Dunderry GAA Club as I see it.

Theses last few years I have attended as many adult Dunderry matches as I was able to and have been so doing for many many years.
In the late 1990.'s  we had three Senior Teams in the Parish,Football,Hurling and Camogie,the only rural Meath Club to be so endowed until Blackhall Gaels joined us.
Theses last years we have just the one Senior Team ,the Hurling team and are getting it fierce hard to make the step up to Senior in Football as indeed are the Ladies at the Camogie.
I am full of admiration for the dual players who put so much effort and time and pride into  the jersey for so little reward at the end of the day.
On a personal level all my four daughters and three sons have played the Gaelic Game for Dunderry as long as they were able,reflecting the ethos of myself and my eight siblings who played for St.Brigids ,Blanchardstown in our day.
Before us again my uncles and grandfather's family played for Dunderry.My grandchildren are now involved.
So you can see the reason I regard the affairs and direction of Dunderry GAA as akin to a sacred trust that must be perpetuated in an honourable fashion ,
Getting back to 2016 the Hurlers were never going to win out as Kiltale are miles ahead of any other Club in the County and  were never going to be caught out by us.We did well to survive in 2016 and will need to be in top form in 2017 to stay up.
Our cause has been greatly hurt by the retirement of our Evan who gave it his all for the Club in both hurling and football since he was a teenager .He owes us nothing and has been persuaded to be a selector with the footballers for the coming year.
On the plus side two talented players Jamie Leavy and Tommy Conroy have graduated up from minor ranks and I expect good things from them.
On the football side in 2016 it was a case of so near and yet so far.We were beaten in a Final replay by Saint Colmcilles who went on to contest the All Ireland Club FINAL only to lose out to Westport.
Many say that we should have taken Colmcilles the first day when Graham Reilly got gate but I disagree.Both our Evan and Conor  O Shea suffered serious injuries before the replayed Final and I contend that their presence would have more than cancelled the full fifteen for Colmcilles in the replay.
In my view by far the most important player Colmcilles had in 2016 was the Rugby man Neill Ronan .who was the fulcrum of the team notwithstanding the many other fine players they had.,
Evan is gone for this year..Paddy Kenneally is again injured and Simon Carty is gone to the USA  for the year.Three huge losses and three men who were instrumental in last year's surge,
On the plus side Jamie Leavy,Thomas Conroy and Barry Calleghan's son Morgan have been added to the panel and Liamie Dempsey has has a long overdue groin operation and will be back in harness sooner rather than later,
And the lift that last years run gave us has made us believe in ourselves again ,an indefinable quality but one which is nevertheless very real.
The residual fitness we have as a result of last year's run will give us an early season edge but we will be the team to beat and everybody will be having a cut at us.
Here's hoping.
I have been either watching OR PLAYING Gaelic Games for over 60 years now and cannot understand why the Mc Entees have not given Stephen Coogan and Conor Farrell a chance at County level .They are good enough and deserve that chance..
On the Camogie front it is well past the time that we adorned the Senior ranks and it escapes me why we have failed to convert our undoubted talent into tangible  results.I fully expect this year to be the year but we will have to find more scorers than Aoife Minogue.

Miracle in Meadstown.

Last evening I drew a bale of silage from the hayshed down to the field where the cattle spend their time.Having stripped the plastic from the bale and dropped it there for consumption I went and got another bale.When I returned with the second bale I copped that one heavily pregnant cow had rolled over on her back and with her four feet in the air was in danger of suffocating.
As I was dropping the second bale so as to attach a rope to her legs on one side and straighten her up the Miracle happened and it went like this.
Another cow went to her assistance and having tried to rescue her from a few angles finally figured it out ..She put her head at ground level  at the cow's belly and pushed her over until the set of feet nearest the ground hit the ground and kept pushing until all four feet were under the cow and she was able to get up.
I believe in God the Father Almighty.
This cow has more nature in her than the combined membership of Dail Eireann especially the arrogant female spawn of Cromwell who want to resurrect his policies,rewrite history to their agenda  and seize the assets of the religious Orders without due process.
As was and is the case a SOCIALIST liberal IS SOMEONE WHO HAS FUCK ALL AND WANTS TO SHARE IT WITH EVER BODY ELSE, Brutons of the thousand acres included.

Media and Democrats are Russia's best friends.

If it is true that the USA and Russia are vieing for the hearts ans souls of the rest of the world and it probably is ,then the constant attempts of certain sections of the USA media ,the defeated and ungracious Democrats and a dysfunctional E.U.to undermine the democratically elected President of the USA must be sweet music to Putin and indeed the Chinese.
They are doing the jobs of Putin et al by frustrating the President and his Government in making the USA ungovernable.
In my view all Putin has to do is sit back and let these seditious traitors bring down the President and sink America into civil war,which appears to be their aim.
I have never been anywhere much but better travelled people than me have informed me  that New York and indeed London might as well be anywhere at all in the world as the majority of the immigrant inhabitants haven't a patriotic bone in their bodies and aside from turning a quick buck have no loyalty at all to America and BRITAIN.
It is no surprise therefor that the sneering and condescension towards  those who voted for Brexit and Trump are based in these unpatriotic bastions of selfishness and greed.
A few turns of military duty in Afghanistan and anywhere in the Middle East would do them no harm at all to these whinging know alls and they might find the opportunity to meet a few Cossacks up front and personal informative and educational.
Instead of pissing on the Country that gave them succour they should support it.
Of course the ludraman Blue Shirt Taoiseach and his acolytes who has presided over mass emigration and unprecedented homelessness has seen fit to lecture the God's man on earth and stigmatize all our ancestors for the sort of society we were and are.
I m proud of my ancestors and the sort of people they were and are.
The little they had they shared with the less fortunate,often going hungry themselves and wherever they dipped their wick they paid for the oil.They put nobody into institutions nor wre they cruel to others.
A number of them took on the might of the Empire so as we could decide our own futures as a sovereign Nation.
If thy thought that Blueshirt ludraman Kenny was going to sneer at the sort of society they fought and died for was to be vilified by this ignorant excuse for a man I doubt they would have bothered.
How dare he besmirch their memory and lives.

Circle of hate at it again.

Having pissed on the grave of  Cardinal  Connell by their pointed absence from his funeral the political establishment ,led by a  Taoiseach who according to ex Minister Shatter has only a passing connection with the truth, and who is in a Cabinet some of whose members invent conversations which never took place ,are again lining up to denigrate the Catholic Church ovr the discovery of human remains in the grounds of a mother and child home in Tuam,Co.Galway,led d by the charm free zone called Burton.
This is the Burton who led the Labour Party into near oblivion in the last election and who has a huge chip on her shoulder because her mother gave her up for adoption and whose parents chose not to keep her as a baby it seems.
She and her ilk want to retrospectively blame the Christian Churches for giving succour and shelter to expectant mothers and babies whose own parents and families didn't want them and want apologies and compensation for the acts of compassion and charity which was shown to them.
Of course the Labour Party which she has led to the brink of extinction is around since the time of James Connolly and was in existence  at the times when  these burials took place and indeed was in Government for part of the time  and had undisputed legal and moral control over all matters legal in the State .
Neither they nor any other of the political parties lifted a finger to help these people so the political hand wringing now is pure hypocrisy.
We can see from the repeated rape of a mentally challenged lady while in secular and State custody these last decades,some of which time the Labour Party was again in Government ,that heinous crimes are inflicted on the innocent on the sole watch of the Secularists.
She might start by apologizing for the woeful inadequacy of her own Party in this regard and offering compensation from Labour Party assets for the wrongs committed during their watch in the Dail.
As indeed might Enda Kenny.
As far as I know my own people did no wrong to people in unfortunate circumstances over the centuries ,in fact they only did good and ENDA kENNY HAS NO RIGHT TO APOLOGISE ON BEHALF OF MY PEOPLE NOR INDEED MILLIONS OF OTHERS FOR WRONGS INFLICTED BY A NEGLECTFUL STATE WHEN HIS PARTY WAS IN POWER.
It doesn't wash with me.

Zappone lives in parallel universe.

Today I heard Zappone saying a number  of things in relation to the malfunctioning agency called Taulsa she heads up and for whose actions she is responsible .

A.She had directed the destruction of electronic records relating to the false branding of Mauce Mc Cabe as a child molester.
B.She was setting up an investigation into the operation of Tulsa which is clearly unfit for purpose and worse.

Now it appears irrefutable that shredding of electronic records which may be needed in inquiries to come to follow the sequence of events and who did what is as stupid an action as it is possible  to do.
Just look at the furore being caused at the prosecution of Fitzpatrick by the Corporate AFFAIRS PEOPLE where documents were deliberately shredded.
C,She said the secrecy in withholding information about the false sexual allegations against Mc Cabe was the reason she didn't tell her Cabinet colleagues about them and that she wished to limit the circulation of these rumours.
She sure did succeed in this didn't she.
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It's a great man who can mind his own business.

