned O Reilly played for Longford in his day.)
 Subs .Cormack Brady (son of John)
          Luke Hill--a grand young lad.
          Michael Garry (son of the Bear.)
           Eoin Wilson --a man on fire.
          Conor Leavy ( Timber's son)
          Ciaran Brady.

This was the Summer League Final.If memory serves me correctly I got into a frenzy last year at  such a match.There are rules for this competition that are not in accordance with the rule book.Last year frees were given because some moves were too "soccerrey".Whatever that means.It may be that such rules departures were in vogue again at this match.I don't know.Nor did the attendance in general, who on more than one a occasion howled protest at at some of the refereeing decisions.On both sides.If I am wrong and normal rules did apply then a rethink is in order.
Referring is a lonesome occupation.I kept sthum.He didn't influence the outcome actually .And was fair  by his own lights.
There was a noticeable maturity gap between the teams.Some of the Blackhall lads were on the cusp of shaving ,whereas the bulk of our lads were as far from it as could be.They were bulkier and bigger on balance.And outnumbered our big men about three to one.Good footballers too.
We had a few sweet footballers and little ball was wasted.By dint of effort,skill and pure determination we kept in touch until fifteen minutes from time,but they inevitably pulled away to win by 4-12 to 2-8.A fair result on the day.
Our lads did well.I can see a good future for these lads.They are a credit to us and themselves.
The gauntlet is down to the management to produce silverware.I assume that they are there for the long haul.The goods are there waiting to be harvested.Should be a good crop.
I hope the present crew stick with it.

I'm a believer

Last Thursday my niece Lauri Stephens united in Marriage for life with Eoin Donnelly before a class guest list of decent people in Kilmessan Church.

How two such laid back people found each other is hard to discern,but they did.They are soul mates as well as life partners and we are all delighted.

The Stephens clan as well as the Maguires are GAA fanatics and this will fit in well with the Donnelleys,and Eoin’s grandfather Tony is a GAA legend of yesteryear,having in his short life collected over 60 medals of significance including All Ireland's and Railway Cups.

When the sprogs start arriving,as I pray they will,there is little doubt that the GAA genes are  set for greatness.

The guest list was well sprinkled with great GAA people of both sexes and all codes.And in Cabra Castle we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

On each table was a song title,the idea being that as that song was played by the band,the table guests were supposed to give it diddy on the dance floor.Great idea.

Our table song was” I’m a  believer,”by the Monkeys.You would of course remember that the lead singer was Davy Jones.

I am a rabid pro life supporter and regard the deliberate killing of the unborn,save where the life of the mother is in immediate danger, as murder,pure and simple.( I regard those  who had abortions against their principles and who did so under mental  duress as being incapable of forming the necessary intent to do what was perpetrated on them and therefor not guilty of murder.)

 I regard any political party who supported the recent Bill with contempt and barbaric and regard their supporters in a similar vein.

I find it appalling that such people insist on taking part in the Mass celebration in any public capacity knowing that it is contrary to Catholic teaching and principles.I think that they should have the cop on to stop flouting themselves thus and seek forgiveness and if not be excommunicated.

I find it extremely difficult to even look at them in a Catholic Church.

I have been looking for some time for Latin (Tridentine)Masses in Meath.At the wedding I sussed out that one is held each Sunday at 1.00 p.m. in Johnstown ,Navan.As the Priest alone  reads all the lessons etc at these Masses ,I would be spared the seething indignity of listening to unrepentant people whose Political parties  acted in direct to Catholic teaching disgracing the Mass as I see it.

So off with me to Johnstown last Sunday.

And I was not disappointed.A Priest in cowl and vestments,two Alter Boys in Surplice and Sutane, the Mass sung and answered in Latin.The alter boys know the Latin responses .There are leaflets which give the Latin and English translations.The Priest exudes Holiness.His sermon is not politically correct but solely of the Gospel.He is passionate and raises his voice.Powerful stuff.

The congregation is about three dozen ,families mostly ,male and female .No body is rushing away before Mass is over.

