Time to drain the RTE Cesspool

I happened by mistake to hit the wrong dial on the Radio this evening.I say by mistake because that abomination of a radio station is leading a witch hunt against Catholicism and the Pope's visit to this Country.
Not for the first time the station has been taken over lock stock and barrel by a cultish  gang of bowsies ,to whom the Station employees are in thrall.
Those of us a bit long in the tooth will remember when the writ of the Stickies ran riot there and their contorted views held sway .Thankfully the many guises they morphed into were copped onto by the electorate long since and they are long gone from the scene .The cowardice of their armed wing was dubbed "The Irish Ran Away "when they ran and hid from rampaging Loyalist and murdering British forces during the Troubles and real fighters had to take their place.
I well remember the total adherence of all the Journalists there to the writ of Conor Cruise O  Brien that suppressed the interview of  Sinn Fein and IRA members on the same War in Northern Ireland ,the genesis of which lay in absolute discrimination against Catholics and in which basically the majority of Catholics there and many here gave tacit if not actual support.Thankfully Burton has led his Labour Party into the void.
The only brave journalist to break ranks was Kevin O Kelly and he did jail time for his courage.
And it is not that long since the Cesspool had to pay substantial damages for lying about the activities of a Priest.Actually we the citizens who largely fund RTE  had to pay the damages and legal fees.
The hatred of Catholicism endemic in the place was passed off as "group think"by the journalists and programmer makers etc.
This hatred , anti Catholic bigotry and group think has festered since and is glaring in its bias against all things Catholic and  its sycophantic  nodding and  benign approval to anti Catholic bigots and  homosexual practitioners is sickening.
Its glorification of those who facilitate the murder of the living unborn  is constant and it never ceases to champion those who celebrated and danced in Dublin Castle, on the evening of the result of the Referendum for State execution ,on the graves of those who will be exterminated in the future .
Now I happened to hear Miriam Mc Gurk ,Carson O  Callaghan sink to new lows yet again yesterday.
You would have to ask how she would even have the neck to interview anybody on matters Catholic ,when the Catholic view on marriage is that it is for life and between a man and a woman and that she herself has two living husbands so far .The point being that it is clear that she could hardly be seen be unbiased personally on Catholic mores and ought excuse herself as a neutral arbiter on matter Catholic.
Earlier this week I had heard Gabriel Byrne mock the Dublin he had grown up in and denigrate Ireland from his perch somewhere in New York where he had emigrated to decades ago.True to form he was also denigrating about a half of his new neighbours and indeed the USA.
It appears that he had been molested whilst studying for the Priesthood by a deviant homosexual before he bailed out.
He progressed then to sneer and belittle Mick Cleary AND Eamon Casey because they broke their vows of chastity,which by the way is contrary to cannon law but absolutely not contrary to civil law.
This was followed by the ultimate political insider Mainin  the ex President ,who like Henry the Eight before her wants the Catholic Church to change its laws,in her case  to allow  gay marriage and the practice of homo sexual sex to be allowed under its rules because one of her sons is a homosexual.
Might I suggest to her that she and her family and her supporters can and should defect to the Church founded by the aforesaid Henry where all the things she so screechingly demands are de rigour and allowed or why not set up her own and fund its start up from the substantial pension us poor plebs pay her.
She again mocked Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey ,both of whom are dead and cannot defend themselves.
Earlier yesterday I  could not believe my ears when on The Cesspool Radio I  heard Miriam interviewing a  son of the aforesaid Mick.
She did   her best to get him to say he hated his father.Thankfully he wasn't tricked into saying this and professed his absolute love for him.She can presumably dig lower tomorrow and dig up Mick Cleary's bones and interview and mock them also.
Interestingly he made reference to journalists of the time hiding in bushes to try and confront him and his siblings,mere children then.No change in journalistic behaviour since  seemingly
Then last evening I  strayed into the end of an interview in the Prime Time Studio where a decent Bishop was tricked into attending a hostile and vicious attack by her as a supposed neutral interviewer and where many of the imbalanced audience would seem to have been drawn from those dancers and singers who attended Dublin Castle.
Her bias was particularly evident when she knowingly said the homosexuality was against Catholic teaching ,when it is not.Its  practise is.
Certainly had those  devious and depraved  homosexuals that snuck into the Church using the Priesthood as a veil to rape and sodomize young boys in their control kept their dicks in their pockets the odium they brought on the Church would be avoided.
I try.often without success , to be a follower of the Cross and forgiving  and aside from murder ,including the murder of preborn human beings ,the rape and sodomizing of anyone especially a child is as vile as it gets and I  think I would gladly kill anyone who did to a relation of my own
The question of how enough of these depraved homosexual got into the Church must be examined as must the probability of the existence of a cell of these subhumans and whether there was a conspiracy between them and others of their ilk to get in and keep it secret.
I heard Colm O Gorman po poing such a scenario implying it would  be wrong even think of such a probability and this was let go unchallenged by Mrs.Carson.
O  Gorman for a long time now has gone out of his way to denigrate all things Catholic and is devoured by hate.What has he got to fear by by an investigation on the lines I  outline or does he think that only the Catholic Church should be instigated  and that these group of  homosexual degenerates ought  exempt from further scrutiny.
I haven't read the Philadelphia Report yet but it also seems that what happened here happened there.ie there was rape and sodomy of boys be men and forced oral sex .
This leads me to speculate that this raping and  sodomizing of defenceless boys by men was fairly widespread and in roughly the same timeline and I  wonder whether these  degenerates had a wider communication than thought heretofore.
Personally I  think such heinous crimes by these people could not be kept totally secret  from wider society and that all citizens, homosexual and hetero and in between and of none ought come clean if they already have not, if they information they think relevant..
I believe in goodness and evil and think that the Devil could do no better than to plant a bunch of evil dec deviant homosexual predators into Christ's Church to pass themselves off as Priests and wreak the havoc they have
On a personal level I am 67 years old ,grew up in Ireland ,was in regular touch with the Clergy,served Mass for years,went to the Christian  Brothers,played Hurling and Football for decades and was never once abused nor beaten by any religious nor Priest nor Christian Brother.Maybe we had the Angel Gabriel on our shoulders and he saw the evil beasts off.
I  have the height  of respect for the Catholic Clergy and Brothers I  met and they were many and   know full that outside of the Cess pool and the other media outlets there are millions like me.
78 PER CENTAGE OF US DESCRIBED OURSELVES AS CATHOLIC IN THE RECENT CENSUS
BUT OF COURSE THE CESSPOOL AND THEIR SERIAL PANELLISTS THINK US TOO STUPID TO KNOW  HOW TO FILL THE FORM  .
Mickey Harte is bang on the money to have nothing to do with the Cesspool and more Counties ought  follow the example he has adopted.
And one final thing, only a very small percentage of those who snuck through the nets of the Priest hood were perverts and the enemies of Catholicism ,including the members of the Cesspool and their journalistic friends ought stop implying that all Priests were in this Demonic league.
To refuse to do so is similar to saying the all journalists are child molesters just because one well known Journalist was so convicted.

Auld traditions die hard in Limerick.

I wrote some time ago about the naked greed of the Rugby fraternity in fixing an important rugby match for them in Limerick on a good Friday in the hope of maximizing their financial rewards and those of their political and financial groupies.
Professional Rugby has for decades wheeled out Limerick as an example of how this snob game is embraced by the working classes.
Thanks be to God that the Limerick hurling team won the All Ireland Hurling last Sunday and that 90,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO GREET THEM HOME ON MONDAY.
Proof ,if ever proof was ever needed ,of where the true sporting loyalties of ordinary Limerick people lie.
It is in the  DNA of all true Gaels and you either have it or not and no amount of nonsense nor money can purchase this loyalty .
And fair dues to the Gaels of Na Piarsaig for successfully  promoting our beautiful game of hurling in the huge shadow of overpaid professional sportspeople of Thomond Park.

Trim Church full this evening.

After a day when Radio Eireann reached a new low in puke journalism insofar as it broadcast as many mocking and anti Catholic stories as it could I  donned my Pope Francis cap and headed into Trim Church to celebrate the start of the World Meeting of Families at 7.30 this evening.
The Church was full with the finest of people ,including a number of Dunderry people.
Father Hornick played a part in the engaging Service.
I stayed late to contemplate the deranged, outrageous ,spiteful and  bitchy contributions that I  had heard from the usual waggons these last few days ,led by the former political insider  Mc  Aleese who is lashing out blindly at everything Catholic ,just because she has a son who is homosexual and the Catholic Church regards the practise of homosexuality as wrong.
She wants the Church to change its teachings to suit his condition and sexual preferences.
I thought to myself that the desire to satisfy the bud has lead to discord for centuries.
We still have in this Parish the ruins of Churches destroyed by King' Enery because the then Pope wouldn't  change Church law to allow him remarry .
As we all know his inadequate bud failed to produce a male heir after several females were serviced by him and beheaded as a result of his failure and the Church of England founded  with him as its head and a  fundamental rule to this day that no Catholic can become Monarch of England.
This breakaway organization allows women Priests,married Priests and  homosexual ministers,issues which moaning MAININ  bleats about all of the time.
She should make a beeline there and save us the perpetual screeching.
And if she thinks that her hectoring and bullying misuse of her former status as President to change Church law to suit the use of he son's bud is likely to succeed she is mistaken.
There is one thing that puzzles me about this witch hunt and it is this.
From my reading of the reportage it seems that the buggery and sodomizing was done overwhelmingly by  men who preyed beneath the radar on young and defenceless boys,ie by same sex perverts.
You would imagine that homosexual organizations would be anxious to establish why these tendencies seem to exist so extensively in that area of sexual endeavour.
I wonder whether independent studies have been done and what the results are.
Now Mainin the ex had no problem calling Mick Cleary and Bishop Casey hypocrites because they did what she and her consort did i.e they had sexual congress with members of the opposite sex and had children.
Sure isn't this is what she and her ilk is campaigning for.
I knew Mick and some of the family and I  would think more of  his disgarded small toe nail than I DO OF ALL THESE BIGOTS.and their fellow traverrers.
Of course as a lawyer and former student of Enery's Lizzies Uni,she knows that the dead cannot sue for defamation.
I am certain the the families of Mick Cleary and former Bishop Casey are grievously hurt by her comments and unless she is stupid ,which I  doubt, those comments give the lie to her supposed concerns about Christian mores.
She is no more Catholic than the woman in the moon and were I to get into Heaven in the afterlife and see her and her hateful fellow travellers I would opt for relocation to the other place for eternity,where I fully expect to see the sexual predators who preyed on the defenceless young ,those who covered it up,the herd of anti Catholic bigots currently in full bray  and the facilitators and enablers of the murder of defenceless living unborn ,intermingle and compare notes .
Finally I find it disgusting that those political facilitators  whose fangs are dripping with the blood of the defenceless unborn and those who profit from painful divorce brigade, have the temerity to  advise anyone especially God's man on earth how to run his and my Church.
Realizing as I do that the journalistic profession includes in its numbers at least one sexual predator about which little is heard from fellow journalists and that Mussolini was a journalist before he became a fascist Dictator ,I  ought not be surprised by the ignorance and bigotry displayed by Miriam O Callaghan and her hateful colleagues,both electronic and written , today in their one sided reportage and choice of  guests .
And if you ever want to hear an ignorant,spiteful and badly researched interview just listen to the mocking interview with the Bishop of  Raphoe this morning on "Morning Ireland",when the Bishop was queried about the attendance of a former Bishop SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA  at the Congress of families.
This interview was done by Cathal Mac Coille and a colleague ,who again today sneered at Mick Cleary and Eamon Casey deceased in the full knowledge that they are dead and cannot sue and knowing full well that  the people they hurt are people like me and the relatives of these men.
These excuses for reporters are bully boy anti Catho;ic bigots ,who have earned for me the appelation of RTE as "RTE ,the home of the bigots".
This was followed up by Pinkie Miriam calling Sean Spicer a liar on radio.
This is what we pay their  wages for.
Mickey Hatre is right to have nothing to do with this shower of ignoramuses .