The above was a favourite spake of  my grandfather Auld M c Cormack and one I  have never forgotten,And how right he was.
It is one the Academic Yank Zappone who is Minister for Children would do well to heed.Just a week ago she had plenty of time on her hands to launch  A withering broadside against the democratic right of the Americans to elect by free vote their own Pre4sident and his entitlement to put in place those policies he had promised to implement.
His views were not hers and she felt free to preach sedition against him and his team.
In this she is at one with some political appointed  judges over there who encouraged by bitter loser Democrats and disappointed Republican grandee families who Trump routed ,are trying to negate the Presidential election result and appropriate to themselves the right to control American foreign policy regarding control of immigration into the USA.
All I can say is thank God seditiousthese  gob shites were not there in the 1930's  and early 1940.s .Were they so ensconced they would no doubt have allowed the unfettered immigration of German Nazis and their supporters into the USA on precisely the same logic.
But there again the Courts and their Judges have their hands dripping in blood from the countless millions of unborn Americans they have allowed into the slaughter houses they have approved of judiciallysinve Roe V  Wade  for the purposes of abortion,so the fact that they hate American democracy and the right of Americans to defend their way of life is nothing new.
Trump is right when he says that if the USA is attacked from within,as is common in Europe,that the judiciary who allow them in should carry the can.
It would also be right to say that there is no point in having a Presidential election if the Judiciary can just ignore the result entirely.
I would have thought that there are areas of influence for both the Judicial and Executive Branches in all Democracies and that the matter of immigration is entirely an Executive one.
Any how Zappone had time to consider all these matters and pronounce on them.
We now learn that within the remit of her own Department not only one but two Gardai WHISTLEBLOWERS had complaints made against then by colleagues in an attempt to brand them as child abusers and that both claims were false ,
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Now this gives rise to number of concerns,amongst which are ;-
A    Whether any other people  against whom other  Gardai have a grudge are subject to this tactic..And how would these people know.

B.Whether anyone at all against whom a grudge is held can be branded a child molester at the whim of any head case who wants to orchestrate it.

C.Just how many totally innocent adults and children have had files opened branding them child molesters/potential child molesters/children of potential child olesters, and how many are  now in the system without their knowledge.

D.What the penalty is against those who make false/malicious/negligent  claims.

E.What the penalty is for staff who allow innocent people to be branded as child molesters.

Of course all this shit flows from the Referendum to supplant families as the main protectors of their own children and replace the State as that person.another example of group think by the political establishment and the liberal media where we were fed a load of shite and fell for it.
It is clear that the people heading these agencies and the politicians at the heads of them are totally useless at the job of work they oversee and ought immediately be relieved of their dutiesand a referendum held to reverse the result of the last one.
I have no faith whatsoever in the proposition that a American Academic who will never have kids of her own nor never did is in an  way suited  to being in loco parentis permanently for all the children of the Nation.
Nor do I have any faith in the pronouncements of a Scotsman promising his personal assurance that the repeat of branding of an innocent man as a child molester would get his personal attention and he wouldn't stand for it.
That boat has already sailed.

The 12 percent rule.

Two recent statistics have emerged which may or may not be related.
Statistic 1.

12 per centage of the population of the Republic of Ireland are languishing on Hospital Waiting lists for either Consultant appointments or surgery,This is an all time record.
The next time you hear the present Taoiseach or his predecessors mouthing off about something remember how they let this happen to us The same applies to the Health Ministers these last two decades .

This explains how some consultants and other medics  have turned into Gods and feel that they can treat us with contempt.

Statistic 2.
.About 12 per cent of the population of Ireland are not indigenous to the country.

The questions that arise are;-
3.Whether only 12 percent of those on waiting lists are non indigenous or what the percentage is.

4.The extent to which catering for non indigenous Irish has curtailed Health spending and contributed to the long waiting lists

In one part of Dublin I  know fairly well  the pursuit of indigenous culture is 1/26 th.of what is promulgated generally.This is paid for by the State.i,e the full lot of which our people get only 1/26 th.

The Parable of the Spancilled Goat.

I know a Farmer who keeps and did keep suckler cows and a flock of sheep.Even those with zilch knowledge of this type of farming will figure out that the secret to success is to have a bull or ram or multiples thereof which will impregnate the cows and ewes and produce calves and lambs.
Now one winter a buck goat which stank up to high heaven arrived on the scene and decided to stay.He soon became Lord of the Ring in  a real sense ,taking up residence in the centre of the feeding rings into which the farmer put the bales of hay to fodder his cattle and sheep 'ating  the first bit and ensuring he got his way by deft deployment of his ferocious horns which he used to devastating effect from his protected position in the centre of the ring.
Well let it and feck it said the farmer,sure he is eating sfa and doing little harm.
And so he was kept no problem and ran with the other livestock with no apparent downside.
Until the following September when the farmer found a recently purchased pedigree ram  normally bursting with health as dead as a dodo in the field with no apparent cause of death.The ram was carted off to the Knackery and the Farmer took to hiding in the ditches to keep watch on his sheep to see what was going down.
It being the season when the sheep came into season the problem soon materialized,The buck goat  was mounting the sheep and having his evil way.Not only that but he was seen a number of times putting his head under the belly of a ram in full flagrante on a ewe and throwing it upwards and flipping him backwards from the ewes gonads onto the ground .Bad enough for the ram that his coitus was interrupted but his back was nearly broken to boot.,
The penny dropped.That was how the dead ram had met his Waterloo.The farmer s couldn't risk the death of the other rams,And there was the additional problem that he didn't know whether the ewe's the goat had tipped would go to fruition and what they would give birth to.Maybe a geep or a a shoat.
His best information was that the ewes topped by the goat would abort at about a month into development of the foetus and unless the ewe was tipped again by a ram there would be no lambs that year .
This would lead to bankruptcy so the goat had to go .He gathered up all the sheep including the goat who thought he was a sheep with the intention of shooting it or giving it away but couldn't bring himself to shoot it nor could he get anybody to take the goat.
Now you will have to trust me and suspend reason and believe that the goat spoke to the farmer and told him what to do.
And this is what he told him to do,
HE SAID TO SPANCIL HIM,I.E .TIE HIS FRONT LEG TO HIS BACK LEG ON ONE SIDE ON A SHORT LEASH SO THAT HE WOULD BE UNABLE TO MOUNT A EWE..HE ALSO TOLD HIM TO CASTRATE HIM SO HE COULDN'T TIP ANY MORE EWES NOR ANYTHING ELSE FOR HAT MATTER.
This came to pass and the goat quietened down for a while.but old habits die hard and after a while the goat ,unable to mount a ewe himself ,began positioning himself behind and across the rear end of any ewe that came into season in order to stop the ram mating with the ewe.In this he became a dog,like the dog in the manger,who when he couldn't have a thing himself stopped anyone else from having it.
Anyhow times passed and the goat quietened down and became a part of the sheep's Union,happy enough in his emasculation and content to just eat,sleep and shite.And the rams,having additional benefits above and beyond the goat began to talk for the goat and negotiate on his behalf.and after a while the goat didn't know whether he was a goat,a sheep or a dog and gladly encouraged other goats to do as he had done.
And then there was talk of a shakeup which would involve the building of a wall which would cut off entirely the access of the goat and all the other sheep to a neighbours field ,which would deprive the goat and all the kin of the goat from grazing on sweetest herbs the goat traditionally had accesses to
  The goats were fierce upset at this loss of access and barely remembered that once they were full goats but had drifted into believing that were either sheep or dogs but were unsure which.
They were so supine that they sent the King Ram and the Top Dog to negotiate on their behalf,
Naturally the King Ram and Top Dog  looked after the interests of their own kind  first and foremost and put the interests of the goats at the bottom of the list of demands, to such an extent that when matters were settled the sheep and dogs had first claim on the sweetest of grasses and the goats yet again got the hind tit and the race of the goat withered because they no longer stood up for themselves ,nor indeed did the buck goats stand at all in the most in important of organs and after a whiles ceased to exist as a species.
That is what happens when a breed surrenders its mojo to other breeds and becomes supine.
Now guess who is the willing emasculated buck who is leading his breed into extinction and put a name on the neighbouring farmer and also identify the Queen Sheep and the Top Dog.
And to top it all a withered Auld Nanny goat still living off the full milk of her own species ,whom she has long abandoned to mix with the elders of the sheep and dogs whose views she regards as much superior to those of the goat ,has shown her disrespect for another much bigger and successful farmer who regards the right of the goats to speak up as just valid as her frequent mutterings and regal pronouncements and labeled him a bully.
Free speech seemingly is SOLELY  the perogative of withered Nanny and anyone who opposes the views of Big Bird is only a bully seemingly SO IT OK TO PREACH SEDITION AGAINST HIM IN HIS OWN FARM AND TO AGITATE HIS ANIMALS TO BURN DOWN THE STY WHICH THE FARMER PROVIDED FOR THEIR EDUCATION,
It is just as well that Humans do have a sense of decency and fair play and don't behave as animals do.
Having said that there is no animal I know of that deliberately kills its own unborn routinely ,this being the sole preserve of some of the human race.
Ya couldn't make this stuff up.

Dunderry man refused entry to USA.Taoiseach doesn't give a fuck.

