Untimely death of China -Vincent-Clarke

 Around tea time yesterday I  heard the unwelcome news that our neighbour and friend China Clarke had gone to meet his father,also Vincent,in Heaven.

China ,an ex hurler and footballer as a juvenile with Dunderry  GAA Club ,was widely known to have been under pressure for a number of months with the curse of Cancer but was expected to make it until Christmas.

It was not to be.

He was a well liked guy by one and all and a great man for community adornment and will be missed by those of similar bent.

He will be most acutely missed by his mother Vera,who is unwell herself,the mother of his children Helen,,by Danielle and Kate  his children,by Kevin,by his grandchildren  Leah,Aleshia and Kevins child,by his siblings Pascal,Gary,Maura,Adrienne,Vivian,Anne,Vera,Olivia and Swiss-Damian ,who too has suffered greatly in recent times.

Also by all his nephews and nieces and great nephews and grandnieces and a huge circle of friends and neighbours who hold him in the greatest esteem .

Personally I  found him to have been a respectful anf decent neighbour ,one of the best.

At 50 he was too young to go.

AR DHEIS dE GO RAIBH  hAnam dilis.

Funeral Mass is at 11.00 a.m.Monday morning in Dunderry followed by burial in local graveyard afterwards.

The funeral went well,was attended by a lone piper and the GAA Club members and neighbours  formed a socially distanced guard of honour outside the Church after the ceremonies.

It was moving.

Death of Paddy Gorey,Kilbride,Trim.

I had heard of late that Paddy was not well and hospitalised,with a variety of complaints.I didn't think that death was imminent.But what do I  know.

He went to God yerday in Hospital.

Paddy was one of nature's gentlemen.He farmed all his life and loved it.

He was an avid GAA follower and a huge supporter of Dunderry GAA Club.No more so when any of his children were playing,especially Paddy Junior who was an exceptional footballer and hurler ,who represented both Club  and County in the small ball game,despit his small stature.

Paddy is a trainer currently of the only Senior team in the Parish ,the Camogie Team who got to the semi final .

 I don't know whether Paddy played himself but imagine that if he did he must have been fairly good,as it is not from the ground that his own kids and his nephews and nieces  the Kelly's of Meadstown licked their talet.

Like himself I  had the pleasure of supporting his children in the playing pitches of Meath from juvemnile to adult level,and was a mentor of teams on which Paddy and David played.

My memory is faiding but I  think that Carmel playe Camogie for a time as a child.nearly everyone her age did at the time.

Paddy and his devoted wife Patty went everywhere togeher .It was unusual to see one without the other.

They socialised together from time to time and over the years. I  would have shared a jar with them in Geraghty's in the main.

Not that either they nor me had enough to be on the tear too often.

Paddy was a lovely fella and will be missed.

He will be going to Kilbride Church on Monday at 11.00 a.m with burial  after to the adjoining Cemetery.

Ar DHEIS dE GO RAIBH A Hanam dilis.

Virus strikes hard in Parish

 Word has just filtered in that the virus has attacked a well liked and embedded older  couple lately.

She is at home.He is in Hospital.We all hope they recover soon.

Abuse of Trump and his supporters continues on RTE.

 I am so sickened by the partisan abuse of Donald that I am now turning off the prejudiced reportage that does not pass as news disseminated by RTE..

In order to divest themselves of the claims of bias the producers and reporters are now inviting well known guests to appear under guises of non political interests and then springing the question about their feelings about Trump,knowing full what the response will be,

For example Joseph O Connor is  well known writer and journalist and he was an invitede guest  to speak about his latest book.

At the end he was asked aboit Trump.He spewed his hatred of Trump as fully expected.

No question concerning the hurt suffered by Catholics by his sister Sinead in desecrating a photograph of the Pope,.an act of bigotry if there ever was one. nOR NO PUBLIC REBUKE FOR HER.Too close to home.

Neither he nor similar guests are ever asked about the torture in Guatanimo nor the violation both secretely and r obviously of Pakistan's sovereign status by bombing and murdering unber the leadership of Obama with Biden in tow.

Didn't Omama  remotely give the order for the non judicial murder of Bin Laden ,in front of his wife and kids and deny them the opportunity to mourn him properly by scattering his ashes to the four corners.

Unlike Obama and Biden Trump did not not initiate any new wars and I  doubt if Trump is as hated in the Arab world as much as they were and are.

Many Irish emigrants to the USA are not Biden supporters at all and much prefer Trump AND his policies to Biden' s but this is never reported either by RTE or the journalists they have embedded in the USA.

Hard week on families of Dunderrians.

 These last few days have seen the deaths of three Dunderry people viz;-Mrs Doherty 97 yeays old,MRS keaveney 92 years old and Francie Tuite 93 years old..

Each death has lrft large resevoirs of grief.

Sad death of Francie Tuite.

 Word has just filtered in of the sad death in his 93rd year of Francie Tuite formerly of Tullaghanstown of this Parish.

I knew this total gentleman ,not that well ,but well enough to know that he was the real deal.

As far as I know he was the oldest Dunderry GAA player still alive.He played with my uncles Paddy and Joe Mc Cormack and they often spoke of him,always with the highest respect.

He was a totally honest player,played in the forwards and went full bloodedly for every ball.After a match you knew from the bruises unintentionally inflicted on you ,if you were an  oppenent ,that you had been in a competitive match.

When he was growing up there were few,if any companions around to practise with.He honed his catching skills by hitting a ball up into a tree and lepping to catch it as it cascaded down through the branches.

He was a brave man.Well into his late sixties I  met him at his brother,s Tommy;s house.He was struggling to walk with two walking sticks to the extent that you would wonder what kept him at the attempt to walk ,such was the obvious pain endured in the effort.

Whether it was a result of his boisterous footballing career of whether the determination he had in competing at football kept him going I  don't know but he underwent surgery with miraculuous results, disgarded his crutches and could walk nearly perfectly.

Some men are so elegantly religious that you would say they were cut out to be priests.Francie was one such.That is not to say that he was not the most perect of husbands and fathers and grandfathers.He was.

When his nephew Thomas was killed in an accident some years ago ,his funeral Mass was in Dunderry.I  was sick at the time of the Mass and my better half ,by far ,went to the Mass.She was in total awe at the quality and sincerety of the homage the Francie paid to Thomas in the Mass to the extent that she rememnbers it to this day.

He was a geat man for the Rosary and I  have seen a photograph of him praying with members of the Travelling community as a young man.

His nephew Brian is a friend of mine and shares many of his uncles traits ,excluding the fiootball side of things.

His mortal remains will arrive at Rathmore Church this Saturday evening at 5p.m. and the funeral Mass is at 2.00 p.m.tomorrow ,with burial afterwards at the adjoining cemetery.

To his wife Vera ,his daughter Edel ,his son in law Martin cCooroon,his grandchildren and extended family I  offer my sincerest sympathies.

Ar Dheis De go raibh Anam an Fior Gael suid.

The DunderryGAA Club formed a guard of honour,of which Iwas glad to participate, for this devout member of the Legion of Mary on his arrival at the Church.

HATREDOF tRUMP BY RTE AND IRISH PAPERS IS RACIST

I get my news mostly from RTE Radio and Television ,but also look into the BBC and ITV .

I admire both Trump and Boris Johnson.They are nor afraid to put their necks on the chopping block.They have many millions of admirers in their home countries and further afield.

However with Trumph in particular the Irish nedia both electronic and paper based are so biased against him that it is embarrasaing  to  just listen to them spew pure hatred against him and his supporters all of the time.

The bowsie from Ballier ,the slaphead correspondent fot RTE  in the States,the oither non entity whose name I  forget and who is entirely pro Democrat,the Mc Keown wan of the Business Post ,Carol Coleman ,Ryan Tubridy,the blonde from Laoise ,the yoke from Monaghan who thinks he is hilarious and is so unfunny that the only laugh he can raise is when he imitates someone else,the morons who work for the RED TOPS  The saccarine blond and all the pro Democrat commentators ,all of whom never had the balls to run for office themselves ,spew vitriol and sneering hatred at every opportunity at the Republicans and fawningly accept without question whatever  angle the Democrats put forward.

As the Court determined and a subsequent investigation found when the hopelessly run RTE  had to fork out hundreds of thousands to pay for the defamation of a totally innocent Priest there is a poisionous element of group think there.

The thing that binds them is their hatred of a man who values life, in my opinion.

They have a preference for the killers of the living unborn and prefer the culture of death over the culture of life.

Biden is a man for the Plorables rather for deplorables as Hillary described Trumps followers.,

Biden has nothing under his belt and I  sympathise with the States if he wins.

It will be war again all around the world,both on he living and the unborn.He professes to be a Catholic but no Catholic could condone abortion as his Democratic Party does.

I  predict that the World will spiral downhill under the stewardship of him and his allies.

Sad death of MRS DOHERTY

Word is filtering in that probably the oldest woman in Dunderry,Mrs,Doherty of the Meadstown Road has died at the age of 96 years.

Her son Gerry and his wife Rita lived wih her .along with their children Thomas,Bob and Rachel.,until recently.

She was the matriac of a lovely family and until recently atttended Sunday Mass in Dunderry ,being left down by her son Gerry .

All the Dohertys I  know are of the highest calibre. 

a more apt tribute will be composed later.

Ar Dheis go raibh a hAnam dilis.

Her grave was dug today Friday.She will be buried after 11.00 a.m. Mass in Dunderry Cemetery.tomorrow Saturday.

The difference between GAA and Rugby.

Last Saturday was a great day for sport on the T,V.

In Croker we had a double bill,in the latter of which the Dubs nearly caught Kilkenny on the hop.

Later that day I  switched on the BBC to watch Irelsnd shit on the traces and be hammered by France in rugby..

One hundred years ago British forces drove into Croke Park and machine gunned to death dozens of playhers and spectators attending a football match between Dublin and Tipperary.

