Cromwell's Blueshirt Successors Rock on.

It's a  great little country for business promotion and to mind our sick and indigent isn't it  And Inda keeps his word to head off the bailiff's at the pass and protect the family home .And Joanie looks after those in need.And Leo  the lip does his bit for the sick .Of course they do!!!
In our circles and within roaring distance of our Church ,which the actors hereafter mentioned often attended ,these  shameful  events recently transpired.
They are a married couple with children.
Some years ago he approached a Bank with a proposal to start his own modest business .The Bank said fine and advanced a relatively  modest sum  to that end.He had a small mortgage and they took a second charge on their house  to secure the loan.
And he gave it diddy and burst a gut to make a success of it.All grand so far.
AND THEN ONE OF HIS FAMILY GOT A SERIOUS AND DEBILITATING ILLNESS REQUIRING LONG PERIODS OF HOSPITALISATION AND CONSTANT  CARE WHEN AT HOME.
And he had to either let her die like a dog or care for her full time.
And he did the right thing and did and still cares for her.
And the repayments stopped.
And the BANK and the legal eagles at the bank's behest effectively evicted them from their family home.
Yep the entire family including the sick one turfed out.
Yep the Blue shirts and the Labourites are gloating in self righteousness and their  wonderful management of the economy and sneering at the Greeks and their failure to be as proactive as themselves in imposing austerity.
The unspeakable wankers,
The house is now for sale.No decent person should touch it  ,

Were my neighbours  one legged  new Irish lesbians from Lesotho every quango in the country and every Junior Minister seeking to broadcast  his /her political nous,led by Amnesty and the  head of the IDA,would be apoplectic in their defence.
But sure they are only Irish Paddies and Biddies trying to survive in their own country and it is better all round if they disappear without trace.

VARADKER'S VAMPIRES CLAMP VULNERABLE

I have compared the Irish political establishment to the Jewish Kapos who implemented the will of the Nazi's against the inmates of the concentration camps who Were also Jews ,
I am not being fanciful when I  say the present and past government and their minions inflicted unspeakable depravities  on the general population to satisfy their political buddies in Europe,the IMF and the commercial banks of the world who had loaned money to the Irish banks ,who have a long record of lying to the populace ,cheating their customers and defrauding the State and therefor the populace in general.
These deprivations include but are not limited to rampant homelessness,economic emigration,suicide because of despair,the bargain basement sale of large chunks of our country to foreign vulture capitalists,economic abortion,widespread despair and the fracture of family solidarity because of the fear stalking the land AND THE INCESSANT ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY
But perhaps the most vile sort of depravity being daily implemented is the humiliation of the elderly sick by inordinate delay in attending to their medical needs.
I know one lady who is waiting over 4  years for a operation who is in constant pain and huge discomfort  as she approaches her 70 th birthday.Another guy I know is over 2 years awaiting an operation for grave and very painful deficiencies which cause serious ,stressful and debilitating pain.No glimmer of  hope at the end of the tunnel.
But the most sickening scenario daily presenting itself is that of sick centenarians housed on trolleys or chairs for eons in hospitals which are understaffed and undermanned and under resourced.
The Kaposi who run this country and in this instance I refer to Organ Grinder LEO ,the Minister for Health ,with whom the buck stops,don't give a fiddlers.
Of course all politics is local and given the capacity of Government supporters for underhand sleaziness it should come as no surprise to learn that yesterday over 7 victims of the extortionate policy of bleeding dry unfortunate sick people who happen to  be destitute and unable to pay for car parking in Navan Hospital while being attended to ,were clamped and forced to pay e.90.00 to get their cars back.
Let me paint the picture for you.For the vast majority of people in Meath there is no public transport from their homes to Navan Hospital.Such is the fear of the general populace of hospitals in general tha you would only go there as a last resort and if very sick, And when you  get there God alone knows how long you will be waiting to be seen.AND if you have no money to pay for the car park what are you supposed to do ? Lie down and die ?
I am aware that amongst those whose cars were clamped by Leo's monkeys ( IN THE SOLE SENSE THAT THEY WERE DANCING TO THE ORGANIST LEO'S TUNE ) were an 85 year old wheelchair user and another lady who has a disease of the bowel and who shits without warning over 40 times a day.
Talk about sucking blood from the half dead and defenceless.
The cool clear wisecracking hero Blue shirt political organist doesn't have a fucking clue what its like to be old ,sick ,dependant and despairing.
Greeks should disregard the nonsense being spouted by this cruel government ,which is so trusted by the financial markets to so deprive its own citizens that they will advance whatever money the Government needs in the sure knowledge that they will be repaid irrespective of the hardship  imposed on the despised citizenry.
CROMWELL'S POLITICAL SUCCESSORS ARE WELL ENS CONSED IN THE LAND WHERE JUSTICE IS AWOL.