Will bring ye back to the 1980's WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS ON THE ROCKS and everybody who could wanted to join the other generations who fled the Country as economic refugees to try and get a job and make a living.The USA was the place to go to and there were huge queues at the American Embassy in Ballsbridge to try and get that all important VISA to gain entry.You needed an Irish Passport and the VISA to get into the promised land.
Of my grandfather's family 8 of the 11 siblings went there never to return so nothing new there.They were glad to get out of this country and have a life.
The Irish politicos then and until now were savvy enough not to lecture nor look down their noses at the American political system seeing as how they were so incompetent themselves that they couldn't give a decent  lifestyle to our own indigenous people and they left by the new time.
The tide has been and is one way save for the odd academic know all who has arrived here to impose their own hedonistic lifestyles on us ignorant deplorables ,seeing as they have done their best to fuck up their home nation and now use their so called Irishness to preach sedition  against their mother land.
In this they are well supported by the liberal left ,who are generally useless at everything and must be genetically related to Diarmot MORROUGH who sold out his bitrthright an gave away his own daughter for personal power.
In any  event Margaret Thatcher was in power in England and Regan was President in the USA  and they had  a special relationship which meant that had you a British Passport you could bypass the VISA requirement an get straight into the States ,no problem.
Now our man was jobless and wanted out,Visas WERE LIKE GOLD DUST and took ages to get.
He wasn't alone in this and it was embarrassing to look at the queues of hopefuls snaking around the American Embassy every day .
Maggie famously told Garrett "OUT,OUT ,OUT " in relation to joint sovereignty for the North and made a show of him .
That phrase was fierce appropriate for emigration to the USA as his Blue shirt /Labour Government were economically clueless and unemployment was out of control and they were glad to have this release valve so the" Out "mantra was the perfect escape route for them.
Garrett wasn't vain enough nor stupid enough to lecture the USA on how to conduct their business unlike the ludramans in labour and the Blue shirts now who can't even provide housing for our own people and feel free to lecture the elected leader of the free world on how to conduct his business.
Bu nothing should surprise us ,These gob shites felt Free to lecture the Pope on how to run his religion and are actively hostile to Catholicism and utterly hate the living unborn and salivate at the prospect of killing more and more of them.
It is blatantly clear why nera whisper of protest was raised in the eighties against American Policy on emigration and why every upstart is seething now,That reason is that those in power here think nothing of the indigenous Irish Catholic but venerate the refugee Muslim ONE LEGGED lESBOS and other guests of the Nation who they have allowed to take over our country.
Simple as.

A PAINE IN THE STOMACH

Mick Paine was a big hit with the girls and a fine looking fella in the days when the Show bands ruled supreme.He was therefor miffed when a girl he had asked to dance in his local ballroom didn't know him."Just who are you "she said."I'll give you a clue "said he,"you might get a touch of my name in your stomach betimes",
"Have ya "said she"you are a Toole from Dunderr'y "
And so it went.

Bob's Boulevard.

Meath County Council are currently laying down a footpath from the Village of Dunderry down to the Graveyard.Not before the time you might say and I know that no one lobbied more vehemently for it than Nancy Horan.
But Bob Lee ,God Bless him was also a fervent supporter of such a pathway.
For those more recently arrived in Dunderry ,and there are many,Bob lived the far side of the Graveyard from Dunderry,the first house on the left after it.
Bob was a Galway man who spent much of his working life in England and returned here with his wife Etna and three fragrant daughters in the latter years of his working life,never actually retiring until stricken with a stroke which downed him entirely.
He was the strongest man I ever met and in a place renowned for strong men that was no idle feat.He could lift two full barrels of Guinness side by side with one hand .
Bob liked a pint of Guinness and told me that one reason he chose to live where he did was because the house was beside the Village and within walking distance of two good pubs and I would say that Horans was probably his favourite being slightly nearer his home.
With the drink driving laws that have contributed so much to the devastation of the pub trade in rural Ireland and to the devastation and emptying of it ,he was afraid to chance driving home with over two pints on him and used risk life and limb walking the half mile home on an unpaved and unlit road.
He frequently wished for what is now being constructed.
Too late for Bob but I like to think that he is beaming down from Heaven satisfied that his word with the Man had a big bearing on the matter,
Bob's Boulevard has a nice ring to it,don't you agree.

Seditious Nature of RTE Reportage is Vile.

Since Donald Trump threw his hat into the race for the PRESIDENCY  of the USA the reportage of the presidential race has been totally partisan in favour of the Democratic Party nominee and any Republican opponent of Trump in both the printed media here and especially in the National broadcaster RTE .
No attempt is made to have any balance whatsoever in the reportage and where his actions are not derided they are jeered at by what can most charitably described as leftist smoked salmon Liberals and disgusting Feminists who are ad idem in their desire to terminate the lives of  as many of their unborn children as they can get away with and who expect Societal approval in this regard.
Thank God they have been called out by the decent folk who regard all life as sacred and presented with a challenge of more substance and resistance than an innocent and defenceless unborn human can muster.
Maybe now the decent people can see that by killing their own unborn children they are disenfranchising themselves by the very act of killing those who would most likely share their values.
Now I notice some dangerous mistruths  being peddled by those who just won't accept that they were lawfully beaten in a free election and whose seditious actions and words seem designed to foment violence and maybe civil war in the USA.
Amongst those are the fact that Trump did not win the popular vote.The fact is that it is not the popular vote that counts in the USA .Each State has a vote within itself and the person with the most votes within each State or part thereof  secures the votes of a number of delegates within that State.
Given that Ireland has a Proportional Representation system to ensure that minorities have some chance of protection it is rich for any Irish commentator / any other commentator or so called  journalist to rabbit on about the popular vote in America.
The Obama  administration seem to me to have been an unmitigated disaster.His foreign policies seem to have been limited to squaring up to Russia and he has left the Middle East and much of Europe and Africa
in murderous turmoil and he has personally presided over the cold blooded murder of a captured man another Obama.,and there must be many others we don't know about.
He has adduced most of Europe and Turkey into fights he and his predecessors got involves in,with the result that most of the countries so adduced are in a permanent state of emergency to such an extent that even boarding a plane is an embarrassing humiliation for every passenger.
Like IN the EU Big Government there has poked its nose into every aspect of business and human behaviour ,micro managing every bodies lives and totally stifling initiative.
Trump's  election and Br exit did not come into being  by accident.
And given that the Judas goat politicians who coaxed us to surrender so much of our sovereignty that we cannot even represent ourselves man to man or woman to woman about the future of our own Country vis a vis THE UK in the Brexit negotiations but must have some other EU flunky represent us ,it is only a matter of time until we too will see that we have been sold a mongrel pup and do to what the Brits did.
In any event RTE is the State broadcaster and the preaching of sedition against the legitimate President of the USA by its presenters is bound to be picked up by the intelligence services in the USA AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
Were  I  Trump I wouldn't put up with this partisan reportage by feminist reportage's who treat my regime with contempt and would take whatever action action is necessary to redress the matter.
For starters how about repatriating all the American investment in Ireland and maybe then sending home to the knowalls here all the illegal Irish in the States.
Given that the knowalls here cannot even put a roof over those who remain here the arrival of maybe a half million returned emigrants would have consequences.
No doubt the big mouthed over biter liberal Trump and Christian haters journalists who preach the sedition will surrender their jobs and houses y to help them out.
Not on your Nelly.

Kenneally starts for Meath in O Byrne cup.

Paddy Kenneaklly of Dunderry starts in the next round of the O Byrne Cup against Laoise.I have been watching Paddy for years.He was a bit injury prone but seems to have overcome that.On his day he is a good footballer.Now he has his chance I hope it works out for him and he retains his place for the forseeable future.Here's wishing him luck.

Death of Veronica Steele,of Beara ,Co.Cork.

Orla Mc Feeley of this Parish,who has been a leading light in the Tidy Towns and other Community initiatives and is well known around the Village had an aunt on her mother's side called Veronica Barron before she married a guy called Norman Steele and they had 4 children Susan,Jerry,Kate and Quinlan and 11 grandchildren.
She was a  lady of some note in the wider Beara  community, being a pioneer cheese maker of Milleens cheese and has also been variously described as a philosopher,leaper and humanist.
She  died on the 4th.January gone and is being cremated at the Island Crematorium ,Ringaskiddy at 12.30 tomorrow 9th Jan 2017.
Now I didn't know this lady but she succumbed to an illness new to me called Multiple System Athropy and she bravely bore this illness I m told.
Those who know Orla will recognize some at least of the qualities ascribed to her aunt and she has taken the long journey to Castletownbere to bid farewell to her aunt.
The Drumbeat offers its full sympathy to Orla and her extended family on their huge loss.
Being a Believer myself I don't know what the protocol is in this case but figure that the Catholic prayer "Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam "in no way diminishes her humanist beliefs and wish her accordingly.

Stiofan O Mealoid Tournament Cup 26/12/2016.Clanna Gael 2-13.Dundoire 1-2.

This tournament Cup  has been played for since Stiophan was killed in an accident ,originally between Dunderry and An Gaeltacht ,but latterly between Dunderry and Clanna Gael ,at under 21 level to reflect the tender age of Stiofan at his death.
We had an under 21 team this year who were beaten in the under 21 B semi final by Oldcastle.To our shame the bulk of the team had not got the decency to field and honour the memory of the late Stiofan.I  don't understand why this was allowed to happen.
The following people did field for Dunderry.
Sean O Tuama,T.Doherty,C,Coffey,T,Conroy,Stiofan Clarke,C,Mc Kenna,,S.Carty,E.Daly,J.Brady,Mickey Dowdall ,J.P.Kenneally.
Conroy and Dowdall scored a point apiece and Clarke a goal.
Of the twelve players who did turn up J.P.,was home from Canada for the Christmas,and three others will never see 21 again except on a front door.
We had to borrow players from Clanna Gael and were hammered as the scoreline shows.
This is an embarrassment for the Club and for me as a life member.President and past executive member for many years.
Taken in conjunction with the failure to field either a minor hurling or football team this year for the first time in decades it calls into question the effectiveness of our structures and the failure of same to bring through players from our juvenile set up.
I have long been of the view that all teams should be under the Senior Club management and that delegating teams up to 18 years of age to a sub committee is not the answer.
Personally I apologize to the Mellet Family on my behalf in any event.