There was a memorial flag there yesterday in sympathy  with the murdered and their families.

What happened on that Bloody Sunday was barefaced murder by the British Forces.

Yet we had Paul O Connell,rugby hero celebrating the British Forces in times past by wearing the Poppy.,the symbol of support for the Brits.

The man must have a brain and know full well that he was celebrating,inter alia , those murderous scum  who mowed down innocent people attending the match on Bloody Sunday..

So mutch for the working class Limerick base who are the life blood of Munster Rugby.,if the Poppy O Connell is anything to judge them by.

If I  am not mistaken there were many Rugby people who took the side of the Brirs and the Black and Tans during the War of Independence and nearly none who fought for a free Ireland.

Now you know just why Croker should never have been opened to Rugby and just why I  regard Sean Kelly,former President of the GAA AND HIS SUPPORTERS AS RENEGADES.

Presumably he will be ringing the Poppy and thanking him for his support.

I  cannot comprehend how any true Gael can either support or play Rugby when one of their icons has such a mindset

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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INCONTINENT AND THEIR CARERS.

 There are thousands of incontinent and occassionally incontinent children in this country.These unfortunate people soil their clothes up to three times a day,from head to toe.Their clothes must be changed accordingly by their carers.

It is cruel that that they and their carers cannot buy underwear and outerwear for them and that in this near Statsi state that the police are closing outlets that sell them.

Not only has God and Religion disappeared from Dail Eireann ,Seanad Eireann and the Arus but Leo Varad ,a doctor and the vociferous Publi Health peoplre  have turned their backs on their fellow human beings.

Shame on them.

Never mind the clasifying of clothes as non essential stuff  has on the morale of the cocooning elderly when they soil their clothes.and such mundane and essential items as pillow cases and pillows,sheets and blankets cannot be purchased other than by internet which they do not have and cannot use.

The nadfir of decency.

The Government have overstepped the mark.

 I  hear from them who shopped today thar  neither knickers,underpants .pyjamas nor socks can be bought in the multiples in Trim and Navan.

Damian English was on TY defending this position..

These people should hang their heads in shame.What the fuck are they doing to us.

Humiliating us just because they can.

Can we take it that the Politicos no longer wear fresh underwear nor socks nor p.j;s

Give these fuckers AN INCH  and they take A asmelly mile.

Wishful thinking.

 I love the GAA,especially Dunderry GAA Club.And would just love to see more Championships come here at adult level.

At football we are out of the Intermediate and Junior .and I  hear that Lar has fallen on his sword.All I  will say is that the first requisite for any team is  that .of availability.i.e that the players nust be available for training,challenges and all games ,whether challenges,Cups,Leagues or Championships.

At least two of our better players opted out of the Intermediate Panel in the year gone bye,so the difficulty in wining was increased.

In a voluntary game there is little you can do to countersct this.and I  suppose that careers are more important than games when all is said and done.

Being available encompasses not being sent off and putting your team at a disadvantage,especially if the player is a vital gog.

Anyhow I was watching the craic at Intercounty level in recent weeks.It seems that Tommy Conroy was outstanding for Galway and that another Tom Conroy was outstandibng for Mayo.

I may be mstaken but I  think that the Galway man is a cousin of Tomas from ;Lambay in our Parish and that the Mayo man is a grandcon of the late John Conroy lately from the Meadstown Road.

I am sure that Blaithin Coffey was rearecd in Lambay in our Parish and that she has a son who is one of the best footballers in Dublin.

Any chance they would transfer here and play for us.

Takes a Dub .to tell it like it is.

 Yesterday on the Claire Byrne Radie show we had the usual reportage of a middle class reporter interviewing some women outside Pennies after shopping there.

Unlike the usual guff that those approached said it was refreshing ti  hear a working class Dub .give it straight out when asked what she thought of being placed in level 5 of the pandemic scale.

"A load of shite "she said.."Leaving playgrounds open for kids to play in when they leave school and spread it to the elderly and others is not on .".

As Pennies is in Dublin Central and as it has the highest rate of the Virus in the Country and as she likely lives there she would know.

This evasive nonsense spouted by the Public Health people that the rate of virus in the schools is lower than in thr general population and that the transmission is from the general population into the schools seems to me to be nonsense..

Kids surely carry it home.

I  am not picking on kids but the truth must come out.

The virus is breaking out more and more in Schools,I can say this with certainty but will not name the schools..

Of course blaming families for havig families and for being born effectively and enacting legislation similar to the Penal Laws to lessen further the money they need to survive by imposing fines is only what you would ez xpect from Legislators who voted to enact legislation which  in 2019 saw 6,666 human beings murdered/abortered  by medics in our hospitals and elsewhere..

These people would want to check themselves for the mark of the Beast ,which is 666 and try and redeem their souls before it is too late for them.

Instead of bragging that they have the most restrictive laws in Europe they all should apologise for their hostile acdivities towards  ordinary decent people ,born and unborn, and rssile from family hatred and attempted breakup of fanmily ties and cancel the updaded Penal Laws proposed.

There is a Higher Judge that all must meet eventually and even at this late stage they should stop God,s annoyance with their activities ,seek his forgiveness and treat the populace with kindness and understanding instead of fear and guilt.

In stead they are abandonong Hope for all of us.

They have rightly fucked us elders now

 I have a pain in my bolox listening to the gobshites both political and medical who are putting us through hell to no avail.

In particular I am sick of listening to a mouth piece GP called Duffy from MonaGHAN WHO HAS IT IN FOR THE GAA  and never misses a chance to put the boot in..

She acts far too big for her boots 

In the 1300 there was a pandemic called the Black Plague,which resulted in the death of up to two thirds of the population in certain parts of Europe .It was called the Black plague because people turned black when they contacted it. 

The then doctors used cloak themselves from head to toe in a cloak and had enormous beaks made for rheir faces which were lined wirth naterial to stop the germs from going into their nostrils.They met their patients face to beak and told them whether they had the disease ,having first secured their feesas it was unlikely that the patients would pay up if told they were going to die.

In tne centuries in between the medical profession have learned very little.In fact they have gone backwards.They entitely refuse to let you into their surgeries you if you suspect you have the virus and the beak apparrell is replaced by modern protective clothing/.

Has it ever struck you that if Mary and Joseph were on the road these days and they arrives at a doctors surgery that they would not be entertained.Unless that is unless the doctor happened to be an abortionist whose ilk murdred 6,666 living pre born children in 2019.

Before these mouth pieces start lecturing the GAA or anyone else on their bahaviour it would serve  them better to apologise for the wanton murder of living un born by their professional buddies.

I  am heartily sick to the stomack of being lecture to by these medics.They should do a bit of real doctoring by treating the illness and stop blaming us for n being alive.

I see that those misfortunate enough to be in nursing homes are dying again on their own.

So much for the learning from past experience.

I am sickened by all these experts ,politicos and  medice saying that this will pass.What evidence have they got and how do they know.In my opinion they have not got a clue and these pronouncements are just pious platitudes.

But by far the most odious factor in their behaviour is their determination to sunder the social cohesion which is the basis of family life here.

Instead of destroying social cohesion all these smart alecs should devise a plan to harness the ties that bind families together and stop this nonsense of isolating the elderly.and finger pointing at different classe every day.It is beyond them and a media that offers little except more finger pointing to come up with anything constructive.

I am fairly sure that most elderly actually hate those governing our fate ,are raging with being continually threatened and generally being shit upon from a height.

The behaviour of the Gardai on the first day of level three in Dublin was obnoxious and treated thr decentest of people as public enemies.

Given the hatred of the Commissioner and the Minister for Justice  seemingly have for  ordinary decent people she and the Government ought just grab the Pena l Laws from the shelf and  re enact thenm in their entirety.

They are humilating and terrosing every one over 60.

Hell is not hot enough for them.

 

We elders are being thrown to the lions.

 The corona virus is spreading and certain commentators want us to revert to the stone age,which is effectively what level 5 of the pandemic response is.

Leo Varadacar was right to point that these public health doctors will not suffer any deprivations iif we revert to the stone age as their salareies are guaranteed no matter what.

As indeed are those RTE COMMENTATORS who are of a like mind.

Both these commentators and the Public health Doctors should remember that they are not paid to govern ,only to advise and discuss.

Like George Lee ,who eventually realised that he could not cut it in politics ,they should go for election if they want to govern and stop the cowardly sniping in the meantime.

This Barrett fella of People for Profit  ,who is so anxious to put everybody back to the stone age ,ought to lead by example and immediately try to live all of the time on say E 203.00 per week .Then we might listen to him.

Sinn Fein are gas.They snipe all of the time against the Government here,yet they are in power in the North where the virus is gone duhally.

And they seem to believe that there is a virus fairy who will send on unlimited money to pay for everything.

If these gobshites don't touch into ground reality there is a very real fear thar t there will be food shortages.

Between the gander Ryan and his ilk including Pippa  picking on and belitting farmers and the State sneering at farmer practices ,it is only a matter of time until  the mainly elderly  farming community decide that enough is enough and throw in the towell.

That Kate O  Connell,who was one of the  judas goats who spear headed the murder of the innocents campaign a.k.a abortion ,loves attention.She was displaying her injection giving prowess on the telly lstely by giving flu injections to that blondie knowall from Laoise to advertise the benefits o the injection.

Has it ever crossed her mind that 6,666 human souls and bodies were murdered /aborted last year because of people like her.

IN any event she did say something valuable and that was  that children wer resevoirs of infection or words to that effect.

To my simple mind the reopening of the schools ,presumably approved of by the Public Health people and definitely by all the political parties ,makes it inevitable that the virus would spread all over the shop.

Now they asre saying that the "Community "are responsible.

Would they not be honest enough to admnit that that the schools are the main reason for the rise and stop landing the blame and the guilt on top of everybody bar themselves.

Don't hold ypur breath.