In fact nearly all stay to get Confession afterwards.Candles are lit and prayers are said.

The Priest is a hermit.He is Welsh.He spent time in the part of Wales my own father was born and reared.And his name is Davy Jones.

Yep I.m a Believer.

On Saturday evening I had attended Mass at 6.00 p.m. in Kilbride.Got hard to get a seat.Only 95% full.Small attendance because many had gone to Croker to support Meath.I hear that 6.30 Mass in Bohermeen each Saturday is standing room only too.

Father Hornick was on his game too.Dare I say it a Holy man too.

What’s all this about a crisis in the Catholic Church.This must be the place that time forgot .Else the devil’s spawn are talking shite.What you would expect from them anyhow ?

From now on I will attend two Masses each weekend.One Latin and one in the vernacular.

By the way there are a good few daily Mass goers in Dunderry.I don’t make the halpenny place by comparison.

Give Johnstown a whirl.Brought back pleasant memories to me.If you never experienced a Tridentine Mass now is your chance.

 

Drumbeat Dividend for 27/07/2013

After a lengthy sabbatical the tipster has resumed wit a tip for the 2.40 in Ascot.Try a fiver win on Cape Peron.

Contempt is permanent.

We were reared in Blanchardstown in the fifties and sixties in a semi detached bungalow.Two bedrooms a kitchen a scullery and a bathroom.Cold taps alright but no hot water.Friday night was bath night.The scullery floor was covered with bath towels and a tin bath placed on top.Our mother boiled kettles and saucepans full of water to heat the bath and mixed cold water and hot to make the experience enjoyable.
One evening disaster struck Just after she had emptied a kettle full of boiling water into the bath a sister of ours stumbled and fell into it.She was badly scalded on both hands and up to her elbows.
Our mother often wondered what if and half blamed herself.My sister never did.
She was sent to hospital and over the years had a torrid time what with skin grafts on her hands for many many years until she stopped growing.The bones in her hands and fingers grew but the skin did not stretch to match and every few years the webbed skin between her fingers had to be cut through through surgery,
She did not let this impede her and grew up a confident and attractive woman even representing her country at schoolgirl level at volleyball.
Our father was a tradesman and when the opportunity arose got a mortgage and bought the house out.Despite having nine children and because of this we never qualified for a medical card.
For 15 years or thereabouts my mother had to take a red ten shilling note off the top of my fathers wage packet and send it to the hospital to pat y for my sister's treatment.This before any other expenditure.
We had little enough but that tore the arse out of it.
Fast forward sixty years.The Government have decided to withdraw and cease issuing medical cards to people with active cancer.This means that people will have to concurrently worry about raising money in the worst recession n in living memory while scared to death and  undergoing chemo ,radiotherapy and surgery and perhaps fight off debt collectors while seriously ill.
Anyone with a smidgin of compassion and even a shred of decency would not allow this to happen.
It is only when  the canker is terminal that these excuses for people will grant medical cards.
You have to die to get one.
This Government sees severe illness as an opportunity to bully the sick.
Yep,allow the deliberate death of the unborn .terrify the cancer sufferers and only relent when death is imminent.

Muskateeer Liam on pro life march.

Tempting though it is to form the first Irish branch of the Catholic Brotherhood (a mirror image of the Muslim Brotherhood ) to legislate for Catholic beliefs as opposed to atheist beliefs.this Musketeer for one is as proud as one could be of Musketeer Liam,who although not in the first flush of youth put his Christian money where his mouth is by participating  with 50,000 other devout Christians in the pro life march in Dublin last Saturday.
When I contrast the compassion of this man with the doctors for death(of the unborn but not their own ) ,the womb raiders ,most of whose wombs haven't seen any action as it were nor won't I'd say and the fanatics WHO OPENLY BOAST ABOUT THE NUMBER OF ABORTION ASSISTS THEY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN,I FEEL PRIVILEGED TO KNOW HIM.
The farce in the Dail this week which subverted democracy will ,I predict ,haunt those who bullied it through for ever.Fir and mna breaga all.
The prayers go on in Dunderry Church every Friday from 6.00 to 6.30.