Happy Christmas 2016

I know that many Dunderrians and others outside Ireland .mainly in the USA,the U.K.,Australia ,France and other places read this Blog.
If you are home for Christmas don't be a stranger.IF  you are away I wish ye a heartfelt Happy Christmas.

Needs must.

They were twin boys born in the 1940's in rural Ireland ,the only children of hard working parents who were slaves to the 25 acre farm they had.Life was a constant struggle.
The parents eventually passed to meet their Maker,were shooed through the door of Heaven and after a suitable period of mourning Tommy and Joey had a confab.
There was full agreement that whatever about one of  of them making a living from  the farming it was a cast iron certainty that they both would not.So they tossed a coin.Joey would stay and farm and Tom would take the boat.
And so it came to pass.
They wrote once a year to each other and in the way of Irish hetero men kept their feelings to themselves.
After 40 years ,neither had married and Tom came home for a holiday,his first.
Joe spent a month tidying up the place and took in the one set of cutlery he continuously used and washed after each meal from the outside window cill and put it beside the other unused cutlery, that were part of his parents wedding trove ,in the dresser that was built over two centuries ago ,when the house was constructed.
And the day finally came when Tom hit home.
Now Tom had spent his working life as a ventriloquist in a travelling circus.Joe didn't know this.
After a filling meal of jacket spuds and sirloin moistened with unadulterated gravy juices followed by jelly and custard ,all prepared on the open turf fire,they were well content.
"I'd love to see the land "said Tom."No bother "said Joe and off they went.
In the first field there were gambolling lambs .One looked Tom  in the eye and said"Welcome home Tom after all these years away."Joe was gobsmacked.
And so it went with horses ,cattle and goats.
When it came to the last field Tom looked around and no sign of Joe.Maybe I  carried the joke too far he thought and hastened back to the house..
From the pigsty he heard a fierce squealing of the sow so he peered through the cracks in the wall of the sty.
There was Joe kicking the shite out of the sow saying "If you tell that fella that we are courting I will  flay ya alive".
In Dunddry the craic never ends.

CHRISTMAS 2016.DUNDERRY MASSES.

Christmas Eve 24/12/2016.
Kilbride.6.00 p.m
Dunderry.7.30.pm


Christmas Day.
Robinstown.9.30 a.m
Dunderry.11.00 a.m.

St.Stephens Day.
Dunderry.10.00 a.m.

Ginger Nuts.

Last September,in pursuit of information that could lead to the securing of an All Ireland Ticket I  had reason to call to the house of friends in Coolmine Cottages ,Mulhuddart,Co.Dublin.in the early morning.
The door was opened by a sixteen year old young lady with a head of flowing red hair and a welcoming smile,who invited me in and looked after me as well as anyone could,cooking me a full breakfast and shooting the breeze with me for  upwards of two hours until her parents returned to the house from the shops.
50 years divided us age wise  but nothing empathy wise.
Now I hasten to add that I know the family well and that this young wan excels not only in the hospitality stakes but for many years represented the Dubs on the Camogie fields of Ireland.
She is a lovely young lady and a credit to the ginger nuts of Ireland.
I promised to mention her in my Blog so better late than never.

Death of Mary O Brien,Longwood.

It's hard to believe but its twenty years since Nora Henry graced us with her presence and moved into Father Flood Park.
Well Mary O Brien was Nora's mother.
Born Mary Barry in Garbally ,Co.Tipperary over 95 years ago this lady emigrated to England during the savagery of the Second World War to work as a cook,survived it and married a Mayo man named Paddy O Brien of Aughagowan ,Westport in 1947 and returned to that Parish with her husband on the death of her father in law IN 1948 to run the family farm.
I have seen the wedding photograph of the couple and take my word for it they were a handsome couple,Mary having the looks of a film star .
Well it was there that their children Nora,Anne,Mary.Julia,John and Oliver were born and largely reared.
Any one with ever the most rudimentary knowledge of farming now or then will know that rearing a family on average acreage needed long and arduous labour and that farm was no exception to the rule.
Mother ,father and all children put the shoulders to the wheel and were largely self sufficient as was the norm in that era.
In 1966 the family moved to Tobertynan ,Longwood and Mary and family continued to farm as heretofore and she remained active right up to a few years before her death,when she moved into the home of her son Oliver who lived nearby ,as age caught up with her.
Her husband predeceased her by 16 years.
During her last years she was cared for at home by her extended and loving family ,children,grandchildren and even had the comforting presence  of her great grandchildren .
They were greatly assisted,I am told by a number of carers who helped attend to her many needs and our Nora was not remiss in this regard.
Nora herself has family in Jamiestown and I know some of them casually.They are of high  calibre as you would expect.
She died on 6th December 2016 ,her Funeral Mass took place in St.Michael's Church ,Rathmoylan and she is buried in Kill Cemetery .
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam dilis.

Appollo House and all that.

Many moons ago I worked  for a good while in Apollo House.It is in Tara Street and beside the famous Mulligan's pub.As far as I can recall the ground floor was occupied by the Dept.of Social Welfare and the bulk of the rest was occupied by Revenue.
I was never a big drinker because I couldn't afford to be but I nevertheless did savour the occasional first class pint in Mulligans.
Now I am  sure that the general populace couldn't give a curse either way about the presence of Revenue there as being realistic Revenue are regarded as a necessary evil and even I have mixed feelings about my time there.
Let me say first of all that in general most but not all of my workmates were the most decent of people and in no way nasty.
There were of course exceptions to the rule and while I will not name names some deplorable actions were carried out there which are etched in my fading mind.
It was there that two senior officials mounted a campaign of remorseless bullying against a most decent guy and a worker par excellence,just because they had the rank to get away with it.
They made this guy's life so miserable that he had a complete meltdown and it is because of God's mercy and maybe because of my intervention that he survived it.If ever there was an example of systemic bullying and hateful activity this was it.
One of the bullies  is passed from this world and would have had to meet his Maker.I hope he paid the price.
Funnily enough the same very senior ,and to those who knew him casually .extremely affable person used bad mouth me behind my back at every opportunity to those who could influence my advancement .I knew this because one of those to whom he spewed his poisonous lies used inform me immediately after every outburst,but was not prepared to make an issue of it.
There wasn't much I  could do about it except offer it up and shrug it off.
Another matter that springs to mind is the concerted efforts of a tight band of senior personnel to see down another of their own because they were jealous of his apparent good fortune.This operation was so undercover that only those directly involved knew about it and its existence was only rumoured but I suspect that it was organized to inflict maximum damage which it surely did.
Finally I received a visit while there from a former staff member who I had not seen for decades and to whom I had been unfailingly decent to in my dealings with a long time ago.
I kinda knew she had a drink problem then but had covered for her from time to time.
She explained to me that she was receiving counselling for alcoholism at the time of the visit and was,under advisement of her counsellors ,now visiting those she had b done damage to during her addiction  .
She was visiting me after all this time because for a reason she was not prepared to tell me ,she had spread lies about me to my superiors and had done all in her power to discredit me.
These are not pleasant memories and I would suggest that the organizers of the sit in get Father McVerry to exorcise the entire building lest these awful events leave permanent scars on the present occupants .
And just as laxy medics blame all illness on smoking I don't for one minute believe that there are health and safety issues of any significance that would impinge on sleeping overnight in the building.
Certainly they would pale inti insignificance to sleeping rough in this weather on the streets.

Nidge for Taoiseach.