Were GAA ambushed by Miller Committee.

Media reports indicate that amongst those organizing the soccer match for the late Liam Miller's family  is a GAA member of the GAA Clb that Miller played with as a juvenile .His name appears to be O Flynn..
As such he would have known that by rule the GAA is prohibited from allowing its pitches and premises from being used to promote field games it competes with.
That being the case one wonders whether the approach to use Pairc Ui  Caoimh to host the match was deliberately made to stroke up controversy and as an opportunity to savage the GAA by the many opponents it has in Irish society ,who are envious of the ability of the GAA to secure their own premises and pitches by careful use of its funds and by implementing its amateur ethos by its thousands of volunteers working for and playing its games for free instead of paying its players.
It is hard to conclude otherwise than that an ambush was sprung and well orchestrated by both social media and regular media begrudgers who despise the GAA and all it stands for,including power hungry politicians who want to make the GAA  as inefficient in administering its affairs as they are with administering those areas  of responsibility they themselves control such as health,policing  and housing to name a few.
That the Judas goat Sean Kelly,former GAA President  who misused his power to promote the game of rugby over the games he was supposed to nurture is again weighing in on the side of those who want to drive a coach and fours through GAA rules,comes as no surprise.He has well earned his pieces of silver for his treachery.
 Those of us who labour on the on the coal face of promoting our National Games know only too well of the targeting of our schools by the soccer and Rugby people in order to deplete our ranks and promote their own and their trips to lANDSTOWN ROAD  --"No phones or cameras please for fear you violate the image rights of our players".
In this former GAA stronghold rugby and soccer have seduced at least a half dozen of our better players to their ranks at the expense of our adult teams with the implied promise of money and fame.
And we are supposed to laud them by giving the use of our grounds to further promote their advances.You must be joking.
I  hope those in charge of our rules and games do the honest thing and implement the rules as all true GAA  people understand them,come what may.
And a lesson ought be learn ed here .Never again seek money from the State to promote our games and when we are treated unfairly and threatened by the State because they gave us taxpayers money .let all GAA taxpayers just cease paying their taxes and funnel the money saved into our local and National branches.

Currrent Sinn Fein leadership betrays Republican traditions.

I never was a member of Sinn Fein.I never took up arms to shoot enemies of Republicans.It is probably to my shame that I did little to help those Republicans who fought the British Empire.the Irish Republic and the failed Northern Ireland entity in order to get equality  for Catholics from the early 1920 s until the passage of the Good Friday agreement.
I have nothing but admiration for those that did.
Three of my granduncles,Mallons from Bohermeen joined the IRA during the War of Independence and fought the better equipped forces of the greatest Empire the world has ever known .including the Royal Irish  Constabulary and the professional murderers and thugs  of the Black and Tans.
They lived day to day and hour by hour as they set their sights on a better resourced and equipped enemy.
I am absolutely sure that they never would have contemplated setting their gun sights on the bodies of the unborn children of Ireland.
We now have Sinn Fein .which claims to be the successors of these heroes doing precisely this and because the leader is a woman ,blood thirsty to introduce human sacrifice into this republic's laws and culture ,no one of significance in that Party has the balls to stand up and call halt.  
It is no surprise to me that Fine Gael thinks that little of the living unborn ,especially if they are Christian Irish ,have their eyes on stalks seeking to make the murder of the living unborn part of our legal culture.
Every  chance their frontbenchers get they attack the Catholic Ethos but not the ethos of the minority Churches whose members they represent.
Yep fuck the Catholics.Put them down at every hands turn..Life will be a lot easier for us when we have cowed them out of comment and we have a free run at our form of secularism.
In this regard their Ministers are a thundering disgrace.
And as for certain Fianna Fail Ministers who support the introduction of human sacrifice into our laws and culture fuck them and the horses they rode into town in.
They all can cultivate friendship with that half XCHINESE ABORTIONIST WHOSE CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE HAS MURDERED OVER 40,000 UNBORN BABIES.
THEY SHOULD ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE IN HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

HEART RENDING DEATH OF NAOISE CLARKE LAMBAY

This morning a young child ,little more than a baby,flew from this life straight into the arms of the Angels.His departure was anticipated but is nevertheless shocking to all in Dunderry .neighbouring Parishes and indeed further afield.
His parents Damian and Eadaoin,his sister Muireann and all his relatives and his neighbours smothered him with love from birth until his premature departure and they left no stone unturned to make his life as comfortable and stress free as possible.
Our hearts bleed for them and hopefully our prayers will offer them some sort of limited succour.
His Funeral Mass is on Monday next 14th May at noon in Seipeal Naomh Padraig,Rathcairn, followed by burial Saint James Cemetery, Athboy.
 Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
Words alone cannot express the devastation and loss felt here for all involved.
A terrible tragedy.

Death of S.V.Mc Cormack

Seamus,formerly of the Meadstown Road,Dunderry and latterly of Navan has passed away this morning after a long illness bravely endured.
He had made his peace with God and everybody else.
He was one of life's characters and during his 72 years on this earth he made many many people smile and laugh.
He was irrepressible .
To his wife Claire and three children ,Derek,Brian and Niamh and grandchildren ,Nina and Aoife especially we offer our sincere condolences.We also sympathise  with his only brother Pat.
When we were much younger Jimmy and Nan,Seamus's parents, took in my siblings and I when my mother would be in Hospital having the latest baby.Seamus and Patrick were older and were kind to us.
They were fierce interested in racing bikes then and indeed subsequently.I  had never seen one, especially one with a fixed wheel and had no idea how it worked.
In any event they gave me an old one and challenged me to a race up the Meadstown Road past I think WOOD's shop .
Wishing to give a good account of myself I pedalled like the clappers until I came to the finishing line ,when I stopped pedalling and was thrown over thee handlebars and nearly kilt.To this day I don't know whether this was their idea of a joke or not.If it was it was in poor taste.
Our house in Blanch was a pit stop for all Dunderry people,especially our relatives and the Meadstown Mc Cormacks called in many many times when passing through Blanch.
There were nine kids in the house and had my mother notice of arrivals one of us would be dispatched to Shaw's shop -----now Maccarris Chipper---- to get provisions .
But one day they called out of the blue and provisions were low,so the best the Ma could do was to produce a plate of cheese sandwiches,which everybody tucked into bar Pat".Whats wrong Pat "said the Ma."Aunt Peggy I am not very enthusiastic about cheese ".After a very pregnant silence the Ma said "For a ten year old he has a fierce command of the English language ,hasn't he."And so it went.
Much later  ,when Seamus was in his early twenties the Ras Tailteann was going through Blanch on its way to Navan.We were in our back and only kitchen having a cup of tay ,when this vision in Lycra came in the back door breathless and shining with sweat with the bike on his back.
"Jaysus Peggy I am the fuckest man in Ireland ,make us a feed "said Seamus."That's the end of my cycling days"
Seamus had many careers and was never boring.He was prone to exaggeration and could spoof with the best.He always dressed well and could and probably did  sell sand to the Arabs.
Goodbye Cousin.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.
He will be reposing in his residence in Ferndale ,Navan from 5.00 pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 26/4/2018 with the Funeral Mass on Friday 27/4/2018 in St, Mary's  Church ,Navan at 10.00 a.m.
Burial after wards in St.Mary's Cemetery.

Dunderry 2-14.Drumbarragh 1-9.IFC ROUND 2.