Dunderry the new Hollywood

 The place is over run with arty types and it is no wonder.Long considered God's own hamleta and only some would say the Divil's own people Dundrry is finally getting due recognition as the Shangria La of Ireland.

Lucy Kennedy and her crew are filming in Joe Clark's old house the location for her show "Lodging with Lucy"

It is rumoured that the Drudge is on patrol and has received several proposals from besotted females who have descended on the place.

There are at least two Dunderrians going around with huge smiles ,.a publican/farmer and a Dairy man ,finally getting a look in on the Hollywood scene.

More luck to them.

Jack lynch's cowardice now in full public view.

 The re examination of the full facts now in full public view shows that Captain James Kelly,John Kelly ,Captain Heffernan ,Charlie Haughey ,Niall Blaneyet ,Kevin Boland et al,were truthful in their assertions that The Lynch Government decided to import arms for the benefit of the the besieged Northern Catholics in 1969/1970 and that the attempts to prosecute them in 1970 was vile and  ill intended.

Luckily the jury didn't buy into that narrative and Haughey,Blaney  and the two Kellys were acquitted in what appears to have been a a  rigged trial..

The question that has to be asked now is whether Lynch and his co conspirators bear responsibility ,not only for ruining the lives of the Kellys and the three politicians in question but whether they bear ultimate responsibility h for all of the deaths and mayhem which followed in the North,South and Britian.

I knew John Kelly .He lived in Blanch and used drink in Davies PUB.His wife worked in Blanch Hospital and kept the show on the road.

He often told me that he was unemployable down here as if he even got a sniff of a job his  pursuers use warn off any potential employers .

He often told me that his residence was turned over on a regular basis by the Gardai and that even the drawers of his daughter was rifled in this process.

He also told me that he used dig a hole in his back garden and put a mix of cement inyto it at regular intervals to make this harrassment difficult for those turning over his property.

I can remember Charlie Cullen a Cavan man runnuing for the Council for Aontacht Eireann ,Kevin Boland's Party.in Blanch.My deceased Brother Robert canvassed for him.He didn't get on very well...Charlie was a decent guy and helped ,unasked, to put bitumen on the roof of a prefab I  was building.He too had little work.

I  thought that John Kelly was a decent man and so was Kevin Boland.

I never met Charlie Hasughey but think strongly he may have played a huge part in removing me from a particular job in the 1980's.

Other Politicians of the era I knew were Brian Lenihan ,who was ac decent man and Liam LAwlor who sponsored footballs for Brigids GAA Club.

Later I witnessed Garrett Fitzgerald holding court in a Brigid's tent --hired initially to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Michael  Cleary --and a procession of Civil Servants paying homage to the incoming Taoiseach. at the Clubhouse.

Now we must  reput the question of whose pedigree was questionable.Garret's da e xecuted untried Republican prisoners  and we must ask whether Liam Cosgrove was a patsy for the Brits and what responsibility he and his Party bears for the 30 year war in this Island.

It seems that many of the top players in this period of National turmoil were around Blanch

The gooose step grows louder.

 The goose step was feared by free Europeans and Russians and such States as Hitlers Nazis neared to conquer them.I  consider the present Government a Government of geese and a gander,so it is no wonder that I  shouild associate them with the goose step.

After hearing on the Radio today that the parents of small children must hold them down in order to get probed for presence of the virus and that they are greatly distressed by this invasion of their bodily integrity there is no doubt but that the jackboots are fast approaching all of us.

The excuse for journalistic investigation that we have today justifiably entitles me to label them in mass "The how high will I  jump brigade of the Government "as that is what they say when a public health doctor or a Government member announces the latest punishment to be inflicted on the citizens.

It is indicative of the peurile journalism we have that the question the journalist pose regarding the hurting of the children by the parents was whether the kids in the queue could be protected from the racket of those being tested by insulating the noise being made by some process..

Similar to being barred from the approach road to abortion clinics,I'D SAY.

Soon those older citizens who refuse voluntarily to get tested will be dragged off protesting and screaming or being jailed for refusing the test.

For some time now I  have been very cynical of the appeal of those in power for  social solidarity in combatting the virus.In effect this is a device to blame all of us for being born and to make us feel guilty if the virus comes into our communities and throw the blame in our direction.

Of course this divertts the blame away from themselves. 

They talk of th Meitheal process of long ago and appeal for that in advertisements spoken with flat Offally accents instead of the Anglo accents mostly used by themelves in order to bring us to heel.

I  discussed this with the Emerus Professor of medical ethics and bullshitting at Tullaghanstown  University and he concluded that this talk of Meitheal means that the Medics and Ministers will continue to draw their full salaries and expect the other suckers to pay theose salaries even though they have nada,at the same time encouraging their medical coolleagues to continue to abort the living unborn children of born humans.

They reckon that the more they abort the less  humans they will have to spread the virus.

The same principles will pave the way to isolate the very elderly and push them aside and once accepted will be applied progressively down the age scales.

This is not fanciful .Ask ypourself how many medics have been brought to account over the tsunami of deaths in the nursing homes and ask yourself would you go to one willingly.

Already spectators are barred ,without rational reason,from supporting their Parish teams by attending matches.

This is pushing the boat out to fracture social cohesion .whereupon they can introduce swhatever draconian measures thy want..

It is no coincidence that the Garda Commissioner wants all citizens to inform on their neighbours and that Government spokes people and "how high"journalists  always profess their love of Gaelic Games ,when you know full well that thety never went to a GAA Match in their lives.

These people should remember the atrocities perpetrated behind closed doors in the past,atrocities their medical and political ancestors  failed  to see, even though present all of the time.

Of course aside from physical totrure ,isolation is the greatest mental punishment that can be inflicted on prisoners ,yet these Masters of the Universe inflict it on the old and the sick and the fearful.

They want to destroy Religious practises also without rational.basis.This has to do with supression of potential unrest rather than rational medical practice.

All these things are to break the spirit of the populace so that hope is lost and whatever rules and laws they  want can be introduced ,protecting always the health and wealth of themselves and their families .

Pubs and restaurants are being used as experimental locations and testing grounds for new and oppressive Garda powers to bully and intimidate.If they get away with this in these locations it is only a small step further to see these powers being extended into private homes.

Basically they don't trust the ordinary people and are trying to bully them into line.

It is nothing new that there are many supporters of dictatorship in the country.Why do you think that a few thousand invaders controlled our Country for years.Their decendants live on and adore those at the top. 

Instead of bullying and terrifying people the authorities should form a task force comprised of ordinary non political and non professional persons of all age and socio econimic groups and let them determine the fight against the virus.

Chosing of Irish Commissioner is sexist

 See my earlier post on how Commissioner would be chosen.I  was right.Gonads shape is new sexist way of E.U,

Down with the trousres and up with the skirts.

Twitter row is not the thing.

 I know little about Twitter save it is  used by Donal Trump to communicte with his followers,quite successfully apparently.

An outsider GAA Club man has filled me in on what is going on between Dunderry and Blackhall players .

Seemingly a spat is going on between Dunderry supporters and Blackhall supporters over the result of an Intermediate Football Championship game ,which Dunderry narrowly won.

I  was not at the game because supporters are not allowed attend for no discernable reason.Certainly no evidence has emerged that allowing two hundred into stadia capable of holding 25 thousand spectators has spread coronavirus.And in the North ,where supporters are allowed attend Club matches ,the incidence of corona virus spread is lower than here.

Were I  allowed I  would have written a report on the game and published it.

In this context I  have reported on a previous match between the same teams decrying the name  calling of our players all over the field as "pikies "and the repeated intrusion of their physio staff onto the field in order,it seemed to me, to put our guys off at critical junctures.

I  was careful not to name names.There is bad blood between the teams.

I played a lot of hurling and football and always took the view that unless the Referee rode us or that the opposition played illegal players that when the final whistle blew that was it.

None of us are perfect but I  would advise all parties to let their hurling and football on the field of play do their talking for them..

I know that it is hard to keep quiet when provolked.

How new Irish Commissioner will be chosen.

 Probably the most qualified person for the Commissioner vacancy is Simon Coveney.It is obvious why he did not let his name go forward.It is because his gonads are the wrong shspe and he didn't want to risk being humiliated.

The ultimate test for the vacancy will be a hosing down by the head she cat and a sly glance at the gonads of the two Irish candidates ,whereupon the possessor of the vulva will be chosen.

Just why the male candidate let his name go forward for humilation is hard to fanthom.

Death of Tara Sanfey

In 2005 I was manager of the then Senior Football Team in Dunderry.A very good friend of mine Dr.Tony Sanfey was of great assistance and worked for free.

His daughter Tara has died well brefore her time.

On my own behalf,on behalf  of my family,on behalf of all the playersand mentors and of the Club I  offer condolonces to her parents and wider family.

Ar Dheis De go raibh a hAnam.

John Armstrong Deceased.

 On Tuesday 18th August last John Armstrong shook off this mortal coil.I understand that he was unwell for a while.

By coincidence a photograph of himself,Patsi Coogan and other members of a local showband called the Lumberjacks was in circulation on facebook a short time before his death.

They were all the go around here about 50 years ago and were fairly good.John played guitar and Patsi did vocals.

John was an only child as far as I know and my uncles told me that he was the apple of his mother's eye and that he was sent to piano lessons as a child.,which probably pointed him in the musical directions he subsequently followed.

His father was from either Fermanagh or Tyrone and was a hard working master carpenter  and farmer in Tullaghanstown ,trades which John took up for a period ,before he settled in Dunderry with his wihe Bridget ,who subsequently bore him a daughter Rosemary and two sons Paddy and Ronnie.

I knew them all.

I am told that Paddy was a good juvelnile hurler in his day ,Ronnie I  don't know about.Ronnnie.

This was before I  came to live here.

John drank in Geraghty's whilst he lived here and it was there that I  mostly met him.