Our Nidge is some bitch.This week she had quintuplets.I held her paw for the twelve hours she was popping them out.Five pups in that time.
As each was delivered she licked them clean and guided them towards her voluminous tits,where they filled their little bellies.
All except one little mite who suffered a fatal  abnormality as it is terned by the Herodites who push the abortion industry.
Now this little mite was not right,she couldn't stand ,she couldn't suck nor could she move at all.Her mouth didn't close.and she gasped for breath.
I fed her warmed milk with the assistance of a dropper to keep her going in the hope that she might improve.
Nidge however devoted as much time to her as she did to the other four.She licked her all over  several times a day,cradled her between her front paws and did all she could to keep her going.Right up to the time she died and even for a time afterward.
I am moved ,not for the first time ,by the compassionate and loving nature of animals and it set me thinking about our heartless political and h journalistic classes in the areas of abortion and the crass and inhumane treatment of our ill ,elderly and disabled.
Last week we had the disgrace of a seriously ill woman of over 103 years of sage languishing on a trolley in a modern hospital for 15 hours or thereabouts.
It has emerged that more people took their lives since Fine Gael took power than were killed in the civil war in the North ,which the establishment Parties in this STATE pretended was not taking place at all and for the duration of which did little other than to persecuted those Irish Nationalists who physically risked all to protect their own Communities.
This week ,as every week .we have politicos ,academics and medics of all hues straining at the leashes TO KILL and actively killing the unborn whose humanity they deny .
It's an awful pity that these physical and morally vacuous cowards didn't take up arms to protect our fellow Nationalists when they were being persecuted and murdered by the death squads in the British armed forces and by the Loyalist death squads in the North.
But no surprise there .Takes no courage to murder  the unprotected and defence less unborn.Facing a vengeful squaddie armed to the teeth is a different proposition.
Also this week not for the first time , another branch of Lucifer's Kingdom ,the United Nation,has made our Government pay compensation to a woman who had to go abroad to have the life of her unborn . child terminated.These guys and gals should be parachuted into the likes of Appello for example and maybe face the ISIS  people and sort them out.Much easier and more cowardly of course to encourage the killing of the defenceless unborn.
And of course you had a BLUESHIRT member of Parliament ,the Hogg ..Farrell........,place the lives of two people at risk by associating them with the murder of a former prison officer called Stack.I think that this guy is A SOLICITOR.I would venture to suggest that he had better ensure his perpetual election to Parliament as potential clients would surely question the judgment of  a man who places another human being,entirely innocent of the crime to which he has been linked by Farrell , in the firing line and might have severe doubts about the preservation of confidential information.
IF THIS LITTLE SHIT WANTS TO BE OF SERVICE HIMSELF AND HIS ILK COULD SURELY VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST THE GARDAI IN TACKLING HEAD ON THOSE INVOLVED IN THE NEARLY GUARANTEED Weekly MURDER OF THE CITIZENS OF THE CAPITAL CITY .
As one who has considerable experience of our Health system I have no hesitation in comparing those who oversee it as being similar to the Nazis who operated the selection procedures at AUTZWITCH  insofar as the over 65 s are concerned..
Simply stated if you are over 65 its off to the ovens with you .Too old to save and not worth bothering with.I.ve seen it time and time again.
That this is so is no surprise as this Government places no value whatsoever on sick  human life ,both at the start and the finish.Allowing the killing of the defenceless unborn at the start of life and allowing the lingering indignity of sick centenarians  and other elderly on trolleys is just part of the callous disregard in which life is held here.
That the Milky Bar Kid should elect to reward those who kill the unborn with taxpayer's money whilst uttering banalities when  the old lady was treated to the indignity is just what we have come to expect.
I will refrain for the present from commenting on the imposition of appalling austerity on the populace,the policy of homelessness caused by blind indifference and stupidity and the various other examples of indifference that abound in society.
The point is that all these are caused by the lack of respect for life that those in power possess in abundance.
Any how ,when Nidge becomes Taoiseach the following aspects of her behaviour will become mandatory for her human underlings.
1.If any born person is sick and left waiting in a hospital setting for over three hours the staff responsible will have to lick them better from anus to crown and this will have to be repeated hourly until they are cured.This process will have to be repeated by their superiors right up to and including the Minister.
2.If any unborn person is thought to have a life limiting condition the appointed medics will have to follow the example of Nidge after birth.Failure to do so will result in the operation of the principle of "an eye for an eye"if death results as a result of the deliberate killing of the child.This would apply to medics only as mothers are groomed by the abortion industry and would have no application if the life of the mother was a genuine physical risk.
3,If any person goes homeless or hungry as a result of Governmental failure then the responsible person or persons will be chained  up outside with bull mastiffs of similar stages of neglect and left fight it out.
I am fairly sure that implementation of these three simple policies would immediately lead to the elimination of the problems addressed.

Death of Mary Mc Donagh Lambay ,Kilbride,Trim ,Meath.

At 4.00 a.m. this morning Mary passed away in her sleep in Saint Elizabeth's Nursing Home in Athboy ,where she had been resident for some time and where she had received the best of attention during her stay. She was of advanced age and was predeceased by her husband Tommo in 2010 and her daughter Kathleen Clarke in 2007 ,both to the plague of cancer and both events  to my certain knowledge broke her heart twice. over .
She was the eldest of ten siblings from Mayo and a nurse by profession and a good one at that .Her maiden name and married name were as one.
A woman of fastidious grooming she was an exemplary wife and mother to Kathleen and her surviving children Anne Sloan,London,Helena Corrigan,Trim,Mairead Donoghue,ditto,and son Terry Lambay ,who is married to my daughter Jacinta and a loving and caring grandmother to all of her grandchildren .
When she was well she was full of fun and in her younger days worked as hard as any woman ever did to rear her family and help out on the farm,often double jobbing by nursing elderly and sick patients while simultaneously seeing to her other duties.
No matter how hard she worked she was fastidious about her grooming and always looked her best.
When Fashion Shows were run as fund raisers not only did she help organize them but was a willing and competent model and clothes horse.
She was a strict Mass goer and a Minister of the Eucharist in Kilbride for many years.
She was good company and a great conversationalist and a quick thinker.If risen she could cut you to the quick and was well able to stand up for herself.
She lived on her own for a few years after Tommo's death and was extremely well minded as long as she could cope and indeed much longer by her loving and caring children and their families.
During this period in her life her residence was viciously violated and desecrated by a vile criminal or criminals and this caused her great upset as it did all belonged to her and even though I am no blood relation I share in this revulsion.
When in full health Mary was well able to stand up for herself and it is a mark of the esteem in which she was held by her children that she was visited multiple times daily by her  children when Nursing Home care was unavoidable.
Terry was an exemplary son in this regard as were all her surviving daughters.
She will Be waked at her residence in Lambay from 3.00 to 8.00 p.m next Monday and will be arriving to Kilbride Church next Tuesday 13th December  for the Funeral Mass at 11.00 a.m after which she will be buried in the adjoining Cemetery.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM dILIS.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE I  KNEW HER FAIRLY WELL.SHE WAS A RARE ONE.
P.S.She was a stunnung corpse.Her daughters have obviously inherited her grooming genes and she had a well attended and respectful funeral and wake.
As she was being lowered into her grave I swear I heard the chug chug of the Baidin Ban........the ship in which she and Tommo met all those years ago and also I heard a celesttial groan  from Tommo bemoaning the end of his Heavenly holiday AS Mary's soul rose to Heaven to assist Kathleen in putting manners on him for eternity.
Sure they wouldn' have it any other way.
Slan go foill.

Mendin' the Nets.

At the height of the boom in 2008,when Bank staff were on bonuses to hand out a million cash to anyone with over 100,000.00 in the Account no questions asked and were in a bidding war to strike the lowest interest rate,I was driving my banger of a car to a nearby town,when who did I see but a first class tradesman I knew thumbing a lift on the side of the road..
This guy was a talented man with gifted hands and could be earning a fortune had he so desired.Not a word about work though,he preferred to draw the dole and was the greatest living expert on maximizing Social Welfare draw downs that I ever met.
Uniquely talented in this regard and comfortably unemployed.
Chewing the cud on the journey I began to seethe at his misuse of the Welfare code and pointedly asked whether he was applying hi undoubted talents in the workforce.
"It's like this Daithi,when I'm not fishing I'm mending my nets,and I,m not fishing just now."
Game,set and match NOT to me.
He hasn't landed a fish since nor won't.

Caveat Emptor.

Before I forget about it entirely and forever I must pass on to ye how true this principle is, especially as it relates to the purchase and sculling of pints.
I knew this fella who in his teens spent some time as a part bar boy.
He was under the control of "Two times Tommy "so called because he used count in twos when taking stock going back to the start all of the time.
For example he would go like this when counting ",two ,two four,two ,four,six,two ,four,six ,eight and so on.".
He was rarely wrong in taking stock.
Anyhow there was a time when drinking pints of Guinness was a serious and enjoyable concern and was approached by some as a social and sociable endeavour.
Now Our Man was of such a nature and not only did he dress up in his second best clothes for drinking pints but he insisted that they be pulled by the Head Barman and not by any mere bar boy .Which irked our bar boy considerably Man would gladly order the pint from the bar boy with the caveat it had to be pulled by the Head Bar Man.
And so it went.Our Man drank Monday to Friday ,6 pints every evening and took Saturday off,to freshen up for Sunday's dozen from after Mass till teatime ,when he ate a light lunch .
Two Times was the Head Barman and had some sympathy for the bar boy and his humiliation.
He promised on the quiet to sort out Our Man and did so always on a Friday....last Pint.
He saved up the slops,those bits of beer skimmed from the top of the Pint as superfluous and slid into a tray out of sight of the punter.
It wouldn't be fit for human consumption but was great to move the bowels of constipated boar pigs and was much in demand for such.
The last Pint our Man got every Friday was three quarters slops wit a milky head to make it look good,
"Too good for the auld bollix "said Two Times."Yup"said the boy.
Our Man never associated his mildly upset stomach every Saturday wit anything other than "alcoholic constipation"which he put down to the lack of drink on Saturdays and the inability to Pass a Pub.
In Dunderry the craic never ends..

Underbelly of Blanchardstown.

I have written some articles on Blanchardstown and contributed to some forums always in a decent and humorous way.
Probably I have looked back through rose coloured lenses and omitted the ugly underbelly always viciously present and screened from view by lowly bred persons with cumulative chips on their puny and screwed up shoulders.
For my efforts I have been called a "Wanking Fucking Scumbag and a Fat Fuck that should lose weight."by some anonymous cowards whose comments would mirror their parents lack of breeding and decency.
All this stuff can be traced you know were I to report it to the Gardai.
I might yet so keep a look over your shoulders ,

U.21B.F.C.SEMI FINAL .Oldcastle 3-11.Dunderry 3-5

Played this Sunday morning at mid day in a sunny and mild Athboy pitch this match between traditional rivals was eagerly anticipated.
Would our guys hold their heads,keep their mouths shut ,concentrate on playing the sort of football they are capable of,or would the few bad apples we can have infect the rest of the team with their disruptive behaviour.
I was about five minutes late and scores were hard to come by.The teams were well matched physically and skill wise.Thirteen a side football is an enjoyable experience.I played it myself in my youth and loved it.It requires skill,athleticism and intelligence and gives great scope for creativity.
The biggest sin is stray passing ,closely followed by lack of concentration.
I had heard that there was some doubt about the availability of some of our guys.I didn't see Jamie Leavy nor Shane Gartland who played the last day and don#t know the story with them.' Team Lined out as follows;

                                                       Eoin Smith

Alex Walshe                                                                                     Aaron Feeney 

Stefan Clarke                           Conor Dempsey                              Tomas Conroy

                Mark Kane                                     Cianan Mc Kenna

Conor Daly                                 Oisin Martin                                Jack Brady


Luke Martin                                                                             Peter Casey.