As a kind of prologue to this report mise has missed a number of football and hurling matches this year for one reason or another.Hopefully things will sort themselves out henceforth.
Generally I take the view that Dunderry has traditionally been a strong Intermediate  football team through most of its existence,occasionally winning a Championship and heading upwards to Senior.
The last wave of players to go Senior stayed up a considerable time ,winning a Senior in 1996 and staying up until 2005,when we were demoted down.
We have been strong at Inter  level since then .losing a final replay to St.COLMCILLES two years ago probably being the epitome of our always gallant efforts.
I have seen a number of League matches this year .The one versus Senchaelstown being the most recent.
They are a solid but currently non spectacular Senior team and in my time we have been just as good as them even though we are a grade below them.
We played them in our pitch recently and it was a draw.
Even though we were short half a team between County commitments and injury 20 men and boys togged out,so caps off to players and mentors.
I think we scored only 0-4 in the worst half of football we played for decades.
The second half was different though as we raised our game and both sides put on an exhibition that would warm the cockles.
The deciding factor was probably the dismissal of one of their players and we were cute enough to make the advantage pay.
The refereeing of that match was very fussy as are all the matches I attend and I  genuinely wonder whether over fussiness has contributed to the falling through the ranks of the County Team.Put simply do guys feel they are inhibited from robust legal challenges to the extent tat they don't even try.
There again Meath is producing more more top grade Inter County refs. than any other County so the POWERS THAT BE SURE LIKE THEM.
Maybe there is a case for referees to be instructed to give the benefit of the doubt to robust play at Club level and cut back on the blowing of the whistle for little or nothing .Surely a decent level of physicality is the hallmark of our games and we shouldn't leave this aspect of confrontation to the Rugger crowd,where it is regarded as an attribute.
Now I missed the match against Longwood  which I expected us to win.We lost by 3-12 to 1-13 a fair beating even if we were short a number of regulars.
So the omens were not good.
In ATHBOY ,where the gate man refused to believe that t I was an OAP we fielded as follows;-

                                                      Jennings
O Shea                                      Dempsey Conor                                Watters

Martin Oisin                               Davy Mack                                  A.Newman

                                    Kenneally              Dempsey Liam

Martin Jordan                               Bomber                                     Dermot Kelly

Luke Martin                                 Coogan Stephen                        Kane Mark
For the first time this year we were playing with a full deck.
Eoin Dempsey,and Ronan Brady  ere wbrough on in the second half .
For the first quarter it was tit fot tat.The second quarter saw us string together some lovely moves and scores and we were well ahead at half time on a score of           to            . 
After half time they rattled the onion bag but we raised our game well and were well out of sight at the final whistle Lukie scoring a first rate goal and missing an easier one.Kane scored the other.
Our scorers were Dermot Kelly 0-8 all frees.Stephen Coogan 0-2 .1 free.Lukie and Kane a goal apiece .Bomber 0-2 and Aron Newman,Jordan Maryyn a point apiece.
DERMOT AND Stephen scored 0-9 from frees, a testament to the fussy referring of Gerry  Mc Givney WHO WAS PERHAPS A LITTLE WHISTLE HAPPY, BUT OTHERWISE DIED A FAIR GOOD JOB.
We were good value for our win and all played well.A massive improvement on last years contest against the same opposition.

Cowslips poking heads through.

I cannot remember a worse winter than the one gone by.From Christmas until last week there were only 4 days hereabouts when it didn't rain or snow.
My uncles used say "strip the meadow ground in February and cut the meadows the first of May".
The first of May is nigh and there is more greenery on a billiard table than on the meadow ground.
Every small farmer I know is severely broke from prolonged buying of fodder and depression is widespread all over the shop.
The Government badly misread the situation and what it came up with was too little too late.
It will take years to overcome the disastrous setbacks and some will never recover.Time nor money is not  on their sides.
Notwithstanding this mother nature is kicking in on a small scale .
On the fringes of unmanured fields and along ditches the very odd cowslip is starting to emerge.
You know them.They are on slim stalks with yellow bell shaped flowers hanging down from the tops of the stalks.
Signs of better things to come hopefully.

Death of Joe Clarke,Dunderry.

Joe Clarke ,renowned Dunderry veterinarian recently died after a very short illness.I  think he was 88 years old.I had great time for Joe as he was a pleasant and decent man and easy to talk to.
Dunderry Gaels have good reason to laud his decency, as for many years prior to the Gaa Club securing and opening the present grounds in 1988, he allowed the Club the use of his field adjacent to the graveyard for the training of teams and the playing of games .
I had the honour of playing on it and I am sure that several generations of hurlers and footballers far better than me honed their skills there .
There was a family connection also as my mother's people the Mc Cormacks availed of his veterinarian services from the time he qualified until he retired.
I often heard them laud his  decency saying that they had to approach him after 50 years looking for a bill for services rendered for all those years.
Fifty quid he asked for and fifty quid he got.
In recent years I asked him was that true .He said it was,remarking that some others were similarly billed but never coughed up.
He farmed and was a horse breeder of renown  for decades past
He was predeceased by his wife a number of years ago and is survived by his son Thomas and daughters Cogie and Blainid and a number of grandchildren,to whom we offer our sympathies.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM Dilis.
His remains will be received in the Parish Church ,Trim this Thursday evening at 7.00 p.m.with Funeral Mass on Friday at 11.30.a.m.

Auld traditions alive in Dunderry.

If there is anything worse than the needy it is the greedy.A few years ago the greedy professional Rugby crowd fixed a match in Thomond Park between Munster and Leinster for Good Friday and the greedy publicans of Limerick and elsewhere decided that it was not enough to open for business 363 days of the year but that they also needed to open up on Good Friday too ,the day of Christ's cruxifiction,to cater for the superior rugger crowd who more than anyone else had to have their thirst sated on this Holiest of days.
Of course a judge called O Donnell allowed the opening of various pubs to cater for the Rugger crowd who presumably are of his class and who deserved more than anyone else to be catered for.
I well remember that some idiotic Limerick gurriers displayed banners bragging that Rugby was more popular than Religion in Munster.
While this may or may not be true it is clear that spit roasting too is de rigeur for certain participants in this greedy sport of the privileged and one can only hope that it too is not sought special status by the Rugger crowd.
As a matter of record Munster have won nothing of significance since.Maybe they have atoned since for this blasphemy.Time will tell.
Of course the political parties have followed on in this vein in their vain efforts to shed this religious legacy of the Irish people and their fore bearers.
Given that most people check their hand to see whether all  their fingers are still all there after shaking hands with most politicians this is no surprise.
Last Friday signalled the bedding in  of Official Greed in Eire ,when for the first  time it became legal to serve alcohol in pubs and elsewhere on the most sacred of days.
So bereft is RTE of news that it identified a town in Cork where the Pubs choose not to succumb to greed and stayed closed.
I am glad to report that the two pubs of Dunderry,Horans and Geraghty's had the backbone not to hop on this populist and greedy horse and chose to remain closed for the day.
Fair dues to them
As the pub in Robinstown has closed some time ago are were we  the only dry Parish in Ireland  on Good Friday.

Changing the Clock.

Confused  about whether to put the clock forward or backwards an hour for winter or summer time.
Remember this ditty "Spring forward Fall back".Geddit.

Protect the lives of the Living unborn.Rosary at 2.30 tomorrow Sunday 19th March 2018 at Retaine Graveyard.

I am a passionate believer that human life begins at the moment of conception and that a soul attaches at that stage.Certainly everybody ever born was conceived at the some stage and it is therefor impossible to be born without being conceived firstly.The mass of cells that begin to develop after conception in human reproduction are human and nothing else.They are not an alien being that science deniers call a foetus in order to dehumanize them.
The Nazis dehumanized the Jews ,other races and the mentally and physically disabled in order to murder them.
Under the Irish Constitution the Supreme Court has decided that the only protection the unborn human being has is the right to be born enshrined in the Constitution by the Eight Amendment .
Remove this and there will be NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION WHATSOEVER available in favour of the living unborn AND THEY MAY BE KILLED RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH.
Those who favour the State killing of the living unborn say we can rely on the politicians who inhabit the Dail to protect the living unborn by legislation they pass there.
If you believe this you will believe anything.Consider for example the way Fianna Fail ,a decidedly pro life party  has been betrayed in this regard by its leader Michael Martin and other mainly Cork based front bench spokesmen.You couldnt trust them as far as you throw them.
IT is an accepted fact that if you make something legal that the underlying ethos will make its practise more normal and its practise will become more acceptable as time passes.
This is why UNBORN KIDS WITH DOWNS SYNDROME and other congenital conditions such as Edwards Syndrome are aborted in vitro in other countries where abortion is prevalent.
Once the principle of taking life of the unborn beds in the legal system of a society it is only a matter of time until until it permeates other matters of life and death in that society.
I have personal but unwitting experience of an elderly but well enough old person being administered an injection to stop her heart beating and "help on her way"in Great Britain in recent years.This form of murder was and is commonplace in the nursing home where she resided and I suspect throughout that country.
In the Gaeltachs of this country special kids were and are regarded as a gift from God by families who were lucky enough to have them entrusted to their care and are regarded  as" leanai speisealta"",not sub humans to be put to death before being born.
It is no coincidence that the surnames of those leading the campaign for the murder of the innocents are as far from being Irish  as you could get and it is also no surprise that other with Irish surnames are leading the campaign for legalizing the taking the blood of the innocents.You should remember that the BRITS HAD TO HAVE THE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF MANY IRISH to keep their neighbours down and dead if necessary for nearly a 800 years
The spawn of the squaddy still abounds,especially now in Sinn Fein  under the leadership of Mary Lou .
My grand uncles risked their lives fighting the Brits for Indepence in WAR OF Independence  for IRISH FREEDOM.
To see Mary Lou leading a Party campaigning for the murder of the most defenceless Irish people imaginable is as far from their activities as is imaginable and a betrayal of the entire Republican ideal and sickening.

Now these  are my personal views.

And all over Ireland tomorrow at 2.30 a Rosary will be held to retain the right of the unborn to life .
In Dunderry Parish the Rosary will be held in Retaine Graveysard at 2.30.

Dunderry is swamped by deaths

The latest casualty is Maureen Mc Connell,nee Herbert.She died today.Mickey Daly died on Tuesday.Adam Cosgrove was buried on Monday,just 17 years old.Mrs Farrelly from Clonbun ,but in Dunderry Parish ,is being buried on Saturday.
Where will it end.
Mrs Clarke from Macetown is dead as also are John Bligh from Kilbride and Michael Vaughan who also lived in Kilbride and was married to a sisater of Dinny Gogarty.
May they all rest in peace.