He was quick witted .Once when he was thumbing to Navan I  picked him up.Innocently I  asked him what he was at..He took umbrage and after a while he said"I t's like this Daithi.when I 'm not fishing I'm mending my nets".

Unintentionally I  had offended him seemingly.Boy did he put me in my box.

A number of years ago they moved to Navan and rarely appeared hereabouts.

His grandson Kevin  is the spit of him and a decent young  man and hurls with the Club.

To his sons,daughter ,grandchildren ,Kevin and all his friends and relatives we offer our condolonces.

Ar dheis De go raibh a HAnam Dilis

Tribute to Jarlat Folan.

 Such is the evolution of the membership of Dunderry GAA Club and indeed the Parish in general that newer residents and members may never have heard of Jarlat ,who lived in Shambo for a considerable time with his family.

I remember him fairly well and he made a significant contribution to the progress of Gaelic games in Dunderry.My memory is that this contribution was in the promotion of Gaelic Football and that for years both himself and I think Pat Jennings, mentored a bunch of good footballer guys who would be now around the forty mark or thereabouts from the time they were young kids until thay were at minor level.

Included in these players were his sons Keith and Richie and  David Jennings and many more players who advanced to play senior for Dunderry.

Keith, although diminutive enough in stature, was built to the ground and with exceptional ball control was as quick as greased lightening around the goal and could strike as quich as an adder and was probably the most opportunistic of  his peers in the scoring stakes.

Richie was maybe not as good but not far behind.

As the apple never falls far from the tree they must have got it from either of their parents ,more likely Jarlat ,whose knowledge of football was of the highest order.

It is an advantage to be born with inherent football skills but these skills must be nurtered and it was there that his mentoring came into play for the benefit of the GAA Club.

I don't know if he played for Pats before he came to live in Shambo but stronglty suspect he did and that he must have been useful enough.

As far as I  can remember players were produced who reached Division 1 in Minor Football undrer the additional guidance of such as Pete Conaty,Jim Harte,Gerry Doherty,Christy Fay,Bomber Farrell,Dessie Fagan ,Calfer Coogan ,Joe Martin.Billy Bligh  maybe and Me Fein.,but at a later stage.No doubt I  have left out someone and will gladly correct this if contacted.

I  have a distinct memory,in the first years that I  was a mentor at Minor level  , of the present Secretary Paddy Darcy  being disappointed that  he was to labour in the second Division of Minor Football for his last year in the grade .

The point is that Jarlat left an indelible mark hereabouts.

He was a sociable guy and I  drank with him and the sons from time to time ,but not too often as Robinstown was his haunt and I  preferred Dunderry.

He was head man in Shambo stud and had a great knowledge of horses.

I  think that Jack Loughran was a prior owner of Shambo farm before Jarlat came around the place.He too has gone to his eternal rest and like Jarlat was a huge lover of the games of the Gaels,

I' m faily sure that Jack was at at Croker on Bloody Sunday when the Black and Tans murdered players and spectators whilst Dublin played Tipperary.

Shambo has been a happy hunting ground for Gaels in Dunderry ,as in addition to Jarlat and Jack we got Tony Brennan and his sons and grandsons and Kevin Slattery into our fold from there.

I  didn't know either his wife Geraldine nor his daughter Julie but think my daughters knew Julie Anne.

We were sorry when he and his family left the Parish and are sorrier that he has departed this life.

We sympathise with all his immedaite family ,far and near ,and all his relatives and friends on his passing.

Ar dheis De go raibh a hAnam Dilis.

Vandalisation of Robinstown Church.

 Robinstown Church is a small well attended Catholic Church and could be described as quaint,I go there often.

The front of the Church is adorned by a number of lead separeted small glass panel windows which are pleasing to the eye.

There is a small car park in front of the Church to facilitate the parking of vehicles of attendees of the various Church ceremonies.

There are thousands of acres of farmland in the Parish and a very well run GAA Club in Dunderry for youths of all ages.

Recently some youths used the car park as an exercise space for hurling ,it seems and used the windows for target practise..

Thet broke many ,many panes of glass and they had to be replaced at considerable cost to the Parish.

Neither the culprits nor their parents have come forward to admit responsibility nor offer compensation.

This is not good enough and  in plain language is a desecration of a place of God.

It is my guess that the perpetrators neither sttend Services in the Church nor have their parents taught them respect for the House of God nor the feelings of their Catholic neighbours.

N o social solidarity by them.

Hogan's replacement.and gonad politics.

 Would Vread have the nerve to put himself forward as a replacement for Hogan,having just sacked him in effect..

Do not be surprised if he does.

Certainly loyalty counts for nothing in the new fine gael.Not that it ever did.

What Hitler could not achieve by force the Germans have achieved by stealth and rule Europe and our boys suck up to this.

All other things being equal ,and it never is,the decisive factor in the appointment of the next Irish Commissioner will be the shape of her gonads.

Imagine the rage that would have arisen had Hitler organised his Administration on THE BASIS OF THE SHAPE OF THE APPLICANTS GONADS.

God help us all and the people who have no actual gonads.

The witch hunt of HOGAN AND OTHERS

 In June of this year I  wrote an article on this Government called Goosy,Goosy, Gander,predicting the likely destruction of F.F  and F.G. by the Gander Greens.It was not hard to predict this.

With the hunger of Big Mickie,Vread two nipples and the Gander Ryan for power and a spineless bunch of journalists who merely ask "how high should I jump",when asked by the Government to jump,it is no wonder that trial by mob rule is now the norm in political and journalistic circles in Eire.

Its as simple as this.Big Mickie,Vread two Nipples and the Gander have sold out to the Devil long ago by sanctioning the murder of pre born humans in the State's  Hospitals and the medical profession are also  involved in the murder of the defenceless preborn to boot.

So witch hunting and abandoning due process is of little consequence by comparison.I mean if Satan owns you  already you might as well go the whole hog and destroy the Populace in its entirety.

Make no mistake these people care about no one but themselves and with a kow towing media the sound of the jack boot grows by the second.

By the way the goose population of the pond referred to in the earlier article came to an end when stoats,ferrets ,mink,weasels and foxes who loved the taste of goose flesh killed and ate the gander.

You can easily match the faces of the opposition leaders who joined in the rush to mob rule to these hateful creatures.

And all of these claim to be speaking for the people of Ireland.

You musy be joking.

Yesterday a 90 plus year neighbour of mine ,who cannot wear a mask was verbally abused when he entered a nearby shop to buy necessities.

This is called social cohesion.

The medical profession and the Government have done all thety can to destroy it.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

    The next institution they want to take out is the niclear family,especially if it is Christian,

Watch this spece.

O Me of little faith

 I  knocked a field of potential hay a week ago.I  reckon that God sends at least a week every year to enable farmers here to make hay.This year would be no different I thought.

But then you have the weather forecasters to contend with.Their predictions were dire each day.Relying on the colour of the Sky each night and praying to my God I turned the hay each day until Thursday and then panicked in the face of the scientists weather reports and baled and wrapped it.

The Sky colour was favourable and my belief in God waned and boy was I  wrong.Today Friday was a grand day and the hay would have wilted and dried enough to avoid wrapping it.

There you go.

J.H.L.Dunderry V Killyon July 2020.

Played in Dunderry on a grand evening on a pristine pitch this game was well contested.The fact that Ted Dowd is managing Killion adds spice to these encounters.
Dunderry fielded as follows.;-
                                            Alan Casey

C.Heffernan                        Tom Doc                     Mickey Brogan

Cathasl Ryan                    Tomas Conroy                  T.J.Loughran

                                      G.Dooley                  Stefan Clarke.

Peter Casey                           Baby Doc                       Eoin Ryan

Conor Brady                       Christy Harrington             Kevin Clynch.

Subs introduced D.O.Laoghaire AND   Kevin Clarke.
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First let me say that it is great that we are consistently fielding a Junior Hurling team.In my opinion this is mostly due to the effort of Killian Minogue AND I  take my hat off to him.
Secondly I  must acknomledge the input of the Irish speaking area of our Parish  Lambay into the fielding and management of our football and hurling teams at all levels .
Fair dues.

Back to the game.

It was well contested and played in the right spirit .Both teams were skilled and fair and the competition was keen.No dirt.
Loughran is one for the future.Must be the Kiltale blood.I  jest.
But the outstanding scorer for us was Baby Doc,who landed four of our first half points ,the others coming from Harry and the Ryan brothers.One point I COULD NOT IDENTIFY THE SCORER.It is hard with helmets
Half time score.Dunderry 0 9. Killyon 1-6.

The second half continued as the first finished,both sides getting dtuck in,the referee doing a reasonable job and his wife likewise.N o controversy today.
We added o0-7 in the second half,Bob scoriing 0-5,Tomas 0-1 and i missed one score.
Killyon added 2-8 ,I  think to win by
3-19 to 0-17,according to the Ref.
A decent game and the margin does not do us justice.We were closer in skill and effort.

Dunderry v Kilmainham .I.F.C OI/08/2Q20

Played at 4.00 p.m .in a pristine John Newman Park this match was  much anticipated as it was the first that was  played by us under the corona restrictions,which in my mind are pure nonsense as they apply to sport attendances.
There was enough open space to accomodate several hundred more spectators even giving them a full two metres space inter se.
But back to the business on hand.
Like many attendees I  was hungry for action and I  was not disappointed as a display of all that is good in the game was served up by two teams of equal ability and competitiveness ,It was a pity that there had to be a loser.

                                              Dunderry
                                         Sean Brennan

Davy  Mc Cormack                  Conor Dempsey                         Aaron Newman

Conor O Shea                           Ronan Brady                              Mark  Kane

                                   Bomber Farrell                    Morgan Callaghan

Dermot Kelly                            Lukie Martyn                                Andy Coogan

Gooch Daly                               Simon  Carty                                Stephen Coogan.