Somebody is lying.

The Health Minister says that Fine Gael did not guarantee that it would not legislate for abortion before the last election.The European Minister said it did promise not to legislate for abortion before the last election.Who do you believe ?If Lucinda is right that means that the Health Minister is a liar.Is it right to have a Minister and a Cabinet who are all liars,no matter how carefully crafted the lies are?Can we believe anything out of their mouths.
Minister Reilly consistently spoke over the interviewer on the Mid day news programme on RTE last Sunday.Not only was this insulting to the interviewer but also extremely dismissive of the audience.
I have noticed that certain public servants are taking their cue from this type of dismissive behaviour and treating the public with contempt.
It's the example they get.

Super Sporting weekend for the real Irish

Those of us who ate our dinners in the middle of the day and stand to attention for Amhrain na Fiann (not that West Brit. abomination  Ireland's Call) had a bumper sporting weekend from our very own National games.
In hurling Tipperary and Kilkenny served up a classic and the de Dubs defied the critics and the bookies by beating Galway,who are far too reliant on Joe Canning who is undoubtedly a sporting genius. Clare hammered an improving Laoise and will face a dogged Wexford.
In football Kerry just about held out against an experimental Cork side who are probably a better team if they would only field the old reliables from the start .Don't write Cork off just yet.
Roscommon nearly caught Tyrone off guard and Waterford nearly did likewise against Galway.
Derry bested a game Down and Clare were hammered by a good Laoise team.
Four counties can still do the double,Dublin,Cork,Galway and Wcxford I think.Don't dismiss the chances of Dublin and Cork.
The Galway camogie women did well too.
Dunderry footballers hammered an understrength Moynalvey team on Saturday and our junior Camgie team beat a game Drumree tonight.
And the sun is splitting the stones and every farmer in the Parish is suffering from hay madness.
And the countrymen of my father had ten men on the lions team that beat Australia and proper order.Rugby in Cymru is the game of the common people as is GAA here, is not the sport of the snobs and the social climbers and the menopausal auld wans who infest RTE'
I'd say that Driscoll at his best wouldn't last five minutes in a inter county hurling match.
Hon the Gaels

Time for Excommmunication .

The alacrity of the spiteful and ugly expulsion of those in Fine Gael who voted against the introduction of abortion  sets a precedent for the Catholic Church to also act  likewise and immediately excommunicate those who vote in favour of legalised death of the unborn and  claim to be Catholic.
If it is to retain any credibility at all with its loyal believers it has no option to do so.I for one will take fierce exception to the Church if it sits on the fence on this issue.It will stick in my craw to see any person who actively promotes Fine Gael,.Labour or Sinn Fein actively involved in the Mass or Sacraments or made welcome in any manner in any Catholic Church or institution.

Syria.Now we know.

The Syrian rebels have beheaded a Catholic Priest and a fellow Christian for no other reason than that they are Christian.The Syrian rebel mob cheered on as the heads of both were cut off with a kitchen knife.
Secular England and Socialist France want to give arms to these murderers so that they can more effectively kill more opponents.
Barrac Obama,whose Snoops will undoubtedly read this post will do likewise if he has not already done so.
The halo of the great black hope is well and truly tarnished and he is a huge disappointment to all those who thought of him as a force for good.
He will be remembered as a man who directed murder by drone,an eavesdropper on his so called friends,a supplier of arms to savages who behead Christians and a bully who swaggers the world stage threatening all those nations who might offer santuary to the man who revealed  the true extent of his Countriy's snooping actiivities.
Not to mention his enthuastic support for the legslised murder of the unborn at the whim of the mother.