Death of a Gent.Mickey Daly.died 13/02/2018

His death did not surprise Mickey Daly from Dunderry.He knew for sure it was imminent.As a friend of long standing I am devastated.
Last November he gave me the low down on his health.He had cancer and after consideration had decided to meet it head on without the application of chemo and radiotherapy.He has seen too much suffering caused by these to no avail.
This brave, principled and affable man died as he lived ,without fear nor fanfare.
He once said to me after burying a young grandaughter who died in a freak accident  that he had climbed many hills in his lifetime but didn't know whether he could climb that one.
He survived that one ,greatly diminished.
The present one was a step too far.
Maghera's  loss was Dunderry's gain.Dunderry's loss is Heaven's gain.
His presence graced the fields ,streets and streams of Dundrry,particularly the GAA Club where he and all his sons were life members.
Reposing in his home today Thursday  4.00 to 8.00 p.m.and Funeral Mass tomorrow at Noon in Dunderry.
To his wife ,children and grandchildren ,wide circle of in laws and massive circle of friends we offer our condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a a hANAM Dilis.

Din 2 F.League .28/01/2018 .Dunderry 3-6.Trim 1-11.

This was our first match of 2018,as far as I know.We have been training a while.Phil.Fay Jnr.is concentrating on the Meath Ladies Football,where his daughters are involved and has quit as a selector .His place is taken by Gary Newman as far  as I know.Ted is still Manager and our Evan,Lee Mulligan and Declan Mahon are also selectors.
I think that a fourth Garry,Michael  ,a son of the Bear's togged out as a sub today.T.J.,  Martin and Alan  have given full service to us before emigrating.Martiin is back  but the other pair are still abroad .Wouldn't it be great to see all four together again in the one Dundeery Team.
Played in Trim this morning on a great pitch there was a strong wind into which we played in the first half.
Only three of the last Senior Team Team to play in 2005 are on the present Panel.ie.Davy Jennings,Davy Mac and Kevin Bruton.There are four e new graduates to the Panel ,Ronan Brady ,Dermot Kelly Shane Heffernan and Jamie Leavy..Ronan is John's son,Diarmuid is Sean's son,Jamie is Timber's son and Shane is the son of  a decent Limerick man ,who has four of them,one bigger than the other.
It is noticeable that the new guys are all strapping guys well over six feet tall.
Our senior County Football panellists,Conor Dempsey,Paddy Kenneally and Luke Martin were unable to play ,it was rumoured ,because of County commitments and injury .Darren Callaghan is rumoured to have retired.
Stephen Coogan is Captain and uniquely,Hurling Captain also.
Trim too were short 4 or 5 players due to County committments.
Team was
                                                      Jennings
A.Newman                                    Davy Mac.                     A.Feeney.

Oisin Martin.                                   O.Dempsey                  M.Kane.

                                            L.Dempsey             C.O.Shea.
R.Brady                                           Bomber Farrell.            Gooch Daly.

A,Watters                                        S.Coogan                      D.Kelly.
Used during the game also were Shane Heffernan,and Jamie Leavy and a full list of the other subs are not yet to hand .
There was a fair bite in the game from the first whistle and plenty of short inter passing.We are fairly adept at this,probably a bit wiser than Trim at it.
Trim scored the first point but  a surge of speed by Kane followed by some slick inter passing ended with Liamo rattling the onion bag.
And then Coogan repeated the dose.Looking good and against the gale too.
But WE died and Trim took over,scoring 7 points in succession without reply before the half time whistle shrilled
Half Time Us.2-0.Them 0-8.
O Shea was our best in the first half I thought,manning the breaches manfully.He is as strong as a young ass.
With the wind in our backs I thought we ought shade it in the second half.
Trim opened with an early point,but Googan with a free and Liamo with another  goal  and a point put us in the lead again.
Trim pulled back with another point before Kane and Coogan increased our lead with minors.Trim score another minor before another brace of points by Coogan from  a free and a fifty put us well ahead but Trim refused to die bulging the net from play.
That left us a point up as Trim laid siege to our goal but our backs held out tenaciously to keep the lead in a tense final five minutes.
We won by 3-6 to 1-11 .
Our cause was greatly helped by Trim calling the influential Frankie Murphy ashore ,the one move you would make to help us to victory.Our mentors would hardly be so unwise.Inexplicable.
There was little between the teams,it was a good game overall and our debutantes did well.No fears there.Our substitutions were on the ball and this was probably the deciding factor in our win.
A fair display all round I thought.
When all our players are available for selection our mentors will have their work cut out.Nice problem to have.
That two intermediate teams could have 6 or 7 players on the County panel is extraordinary in my humble view.Maybe a good omen for both Clubs.
Sub's bench.J.Leavy,S.Heffernan,Jack Brady,M.Garry,Mick Garry,Jack Dempsey,Tomas Conroy,Kevin Bruton,Garrett Dooley,Dec.Mahon.

 

Do you trust women.

Somewhere there exists a cabal of people who want to kill preborn children at the behest of their  mothers and these people think up trick questions to trap out the protectors of preborm children .They have thought up this question.
I heard the apparently fragrant Claire Byrne spring that question on the Liberal's favourite Cleric and serial panellist ,Brian Darcy yesterday.
"Do you trust women "she asked fluttering her eyelashes at him.Given that he is a trendy liberal priest appearing on  a Television Station awash with anti Clerical bigots what could he say only "Yes"
This was a cowardly question by her and a cowardly answer by him,

What he should have said  was that some people are trustworthy and some are not and women are no different than men in this regard.
And as the way God designed the procreation procedure is for a man to impregnate a woman and for her to carry the child to fruition in her womb t men too must have an equal right to decide on these maters.
I am quite sure that thee are many fathers  out there who are devastated because their female partners chose to have an abortion without consulting them .
Just as there are many fathers out there that are glad it happened,

Michael Martyn drives nail into lives of unborn.

Michael Martin is the leader of Fiannna Fail,the first leader of that Party never to be Taoiseach.The membership of that PARTY  and the Parliamentarians of that Party recently voted overwhelmingly to oppose any moves to kill the living unborn,
At his insistence a rule was brought in allowing freedom of conscience when voting either for or against the killing of preborn children inside that Party.
As leader he has a duty to reflect the majority views of his members.
By insisting on the freedom of conscience rule he set up a cocoon of safety for himself by coming out in favour of the killing of unborn children in recent days in the Dail  without informing his Parliamentary colleagues or Party members in advance of  his declaration..
He would nearly have you feeling sorry for him in describing the tortuous  journey he travelled in making this decision and all the reading he did.
God help him.
Does he not realize how lucky he is in being able to consider the ethical problems involved and being able to read all this information .
If his vile turncoat activities result in legislation allowing the killing of the living preborn. they will not be able,on account of being denied the fundamental right to be born of making these ethical decisions or doing this reading because they will not exist.
THE king of the Fir Breaga and a disgrace to the Irish people.And I guess the death knell of Fianna Fail..

Tubridy joins the Gallery of arseholes.

Earlier this week Ryen Tubridy gave his take on the overdue apology given by the Gardai to Johanna Hayes and her family for falsely accusing them of murdering a baby found in Caherciveen in Kerry in the early 1980.'s.
My memory of it went like this.
A baby was found which had been stabbed to death on the shoreline in Caherciveen .The local Gardai called in the Dublin based "Murder Squad",which specialized in solving murders, to help.
The Gardai trawled the County Kerry to identify any woman who had lost a child or given birth around that time.
Johann Hayes had given birth to a baby ,which she said had died ,and which she had buried on the family farm in Abbeydorney ,many miles from Caherciveen.She showed the burial place of the baby.
The Gardai and the State fingered her for the murder of the Caherciveen Baby even though blood tests conclusively proved that neither she nor her married lover could possibly be the parents of the Caherciveen baby.
They fell back on the most remote theory that she simultaneously had intercourse with two men and had given birth to twins with different fathers.
They got her to "confess" to the murder of the Caherciveen baby ,with no proof whatsoever save a "confession "by her which she maintained was extracted by undue duress .Other members of her family also "confessed "to that murder.
It was then clear,and it has been since clear that the prosecution was baseless and for this miscarriage of justice the State is now apologizing three decades later.
A Tribunal was set up to examine how this trumped charge was allowed to proceed and to examine the actions of the Gardai.
The tribunal personnel in the main did all they could to destroy the unfortunate lady but gave the Gardai and the other State personnel a relatively free  ride.
Both the Judge ,all the legal personnel and the preponderance of the  actors in the investigation were from that well heeled class from which Tubs springs ,yet he had the effrontery to blame the narrow mindedness of rural Ireland .and the implied morality of the yokels ,for the miscarriage of justice.
In truth the people of Abbeydorney ,which is as rural as it gets, knew well that a what was put forward by the State was bullshit and formed a cocoon of protection around the Hayes family and protected them from all outsiders.a cocoon they have in place to this day.
Not for the first time this condescending Arsehole let his bullshit liberal philosophy that he and his ilk champion slip out ,a philosophy that he and his  privileged anti Catholic workmates spout regularly about those who live outside the Pale.
In this instance it was precisely his Dublin based bullies who did all in their power to destroy a brave and ho nourable woman.
If Tubs has any balls and I doubt it he should immediately profoundly apologize to the people of Abbeydorney and all rural dwellers for branding them as he did.
It is  no surprise to me that the reinvestigation is focusing on the murder of the child and not on the actions of the Gardai.and the State apparatus.
For far too long now the Politicians and the Courts have turned a blind eye to the misbehaviour of some Gardai and let them away Scot free with unlawful activities.
The Morris Tribunal result,the industrial level of lying that produced over a million false breath tests,the wrongful prosecution of many thousands people for non payment of fixed charge notice,the persecution of decent whistle blowers who abhor wrongful behaviour and the personal experiences people see every day of wrongful abuse of power and the bullying of the populace by certain wrong Gardai does not arise by accident.
Its grandfather can be found in the treatment of Johann Hayes.
It seems to me that other convictions secured by the Gardai Unit who investigated the the Johanna Hayes case should also be examined to see if they too were tainted likewise.
Now we have certain people dumping on the Catholic Church for these abuses of State power.Particularly some by Church of Ireland commentators.and other non Catholic politicians and journalists..
Whether it is the loss of the tithes and their traditional access to and untrammeled minority rule of years ago they miss that THEY FEEL ENTITLES THEM TO DO THIS  DON'T KNOW.
Certainly they are over represented in in the professions involving the Law.
I rarely have heard Catholic commentators dumping on Church of Ireland persons and practises but the opposite does not pertain.
Simon Harris is the Minister for Health.He is a disaster in this role .Up to 500 people are lying on trolleys each day during his watch and over a half million people are awaiting specialist appointments.
God only knows how many people will die during his watch as a result.
His tiny mind has tried to link the right to kill unborn babies to the Johann Hayes case amongst others.  The  Catholic Church had no hand act nor part in the misconduct of the actors in that case.It didn't kill anyone.
Maybe his logic is that if a child is deliberately killed in the womb it won't be there to clutter up his hospitals in later life.
I have heard it said by some that the events of the handling of the Abbeydornet case is a blight on us all.This of course is nonsense of the highest order.It is not "us all"they that had control of the Gardai and the entire State apparatus that perpetrated that cruelty and torture.It was the political establishmentand and  the legal apparatus established by the politicians
There are those who are jumping on the bandwagon that it was purely misogynistic treatment of women that was the root cause of this  disgraceful near  miscarriage of Justice,
Wrong again.
Just think of the Guilford four and Binmingham 6,where innocent men were stitched by a corrupt police force and State apparatus and later exonerated.
This was in the U.K. and we were no different .
All these guys were men,not women and I am certain that had I time to research the convictions secured here in that ERA I am sure I  could come up with more.
The same political parties that ran the show then are now presiding over a State where criminals and non criminals are murdered on a weekly if not a daily basis.
It is no wonder that they are still trying to divert responsibility from  themselves to "all of us ".











