Within three minutes Michael Newman from Kil.showed just why he is a county player by rattling the Dunderry net and sending over a point to boot.Greart start for them.And they posted another point via ,I  think, a guy called Morgan ,who is one for the future and pooceeded to torment us for the rrest of the hour.
But we rallied and scored the next three  points ,courtesy of Stephen Coogan,two from frees and one from play.How we missed him last year in both codes.He is to us what Newman is to the opposition.
A knacky and classy period of footbal followed as Bomber -a point ,Simon -a point ,and Stephen Coogan -3 points ,two frees .kept us in touch..Kil .continued to play good football by registering four furter points with Newman and Morgan being the persecutors in chief.
At half time the score was Dunderry 0-8  AND kIL.1-6.
Whatever wind was in it was in Kil.s favour in the first half and it really was an exhibition of free flowin good football with everybody giving their all.
On the resumption Lukie complimented his fine exhibition of all round play by scoring a minor ,but Morgan ,I  think put the cat among the pigeons with successive scores of a goal and a point.and a pointed free.
Our lads did not give up and Bomber scored a minor and Stephen Coogan scored a brace of points,one a free to give us impetus.
Jordan Martin came on for Gooch and registered a point to bring us closer ,but Newman scored a magnificienrt free to edge them further ahead.Coogan score two more frees to their their two and we were beat on the scrore of 2-11 to 0-15.
Adam Kelly and I  think Conor Leavy were introduced late on.
This was a game for the ages dominated scorewise by Newman and Stephen Coogan  in the scoring stakes.
Newman and Morgan were our main persecutors,but all our guys can hold their heard up high.
Dermot Kelly had probably his most impressive game for the Club to date , but as I  said all played their socks off.
The match could have gone either way.
From now on the route we must take is a knock out one ,with four teams only in the group and only one going forward ,as far as I  know.
David Jennings,probably the best non capped goalie in Meath, did not figure in goals yesterday .He owes nothing to the Club.
His successor Sean Brennan has big boots to fill and will soon be the Meath Senior Keeper I  predict.
Davy Mac is the sole survivor of the 2005 Senior Team I  managed.And brought down to Intermediate..

Tommy Dowd,Barry Callaghan,Con O  Neill ,Stephen O  Rourke,Kevin Dowd and now Davy  Callaghan have /are trying to get back up.
Davy faces a mammoth task but the spirit is top class.
The unavailability of Paddy Kenneally -broken arm - and Liam  Dempsey and Oisin Martyn -- study ---will make an already hard task Herculean ,but there is justification for hope on yesterday's pewrformance.
Hoping for the best.

Hope ye prayed

Two of the three I  aked prayers for on 20/06/2020 have gone to a better place,

The Gander Ryan has the Farm.

The Gander Ryan now has the Farm,
E I E I O ,
HE gives  the  minis to  the Greens,
E I E I O,
With a   big wad here here and a big wad there ,and a big wad every bleedin every where
E I E I O

The Gander Ryan now  has the Farm.,
E I EI O.
Special Advisors in every field,
E I E I O.,
Big wads here,big wads there and big wads there and big wads growing  every  where,
E I E I O.

The Gander  has screwed the Culchie Cowan,
E I E I O,
Into the spodder and the marle,
E I E I O.,
N o wad to buy the bit to ate,Nor drive with two pints on  his pate ,

E I EI O.

The Gander's mates  have screwd down Dowd,
E I EI O,
No  Leas Cheann Chomlaire for  his crowd,
E I E I O.
Let one like ours now take the wad and  hug herself with Laidin Paid.
E I E I O.

The Gander Ryan will screw both geese,
E I EI O
And rural Ireland will be fleeced ,
E I EI O,
No cows to milk, no calves to rear,no wheat nor oats seen anywhere,
E I EI O.

Gander has screwed geese.

I did an article some time ago on the formation of the coalition called"Goosy ,goosy Gander".
It has proved prophetic in that the Green Gander has seperately screwed the FF and FG.geese by forcing the resignation of Cowan in Offally and defeating the nomination of O Dowd for Leas Ceann Comhairle.
It is now the position that one Green T.D. is worth several other Coalition T.D.s.
Politically big Mickie is a dead man walking and the Earl of Enniskerry can notch another victim in his bedpost for the capital offence of ating a dinner and having two pints and driving in rural Ireland.
Ankers all.

Another 86 year old Dunderrian beats the Virus.

Ned Howley ,one of the men who,along with his late wife Mary, put Dunderry hurling on the map and whose sons Neddie,Noel and Ollie gave exempmary service to Dunderry GAA over the decades has,I am delighted to report ,recovered from the Virus.
I  am delighted for him and his family.Fair dues.

Tribute to Tommy Farrelly deceased.

They say that a week is a long time in politics.Whatever about the truth in that it surely is in the death and burial of ordinary and extraordinary people,which Tommy surely was.
Last Sunday after Mass I  spoke to James Brady and Oliver Carty about the health of Tommy Farrelly.For those who don't know James was the very best friend of Tommy in his illness and constantly available to do whatever it was Tommy wanted.
It is stated that a friend inded is there when you are in need.And James was that friend in spades.His mother and mine were first cousins.
James told me that Tommy would be getting radium treatmenr during the week in Dublin,that he was not allowed to carry him up and that a taxi would be sent for him each day.
Well Monday went according to plan.On Tuesday he didn't want to go and it was only on James' coaxing that Tuesday would be his last day that he reluctantly went.
He came home later and his brother Seamus and his wife Mary made him tay and such like in his house and returned to their own house alongside his satisfied that he was o.k.
A few hours later Father Brendan Madden ,a good Dub.and a Dunderry resident, popular with all here who know him ,called to see him..He was minutes late.Tommy had died in his armchair ,no distress.
Was his reluctance to go to Dublin that day the result of a premonition of some sort.We will never know in this life.
I  last saw Tommy a few months ago when he was supervising the construction of the Bench to honour Eugene Smyth ,the late Lord Mayor of Dunderry.Tommy was his wing man in the early eighties when he and Marie Dowd ran fund raising events to raise money to pay for the GAA PITCH.
Against such influential opponents as Michael Callaghan,Pat Smith and the Darcy Clan they raised thousands and handed it over and thus garnered Eugene the right to call himself Lord Mayor.
There was something unsaid for decades between Eugene and the GAA Club and Eugene would never let me know what was at the root of it.
I questioned Tommy about it after Eugene died and came to understand Eugene's silence on the issue.And this was it.
When the GAA Pitch was opened in 1988 ,an event I  attended with my uncles Joe and Tommy Mc Cormack,all the people who helped to put it there were invited well in advance ,except Eugene Smyth.
I t was only the night brfore the opening ,when a final meeting was called to discuss strategy that  the question was raised was anything overlooked.
Tommy spouted up "that ye forgot to invite the man who made all this possible .Eugene Smyth"and the penny dropped.
Eugene was invited after Mass the next day a Sunday for the opening a few hours later.
In fact he had planned to leave  his son Mickie to Dublin Airport to emigrate to England that Sunday and had to make alternative arrangements at short notice.
It is easy to understand just why Eugen and indeed Tommy were miffed at this oversight,a feeling they carried afterwards for life.
Tommy was the third child of his mother Rose Rattigan and his father, Tommy also.His older brother Seamus and Seamus's wife Mary and their kids did all humanely possible to make his life bearable in his final months and indeed for as long as he was sick.
AS did his sister Nancy ,her husmand Seamus Farnnan.and their 7 kids,6 boys and 1 girl ,Nancy and her husnband Seamus being practically daily callers.
Tommy was well loked after and well loved,gruff and all as he could be.
His mother Rosie and his uncle Pat lived next door to my mother's people the Mc Cormacks in THE Curragh Boreen.
I came on holidays to the Mc Cormacks from about 1955 and have a continuous presence here since then.
I knew and loved Pat Rattigan,Tommy's uncle , as though he was one of my own.
Himself and the Mc Cormacks were inseperable friends.A day never passed  without Pat calling to Mc Cormacks,save the last two days of his existence in the early 1980's when he wasn't seen for two days.He was dead in bed and at the Mc Cormacks note of his non appearance the Gardai were called out and the house broken into.
At the time there were reports of break ins to the homes of elderly people and Pat was found with a shotgun in the bed for fear of robbery.The gun was not  discharged .Pat died in his sleep .
As a matter of historical fact a neck purse which Pat wore around his neck and which was known to contain a considerable wad was never found
ANOTHER OF LIFE'S MYSTERIES.
Pat Rattigan  was a man of huge strenght and the best man to tell a white lie.His great loves were Football and Hurling ,Horse racing and shooting, his land housing the run for the raising of pheasants for the gunclub.
The kitchen of his two roomed house was covered in newspaper clippings od GAA people and horses and jockeys.
Johnny Fucking Roe was his favourite Irish jockey and Lester Pigott his favourite English one .
He built his house about 1961 and skied the recently made stilts of myself and my brother Robert to make the window sills.
We got revenge by using his prized geraniums as  target practice  for a pellet gun a fact that didn't become apparent until the stems split several ways with further growth.
"You see you tuesdays "he would roar at us "ye destroyed me Geraniums.
The reason I mention Pat Rattigan at all is because ,a bachelor,he was hugely proud of all of Rosie's kids ,especially Tommy to whom he left the place in his will.
There is also the indisputable that Tommy was the spit of Pat in appearance and mannerism.
Both used colourful language,.both walked with the same gait,both told white lies and both were bachelors.
Both were hard workers,Pat being one of the first around to secure a job in the building of the China Mission at Garlow Cross So many people died at the building of this place that it became known as the "White Man's grave and Tommy being described to me as former employer Eamonn Kane as a superb worker.
Tommy had a great interest in his forebearers,especially his mother's people.
At one stage four old women from the Curragh  Boreen survived,my mother ,Molly Mc Cormack my aunt,his mother Rosie and Mainin Herbert.Even though they lived close ,with the exception of my mother,they wouldn't have met in decades.
He wanted my mother and Molly to meet up for one last time.
I  worked on it and ewventually brought Molly over after a 7.30  Saturday Mass  to Farrelly's  Now these women were well in their seventies then and I  watched gobsmacked as Molly said "Well gersa ,how have you been this forty years.And so it went.
Umfortunatelt death took my mother and Rosie before they could meet.I  don't know about Mainin Herbert.,but she lived to a great age.
Tommy had too much time to think about the hereafter..
Tommy M c  Cormack did not have much time.
A room in his house had to be converted into a simile of a hospital ward to enable his dignified death at home.IT  still brings tears to my eyes to look back on how all the neighbours turned up and did the job without recompense and to such marvelllous effect in days.
Tommy painted like a demon and used his furniture contacts to get a hospital bed .
I  will never forget his kindness.
Around Dunderry you are no one without a nickname.Tommy walked like a cowboy ready to draw his pistols from his holsters ,if you can visualise that,.He was called the black crow ,before he got grey and then the grey crow.When he injured a leg he was called the injured crow.But never to his face.
He was a sociable man and loved a pint and his fagsMany's the pint and smoke I  had with him of yore.He was an honest man and manly.You would know how you stood with him..If he didn't like you he would just not talk to you..If he did like you he would talk to you in as colourful a language as you could imagine.
His Olympian super chastisement was "well wheelbarrow fuck you".Bate that if you can.
One of my sons Evan lives on the Curragh Boreen..His wife Aoife ,a runner in from Navan, had a set routine for driving to Dunderry and carried Tommy a few times.As he got into her routine he used arrive at the head of the Boreen as she drove bye.She always stopped and carried him .Maybe hundreds of times,,She reckons he was a perfect gentleman.I  agree.
Tommy was not a mean man.If anything he was too trustifull and to my certain knowledge was taken
advantage of a couple times."BAD CESS TO THEM" AS HIS UNCLE PAT WOULD SAY.
Tommy was a great man to attend funerals and never missed the digging of a neighbour's grave.
The sight of loads of people forming a mannerly and socially distant queue ,timed so that only two people at a time could evacuate his grave,one in thre grave throwing the soil up to the top and another two metres away throwing the soil into a suitable heap ,would have pleased him as would the socially seperated mourners who lined the route to the graveyayd ,where he was interred beside his uncle Pat .
To his gear brother Seamus ,who I would say kept a  benevolent eye on Tommy during his 69 years on this earth.Seamus.' wife Mary who was caring itself,his Sister Nancy ,his nieces,nephews and wide circle of friends and great neighbours I  offer the condlonces of myself and my family.
AR dHEIS dE GO RAIBH A Hanam dilis.