Patrick Nulty a man of honour

It is no surprise to me that Patrick Nulty has parted from the Labour Party.He is a man of honour,a member of a family of honour rooted in a long tradition of working class and very decent people and fully understands the real concerns under which decent Labour people live.
He belongs to that real strain of labour supporters who actually earn a living by the sweat of their brow and who the likes of Brendan Corish and Frank Cluskey represented.
He would, I guess, have little in common with the Worker's Party lite now masquaring as Labour in this repsessive Government.
His actions prove that an ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding.
As far as I know he is the only locally born person from the constuency ever to represent it  in the Dail.
Long may this most decent of men continue to represent his constituents.Not on my Fear Breags list nor ,I hope, will he ever be.

More hammer blows to Parish.

The ineptitude of politicians of all hues,in particularly the present crew,who have presided over unprecedented levels of emigration,has hit home once again with the recent emigration of Celine and Shane O Neill to Canada and Australia respectively.This shameful economic emigration of half of a family so immersed in community and GAA affairs strike once again at the very core of decency and decent family values in the Parish and is being replicated all over Ireland.
The Government and the E.U. have implemented policies of austerity that depend on such forced departures to succeed.
Hypocital hand wringing by the Government parties and the pet journalists and commentators who pollute our electronic and paper media about the duplicity of a handful of Anglo Irish Bank executives ,who are supposed to have thwarted the combined expertise of our civil service,regulatory authorities ,Central Bank,the cream of our academic communities and whoever you are having yourself,does nothing to alleviate the deliberate and wilful destruction of Irish society by a totalitarian Government and European Union .
Already bent on eliminating the unborn through the blasphemy of abortion,the continuing torture of those left at home has the inevitable consequence of forcing those who can emigrate to go.Our Government are no more than facilitators for this betrayal of their own people.And use the Anglo relevations as an excuse to settle old scores and grab as much additional powers as they can for themselves.
The truth must out eventually and if the Government's attempts to avoid a vote on the abortion issue fails at least then we will be able to identify personally the faces of evil.

Tom Mc gurk talking through his hole

 

Tonight I listened to the Programme on RTE Radio hosted by a woman called Mc Carville.She is hard to listen to at the best of times.

Tom Mc Gurk,on whom the Aviva ad has to be based, had plenty to say on the banning of sports sponsorship by the drinks companies.

First of all he holds himself out to be an expert on the minutae of running GAA Clubs and providing decent facilities.I don’t know whether he ever was or is involved in running a GAA Club.

I severely doubt it.

If he were he would know that the recession generally has impacted so severely on ordinary clubs that they are barely hanging on by their fingertips.Ravaged by the emigration of their members,by massive youth unemployment ,by a Government cruelly extracting the last penny and more from a battered populace by the plundering of Lotto Funds originally designed for Sport but diverted in many instances to pay the wages of well paid medics and their medical friends ,they are barely subsisting.

While he may be of the view that togging out in the ditches is  be good enough for the GAA Paddies and that the sport of his rugby buddies and that of choice of most of the medics deserves better and even subsidises payment for professionals I can assure him that his condescending view of the proletariat will not find favour in this part of the country.

He hasn’t a clue what life is like outside the cushioned sidewalks of Dublin 4.Pubs in every town and village in the country are suppose to be thronged with youngsters falling around drunk every weekend.

Where e the feck is he talking about.Not where I live.Nobody has the price of a drink,old nor young.The pubs are on their knees and closing down by the new time.Sponsorship from rural pubs .You must be joking.I doubt thety have the wherewithal to pay the electric  bill.

He clearly lives on a different planet than I do and as most of rural Ireland does.And yes it is important that the employment the likes of Guinness gives here be kept here.

Mouthpieces like him and the medical profession will always attract huge salaries even at the expe nse of the poor.

On which subject  the neck of some of these medics never ceases r to amaze me.They have been educated at massive expense to the citizens ,very often emigrate to stuff their pockets with dosh and then  return here to lecture the populace on how stupid they ( the populace) are and how right they( the medics) are.

On the subject of drink they want to put the price of it beyond the reach of the poor.That’s right feck the poor.The medics  and their class will be well able to afford it and of course they will be far more responsible than the yobs beneath them for  whom the hold nothing but contempt.Certainly it works insofar as the fees they charge go,which are beyond the reach of many ordianary people and who many ordinary people don’t trust at all.