And by the way I accept that the Serpent tempted certain so called Catholics to his side in the past.Satan plys a sly game.
Satans suipreme triump will surely be Starte killing of the deferceless ouborn

The good people.

Today was a day from hell hereabouts.The chill factor alone would knock you over.There was hateful slanting rain that cut to the bone and the leaden sky was so dark and threatening that it would depress you.Outdoor livestock were huddled against the wind and rain seeking shelter against the elements.
In these conditions I  had to head to Trim.
Now the hair is long and  untidy and I wasn't dressed the best.I walk funny as a result of a stroke endured in 2009 and with the aid of a walking stick and progress is slow.I suppose I looked as miserable as I felt.
To my amazement a very able lady of my own age, I would guess ,approached me and offered me a two Euro piece to buy myself a cup of tea and get in out of the cold.I thanked her kindly and declined.
It might have been a case of mistaken identity but there again it may not have been.
Certainly the milk of human nature still flows strongly in some.
God bless her.
I also was lucky enough to meet Pat Conway from Halltown ,who was a great friend of my uncles Joe and Tommy as a child and often helped them at the farming.
He is home for the Christmas from the States ,never lost has accent and never aged a day in twenty years.A decent guy and a huge loss to Ireland and Dunderry,which as I told someone was founded the day after God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

Devaluation of Marriage .

In  a STATE dominated by a homosexual ethos ,under the stewardship of a homosexual Taoiseach and reported and commented on by a tame media totally fearful of standing up for heterosexual values and norms it is little wonder that such is the disrespect for the institution of  marriage that we now have two heterosexual men marrying for tax advantages.
This follows on from the lie that marriage between a man and a woman is no different than the union of a man to a man nor a woman to a woman.It is clear that they are not the same,no matter what the referendum result was.
I await the next absurdity.

Tommy Tiernan.Arsehole Supreme.

There is little doubt that the Electronic Media is totally in the firm control of Satan and his empire of evil.For example on RTE Radio today we had serial panellists ,known for their wish to enable the murder of  the defenceless unborn ,pollute a programme ,the alleged purpose of which was to celebrate the lives and achievements of note in 2017,
On the deaths of Cardinal Connell and Bishop Casey they made so little of them that were I Primate of Ireland I would bar them for life and in death from Consecrated ground.
Both their hatred of the Catholic Religion and that of the presenter  was so palpable that it could be felt in the very air that emanated from the studio.
It is no coincidence that the Justine thing was a permanent fixture on the Vincent Brown anti Catholic shambles that set out to do down Catholicism at every hand's turn.
She has found a home in the squaddie Duffy's show which abhors everything Republican and Catholic.
They had better hope that God's capacity for forgiveness is greater than mine as like the Brown fella they will be meeting him soon enough,no more than myself..
While snoozing on the afternoon of Christmas Day I think I  heard a contributor on a show presented by wrinkle puss O  Leary on RTE Radio ,another Catholic hater ,drone on about abuse by  Christian Brother
.In my  own experience the only abuse I suffered was at the hands of a lay teacher educated ,if that is the word,at University just like herself and around the same time I would say.
They really love the  sound of their own hateful voices and on The Birthday of Jesus too.Absolutely no respect .
But the worst of all was the performance of Navan creature Tommy Tiernan on an offshoot of TV3 this evening.In a display of hatred ,which ISIL would be proud of he blasphemed Christ's teaching as much as he could,liberally interspersing his sneering of the Sacred teachings with as many  curse words as he could muster ,especially the word "CUNT"
I don't know whether his parents are alive or not and whether hay are buried in the Christian rite,and  I don't know whether he is married or has children and if he has ,whether he thinks it OK to teach them such language and feels proud to let them see such performances ,but in my book he is a disgrace to humanity a bigot of the most extreme type, a man  unfit to rear children if the language he uses in the Show is used at home in front of them and the biggest disgrace of an excuse of a creature yet to go into exile from Navan.
I think he lives in Galway.They are welcome to him down there.
That the two biggest Stations chose to revile God and his Church and His  Teachings on the occasion of his birthday must have Satan and Hell rocking.
Soon enough Satan will be welcoming the programmers and presenters into his Kingdom of Evil.

That says it all really.

I know that those currently running the GAA Club are not long enough hereabouts to appreciate the sort of responsibility they are momentarily in charge of and the traditions they are charged with nurturing and continuing to protect.
Today at Christmas Mass I spoke to a man in his seventies who ,although he does no longer live here has never missed Christmas Mass here since his parents died.He is Dunderry to the backbone and so were his parents.
At 16 he played with the Intermediate Team ,which was the prime football team at the time .His father was still playing.
I asked him had he played with Francie Tuite who I think is the oldest living ex Dunderry footballer.He said he hadn't.I suspect that Tim Coffey might be the next oldest and I asked had he played with him, but Brendan Rogers and Paddy Conway may be older
.He said he was coming on the team at the time Tim and the Major Cregan were in the backs and the Goat Stanley was in goals.
Such was the reputation of these guys throughout the County that every forward line in the County feared them thoroughly.
Our man told me that he himself was afraid to play with these Dunderry legends,even though they were on the same team.
Incidentally I think  I  saw young Pat Conway and a clatter of Dooleys at Mass today.
Home really is where the heart is.
I'm going on the beer tomorrow and will keep ye informed of what is happening.
The same Brendan I mention above is home recovering from  fairly serious opration and we wish him well..

Longest living ex Dunderry Player under pressure.

Nearly ninety years young Francie Tuite is the oldest living ex Dunderry player alive.If ever a man needed prayer he does.

Not much Christmas Spirit in parts of Navan.

Today I drove to Navan to collect specs from Specs savers Navan.
In I drove and parked in the  car Park alongside the Credit Union  the town centre side of it.It is opposite the Shopping Centre on Kennedy Road and seems to be in private ownership.
There was a little queue to get in and the owner or  manager,I don't know which , had the manners to get me a two Euro ticket .I parked and went off about my business.
I am very visibly disabled and cannot walk without walking stick.Even then I HAVE A PROFOUND LIMP AND AM AS SLOW AS A SNAIL.
Additionally my left arm is fairly useless and is always swollen and visibly so.
I say this because when I returned to my car I was verbally artttacked and intimidated by the owner /manager who maintained that I was in huge trouble because I was an eighth of an inch away from the entrance  to his house and if I let the car slip that much forward there would be hell to play.
Now I was coming from the opticians and was wearing brand new glasses All I could see in front of me was a fence similar to the other fencing around the Car Park.No front door,no windows,no steps no nothing,Nor could I SEE anything prohibiting me from parking where I was..This creature then leaned across windshield saying I had overstayed my welcome by a half hour.,I would guess he won't see seventy again.
I told ;d him he was not a nice guy at all.He retorted that he n most certainly was not.
NOW I have noticed since I got my stroke and  am disabled that there are certain people,usually small men ,who tend to pick on people like me in the knowledge that I AM UNABLE BECAUSE OF MY DISABILITY TO DEFEND MYSELF.
These cowardly little shits would never pick on fully fit and functioning men for fear they might get a belt back.
IN MY EXPERIENCE SUCH WAS THE NATURE OF THIS LITTLE SHIT.
He either owns or manages the car park beside the Credit Union and seemingly lives in a house the Credit Union side of it through the fence according to him.
I take solace in the Biblical saying that it is harder for a rich m,an to get into the Kingdom of Heaven  than for a camel to get through the eye of a needle.

Death of Lilian Weldon ,Churchtown,Dunderry.

Anyone who has in the past habituated the streets of Dunderry and Churchtown in particular in recent years cannot but have come across Lillian walking her dog regularly on the roads .particularly on the Retaine Road ,which even today is fairly quiet.Day after day and season after season she graced these roads.Most of us knew she had cancer and all of us hoped that she would overcome it.Certainly you felt that such was the exemplary life lived by this lady that God would have to cut her some slack.And if there is anyone sounder nor her husband Mickey I have yet to meet him .The Weldons are amongst the most decent of people and their big kids now Ronan and Paul  are cut from  this cloth.
She was a Shiels from Kilmessan abnd I hear that her father was killed demolishing Trim Jail  in the 1950.s but might be wrong.
She hasn't been around in recent months and while there is no convenient time to die it is my understanding that it was not unexpected .
Her neighbourly chastisement of Dot over her wandering hens and Dot's over  Lilian's snooping dog are long since forgotten and I spotted Vince out today tidying the hedges and road on the funeral route.
She couldn't but have good neighbours as she  herself was a rare one.And I hear that they did all they could for  herself and Mickey in recent months.
Personally I didn't know her very well but as there is no such thing as a bad Weldon I know from her demeanour that she was of he highest  standard and the most decent of women.
She is being waked tomorrow Wednesday from 2.00 to 9.00 in their house in Churchtown and will arrive in Dunderry Church on Thursday at 30 minutes past Noon for the Funeral Mass.
AR Dheis De go raibh a hANAM DILIS.