That St.James documentary.

The RTE Documentary on the workings of the ICU in St.James Hospital made for riveting viewing .One of my nieces, Kate Stephens ,is a staff nurse there and figured prominently.I am extremely proud of her and indeed all of my immediate and more remote family members who place their health daily on the line,wherther as mid wives,general nurses,public health nurses,phtciatric nurses or other health assistant employees.
There is no doubt but that you must have a special vocation to be a nurse ,more especially to work in the ICU where I  imagine hard cases are the norm.
Such was and is the case displayed in the documentary.
In particular I  was hugely impressed with the way the nurses spoke to the recently deceased patients and afforded them the dignity they deserved.
What I drew from the programme was the depth of compassion and hope displayed by all concerned in the care of the sick.
I have long since regarded Ryan Tubridy as having a want of some description and normally don't listen to a guy who has far too much too much nonsense to spout and  I regard as suspect the opinion of any man who cannot keep his family together,as our Ry\ano cannot so do.
So therefor I  regard as utterly contemptible his labelling of the documentary as a "horror show".I t so was not but a beacon of hope in a grim landscape and a testament to those who labour at the coalface in pursuit of healing.
Ryano used the programme to batter the aviation and tourist trade ,which in my view missed the whole point ..

Dunderry Blessing of Graves 2020

The graves of all the graveyards in the Parish were blessed by Father Hornick two weeks ago,without people being present.This was in accordance with Public Health advice on the matter.

Dunderry connection to famous photo.

One of the most iconic photographs ever taken is that of a line of steel workers ating their lunch on a giant rsj bar dandling from a crane above a  New York skyscraper in the early 20th.century.
The man sitting of the exteme left of the bar is a  relative of Mick Glynn from from Easkaroon.
Like most of his family he emigrated from Galway for work.
He is the spit of Bertie Glynn as far as I  can see.

Cancer rampant in Dunderry Parish

Bad and all as the corona virus  is you have a fair chance of  recovery,but this cancer thing on the other hand is a curse and although not catching it  has a good few in its grip in the Parish.
Let us pray that they beat it and that the treatment is a success.

Death of Eithne Dowd's sister Nancy.

Eithnee Dowd and indeed the whole family are good friends and neighbours of ours.Pre lockdown she called here daily and we had the banter and the craic.
A lovely woman and a stunner now and in her youth,she and her Carnaross family were raised well in tough times.
I have seen photographs of Eithne and her sister Nancy in their youth.If Eithne was an All StarI in thre good looks stakes  -her son Tommy was several times in football -then Nancy was an All Moon.
Eithne ofter spoke emotionally of her sister's condition and how Alzheimers had blighted her life and of the excellent care she was receiving in Virginia  Care Centre.
Eithne is a member of  the  large ,well reared and respected Cambell family from  Carnaross and is  herself  a straight talking  and well respected member of the Dunderry Parish and a Gael of renoun.
 I  know that the death of her beloved sister Nancy Tynan ,from Oldcastle is breaking her heart as indeed it is the rest of her siblings ,children ,grandchildren,in laws and many friends.
A more complete description of her death and funeral arrangements is at R.I.P MEATH .
In these Virus days she was buried today ,a day after her death in Oldcasstle.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a hANAM DILIS.

Elders Out of sight and out of mind.

The most hated man in rural Ireland is,in my view Shane Ross.This is because he had reduced Rural Ireland to a ghost status by tinkering with the drink driving rules to the extent that if caught driving with even one drink you would be put you off the roads and left  high and dry,without a vehicle , with no public transport to bring you anywhere.He himself had a Minesterial car with a driver and unlimited public transport at his fingertips.
Long before the Corona  Virus struck down so many people and well before self isolation became the thing the elderly in rural Ie reland suffered severe social isolation because of his laws as endorsed by the members of the Government of which he was a part.
Luckily he was voted out of office by his constituents but even yet he is still spewing poison on rural folk,especially the elderly.
Not satisfied with forcing  the elderly to cut themselves off from the rest of the population in their homes ,denying them the presence of family as they die in State run homes and hospitals denying them the right to attend Mass,denying them the right to proper funerals and treating them as outcasts by letting disproportionate numbers die in Nursing Homes.They now seek to further humiliate them by forcing them to cover their faces on Public Transport and if they go shopping and try to exercise about the only human right they still possess.
Yep the Government are bent on forcing the elderly out of sight and out of mind and breaking their spirit  entirely.
No such concerns for Leo and his man.He  thinks  it great to lease a mansion for E.50.00 a  day and show off his nipples to all and sundry in his new back garden of the Phoenix Park.
No doubt the Bollix Ross and his mates will succeed in running the elderly from all sorts of Public Transport and from the Supermarkets and driving them into despair.
Better still from their point of vew they can drive them into Nursing Homes and hasten their undignified deaths and wash their hands of blame ,because believe you the blame parcel will be passed from Leo to Simo if and when and if an enquiry into the disroportionate deaths is undertaken, if it ever is.
And of course by cutting down on the use of Public transport they will save on the free travel and drive the elderly off the servives,freeing them up for the more deserving.
I  hear that the next proposal for the elderly is to give everyone over 60 a free jute bag,
They can put this over their heads at all times,even at home ,for fear that thee medical personnell who now run the Country ,have to even look at them and maybe rediscover that they once had a conscience and rediscover that they are entitled to be treated as more than laboratory rats.
But I  am not holding my breath,which may be disappointing to some.
I  believe that the jute bags will be accompanied by a needle and silk thread so that as death becons the elderly can sow rhemselves into the sacks and be ready for immediate burial with causing much fuss to Shane and his cronies.
Now IT IS CLEAR TO ME WHY THEY WANTED TO MURDER THE LIVING UNBORN.
THE ELDERLY ARE NEXT IN LINE.
Enough is enough.Call stop before it is too late.

Taking the knee and looting and burning and desecrating statutes.

Slavery was wrong.We Irish were slaves for the guts of a Millenium.
I' d guess that the Penal Laws were as brutal a regime as any laws operasted by the slavers.
Now it is wrong to loot and burn things down .
Just as it is wrong to kill someone deliberately whilst arresting him ,black ,white or of any race.
It is wrong to persecute anybody because of their colour or race.
It is wrong to shoot policeman or women ,who are trying to protect the peace and law and order.
Without them just who would protect us.
These protestors would want to take care that the American Police and the Police forces of other countries don't say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and leave their posts in droves,
I 'd say Pelosi and Binden would scare the shite out of determined criminals.Yeah right.
People are lining up to smuggle themselves into the United Kingdom and the United States but some of those there already are looting ,burning ,breaking social distancing and pulling down Statues of brave people like Churchill ,who saved Europe from Armageddon.
And the Mayor of London cannot bring himself to find any of these actions repugnant.
As most of the Africans  sent into slavery were initally captured by other Africans and sold onwards for reward it seems to me that those African States who involved themselves in this trade ought to be subjected to the "knee"et all and most of the blame laid where it properly belongs.
In this Country where the Drug barrons rule supremely if the Police are targetted any more by protestors the Barons will rejoice and just who do you go to for protection.
We all know someone destroyed by these scum dealers.
People living in Ireland should be on their knees thanking God that they live here instead of sneering and whinging at  us.

DERMOT MARTIN EVENTUALLY SEES THE LIGHT.