These people are so clever that they are self appointed gods and know far better than us mere mortals.

They would want to cop on and stop treating us with contempt.

Lots of them see nothing wrong with publishing the most horrific pictures to scarify kids in a smoking context ,but see nothing wrong with murdering the unborn and cry foul when the abortion lobby are presented with the image of an aborted human beings.

We are not fools and don’t deserve this type of condescending shit.

Tom Mc Gurk talking through his hole.

Tom Mc Gurk talking through his hole

Tonight I listened to the Programme on RTE Radio hosted by a woman called Mc Carville.She is hard to listen to at the best of times.

Tom Mc Gurk,on whom the Aviva ad has to be based, had plenty to say on the banning of sports sponsorship by the drinks companies.

First of all he holds himself out to be an expert on the minutae of running GAA Clubs and providing decent facilities.I don’t know whether he ever was or is involved in running a GAA Club.

I severely doubt it.

If he were he would know that the recession generally has impacted so severely on ordinary clubs that they are barely hanging on by their fingertips.Ravaged by the emigration of their members,by massive youth unemployment ,by a Government cruelly extracting the last penny and more from a battered populace by the plundering of Lotto Funds originally designed for Sport but diverted in many instances to pay the wages of well paid medics and their medical friends ,they are barely subsisting.

While he may be of the view that togging out in the ditches is  be good enough for the GAA Paddies and that the sport of his rugby buddies and that of choice of most of the medics deserves better and even subsidised payment for professionals I can assure him that his condescending view of the proletariat will not find favour in this part of the country.

He hasn’t a clue what life is like outside the cushioned sidewalks of Dublin 4.Pubs in every town and village in the country are suppose to be thronged with youngsters falling around drunk every weekend.

Where e the feck is he talking about.Not where I live.Nobody has the price of a drink,old nor young.The pubs are on their knees and closing down by the new time.Sponsorship from rural pubs .You must be joking.I doubt thety have the wherewithal to pay the electric  bill.

He clearly lives on a different planet than I do and as most of rural Ireland does.And yes it is important that the employment the likes of Guinness gives here be kept here.

Mouthpieces like him and the medical profession will always attract huge salaries even at the expe nse of the poor.

On which subject  the neck of some of these medics never ceases r to amaze me.They have been educated at massive expense to the citizens ,very often emigrate to stuff their pockets with dosh and then  return here to lecture the populace on how stupid they ( the populace) are and how right they( the medics) are.

On the subject of drink they want to put the price of it beyond the reach of the poor.That’s right feck the poor.The medics  and their class will be well able to afford it and of course they will be far more responsible than the yobs beneath them for  whom the hold nothing but contempt.Certainly it works insofar as the fees they charge go,which are beyond the reach of many ordianary people and who many ordinary people don’t trust at all.

These people are so clever that they are self appointed gods and know far better than us mere mortals.

They would want to cop on and stop treating us with contempt.

Lots of them see nothing wrong with publishing the most horrific pictures to scarify kids in a smoking context  and see nothing wrong with murdering the unborn yet cry foul when the abortion lobby are presented with the image of an aborted human beings.

We are not fools and don’t deserve this type of condescending shit.

Mossie and Maisie and Flossie and Teasay

Flossie and Teasay (Teresa) are in their late sixties.They are now grannies and Mossie and Maisie,their parents,are in their nineties.Mossie is still active enough.he smokes his way through 20 fags a day and aside from an occassional bout of gout he is game enough.He still goes on the occassional batter.Maisie gave the fags up thirty years ago and always hated the drink.She is contrary since she gave up the fags  and bristles at the very thought of Mossie heading for the pub.She absolutely hates him slobbering around the place.
Mossie was a great provider when he was able and is still very tasty around the house.No better man to clean out a fire grate ,set the fire and leave a knacky bundle of kindling at the back door.
Recently Mossie went on the batter for three days.She was enraged and gave him hell.His murrin burned out on thr third day and he landed home well locked and slobbering.Age was again him and he said the storm was now over."Would you like a sandwich ?""Love one,roast beef with a touch of mustard please."
"Sit down there dear and relax.Anything else?""Yep I'd love a good footbath to soothe my feet.""Is that warm enough?""Grand."
As she finished pouring the contents of the basin over his head she bolted for the door and shouted over her shoulder "I'll be at me sisters Daisies if you want me."
He had five days of pure bliss before he relented.
And so it goes.Happy Father's Day.