Oldcastle took an early points lead and our game plan became clear.It was to get the ball speedily to Lukie who is a big guy ,a good man to win possession and well able to score.Oisin Martyn is a perpetual motion machine and an intelligent and unselfish player and has developed physically in recent years.
Alex Walsh is ,despite his small stature ,a brave and creative player and an incisive distributor of the ball.
We got two goals within a minute after 15 minutes due mainly to astute passing and intelligent layoffs from the aforementioned players.
Lukie was hauled down for a peno and Mc Kenna dispatched to the net with panache.Lukie followed up with a well taken goal himself shortly afterwords and I noted that theses scores were match changing  events.Then to cap it all Oisin followed on to a botched save by the Oldcastle goalkeeper to finish to the net.All our guys were on song and Oldcastle were clearly rattled and missed a number of easy point chances.
They did steady up somewhat and when the break came we led comfortably by 3-3 to 0-7 and deservedly so.
With little or no breeze we looked more likely to win than lose.
I am not saying that the other players we have ,other than the three I have mentioned ,are bit players.They most certainly are not and all contributed well to our well being in fact,putting it all on the line.
All we had to do was keep the head and the discipline and the mouths shut.
Actually we got only 0-3 in the second half and they got 3-4.Now the referee wasn't great but in fairness to him was the same to each side.And they had some fine players,Chances  they were spurning in the first half  started to find their range.
Bad habits tolerated by the Club in a small minority of our guys when they were not yet  teens resurfaced,encouraged in no small part from uncouth crowd shouting , and infected our responses.
Instead of steadying the ship and consolidating our lead some, but not all of our guys ,resorted to mouth play against theitr teammate's and whoever crossed their paths.
Oldcastle responded by chipping away at our lead and scored a good goal and a softish  one to draw level.
With the fat in the fire our response was not what was needed.We lost the initiative entirely and the plot also.
A harmless free for all developed on the far side of the pitch from me.No more than the man in the moon I couldn't see what happened.
The referee sorted it without sending anyone to the line,but Oldcastle continued to hold firm and played with more cohesion and authority.
After the bust up the umpires took a more proactive approach and one of our boys received line after an umpires intervention.
This totally unsettled us entirely and despite one of their guys getting line also they grew in a stature as we faded into our cocoons.
Instead of concentrating on football,as I heard Conor Dempsey urging us to do ,as the end approached ,enough of our guys stopped trying when a more spirited response was needed.
Barry Coffey and Mikie Dowdall came on too late to make a difference.
I was not impresses with the response of some of our guys when the chips were down and consider the lack of ambition of some of our players deplorable.
It is totalally unfair on those who week in and out bust a gut in the Club's interest.
We got some fine scores as follows;-Conroy 0-1.Mc Kenna 1-0.Pen.Kane 0-2 .1 FREE,Oisin 1-0,Lukie 1-2.

U21 f F.C Dunderry 3-10 Moynalty 2-10

There was severe ground frost on Saturday night but by 2.00 p.m. Sunday the Kilmainham Pitch was the finest and well fit to play on.
I don't know for sure but guess that Moynalty and ourselves draw from a similar population base.I do know that Paul Govern who now lives here is a Moynalty man and played with us for a few years.He was also a selector for a year or two I think.
Other than that our paths don't cross too often and in my time at least ,Dunderry have been the more prominent Club.
So I didn't know what to expect today.
 The team.

                                                             Eoin Smith,

Alex Walshe                                                                                   Jamie Leavy

Stefan Clarke                               Conor Dempsey   0-1                         Tomas Conroy 0-1

                       Cianan McKENNA                 Mark Kane 0-2  frees

Eoin Daly   0-3. 2.Frees                                     Oisin Martin   1-1                            Jack Brady 0-1

                  Luke Martin    1-1                                           Shane Gartland


Subs used.C. Harten,Aaron Feeney,Mickey Dowdall.

For the benefit of our overseas readers Eoin Smith is the son of Patricia Smith and Flange Farrelly.Jamie Leavy is Timber's son,his ma is a daughter of Paddy Kavanagh who refeered an All Ireland and Mary Lawless of Lawlesses Cross.Alex Walshe,child of rabid Dublin supporters , is a Dub.in exile from the Black Road.Stefan Clarke is the son of Stephen and Anne who live in Kilcooley.At least one of his parents,I am unsure which ,is from Moynalty I   think.Conor is Dermot ,the Judges,son.Tomas Conroy is the Son of Tommy from Lambay and his mother is a Curran.Cianan Mc Kenna is from Robinstown and I think his father played with them before they gave it up.Mark Kane is from Robinstown and his Da also played with them too.It is a fact that his Firm Ashleaf Furniture sponsored Robinstown in 1986 and sponsored a sign for us in 2016.Eoin Daly is one of the sons of Dan Daly and Rose Loughran from Robinstown.Oisin Martin is the son of Gerry ,a Slane native now happily living amongst us.Jack Brady is the son of Paudi,a Blanchie in exile here like myself.I met his mother only brirfly and she too is from my part of the coiuntryLukie is the son of Galway expat Gus and Olive Feeney.
Shane is Kevin Brady's son from the Black Road and there for a cousin of my own.I don't know his Ma but if he is anything to go by she must be a great one.
I don't know young Harten that well..Aaron is the son of Tommy Feeney and his mother is member of the Sugsie Kennedy clan of Trim ,Gaels par excellence.And Mickey Dowdall is a member of the Dowdall family whose patriarch is the the most rabid Brit supporter we have and whose attention to detail is of enormous help to me.
Now you have it all.
I was 5 minutes late and we were behind by 1-1 to 0-1 at that stage.To be truthful both teams were evenly matched skill wise and physically conditioned.We probably held the edge on combination play ,the more experienced guys having the wiser and more calm interplay .By half time we had drawn level and looked the surer bet to prevail on  SCORELINE OF 1-5 TO 1-5.
like Ireland against the All Blacks yesterday MOYNALTY dominated the second half  but wasted chance after chance to pull away.We on the other hand harvested well the few breaks into opposition territory and we made and banked enough scores to see us through.
Goals win matches and probably the second half one scored by Lukie with half the opposition hanging out of him was the decisive score of the second half.Nor could you exclude the improbable save made by OWEN SMITH who denied a certain goal to Moynalty during a ten minute period in the second half when we were under siege .
Another similarity we had with the Irish Rugby Team yesterday was that there was far too much speech play from a small number of our players to the referee.
Against better opposition these guys would be better employed letting their football do their talking.
The team remains on track to be the only team at adult level in the Club at can win a championship this year.
This was a good game right up to the final whistle.

Four Parishes hammer Dunderry in under 21 Hurling

Tonight in Dunganny the Blackhall/Drumree combination absolutely hammered Dundery in the under 21 Hurling.
Blackhall is a combination of Batterstown and Kilcloon.Drumree includes Dunshaughlin.
Our lads did their best but the opposition had too many good players for us to manage.
Poor Lukie Martin was ridden bareback by about three players every time he got possession.How he stuck it I don't know.
Were Pat Gannon,one of the best hurling referees in Meath,to apply he letter of the law half of the opposition would be put to the line for serial saddling.
Not only did they beat us pulling up they easily won the mouthing at the Referee contest both on thr field and sideline.A number of their players just can't keep their mouths shut and one only got line.
Former Dunderry Player Kit Doyle is a selector.
Kit used let his hurling do his talking.Presumably he will inculcate this message in  his charges before their next Match.
Our guys gave it all they had in the tank.No shame and I AM PROUD OF THEM.
More to follow.

Dunddry Team.

                                                   Eoin Smith.

Aaron Feeney                                                                                 Tomas Conroy.

Mickey Dowdall                           Conor Dempsey                           Killian Leonard.

                                 Luke Martin                      Jamie Leavy

Alan Casey                                Stefan Clarke                                       Peter Casey

 John Moran                                                                                 Alex Walsh.

Subs used.Adam Keenan and Cathal Ryan.

It never ceases to amaze me that the top table of the GAA  so cravenly follow Sean Kelly in the betrayal of the ASSOCIATION by kow towing to the Rugby heads by making available our hard earned grounds to those self same professional Bodies who are in competition with us for the minds and hearts of our youth.
In this PARISH at least two of our schools are being targeted by these people to the detriment of our native games.
By the craven granting of our grounds to further glorify and promote the game of Rugby these people are sending out the unmistakable signals that Rugby is the game to follow no problem.
It would serve them better to for example address the huge lacuna in the promotion of hurling in  the large swathe of the County Meath where it takes four Parishes housing tens of thousands of people to field 13 players.
You don#t see Tesco handing over their stores to Dunnes to advance Dunnes.Why should the GAA actively promote their opposition.
What next...Ireland's Call at our games instead of Amhran na Fianna.
With all the the feelings I can muster and defter spending  A half century promoting the GAMES OF THE Gaels I  strongly disassociate myself from this betrayal.

Sean O Rourke a total ignoramus.