Return of Penal Laws in Ireland.

The Penal Laws ,enacted in Ireland when the British Empire was at its zenith prohibited the celebration of Catholic Masses and placed a bounty on the heads of Catholic Priests.
Saint Oliver Plunkett was hung,drawn and quarted as an example.
Nowadays the Esquire from Enniskerry and the entire Fine Gael,Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein establishment ,to name but a few,are set to make it an offence for anyone to have any alcoholic drink on them at all when driving.
So any Priest who has celebrates Mass that day can be done by any policeman who has a mind to if he is driving from Mass that day..
These shower of shits ought rot in hell.

Government hell bent on closing down rural Ireland.

You just have to listen to the Esquire from Enniskerrry --Minister Ross---and his Taoiseach Leo plus 6 years--him and his Castleknock neighbours live six years longer than the people of Blanch and Mulhuddart just across the M50.--talking for a few minutes to realize that they inhabit a different planet than the people of the other Ireland ,with which they have no empathy ,as they gaze down from their ivory towers on rural and provincial drones who pay their inflated wages and keep them in luxury.
In Dunderry ,where I live there is not and never has been public transport of any description.The nearest bus stop is 6 miles away in Navan or Trim.
We are fierce lucky to have a shop and two pubs.The local Hall has closed down after being opened continuously for over 70 years.
Most evenings the place is like a ghost town and were it not for the local GAA Club we might throw our hats at it entirely.
Since the death of the Celtic Tiger many dozens of our people have taken the boat or the plane and if they return at all it is only for a holiday or the death of a family member..
A lot of the misery was and is being inflicted by power hungry politicians who have demonized cigarettes and are now demonizing alcohol.
This is being done on the advice of the medical profession who in general suffer from A God Complex and regard themselves as superior to us mere mortals .
Not all of them mind you but enough to have influence.
I will say no more about this than to point out that Hitler despised smoking and drinking,as well as anyone who didn't fit his view of what a proper Ayrian ought look like.
It is a sad day when the difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is indiscernible and it is impossible to distinguish one from the other and there is a de facto governing agreement between them.Bad for democracy.
And Sinn Fein ,with the physical activists taking time out ,are morphing into what the Workers Party became.
If you doubt me just listen ti one of these new fangled members rabbit on about whatever takes their fancy.
Put the clock back 20 years and you will hear pure Sticky  propaganda.
Has anyone the interest in forming a Christian Democrat Party .

One brutal Week.

Early this week I had business in Trim and drove in .I followed a few cars into the car park behind Brogans Hotel.The place turned out to be full.The cars in front of me had driven down to the far end of the car park before this became obvious and had to reverse back towards me to enable entry into a turning space.I signalled to the car behind me to reverse also.
Well the passenger got out of the car and subjected me to the most vile and foul mouthed oral abuse I have heard for some time.This he did in the presence of his lady friend and child who thought it great fun.
The fact that I am disabled encouraged them more.The car they drove was a Longford Registration and unfortunately I hadn't my phone to ring the Gardai,
Midweek I was in Navan Hospital on business.I witnessed a male orderly pushing a frail and clearly very sick old man down a corridor.The orderly asked the old man his name.The old man gave his name and address in Irish.The orderly thought this hilarious and boomed out for all to hear"We don't speak that foreign language here.We only speak English".

I wonder whether this cretin speaks so insultingly to all the foreign doctors who work there in c similar vein.

Later in the week I  drove past the Church in Trim towards the ring road by the Secondary school and checked the ring road out before emerging on to it .I noticed  a vehicle with blue flashing lights in the distance and with plenty of room to spare went onto the road and turned left towards the roundabout that can bring you to the Dublin Road.
As I  went to enter the roundabout I looked in my mirror and saw that the vehicle with the flashing lights was directly behind me No siren I  stress.
Thinking it was an ambulance I went through the roundabout and pulled into a lay by the Navan side of the roundabout to enable the vehicle pass,doing as I thought my civic duty,
Instead of passing the vehicle pulled up and one of the occupants ,who was a Garda ,proceeded to berate me for making inadequate signals when exiting the roundabout and pulling in to let him pass.When I say berate I  mean he  spoke down to me as though I am a piece of shit.
I bit my tongue and told him he was not a nice guy.
This is no country for disabled pensioners.
I am reminded of the spake peculiar to Cavan that ""Some people are as ignorant as the pig that ate his own bedding."
Unlike the female Dub.who took exception to being told the following words ,Iwould be delighted were any woman  to say to me "You look so well I'd nearly have sex with you ".

Like Grandfather like grandson

The present graveyard in Dunderry was gifted by Pat Darcy deceased to the Parish when Father Flood was the Parish Priest.
This man was the father of John,Billy and Paddy all deceased .Cyril is the only living son and I understand that there was a short lived daughter Marcella,who died either at birth or shortly afterward.
Any house hunter will be acutely aware that it is nigh impossible to buy a house in the Parish .
As for building a house the number of hurdles that must be jumped are limitless and soul destroying.
As it is with the living so it is with the dead.
There are no more plots available in Dunderry graveyard and those with family plots in older graveyards find it nigh impossible to get a grave opened because of County Council Regulations relating to disturbing possible ancient relics.
One would think it great therefor were a Parishioner to donate more land for use as a graveyard.
Well Willie Darcy ,a grandson of the aforementioned Pat has offered a plot beside Retaine graveyard to Meath County Council For FREE and guess what.They are unwilling to accept this gift.
So soon you will have to bury your next of kin outside the Parish while these officious bureaucrats do all in their power to deny  the decent folk of the Parish the possibility to be buried locally.
AND YOU WONDER WHY SUCH A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE FLED THIS COUNTRY OVER THE DECADES.
Surely thee is a limit to nonsense.Seemingly not.

Death of Anne Foley,Yellow Walls.

Anne Foley --nee Sherry--- from the Yellow Walls ,Dunderry has died unexpectedly in Navan Hospital.She survived her late husband Dermot by a number of years.
The best compliment I can pay them is to say that one was nicer and more decent than the other.
The same applies to their children Catherine,Noleen,Anne,Patricia,Valery and Patrick.
Catherine,Noleen and Patrick live locally and all the family are highly respected and as honest and decent as the day is long.
Dermot never lost his Kerry accent nor Anne her Meath one
.It is only a short time since Seamus and Eugene Smith and Sheila Bird and Mrs Tim Coffey from the Yellow Walls also passed away,so there is a massive loss of decency from that Townland.
Locals will know that her son Patrick had a misfortunate accident whilst a young child and that he requires constant care since and My God he got and gets it in spades from the entire family in the home place ,especially from  Anne ,who carried the responsibility with dignity and good grace as indeed do the rest of the exemplary family .
She was one lovely and gracious lady from the very top drawer of humanity.
Her remains will be reposing in St.Joseph's Chapel of rest in Johnstown from 4.00 to 6.00 P.M. .tomorrow Wednesday 25 th October to arrive at Dunderry Church at 7.00 P.M.
Funeral Mass is at Noon on Thursday 26th October ,with burial in local graveyard afterwards.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

Its beginning to make sense.

At a most enjoyable wedding yesterday I  had time to think outside the box for a few minutes and absorb the concealed rage simmering within my breast.
Taking it in age order.
One guy at my table of pension age had over half his siblings living for decades in England ,some of them having died there.
Another guy of similar age had two sons living in the States and one in Sas.The States guys were working for another bloke from the Parish and they had recently  been joined by another young lad from this Parish.UP to ten guys from this Parish socializes regularly in that part of the States .
I myself  have IRISH relations under 35 living in France,Australia and Canada.
Over 100  yeas ago 8 of my grandfather's siblings emigrated to the States never to return.
During the wedding announcements congratulatory notices were read from as far away as California,Boston ,Dubai and Australia.
One wedding guest lives in Scotland ,as does her sister.Both are under 30.
A common theme running through our conversations was the living hell being experienced by relations of people needing serious heart surgery and their inability to get to the top of the huge queues and the fear that the sick would die before their turn for operations came.
I conclude that one generation of politicians is as bad as the other and that little has changed in real terms over the years.
Membership of the EU has not changed a thing and I don't see why people are so fired up about Brexit or remaining.
As far as I can see it makes no difference whether The Brits of the Europeans pull our strings.
We still are served the same shit.
Only The clowns running the circus change .The circus remains the same.
Possibly the only way to change things for the better is to do to politicians what an uncle of mine wanted to do to referees and that is to shoot a random one every Sunday.
It mightn't be fair but would surely sharpen up the rest

Time for Catholics to leave Fine Gael.