The destruction of North Meath

Recently a good man of my acquaintance voluntarily drove a local sporting school team to a venue in North Meath for a contest.They won and he informed them he would treat them to a celebratory ice cream.God bless his innocence.The shop in Dromone had closed down.And a local informed him  so had the shops in Ballinlough and Kilallon.Surely there was a shop open in Kilskyre.Nope.Crossakiel yes.A shop and post office.And what about petrol and diesel.None between Oldcastle and Athboy.And if you went to Kells from Oldcastle the first place is Drumbarragh.
And people.The overwhelming majority from 20 to 30 have emigrated.No future .No services.No jobs.No hope.
Even at minor level Ballinlough can only supply two to a combination team.Five years ago they had a team of their own practically.
What Cromwell had started this Government is finishing.O yes the Government has indeed taken decisive action to expedite the desertion of the region.They intend to legally justify the murder of the unborn at the whim of the mother or pro choice medics .If they are not born they cannot pollute the place.And the Minister who cannot even keep the hospitals clean will keep an eye on things.
Yep austerity, an antagonistic government and implementation of over zealous policies by the organs of state egged on by a government who really don't give a fuck will achieve Cromwell's desire,the elimination of the Irish.,
Our Taoiseach is deliberately setting these policies.He is an Irishman who happens to be Taoiseach not an Irish Taoiseach.Explains his desire to denigrate the language too.
One thing that hasn't changed is the ability of the drug dealers to deliver.This service is thriving.These boys deliver.
How long before young wans drugged out of their heads with no future are slitting their wrists to prove to pro choice medics that they really must have an abortion as the child was conceived when they were off their heads with drugs.And the Olivias and Martinas and Justines and Vincents will support them too.
Yep pray for those who will get no chance,And for those being targeted in the name of austerity.

BLog under attack

MY blog has been under sustained attack for some time.Hence the dearth of articles and reports.I have had help in repellling these viruses and am ready to go again.Le cunamh De.

Blessing of graves Dunderry 2013.

Saturday 13 July 2013.Mass Dunderry at 7.30 p.m.Dunderry Graves blessed afterwards.

Sunday 14 July 2013.Mass Dunderry 11.30 a.m. Dunderry graves blessed afterwards.

I.e.Two goes in Dunderry.

Churchtown.Tuesdsay 16th July at 7.30 p.m.

Retaine Wednesday 17th July at 7.30 p.m.

Claddy.Thursday 18th July at 7.30 p.m.

KIlcooley .Thursday 18th July at 8.00 p.m.

KiLbride. Sunday 21 July Mass 7.00 p.m. Blessing afterwards.

Moymet Tuesday 23 July 7.30.p.m.

Tullaghanogue Wednesday 24th July 7.30.p.m.

Black Church Thursday 25th July 7.30.p.m. 

Test

Test POst

The magpie,the crow and the rabbit.

I thought I had seen it all.This evening I realised I hadn't.At 6.30 this evening I was driving from KIlbride to Dunderry.At Conlon's back gate I spied a magpie and a crow picking at an animal no more than the size of my fist.I assumed it was a roadkill.I was wrong .On getting nearer the birds flew away.And up gets a baby rabbit and scarpers away.This is the first time I witnessed two birds of different species combining to kill another animal.
I have often seen grey crows and magpies concurrently trying to pick the eyes from a prostrate lamb,but never saw them combining to kill a baby rabbit.
Deadly coalition.Bit like F,G. and Labour combining to allow the killing of the unborn at the suit of the mother.