In fairness to O Rourke he broadcast this morning an interview he did with the President in waiting of the USA on his visit to Ireland some years ago to open the Hotel he had bought in Co.Clare.
Such a condescending, insulting ,biased , racist....anti American and anti white heterosexual ....and just plain ignorant interview would be hard to find anywhere in the civilized world.
He is not alone in the Repeatedly Threatening Everybody Station in this.
Those female political  reporters are clearly miffed at Trumph's win and at every opportunity whistle through their overbite teeth how the fascist bullies holding various cities in the USA to ransom are there because of Trump's victory,implying it is his fault,
Of course Gandhi foresaw their ilk many moons ago when he said"First they ignore you.Then they laugh at you.Then they fight you.Then you win,"
O Rourke and his fellow travellers and sneers have some way to go yet.
As for Enda a very public humble pie swallow and apology is needed in the Interest of our Country.

Sickening double standards of Secularist.

I watched the one sided debate on the Late Show overseen by a sneering and condescending Ryan Tubridy who wore his wimpish colours on his sleeve and did all in his power to talk down both to a  to a guest and us ,who pay his wages through our Licence fees.
The guest supported the election of Trump in the American election,as did the American electorate .
She was consistently sneered at and belittled by Tubridy and a simpering female guest who makes a habit of lecturing all and sundry as a serial panellist ,voicing her anti male vitriol ,called Collette Brown.
She seemingly attends the Kings Inns and mustn't yet have done the part of the course teaching manners as she continuously interrupted ,with Tubridy's ignorant connivance ,any contributions which disagreed with her own sad views.
In this she is at one with the feminist /secular media ,both electronic and paper based ,who get every call of importance totally wrong,deride,talk down and mock those whose views they constantly sneer at and are democrats only if the results of elections and referrenda suit their agendas.
As far as I can see the vast majority of political contributors,panellist and deplorable so called journalists working for RTE....Repeatedly Threatening Everybody ...are  ad idem in promoting the murder of the unborn ,deriding Religious practise,promoting homosexual practise and values ,sneering at white native heterosexual values and those who appreciate them as naturally superior to the alternatives.
And of course all the papers are top heavy with biased and condescending journalists and editors who push the secularist agenda at every opportunity ,particularly the female ones who totally expect to say whatever they want about men and sulk and scream like the spoilt and spiteful wains they are when they are responded to in like fashion..
For example there is a female h journalist called Alison O  Connor,A SERIAL PANELLIST AND LOUDMOUTH .who before the American election called the present President of the USA  a misogynist pig.
Can you imagine just how she would squeal were any man to call her a man hating and penis envy auld sow..
Now Tubridy and his ilk have made much play of the use of the word "pussy "by Trump in a private male context years ago,which content was released on tape by a sneaky and underhand  Trump opponent who wasn't man enough to take  his beating.
Hillary,whose own husband rode everything female that moved when he was able expressed shock and awe that such a word would privately be bandied around.
Given the choice I'd say she would rest easier in her retirement were her husband just to have grabbed another woman's privates rather than engage in much more intimate sexual practises.
Similarly the wimp Tubridy says he is aghast that anyone should use the pussy word in private conversation and wonders how he would explain it to his daughters.
Maybe he is such a bookworm that he is not aware the there is a whole world of porn available on the Internet and that that precise word is probably the most used and violated organ on it.
How he is going to protect his daughters from this is something he would want to figure out sooner rather than later.And to blame Trump is arrant nonsense.
It is no surprise that the people who most wanted the banning of censorship and the publication are of course the self same secularists who now feign shock at the grooming of wider society by the publication of material of a sexual nature.
Just a few years ago the antics of the "pussy rioters "as they flashed their tits at all and sundry and violated Churches all over the place ,were widely reported in all the media outlets including RTE and presently the death of Leonard Cohen is being widely lamented by ALL AND SUNDRY.
Leonard celebrates  far more female interaction than grabbing pussy in his songs .
Of course the antics of the Pussy Rioters and the songs of Cohen are far more hip and acceptable to the secularist know all and feminist academics and not a word from then nor their wimpish and academic co travellers either then nor now.
But dare a male heterosexual white man to have  have mentioned it nearly a decade ago and all hell breaks loose.
Talking of Hell I hope that the millions of pre born children who died unnecessarily because of the grooming of the populace by secularist and rabid feminist with the assistance of Devilish medics and evil judges and lawyers are stokers of the fires of Hell and are granted grace by God to keep these fires going on those whose persuasion and assistance resulted in their deaths.
I exclude from this those women brainwashed into doing these deeds by these dastardly persons.
And finally it never ceases to amaze me just how the man haters and their ilk continuously get away with defining what a real man is and does.
What would they know about  it.
Fortunately the American electorate is not yet pussy whipped enough to accept all this bullshit without a fight.
And so they have chosen.
Of course the Hillary fascists,so used to killing the defenceless unborn without opposition are just unable to accept that their day is gone and that the election is not going to be rerun to suit them.
Hopefully they will discover that persons of their own age will put up more fight than the defenceless unborn whose blood spilling they miss totally.
Justice demands they be rounded up and given spades and shovels to dig that wall.
Should soften their coughs.
AND  I BELIEVE THAT ABORTION IS PUSHED AND POPULARIZED  BY THE ELITE TO ENSURE THAT THE LESS FORTUNATE WILL NEVER HAVE THE NUMBERS TO EVICT SAID ELITE FROM THEIR COMFORTABLE AND SNUG STATIONS IN LIFE.
It's an awful pitythat those who claim to represent the poor as so blinkered that they can't see  this and by their support of abortion perpetuate the status quo.
Of course when you sup with the Devil you need a long spoon.aAnd they are plentiful.

Dunderry triumph over Ballivor in u 21 football.

Last night in Dunganny was the most miserable,hateful and despicable night weather wise I have ever experienced.
The rain sliced into the body,the icy wind cut into the flesh and your glasses would need wipers to see through the spills.
It is a greet tribute to the lads who togged out for Dunderry in the game against Ballivor therefor that they took to the field and  stayed there.I m glad to see that  some of them have ballsed up these last few years..
I think little of those eligible to play who made the choice not to make themselves available.In the most important and unique chance the hurlers got to play Bennetsbridge a number of years ago some people also choose not to be available ..This is not good enough
 David Newman who travelled home from America seven times to play the year we won the Senior Football championship sets the acceptable standard in availability and this should be aspired to  by all involved.
Anyhow those who defied the conditions to stay and play did the Club proud and at half time led by 2-12 to 1-2 with the assistance of a gale force wind and driving rain.
When we got another goal after the half time whistle I  couldn't stick it any longer and bolted for home.Our Finn who stood for the duration informed me that we won handy.
There will be harder tests.
 We won by 4-15 to 2-8 in the end and this is a fair reflection of what I witnessed myself during my stay there
The team

                                  Owen Smith

        Alex Walshe                          Tomas Conroy

Stefan Clarke       Oisin Martin  0-1               Jamie Leavy

                         Conor Mc Kenna           Lukie Martin 1-3

Eoghan Daly 0-1      Mark Kane  0-4.3 frees           Mickey Dowdall  1-0

           Peter Casey                         Jack Brady 1-5

Introduced, .S Gartland  1-0,C.Coffey,A.Casey.                        .
We must have a record number of selectors for a Dunderry team.
Garret Dooley is Manager.Selectors are Stephen O Rourke,Eric Murray,Trevor Conaty,Paddy Darcy and Paddy Gorey as far as I know...between two and three  players per selector.
Moynalty is up next in football.
I know that a number of players who did play have the talent to make it at a higher level..
The question is whether they have they the attitude,dedication and determination to do so.
The next match will tell its own story.

A Tinkers Tale

Last Friday night I had to give a miss to the Dunderry Div.3 League Final against Syddan to attend a class reunion at which guys I hadn't met for 40 years were present.
The do was held in Brady;s in Dunboyne,a great pub as it turned out.As I was parking outside the pub a very pregnant tinker woman came to me and told me that her cousin had committed suicide ,was being received into Dunboyne Church and she had no money to get home to Maynooth.,Could I give her the fare.
Always a sucker for a hard luck case I  gave her a tenner.
I watched her and saw her hand it to a guy hidden in a doorway who promptly went into an off licence and buy wine with it.
Well fuck you said I.Never again.
The following morning I had to go to Dublin and decided to get the Dublin bus from Navan,On the way to the bus stop I had to stop to take a stone out of my shoe.Those who know me well would know that I am fairly disabled after a stroke and have very limited mobility.
I  had to find a shop front and sit down on the cill to put my leg sideways to remove my shoe and remove the stone.I was getting it hard to put the shoe back on and fasten the Velcro to move on.
And the only person to stop and fix me up was another tinker."See ya soon Daithi"said he,
Well fuck me pink.

Burial of Ashes of Seamus Smith.

When I went to the Church for 11.00 a.m. Mass on Sunday it was full of Smiths .It dawned on me that it must have been time for the burial of his Ashes,as he had gone to a Crematorium instead of the graveyard after his funeral Mass.
And so it turned out to be.
A good crowd went down to the graveyard after Mass including me fein.
For the record the ceremony is precisely the same for the burial of ashes as it is for remains.
May God have mercy on his soul.

Death of Seamus Cregan.Dunderry.

Sheamin from Tullaghanstown died last night in his sleep.He got his wish in this as he told our Finn in a recent visit that he wished to go this way.
I knew that the writing was on the wall when he failed to attend the Champoinship replay last Saturday,a game he would miss only if entirely unfit to attend.
He was at the drawn game but looked awful and one just knew he had but little time.
This 80 year true blue Gael and fanatical Dunderry GAA man was  one of a diminishing number of survivors of his generation  who knew what real hardship was and whose values were impeccable.
In the game of life ,the most important  game of all ,he played a blinder and will be feted for eternity in the company of the Referee of all the ages .
His sole surviving sibling is Angela and she too is under pressure.
All here sympathize with her and all belonging to him.,especially his nephews and nieces.
Ar dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
His remains will be reposing in Fitzsimonses  Funeral Home,Navan from 2.30 p.m.to 6.30 p.m tomorrow Sunday thence to Dunderry Church to arrive at 7.00.pm.
Funeral Mass is on Monday at midday -12.00a.m and burial at Dunderry graveyard ,where as I write this a massive crowd of neighbours and friends are digging his grave in accordance with long established tradition.