I am disgusted at the above Archbishop/s decision to sell St.Vincent's grounds to the State so that abortions can be performed there and their remains sluiced down the drains.
This,in my view is the same as selling ground to the Nazis to build concentration camps to murder the Jews et al.
During the Corona pandemic he has been far too quiet in standing up for his Flock and stood idly bye as the Churches have been renderecd off side without reason.
Many ,many Churches have been entirely devoid of the Sacraments ,despite the fact that there are are acres of  space abvailable to hold Masses whilst entirely accomodating social distances.The same with funerals,Holy Communions,Confirmations and weddings.
His silence has been deafening on the effect of the pandemic on th lives of the elderly residents of nursing homes and why so many residens have been allowed die therein.
He has eventually broken his silence on the limiting to 50 of participants in Churches for the Sacraments.Not brfore the time.
Unlike his townie Joe Duffy ,who puts down Catholocism every chance he gets and the National Station ,who have run every Priest they can from the the airwaves,he has remained silent and left his Flock rudderless.
He surely must know that Varadakar lectured God's man on earth about how to do his job and that the Zappone one tried to hustle money from the Pope in as arrogant a display of ignorance and bad manners as ever a Minister stooped to ,on his visit here.
She should maybe return to the States and make restitution to the tribes there for the genocide heaped on them by the ruling elite back in the day,before lecturing us the bad behaviour of some of ours.
These people do not give a fiddlers fuck about Religion  AND  are delighted to publicise this and treat us like shite.
Just what does he expect from such people and a bunch of medics who regard any God as way below them in the general scheme odf things.
Go for it Archbishop.

Goosy,Goosy ,Gander.

Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are often sneeringly referred to as Tweedledum and Tweedledee,such is the apparent little difference in policy terms between them as political parties .
This is grossly unfair to both,but the recent confidence and supply agreement operated by both prior to the 2020 General Election seems to strengthen this illusion and was probably a huge mistake for Fianna Fail under Michael Martin to agree to and support.
It was also a betrayal by him to facilitate the legal murder of the living unborn  by his actions in undermining his Deputies who mostly oposed it.
He weakened his Party and lost hundreds of thousands of supporters in my opinion.
Fine Gael on the other hand have strenghtened their support by being red hot supporters of abortion ,which in my view is sinful to say the least.

The founders of both parties,breakaways from Sinn Fein in the 1920's ,were brave men and women,who in the War of Independence took on the might of the British Empire and secured self goverence for 26 counties at least.
Thus the germs of the Civil War where the Free Staters ,led by Michael Collins morphed into Fine Gael and those who wanted the whole 32 counties morphed into Fianna Fail led by Eamonn De Velera were sown.
De Velera is head and shoulders above all others as the one true Statesman who has emerged in Ireland to date.
These were brave people and it is wrong to mock them and some of their families still feel deeply the   wrongful masacres suffered by their ancestors.
Because of theie support for abortion I  can sadly no longer support either Party ,nor indeed Sinn Fein,Labour ,the Social Democrats,the Greens  nor any of the other fringe  left leading Parties whose Social and moral principles are abhorrent to me.
This is probably no concern to them anyhow as they would regard me as a liabiliry ,that is if they have any regard me at all and indeed don't care if they make me feel a stranger in my own Country.
Now to this proposed merger of Fianna Fail,Fine Gael and the Greens.
That both the Fianna and Fine Gael have agreed to share power surely earns them the right to be called Tweedledum and Tweedldee or alternatively Goosy ,Goosy.
The Gander comes into it as a consequence of a descriptive comment by a friend of a guy with a long and tough neck as having a "Ganderry auld neck",which perfectly described him and there are a few of them in the Greens.
And they have some necks.Mostly rooted in surburban  AND SNOBBY IELAND AND FAR BETTER OFF THAN MOST ,they  are poised to wreak havock on rural Ireland and turn it into an eco retreat for their supporters to roam and expect the locals,whoever remain, to kow tow to them in gratitude.
I am reminded of what I  witnessed myself some years ago.
My aunt had two female geese.They were contraty so she got a gander to placate them.
They shared a pond about three feet deep.They fell in love.
The gander took on goose number one sexually.He saw to her by mounting her underwater and screwed her into the muck at the bottom of the pool,where she got stuck and drowned.I could not stop him.
Similarly with goose number two.
Fine Gael and Fianna Fail members ,beware of the gander.
O Cuiv is right.

Prayers needed for

Tommy,Imelda and Martin need to be prayed for .

The best of feeding.

Today I ate for the dinner laskings of mashed spuds,topped with fried duck eggs and a generous knob of real butter.Great and tasty feeding.

Greens Anthem

10 fewer cows,
5 fewer sows.
15 fewer acres under the plough.

50 more bushes,
A thousand more rushes,
Replace all the  farmer with free range thrushes.

Kill off the culchies.

Dunderry and the Virus.

A grandson of mine who is about 4 had explained to him that when you blow away the propellers on a Dandellion you can make a wish.
The very next moment as he blew away the propellers he was heard to wish"I wish that the virus would go away".
Recently I  congratulated Tom Feeney on returning home after beating the virus at 86 years of age,long before the other  media organs made a song and dance about it.
Fair play to them,written and radio, for their lazy journalism.
It is now a fact that others of similar vintage in the Parish have tested positive for the virus.
This has happened to people who live in as remote an area as exists in rural Ireland and to people who go literally no where outside their immediate environs.
One thing they seem to have in common is that they have visited  hospital for other conditions.
This leads me to the suspicion that like MRSA ,they may have picked up the virus in their visits there.
This may explain why ordinary people are loath to go to hospitals for non virus complaints.
It is time the authorities came clean on this issue.
By the way I  don't believe a word that comes out of the mouths of the Chinese on this issue.It is strange that SARS too eminated there.
What is going on there and is every Government save the Yanks afraid to speak out .
Trump of course is derided by the useless pinkos who dominate oir written,oral and medical fields.
It is high time that these medical experts ,many of whom delight in the continuing murder of the living unborn,stopped spoofing and addressed the core issue by producing a cure.
This blog will make as big a fuss of each and every Parishioner who beats the virus as it did of Tom Feeney  and we hope that all have as good an outcome.
That a four year old should be so distressed is in itself distressing and the continuing bad news being broadcast each minute and  hour should be more balanced.

Herbie Hughes meets his Maker.

One of Nature's gentlemen and as decent a man as ever lived was today united with his God
.Good bye old friend and fellow Gael.
To Mona,Sheila,Catherine and Patrick our deepest sympathies.
A more apt tribute will be issued later when I  have had time to reflect.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a Hanam dilis.

Dunderry 0-1 Corona Virus 0-0

In these days when the welcome message to Hell is all pervasive viz"Abandon Hope alll ye who enter here"and the long jaws of the all knowing medics and even more knowing longer jaws of depressive politicans and servile commentators dominate the airwaves ,it is delightful to be able to report a good news story from Dunderry.
The news is that Tom Feeney ,who is 86 years old and has been ill for some time ,has taken on and beaten the virus and has been lert out of hospital today.
The Drumbeat has known for some time that Tom had the virus but at the request of his family had decided not to publish it.
Now that he has beaten the virus I  am delighted to publish this good news story regarding the scion of a family who have not had much good luck prior to the present.
Good man Tom.

A cat's nature breaks through its eyes.

I think that the above is the literal translation of "Briseann an naidur thi suil an cait."In other words you can't but act in accordance with your nature.
This phrase struck me as being the most appropriate one to use in connection with the obnoxious reaction of the man in charge of the Gardai ,I think his name is Harris,in connection with the enactment of the most draconian legislation ever imposed on any population in any democracy everywhere to stymie the corona virus from spreading in this country.
To put things in perspective ,the successful fight against the spread of the virus is entirely dependant on social cohension and social solidarity ,which in my experience is there in spades.
Now this gobshite advises that neighbour should inform on neighbour and turn informer on suspected cases of breach of the rules we all abide by.
We already hear on Liveline and other media outlines that people are forming queues to inform on their neighbours greatly encouraged by "Joe WASH YOUR MOUTH "DUFFY  and  that gobshite from Cork who works in the Independent and has a Radio presence to belittle those with holiday homes and evcourage the natives to turn against the "runner ins".
How long before someone of the "runner ins"is attacked by the natives and harmed.
This narrative is encouraged by Harris ,who has decreed that if you are in a Holiday home that this is your household.The way passions are being enflamed it is not difficult to see native shopkeepers refusing to serve the "runner ins".
Does he aim to starve them out,just 150 years after the Famine?
There again he MIGHT  not have any empathy for Catholic Ireland coming as he does from the PSNI ,so renamed  because its predeccessor The Royal Ulster Constabulatory was so hated by Nationalists because of  their discriminatoty treatment of Catholics vis a vis Protestants.
The bane of Irish Nationalism over the centuties were informers and it is certain that Harris has experience of this.
That he should use the fight against the CORONA threatens the social solidarity needed to stave it off and the fact that he should use such a move to recruit informers is disgusting in my view.
I  say this as the father of a working mid wife the brother of a District nurse working in the community in Dublin,the uncle of  NURSING SISTERS ,some in ICU  departments and nurses in Dublin and the cousin of care workers in England who put their health on the line daily .
I know that Flanagan the former Justice Minster wanted to honour the R.I.C.,as bitter an enemy as the indigenous Irish ever head ,who for example evicted Starving tenants from their homes in Famine times but to use this Pandemic to recruit informers is a step too far and is indecent.
I could never understand why not even one of our own Policemen or women were not deened worthy to get the job of Police Commissioner ,nor indeed why it was necessary to give the top job in RTE to an Englishwoman.
Maybe our Politcos do not trust their own people.Go figure.

Death of Teresa Brady nee Larkin.