IFC 01/06/2013.Dunderry 0-11.Carnaross 1-4

Played under the shadows of the Loughcrew Hills ,where Cromwell created such havoc just a few centuries ago ,the pitch in Millbrook was resplendent .From ferrying juvenile teams all over the county for two decades you get to know every nook and cranny in a County.I have always found it hard to find this pitch and the pitch of Moylough and for this reason was a little late.Parked at the back of the goal ,where I had a bird's eye view of proceedings.Just after I landed Ollie Murphy punched a goal.According to an astute reader of the game ,we were well in control up to that point.And the goal reduced our lead to a point.Ollie has a crocked knee it seems and wears sports tights to keep his joints in place.Despite these handicaps he is a class act and hard to handle.He won a penalty later in th game ,which Jennings parried and cleared.Had it been converted who knows whar would have happened,but from what I saw we have an edge over Carnaross,who were missing John L.Mc Gee on the day.
With Andy Coogan suspended the team that lined out for Dunderry was.

                                                Jennings

Callaghan( Darren)                 Kelleher                             Mc Cormack(David)

Newman (Gary)                      Stephens (Evan)                Clarke

                                Dempsey (Liam)             Farrell (Conor)

O Shea                                    Callaghan (David)                Dowd (Kevin )

Newman (Aaron)                   Kenneally (Paddy)               Coogan (Stephen)

Peadar Callaghan replaced an unhappy Dempsey mid way through the second half.
Of the Dunderry team I managed in 2005 nine of the starting line up played then.So we have found 6 in the intervening years.We went down that year and since then Carnaross,Ballinlough,Trim and KIlmainhamwood,Courtown.Ultans   and I think Oldcastle have followed suit. Unhappy times indeed for rural clubs.
My tape recorder gave up the ghost during the game so what I record here is from memory.
We played Aaron Newman as a third midfielder with a two man full forward line.Indeed it is my recollection that every score save a single poinrt scored by Farrell was by Coogan and Kenneally.
We came ,we saw and we conquered.Mission accomplished .The backs ,particularly the half backs ,did very well.To restrict the opposition to a goal and four points over an hours football is as much as you could expect.Midfield was fair and neither team dominated there.As already said the two man full forward line did the bulk of the scoring.And a winis a win is a win.And I do not wish to detract from the management nor the players.
From my perch above the action and in the company of two older and true blue Gaels we analysed the game and indeed the direction football is taking generally.The conclusion reached is that the confidence to playthe ball  with the foot has been coached out of players who take winning seriously.For whole tranches of the match there were safe and crabwise  hand interpassing movements which had an entertainment value equivalent to watching paint dry.For much of the second half upwards of 25 players were concentrated in a square between our twentyone and our fifty with only three of four players in  the Carnaross half of the field.
As another old to timer put it "this is not football as we know it".And it is not just Dunderry and Carnaross but all over at serious Club and Inter County level.Just look at the inability of Westmeath to hand pass the ball furter than their thirty yard line and the embarassing in anability to make any decent effort at a reasonable foot pass.
The game is being destroyed as a spectacle by the the relegation of the foot pass to history and the dominace of the fisted  and hand passes to painstakingly make ground.This stye of play is killing off the traditionsal skills of the game as the opportunity, for example ,a high catch is limited .O Shea made one that sticks in the memory.I can't remember another one.This is the whole point.Keep possession,Hand pass hand to hand

Muskaterr under pressure.

Friday night last was on my own.Leo and Caremel were on romantic weekend with Edel in Carlow.Liam was otherwise engaged and Deirdre had a domestic crisis.Said the Rosary myself.|And fell asleep.Have lost over a stone with the flu.

Camogie Promotion in Dunderryin May 2013.