Time was when Fine Gael was the Party of Conservative Catholicism.Take Liam Cosgrave as an example.Even though his father was the instigator of the murder of 4 jailed Republican for pure retaliatory reasons ,without the benefit of charge or trial of any description,he professed a deep Catholic Faith even to the extent of voting against the Bill of his own Party to liberise the availability of condoms.
I feel that he may have had a point in this as it seems certain that the plight of the children of lone parents is worse than that of the children of married parents and even divorced parents and the casual approach to sexual activity encouraged by the availability of condoms is an inevitable cause of the proliferation of one parent families.
One good thing about the change in values of this society however is that the supposed shame of producing children outside of wedlock is not what it was and many parents do not feel for example the necessity to emigrate to protect their secret children and have the support and courage to balls it out.
Nor do they feel the need to abort them thank God.
Anyhow back to the Blue shirts.
Not for the first time I heard a serial Fine Gael panellist from Louth named O Dowd slag off the Catholic Church for failing to ordain WOMEN into the priesthood and tie this fact into the rape of women vis a vis the serial riding of a  guy called Weinfield ---hardly a Catholic name I suggest ---of Hollywood film stars.
This is not the first time I have heard this political  non entity belittling Catholic teaching and I wonder what his beef with Catholics is.
He would be better served by getting his buddies to treat  those women of Ireland who devoted their time to rearing their  children full time as equal citizens and granting them equal pensions to their sisters who worked outside the home..
Seemingly equality only applies if you are like his leader and prefer people of your own sex to that of the opposite sex and fix  your public appearances to coincide with the nearest gay pride march.
But he is not the only Blueshirter to do his best to undermine Catholic teaching.
Another Senator called Noone is in the frame for blatantly promulgating the pro choice side over the pro life side by two members of the Oireachtas Committee she chairs on the issue of repealing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution ,which accords equal importance to the lives of unborn child and its mother,
The two members of the Committee are an Independent Dail member Mattie Mc Grath and a Senator Ronan Mullins and are so pissed that they are threatening to resign unless fair play is given.
Given that the Mistress of the National Maternity Hospital thinks so little of the lives of the ill unborn children entrusted to her care that she downplays the sanctity of their right to life at every opportunity and that a former Master is so hostile to the ownership of a Hospital by A Catholic Order of nuns that he regards their right to hold religious views ,ensure the practise of these views and their right to hold property in the same light as the framers of the Penal  Laws ,one wonders whether the men and women of 1916 and the War of Independence fought in vain to throw off the yokes of Oppression by Masters and Mistresses and hostility to Catholicism .
Who the fuck are these condescending shites to decide what is appropriate or not.Maybe they believe that their titles entitle them to  GOD status.Well not in my book.
The sneering hostility towards Catholicism was further aired on RTE  by an academic called Crow on the Sean O Rourke show this week when she belittled the dress mode of Catholic Bishops when making the ridiculous claim that Catholicism was a parallel Government to the State in recent decades.
She ought consult her fellow legal academics on this issue and she would discover that Canon Law never held sway in this State.She will recognise them from the mortar boards, gowns and sashes they wear,
What is really worrying is that the State broadcaster would give unfettered air time to such a clear anti Catholic Bigot and that her remarks were allowed to air without contradiction.
And her sickening efforts to cloak her bigotry  by contrasting well known Catholics such as Father Mc Verry.SisterStan etc to the men with the funny clothes--an old Brit thing of divide and conquer ---speaks for itself..She did learn well indeed .
Of course RTE have form in this regard..Didn't the taxpayer have to payout defamatory millions to a Priest they accused of fathering children he didn't father.
As is said hereabouts "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT".
But back to ther Blueshirts.
Bruton of the thousand acres uses every opportunity that comes his way to chip away at the use of Catholic ethos in Catholic Schools ,on the basis that State money cannot be used to further religious morals.
Firstly the State generates no money.It gathers it from the populace.85 per centage of the populace defines itself as Catholic.Despite the hostility towards Catholicism displayed by people like him and his ilk this 85 per cent must surely be entitled to have their ethos promulgated in the schools.
What is being promulgated by the anti Catholic brigade is that no religion is the same as the State position. This is a huge con.And it is time it was called out.
Then we have a Minister of Health ,who IS RESPONSIBLE for heading a hospital waiting list of over 700,000 in  A COUNTRY OF LESS THAN 5 MILLION ,belittling a Catholic Bishop who dared question a medical programme he is responsible for.
I recently spent 24 hours in a corridor in an A and E.dept with a sick pensioner on a trolley along with many other elderly sick patients because the heroic staff were overworked and ill equipped facility wise to deal with the patients with the  standard of care they deserve.
Were I Simon Harris I would hang my head in shame.
As for the Esquire from Enniskerry ,he will not rest until he has denuded Rural Ireland of people, bar the super rich like himself , and drives the few remaining inhabitants into total and absolute isolation .
T'WOULD SICKEN YOU ENTIRELY.

Glad day for Dundrrry Camogie.

The first ever Intermediate Camogie All Ireland  Medal came to Dunderry yesterday ,when Aoife Minogue played a significant role in Meath's defeat of Cork in  replayed final in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.
It is never easy to beat Cork in anything GAA and it is a noticeable scalp for Meath Camogie.
It seems a long time now since John Davis and for a while his son,took over as team manager and in that time .Meath have clawed their way up the ranks.
As president and founder member of the Club I  couldn't be prouder.
All those who kept the Camogie going in years gone bye and those currently at the helm should take a bow.
We hope that Meath will make their mark at Senior level now that they have got there.
Claire Coffey ,whose mother is descended from Aggie Commons from Betaghstown and resides in Baconstown was team captain.
Her father Matt is a friend ,except on match days when our Clubs oppose each other.
No doubt Aoife gets her hurling genes from her Beaumount mother Miriam.

Sad day for Dunderry

The old FAS logo was decommissioned some years ago.This probably was because there were investigations into how it was run at nationakl level and renaming it was peobably the best way of making people forget how badly tarnished it had become.
Anyhow there has been a Fas Scheme or its equivalent since before I  came to live here in 1986.
The people who worked in it over the years looked after the GAA grounds ,the grass cutting around the Churches and the graveyards and tidied up around the Hall.
Father Heany ,the PP at the time it was set up ,was the Sponsor of the Scheme and its unbroken run from then to date was brought to an end by the current PP  Father Hornick ,who I suppose has decided that he has not the resources to properly oversee it.
Not only has the former FAS Scheme come to an end but Parochial ownership of the Local Hall came to an end a few months ago.
At that time the GAA Club,which over a decade ago were prepared to pay E.70,000.00   to buy it and whose plans were thwarted by the objections of a vociferous minority ,were not interested in buying it.
Needless  to say the people who then objected were not recently willing  to themselves take it on.
It strikes me that as a community we are regressing and that despite the relatively significant growth in population and apparent prosperity.
This is sad.

Walk and Fund raiser for ill child well suported.

I am not on the fund raising committe for the fund raisers.As far as I can see the GAA Club is fully behind it but it is GAA friends of Swiss and his wife's sisters who are driving it rather than the GAA Club as such.
In any event I spent a few hours on Saturday last watching the people who participated in the walk/run as they passed through Dunderry.
I wqould guess that about 500 people ,men,women and children participated.Many of these were not from the Parish ,fair dues to them.
They came on all forms and shapes.Ispotted Trevor Giles among them looking as fit as ever.Swiss himself participated.
A lovely Bird --her married name---from Rathcairn pushed her child around the course.
This most compassionate of nurses nursed me during my stroke in Navan Hospital 8 years ago AND I CANNOT PRAISE HER ENOUGH.
It was particularly pleasing to see the number of men and women pushing prams around the course.
Afterwards a concert and auction was held in Rathcairn Hall.
It was well attended too and the Auction was well supported.
Thus far a raffle has been held in Kilbride school ,a non uniform day in Dunderry School,a fully subscribed   raffle in  KILMACUD CROKES AT THE all Ireland Club sevens ,the walk ,a draw,the reception in Rathcairn and the AUCTION ,ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.
Just shows how decent people are when the cause is right and the organisers are trusted.
I hope and pray that the fiunds raised help the misfortunate young chap in the coming times.

Disrespect for Ameican National Anthem is appalling.

I have always had difficulty spelling the word "appalling".
Of my grandfather's 11 siblings 8 emigrated to the USA between 1880 and 1920.Only one ever returned in the 1970's for a weeks holidays when he himself was in his seventies.He was a retired firefighter in Chicago.
I am grateful for the chance that the USA gave my ancestors and would never disrespect the Anthem of that Nation irrespective of whether Republicans or Democrats ruled the Country.
Three of my granduncles ,Mallons from Bohermeen,brothers of my granny fought with the IRA against the British Empie in the War of Independence in  and my grandparent's house was a safe house .
I don't know what their politics were after the end of that war but suspect that Fianna Fail was favoured.
Even though Michael Collins was one oif ,if not the most effective guerrilla fighters ,ever to take up the cudgels against a colonizing power anywhere in the world and struck fear into the Empire with well marshalled and brilliantly executed assassinations and such like at the time and became an icon for Fine Gael right up to the present I don't think that they were ever Fine Gael men .
In ant event every Irish man and woman I know.no matter what their political allegiance ,gives full respect to our National Anthem "Amhran na Fiann"irrespective of which Party or combination thereof is in power.
In other words respect for our flag and Anthem supersedes political allegiance.
We see now that certain well healed sportsmen and entainers think so little of the National Anthem of the country that suckled them and gave them and continues to give them such mind boggling incomes that they deliberately chose the insult and belittle the flag and Anthem of the Nation that gave such marvellous opportunity.
Do they not know that millions are just risking life and limb to get into a Country of such opportunity and must,as far as I know swear allegiance to the flag and Anthem of the USA BEFORE GETTING FORMAL ADMISSION TO FULL CITIZENSHIP.
Yet these ungrateful yobbos  chose to piss on the Country that is so good to them.
I am not surprised by this as the Democrats and certain beaten Republican contenders and many media concerns are unable to take their beating by Trump in the Presidential race and are stirring up hatred against him and his supporters at every hand's turn.
This combination of seditious forces are doing more to belittle the USA than all the combined enemies of the States put together.
There must be some law to bring these ingrates to account and if there is it should be immediately applied.
If not these people ought have the courage of their convictions and get out of a country they so despise,that is if any other Country would take them.

Michaels 1-10.Dunderry 0-11.IFC.

We died with our boots on sadly.No complaints.Our luck just ran out.Fuller report later if I am up to it.

Hail Jesus in Sport.

I note in passing that Cork Senior Camogie Team had a Team Mass before the Final.They won.
I note that Westmeath Junior Camogie Team climbed Croack Patrick two weeks ago.They won.
I read that the Waterford Senior Manager announced before the Senior Hurling Final that he is not A BELIEVER in Catholicism but would never the less would be saying a few prayers in the off chance before the game.They lost.
There is a message here.