The line of Life.

The tinker woman was in bad form.The country people had no money themselves never mind enough spare stuff to  to help her out.
In this frame of mind a countrywoman asked her could she tell the future."I can hardly tell the time never mind the future"said she."
"I'll give ya thruppence if ya do."
"OK so.There's the line of life and there's the line of sorrow and if you fail to shite today you'll surely shite tomorrow."

DUNDERRY 0-12.COLMCILLES 0-12

T.J will have to put his kacks on hold for another week.The replay is next Saturday.And our bad luck in training continues.Marty Garry tore his calf muscle at training last Friday.That's Finn,O Shea and Marty out of commission.Surely worth more than one point were thery playing.
This is not  a match report ,just a summary.
Reilly their County player got gate after 2 minutes,a straight red.He struck Conor Dempsey and the sideline man nailed him.
The ref.had no option,but if the Mc Entees want to put more steel into County footballers they will have to start with the referees who are all devotees of the Eugene Mc Gee school of gentility.Not a sign of dirt in the game even.
Were a genie to grant us a wish we would have looked for Graham Reilly to have an off day,not to be sent off.But off he was sent anyhow and will miss the replay.
Despite this they led by 6 ponits to 4 at half time and could have snatched it with a missed free towards the end.
We are stubborn sons of bitches and don't know how to lose.
The Gods are on our side and our ducks are lining up.DO NOT WRITE US OFF.
I was in the disabled compound.Seamin Cregan was there too in a wheelchair.He was sprung from the Mater for the day.He is well with it and had a steady string of Gaels visiit him during and after the game.
He once said of a poor Dunderry player "Take him off and put no one on "in a match where we had no subs.
He remarked today that Colmcilles had no one over them after they substituted their number 10 who was playing well.Not so slow.
Francie Tuite,surely Dunderry's oldest living player was there.The whole of Dunderry was there and every Dunderrian within driving distance.
The flags and banners and signs and bales of black and white silage are there for another day.
Come on Dundrry.

True Blues.

I don't know where this phrase originated .I understand it to mean an unflinching loyalty to whatever or whoever you are are involved with.I prefer to think it was coined for supporters of the Dubs.but doubt it.
I take loyalty seriously.
The first thirty years of my life were spent as a ultra loyal member of St.Brigids GAA Club ,Blanchardstown,the next thirty as a fanatical supporter and worker for Dunderry GAA Club.
I cannot understand how anybody suckled in the ambiance of his /her Club can be disloyal or turn their back on that Club.
Certainly some people inveigle their way into GAA Clubs from time to time who ,beneath appearances of loyalty are really nasty bits of stuff and cause the Club harm by alienating far more loyal members by subterfuge .
That is why I rage when we fail to field teams in competition or when members with a track record of good service are given the bum's rush.
Anyhow we in Dunderry still produce the truest of blues,or more accurately back and whites .
Eamonn Kane ,a man whose antestors were steeped in the Gaelic game and what it stands for ,plied his football skills with Robinstown until their sad demise because of lack of players.
He straight away transferred his loyalty to the overarching Parish team Dunderry and his son Mark has fought his way into the starting fifteen for Sunday as far as I know.Certainly he has figured in most of the matches he was available for.
It is true to say that his Ma and Da haven't missed a match and are fierce proud of him.As well they should be.His sister Ashling is in Australia this while back but follows Dunderry avidly on Social Media.
Well his wife's sister Lorraine went of to Aus. to visit her niece a few weeks ago and intended to stay for a good holiday.
When Dunderry won the semi final she decided to cut her holiday short and come home for the Final.
Eamon went to Dublin Airport to collect her during the week.
When he was waiting he met Marty Garry at the same gate.Marty is playing all year too."And what brings you here "says Eamonn."I'M collecting T.J."said Marty."I thought T.J .had just flown back to Aus.after a holiday at home just a few weks ago"said Eamo."He has indeed ,but no way was he going to miss the Final on Sunday".
Well" Holy God" said Eamo as they all head towards home together.
"Hauld up Dad "said a female voice as the walked away and looking behind he sees  His daughter Aisling catching up.She wasn't due home for yonks.
Eamo is one happy man and Dunderry is one privileged Club.
By 3.30 next Sunday the Showgrounds will be choc a block with Dunderrians.And I know that those abroad who plied a their trades with us and love the green grass of home will be there in spirit .
My heart goes out to our Finn and Conor O Shea,who busted themselves on the field of play to get this far and who are unable to play because of injury,especially Finn who has laid it on the line for the Club for over 25 dedicated years.
Conor is young enough to recover and play for decades.Time is not on Finn's side.
The experts favour Colmcilles.I favoured Walterstown against Colmcilles in the semi after watching the first half and boy was I wrong.
We are fit and it is all on the day.We need every man to play to his potential.
With T.J.home I fully expect to see a streaker run from Flanagan's to Horans and Geraghty's  at midnight Sunday with a Dunderry flag wrapped around his.............head.
Come on Dundrry.

Death of Lisa Brady,Black Road.

Just a short while ago I wrote of the untimely death of Alan Brady of the Black Road,Robinstown ,at the tender age of 66 years,I believe.He was my second cousin.
In my tribute I sympathized with his immediate family including his daughter Lisa on their loss.I also said that life had thrown many curve balls at them in their lives and that they had bravely faced up to these misfortunes and got on with it,or words to that effect.
I sympathized with Lisa ,who I didn't know well ,at that time and little imagined that the Man above would be calling her home so soon after the death of her father.
Well He has as she has recently died at the tender age of 32 years..Of pneumonia if rumour is to be believed .
Now I didn't know Lisa well but would have kept in my head any  information that came my way concerning her and her progress through life.
I understand that she had leukemia for many years but thought she had it bet.I know that she got poorly from time to time but never let it get her down and battled hard to restore her health and spirit.
I know that she qualified  as a teacher,despite her illness and taught in Kilbride of this Parish for two years approximately and I think Robinstown as well.
I know that she was and is highly thought of  by all who met her in these environments.Alan idolized her.
I know that between illnesses at one stage she joined O.Mahony's Camogie Club to stay fit and get exercise in a pleasant environment ,where she befriended my daughter MAGS ,who happens to be her cousin although I  doubt if this ever struck them.
I know that she went to school with my niece Laurie Stephens and was a friend of Louise Byrne another niece.They are all in the teaching fraternity.
I know she was a peach of a girl from the few meetings we had.
And I know full well that her mother Margaret and her brother David must be beyond grief with this turn of events.AS indeed must be all her uncles ,aunts ,cousins ,relatives and a multitude of friends.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
My heart goes out to them.
The funeral Mass is tomorrow at 10.00 a.m.in Saint Mary's Church in Navan with burial after wards in Dunderry Graveyard.
It is a bad week for funerals in Dunderry

Death of Seamus Smith

Seamin Smith of theYellow Walls,Dunderry died during the night on Thursday last.He wasn't well this while back and I'd say that his death was a happy release in ways.It is rumoured that he outlived his doctor's expectations.He died at home surrounded by his extended family who were in constant attendance for many days prior to the time of his death,which can't have been easy for them as he went down hill rapidly towards  the end.
He was predeceased by his brother Peter the Tank Smith of Yellow Walls who died at a young age and his sister Alice Yates of  Birmingham,England.
He is survived by his Brother Owen of the Yellow Walls,Maureen Collins ditto,Nuala Mc Govern,Athboy and Peggy Young,Mulingar.all of whom wereat his funeral and wake.
He is also survived by a huge number of nieces and nephews,grand nieces and nephews and an impressive number of in laws.
I went to visit him a fortnight ago and while he was mentally fully with it,he was clearly living on borrowed time .
His late father was a dedicated and serious Old IRA VOLUNTEER in his day and was one of the brave men whose efforts led to Ireland's freedom.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM Dilis.
He is being waked at home today Saturday from 4.00 p.m to 9.00 p.m and tomorrow from 2.00 p.m.to 6.45 p.m when his remains will be brought to Dunderry Church to arrive at 7.00 p.m.
His funeral Mass is on Monday at 11.00 a.m.with cremation afterward at Mount Jerome Cemetery .

Seamin was a great neighbour and his word was his bond.If he said he would give you a hand at 8.30 a.m.he would land at 8.15 no problem.
When he and me were able to take a decent drink we shared a few from time to time.He was good company and always stood his round.
He emigrated to England as a young man and married there and had a family there.Seemingly that marriage broke up and he returned home for good decades ago .One of his daughters of that marriage was at his funeral.
The Church was packed to overflowing at the arrival of his remains on Sunday evening and was full to capacity at his Funeral Mass on the Monday.
Amongst the Offerings were his walking stick,a copy of the Farmer' Journal and a Dinky tractor to show his affinity to the soil and a Jersey from the now defunct Dunderry Tug of War Team of which he was a dedicated supporter in his younger days.
A 52 seater bus brought the mourners to Mount Jerome for the cremation after the Funeral Mass and refreshments were provided in Geraghty's Bar and Lounge after wards.
The Smiths know well how to look after their own,that's for sure.
The man will be missed.