Last Saturday at the request of my good friend Teresa Rattigan i moseyed up to the pitch to take in the atmosphere of the underage blitz being played out and which our Club were hosting.To those who are not in the know the Rattigans are the bedrock on which our Club is built.They sell over 400 Club Lotto tickets each and every week.Without them the pitch and dressing rooms would not be there.
Not that they boast about it.In the ego stakes they just don't figure.But to those that know the story they are simply the best.
Teresa herself has a daughter starting out as has Collette Rowan and Suzanne Kelly who has two.Great to see them managing teams .If the present daughters turn out to be as good as their mothers were we will be unbeatable in years to come.Theses ladies and their contemporaries won every competition open to them in Meath before they reached eighteen years except the Senior Championship ,a medal they subsequently won with  either  Trim or KIlmessan when the Club  temporarily folded due to lack of numbers.They were augmented by Francis Brady who hurled with distinction for the Club and who is doing such marvellous work for thye game of the Gaels in Scoil Mhuire in Trim.Her husband Anthony also walked the Camogie walk and continues to support the GAA club at all levels.Their daughter too yields the caman.how could she miss it.
Stella Keyes was in full flight too and we are so so grateful for the huge effort put into the camogie by herself ansd her husband Dave.
They are well backed up by Martina Loughran,Teresa Hayden and Miriam Mc Hale and a host of others whose names escapes me,much to my discredit.
The pitches were overflowing with children ranging in ages from about five to ten and parents to beat the band admiring and cheering on their adored offspring.
Teams from Athboy,KIlmessan and KIltale were present to  augment our own
 and we had plenty despite the absence of the Robinstown contingent who were attending First Holy Communion on the day.Over 40 children have made their First Communion in the Parish and this augurs well for the future of the Clubs in the Parish.
With the infiltration of all of rural Ireland's schools with the well funded Rugby Union apostles and the attempts to popularise the the cultures of New Zealand and Ireland's Call at the expense of our native culture and games it is indeed laudable to see such effort and  organisation so well applied and supported.
Boyerstown ,which supplies so many players to our Camogie Team ,have a School Team  and a fairly successful one at that.
One hopes that Dunderry,KIlbride and Robinstown will take heart and follow in their example.

Cregans of Tullaghanstown get a hard hit

Last week the widow of Paddy (the Buckley) Cregan was buried in Waterford in Ballygunner Cemetery.
Angela Cregan's husband Sean Kelleher died just after that burial and will be arriving at Athboy Church at 7.00 p.m. on Sunday ,with funeral Mass at 11.00 a.m. on Monday.
The poor man wasn't well at all and suffered a lot recently.How he kept going this last few years with the state of his legs is a mystery to me.
Although himself and Angela married late in life they were devoted to each other and she will miss him hugely.
There is no more decent family in the Parish than the Cregans and all our sympathies go out to them.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hanam dilis.

Muskateers swells to five

The original Muskateers of myself,Leo ,Carmel and Liam have been joined by new addition Deirdre.She is most welcome and a lovely lady.
We continue to pray each Friday in Dunderry Church from 6.00 to 6.30.I barely made it myself today as I have a bad dose of the flu.Leo is not well either.
We pray for ourselves and all the people of Ireland,born and unborn and hope they will get fair play in this life and get a chance to be born..

Fodder crisis.The solution.

Cattle and sheep are dying of starvation.Hay and its substitutes are being in imported by the ship load from England and the continent.the cost of this fodder is leaving the country.Farmers are in the export business and have been from Famine times.
With a little imagination the problem could be solved countrywide without importing even one square bale of hay.
If you drive on the motorways and big roads anywhere in Ireland you will witness hundreds of thousands of acres of perfectly good grazing land going to waste and actually costing the taxpayer money to cut and dispose of it.
All this land is stock proof where it adjoins the farmers land at its boundaries.It is not stock proof where it adjoins the road.
A campaign to make it stock proof would not cost the world and once  done would be there for decades,Not only would such work prove therapeutic for those doing it but would help stem the plague of emigration.
There is absolutely no way that the sucker and dry stock herds could not  be accommodated to make the remaining stripped land available for the dairy cows that must be milked twice daily.
Britain learned to feed itself during the Great War by ploughing every square yard of ground available.
Sheep and dry stock farmers and their families would have to revert to the old job of shepherding and be with their flocks all the time.So what.
I know that the politically correct do gooders who achieve nothing will have a million reasons for doing nothing but so what.Where there is a will there is a way.