The smal ball game around Dunderry,

Well there are positives and negatives.
On the negative side we gave a walkover to Kiltale in the Senior Hurling Championship recently.We were unable to field a team.This is not good and is a first for Dunderry in any Senior competition as far as I know.
On the positive side Jamie Leavy,the son of Tommy--Timber--Leavy captained Meath Minor Hurling Team to the Minor B hurling Championship.
For the benefit of those who don't know Jamie is the grandson of Paddy Kavanagh ,former Club Secretary ,Intermediate Football Championship winner with Dunderry and Bohermeen and  REFEREE OF  football All Ireland.He is overjoyed.
The ladies too are coming good and Aoife Minogue will be playing for Meath in the Intermediate Camogie Final against Cork this coming Sunday in Croker.
Two busses will be leaving Dunderry to attend.
As President of the Camogie Club  I couldn't be prouder.
I understand that Claire Coffey from Baconstown .whose mother is Aggie Commons from Betaghstown  of our Prish is Captain.Her father Matt is a good friend.
Following on from some unpleasantness against my own Daughter Mags some years ago she now plies her Camogie trade with O Mahony's and they will be playing Dunderry in theIntermediate Club semi final shortly.
Should be interesting.
Her DAUGHTER is a Dunderry player.
As are a few cousins.
All in a day's sport.

Some tangible help for Swiss and Eadeen.

I probably have spelt the name of Damien's wife wrong.It does not really matter.What does matter is that they are in a place that anyone of us would not wish to be,but have to keep it together for the sake of their sick child.May God help them.
I have it on the best authority that some of their friends are putting their heads together to organise a solidarity fund to help them out.
When more particulars are to hand I will let ye know.

TESTING TIMES FOR SWISS AND HIS WIFE.

Probably the most devastating news a family can receive has been visited on the most decent of families with the news that their son at about 4 years old has been diagnosed with a rare and extremely serious malady.
The Church was overflowing tonight as their friends and neighbours and all who heard about the Rosary recitation crowded in and fervently prayed that God and Mary  in their  infinite mercy and compassion would see Their way to cure this most dear and loved child.
The bonds that are formed during childhood and in rural growing up were well illustrated as Brian Newman  and Donal Daly ,home from the States and England ,were amongst the may who showed up in solidarity .
Donal recently brought home his daughter to make her First Holy Communion with the Dunderry kids of which my grand daughter Ciara was a celebrant also.
We are a close and deeply caring community indeed.

Yet another burgalry.

Reports are filtering in of yet another burglary in the Parish.This time the thieves got entry via the fields at the back of the house,tranquilizing 4 guard dogs in the process and forcing entry when there was no one at home.
Clearly they had intimate knowledge of the surrounding area  AND HAD CASED THE HOUSE THOROUGHLY BEF0RE HAND.
All landowners should run from their lands all trespassers especially those whose identity they don't know.Especially those professing to be hunting rabbits or hares,whose capture is illegal in the first place.
This shit has got to stop or brr stopped.

On the bright side

Our good friend Kevin Conroy is back in town for a few days.Glad to see him around.His late father John did tremendous work in the GAA Club for years prior to his death ,particularly in selling life memberships for the Club at E.500.00 A POP ,A SUM NOT TO BR SNEERED AT.
What a pity that the promise to erect a permanent memorial and scroll to those who walked the walk has yet to be honoured.
T.Dowd Senior recently con celebrated a birthday with Ted his son. T was 70 and Ted 40.
We had roast pig,song craic and gargle and footballs and sliotars flying in all directions.
A night to remember and the very best of craic.
Reports are still drifting in of people not there getting in a few cans ,opening the windows and grooving to the warbles of the great Paddy MC Garry.
T,sang his rendition of Kevin Barry to universal approval .
In his day and time T.was to British GAA WHAT GEORGE BEST WAS TO SOCCER.
Both appear ring to play was an event and Tommy's Etna surpasses any day any of Georges women by a country mile.
Plus she has lasted the course far better too.
Tommy the ALL Star and his family and Cathy and Dolly and their families were there too.
Jimmy was in fine fettle despite his more scarce public  appearances of late.
Gerry Coogan is home from Boston  for  a special birthday party too and the Second Dunderry Judge  ,Paul Fitzgerald is home from  New Hampshire to visit his family .
On a personally low side a Bart Simpson low life has called me "lower than a knacker "while separated from me by a chain link fence at a GAA Match.I am unsure exactly who he is trying to insult,me or the travellers and fully appreciate how travellers must feel when so addressed.
I have  GOOD MIND TO TELL HIS NEIGHBOURING TRAVELLERS OF HIS IDENTITY but will keep my powder dry for a while.
The weather is brutal for making hay and I am caught with about 10 round bales on the ground soaked to the
GILLS.
I am determined however to keep at it until it is fit for bailing.
This is called stupidity.
As per usual the place is abuzz  with rumours of one sort or another .

IFC.Dunderry 0-11.Trim 0-11.

Today I qualify for my bus pass.Yesterday and not for the first time this year we committed barefaced robbery in securing valuable points against the run of play in the Inter Championship.
All our Birthdays came together in doing a job we had to do and Napoleon's adage that the most important quality in a General was pure "LUCK" never ran truer.
Consider this team that didn't  field yesterday.

                                           Garret Dooley.
Red Callaghan                      Finn Stephens.               Sprog Stephens.

JP Kenneally                        Simon Carty                   Alan Garry

            Paddy Kenneally                            Liam Dempsey

Cyril Halton                          T.J.Garry                     Lukie Martyn

Martin Garry                   Connor Dempsey        Christopher Harrington.

Subs.John Kelligher,Gerry Murray,Aaron Feeney,Ciaran Mulvenna,Ivan Mc Cormack.Tosh Garry,Michael Martin.Joey Martyn.
NON PLAYING CAPTAIN IS OF COURSE SWISS CLARKE .
I would definitely fancy it to go far.
Had we a Fairy Godmother with loads of mullah with an ability to cure injury we could field such a team.
Gives an idea of what we are missing and lost potential.
The team we did in reality field and which did bring home enough bacon was;-

                                                        Jennings
Aaron Newman.                            Davy Mack                        Jordan Martyn

Mark Kane                                     Conor O Shea                   Chuck Dempsey

                                  Bomber                             Baby Doc

Oisin Martyn                                       Stephen Coogan                     Gooch Daly

Alex                                                      Morgan Callaghan                A Watters.

Subs used.Andy Coogan,Kenny Fay and Declan Dub Mahon.
Athboy is a fine ground and bathed in brilliant sunshine the most civil of officials had the place humming.
Not much wind sa speir and we were hoping for a good result given our missing list.
They opened with a bang and had two points up before we caught our bearings.
Bob wouldn't be fit but himself and Bomber achieved parity in midfield ,which was no mean feat with a determined Frankie Murphy giving it his all as per usual for the townies.
After 10 minutes we took over  and played with confidence and panache setting a goodish pace and edging into a 4 point lead by half time on a scoreline of 0-8 to 0-4.
Mark Kane had benefited from the corn fed steak he had clearly devoured in the States with some searing runs down the wing and I was again impressed,but not surprised  by the contribution of Oisin Martin who played with a vision beyond his years.
For four months four years ago I was a mentor with his age group and that panel was particularly talented .It is to the DETRIMENT  of the Club that a more bountiful harvest was not saved from that crop and lessons ought be learned .
In the latter half of the half our younger guns excelled to a man and had Trim on the rack.
The second half was a different animal altogether as Trim hammered us everywhere except on the scoreboard.
They missed chance after chance including a penalty which our veteran goalkeeper Jennings saved after out psyching entirely  the taker .
Jennings is like a General marshalling his troops and he is not shy in making the necessary calls at times of distress and in the last  fifteen minutes he made many wise calls.
Trim totally dominated play in the last fifteen minutes and missed score after score ofter making the wrong shooting decision but then again the luck was on our side.
More often than not in recent years they have got more than their fair share so we will gratefully accept what came our way last night.
We were way off the pace the second half and even with a weakened team it was not good enough.
But hey we are still in pole position.
Long may it last.
Scorers were Kane 0-1.Bomber 0-1,Oisin 0-2,Cougar 0-6.5 frees,.Morgan 0-1.
Apropos nothing Morgan is not the first player to field for Dunderry with Welsh blood coursing through his veins.
Fair dues all round for the second steal of the year in this competition.
We do have lucky Generals and indeed corporals.

Not impressed with Leo at all.

Eight years ago this month I had a serious stroke sand survived Navan Hospital,which then had neither the machinery to identify whether the cause was either a  bleed on the brain or a clot.Nor did it stock the medicine to dissolve a clot nor had it any one trained to administer the clot busting medication were it available.
As  result of my entering the General Election campaign immediately following my discharge  the omissions outlined above were put in place so those subsequently admitted for a stroke had at least a fighting chance .
My left side was badly affected by the stroke ,my arm and hand in particular.
I was crying out for the attentions of a physiotherapist.
This month, eight years later ,the HSE SUPPLIED MY FIRST HOUR'S PHYSIO TREATMENT.
That's right 8 years later.
Now I understand that Leo the current Taoiseach spent some time working in Navan Hospital before I was admitted.
The paucity of stroke treatment hardly escaped his attention.
Did he do anything about it do you think.Well no he didn't.
He has since been Minister for Health amongst other Cabinet positions.
Has he done anything about 8 years delays in providing physio for people like me.Well no he hasn't.
Do you think that I am remotely impressed by all the razzmatazz he is putting out about himself.
Well no I am not.

The Lord Mayor is dead.

Dunderrians worldwide will know who I  mean.As decent a man as ever lived.

Definition of misery .

I heard the Black Crow saying that were he to win the Lotto he would concrete the bog,such was his dread of futtin turf while being ate by midges.
Most people hereabouts would agree,although there are those strange individuals who would demurr.
But if threr is one job more hateful this time of the year it is pulling ragworth before cutting a meadow.
As hateful as it gets.

Dunderry Parish blessing of graves 2017.

Dunderry..                    Saturday 8th July after  7.30 .P.M. Vigil Mass

                                     Sunday 9th July after 11.00 A,M, Mass.

Churchtown,                 Tuesday 11 July at 7.30 P.M.

Retaine                          Wednesday 12th July at 7.30.P.M.

Claddy                           Thursday 13th July at 7.30.P.M.

Kilcooley                        Thursday 13th July at 8.00 P.M.

Kilbride                           Sunday 16th July after after 7.00 P.M.Mass.

Moymet                           Tuesday 18th July at 7.30.

Blackchurch                     Thursday 20th July at 7.30P.M.