On the Dunderry road towards Robinstown there are a few houses on the right hand side.In one of these live Paddy Cahill ,his wife and their two children.Her maiden name is Delourdes Brady and her motheR was Teresa Brady.Her maiden name in turn  was Teresa Larkin.She was one of a large family reared on the Shellerin Road ,which joins Mulhuddart with Clonsilla.
She was reared there in a time when pheasants were more common there than people and I lived there for a while  too.A time when a bus ran from Mulhuddart to Blanchardstown each Sunday at 9.00 a.m for weekly Mass.
I often got it and I am sure that the Larkins did too.
One of her brothers is Anthony Larkin who played football with me with St.Brigids when he was a juvenile. He and I  often fished for trout in the Tolka as kids and caught our share.
Teresa married John Brady from Dunboyne and they in turn had a large family.I  remember John too.
In recent years Teresa bought a a home Kilmainham Wood and began spending the odd weekend with the Cahills in Dunderryand when staying over would attend Dunderry Mass.
It was here that I  first met her some years ago and we would exchange greetings and reminisce about the time of yore on the Shillerin Road .I  Christened her "Shillerin ",a much more descriptive name than the Blakestown Road..
She was a lovely and friendly woman and droopped dead suddenly.
The Dunderry family ,father,mother and kids are lovely and private people .
I  offer them the full sympathy of the Stephens family.
In these strained times the funeral is confined to immediate family.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a Hanam Dilis.
There is a fuller description of her relatives at RIP Meath.

Death of Jimmy Trainor.

Nearly everybody in Dunderry knew the above neighbour as Jimmy Cricket.How this came to be I don't know.
What I know about him is stuff I  gathered over the years and may be or may not be accurate.
He was born in Lismullen I  think and spent some time in the Irish Army.
He worked for years at the shed eraction business with Conatys and latterly as a taxi driver for a short period as far as I  could see.
He gave me a hand now and again on the farm decades ago and was a hard worker.
In latter years he worked voluntarily in beautifying the Village and its environs as a vital cog in the Tidy Tomns committee, a job he excelled at and which he devoted much time.
He lived in Father Flood Park with his partner Sandra and children Wayne and Lisa,all of whom I  know well.
Wayne is the same age as my youngest son David and Wayne spent many Saturdays and Holidays helping me in the farm .
He was lucky enough to ate at the table of Molly Mc Cormack ,my aunt and experience her sirlion with gravy and spuds ,which were to die for.
I  actually believe that he ,as well as others came with me to the farm in the hope of experiencing this culinary treat,
Certainly I  too loved it entirely.
Like Cricket he was a hard worker and mannerly to boot.
Lisa played comogie from a young age and when she moved to Baconstown teritory transferred there .
She is a girl of the highest character and a well respected worker in Aldi I  believe.
Wayne is the father of Dillon and he tooo resides in the family home in Dunderry.He is a decent kid and respectful to me any time I  meet him.
For a time the mother of Dillon lived in the Dunderry house.
While she lived there she played Camogie and I  had the honour of coaching her .She is sound .
Cricket was a quiet and respectful man and I  met him a few days before he died.
He looked fine and we exchanged greetings.
I  know that he had a previous relationship in Drogheda ,I  believe and that a son of his from that relationship died in recent years as a young adult.
He too lived in Dunderry for a time..
I  can confirm that Jimmy fell down the stairs and died as a result.
In these strained times only his immediate family is allowed attend his funeral.
To all his kin I  offer the sympathy of the Stephens family.
Ar dheis De go raibh a h anam dilis.

What a gobshite.

This week I saw the Today Show on RTE 1.I actually saw the same Show twice.You know the Show hosted by Daithi and Maura Derrane.
Well it featured Billy Keane ,as gormless a gobshite as ever wrecked a show.
Probably notable for being the son of John B Keane but devoid of any talent whatsoever.
I  have written previously of the vicious anti Catholic stance of RTE in general and of how they delibererately destroyed the recent Papal visit by featuring in the run up to the visit and during it that vile guy who heads Amnesty more so than the Pope himself.And rejoicing in Leo  Varadakar's lecturing to God's man on earth on how to run his Church.
There are those of us who ask "Just what did Europe do to anger God so much that He allowed Covid 9 to strike us down ".
Leo was in the vanguard of promoting the murder of the living unborn thus eroding the respect for human life.And it does not surprise me  that the Health Bord is concurrently adsvertising its abortion servives as we face the greatest pandemic in my life time.
How ABOUT some cop on and decency.
This disrespect for human life can be best seen in Spain where staff ababdoned frail elders in nursing homes to their fate and let them die unaided.
No wonder God is annoyed.
Well Billy the Bolix sneered as long as he could at the devotion certain practising Catholics have to certain Saints in the full knowledge that many people have the Faith and are praying to God for a cure.
Totally insulting and sneering and the encouragement of his County man Daithi was disgusting.
Another 'anker.
Leo and Billy et all should remenmber that "Man proposes and God disposes.""
Seemingly over 62 million children were aborted sinc Roe V  Wade in the USA and  I have promoted the Judges who made this decision to prime spot in the list of monsters who have lived since Adam was a gasun ,away above Hitler who killed a mere  million.,including  the unborn of course.

What a hypocrite.

In commenting on some aspect of the fight against the virus I  recently heard Simon Harris,the interim Minister for Health decry certain behaviour as being perpetrated by people who "had no cop on and lacked decency|"
I f ever there was a politician who lacked cop on and decency it was himself and the interim Taoiseach ,who in times of econimic prosperity created the scandals of record numbers of people lying on trollies and endless waiting lists for all peoples especially the elderly who were treated with contempt.
Their failure to produce an adequate Health service for our citizens will contribute to many deaths ,especially of the old and infirm,in respect of whom many are talking of triaging them.
In plain speaking this means letting them die because they are too old and infirm and concentrating on saving the younger and fitter.
That this should be so is no surprise to me.
This Government mostly jumped for joy ,when they managed to legalise the murder of living unborn and unprotected human babies.
"TRIAGING"  elderly  frail humans is but a small step further in the evolving  contempt for frail life of those who are inconvienent to sustain.
Meanwhile the murder of the living unborn continues apace at every Maternity hospital of signifance in the Country.
Those medics whose hands are smothered in the blood of these murderd infants should be put in a research lab and charged with finding a cure for  this virus.That is save life instead of killing it.
At the end of every week a random one should be selected and shot.
It would concentrate their minds and do unto them what they do unto others.

Dunderry GAA Club do the right thing.

Flanagans grocery shop in the centre of Dunderry is one of the few village shops which survive and provide a vital service in rural Ireland.It has always sponsored the local GAAClub.For example it paid for the wrought iron gates that front the pitch and premises amongst other things.
There are manyy people in this tight knit Parish who shop there.
Now that the corona virus scare is upon us the GAA Club is both paying Flanagans back somewhat and supporting those Parishioners who supported both Flanagans and The Club over the years.
The members will deliver free of charge whatever groceries vulnerable Parishioners order in Flanagans and leave them on their doorsteps ,no contact.
Fair dues and well done.

Michael D.greets Prince William.

Recently our Pres.,who would and has attended the opening of an envepope invited another person of priniledge to the Palace wherein himself ,the Missus ,Sabina and their dogs reside in luxury.This other person is Prince William of somewhere in the U.k ans his missus is Kate the Hurler.
A begrudging person from the Dunderry heartland of Tullaghanstown Academy ,who has a Degree from that establishment in journalism ,published the following headline on the first pagr of the local redtop "LITTLE MICKEY ENTRTAINS BIG WILLIE IN THE PHOENIX PARK".
Need I  say more|?

Ashamed?Well we should be.

Earlier this week there was a programme on RTE1 concerning the treatment of certain traveller families,which brought me back the years.
Many decades ago I  had responsibility for deciding on what should happen goods smuggled into the country and those who smuggled them in.
It was not a job I  liked.
Included in the remedies for smuggled goods was the seizure of the goods and the subsequent sale of them by the State.
On one occassion an assiduous Customs Officer had come across a smuggled caravan in which lived a traveller woman with a young child.
My permission to seize the caravan was sought.
I refused point blank and suffered much derision from certain colleagues as a consequence.
I  have no regrets.
I  lived for many years in Blanchardstown and its hinterland and was actually robbed by a young traveller I  was good to.
This is the constituency of Leo Varadaker  and Joan Burton ,a current head of Fine Gael and a former head of the Labour Party.
As far as memory serves Halting Bays for Travellers were sited as far away from the public gaze as possible ,adjacent to Mulhuddart Graveyard and aklongside the railway track in the butt end of Porterstown.
Out of sight and out of mind.
The programme above cited showed the totrure and persecution heaped upon individual families who had no where else to go and provided shelter by means of a caravan on public owned land.
What we saw was heaps of Council Officials,hired heavies and Police men and women
threatening to seize the caravans of men ,women and children uinless they moved on to nowhere.
NEEDLESS TO SAY NOT ONE OF THESE OFFICIALS WERE PREPARED TO MEET  THE CAMERA AND ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY THEIR OBNOXIOUS ACTIONS.COUNTY MANAGERS ,COUNCIL OFFICIALS AND BAILIFFS WENT AND HID FROM PUBLIC VIEW.
Shame on them,shame on those hidden inhumane bullies who set these enforcers on these unfortunate people and hadn't the guts to explain their obnoxious activities to the programme makers and shame on us as a Nation for tolerating such hateful and inhumane treatment of fellow human beings.
Were you to treat dogs in a similar manner you would be prosexcuted for cruelty to animals.
No wonder Leo and Joan were punished by the electorate.
And the presence of so many Police to see to such evictions and seizures from the poorest of the poor gives the lie to the frequentlt cited excuse regarding the shortahge of police to tackle those who mutilate the youth of Ireland in the successful enterprise of covering the entire land with a covering of coke and a pklentitude of skunk and other health destroying drugs.
Let the Polis chase the drug dealers and stop wasting time on evictions such as witnessed on the programme.