Grim reaper lingers on in Dunderry.

Alfie Mc Connell from Tullaghanstown (Navan side of bog cross going to Athboy )died yesterday after a struggle with cancer only diagnosed months rather than years ago.
He was only 55 years young and lived life according to the best medical advices only drinking now and then and rarely and hardly ever smoking.
He is survived by his parents,his wife and two children.
He will arrive in Dunderry Church at 7.00 p.m.this evening and his burial is tomorrow Saturday after Mass at 11.00 a.m. in Dunderry graveyard.
Reports are just filtering through that Lorna Carty ,wife of Declan from Robinstown, was shot in Tunisia this morning .
Unbelievable though it sounds it seems to be true and the whole place is in a state of shock and bewilderment that one so young and decent could meet her end in such a bizarre fashion.
We hugely sympathise with her husband and family.
Go deana Dia trocaire ar a hanam dilis.
We will return to both tragedies at a later stage.

Dunderry Grave Blessings 2015.

Saturday July 11th. Vigil Mass Dunderry 7.30 p.m.Blessing in Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.

Sunday 12 th July .11.00 a.m.Mass Dunderry.Blessing in Dunderry Graveyard afterwards.

Tuesday 14th July.7.30 p.m.Blessing in Churchtown.

Wednesday 15th July 7.30 p.m.Retaine blessing.

Thursday 16th  July 7.39 p.m.Claddy with KIlcooley at 8.00 p.m.

Sunday 19th July.Mass at 7.00 p.m.Kilbride.Blessing afterwards.

Tuesday 21st July.7.30 p.m.Blessing of Moymet.


Wednesday 22nd July .7.30 p.m. Tullaghanogue Blessing.

Thursday 23 July 7.30.p.m.Black Church.

And more history made today in Dunderry.

Today the Club hosted Baltinglas GAA juveniles ,under 8 and 10 I think,in football challenges prior to the Wicklow /Meath game today in Navan.
I'd say this was the first time that Baltinglass were here.They are a grand bunch of people.
One veteran Baltinglass and Wicklow player present I spoke to said that Wicklow had a great chance seeing as Meath were short six players.
One veteran Dunderry man I spoke to afterwards said "IF Meath lose to day ,then in the words of Johnny Gannon , we are b.......xed".
Meath got hard to win.And Wicklow finished with 13.
There are two Wicklow men involved with Gaelic Games in the Parish.Con O Neill is now coaching the underage footballers and Tom Byrne is Chairman of the Camogie Club.
Niall Rennic ,who played with Dunderry is a former Manager of Wicklow and Sean Kelly is a current Meath selector.
A grandson of mine Padraic,son of Evan and Aoife played his first competitive football match against Baltinglass today.Cormack Mac Donagh ,another grandson has played underage hurling also.
And Mickey ,husband of Aoife's mother, attended his first ever GAA match today to see Pauric playing.
I thought that no sixty year old could exist in Meath without attending a GAA match at some stage, but there you go.
And possibly the greatest full back of recent times Darren Fay was in the field.
He is half way through his studies to be a teacher.
I imagine there will be a huge queue to sign him on when he qualifies. And he is one nice guy to boot.
And Ted Dowd  was also in the field and his sons were playing too.
All in a day's sport.

Disrespect frourishes around Dunderry.

Lovely day Thursday.Sun splitting the stones.First real day of summer.So down with me to the graveyard to spice up the Mc Cormack's grave for the forthcoming blessing.On my tricycle.
Two cars there.Two women.The older woman was sweeping up the shattered glass of the windscreen of her car and in a state of shock.
She had been in the graveyard tidying up her mother's grave ,concentrating on the job in hand and enjoying the weather ,oblivious to the wider world.
The other lady,a cousin of mine ,had been passing the graveyard at 4.00 p.m.when she noticed a silver Volvo stopped there with three young males around the other car.She copped one of them smashing the window and lifting the handbag from the front seat.
She screeched to a halt ,very courageously as she had a young child with her,and put her hand on the horn.
The three bowsies  hopped into the Volvo and headed towards Trim.
This is a first for Dunderry.
Clean sweep of all the houses in the main street,the Church,the Hall,the GAA Club,and much,much more.
Now they prey on the bereaved.
Yep post Christian Multicultural Ireland has reached Dunderry.
Hip,hip hip fuckin' horray.

History made in Dunderry tonight.

This evening we played a Monaghan team called Inniskeen in our pitch in a hurling challenge at adult level.
Garrett Dooley has a relation on that team.This is the first hurping team from Monaghan to field in Dunderry.

Underpants only for lads with dirty arses.

I find it difficult to use swear words in my blog because of the possibility that small kids might read it.But having last evening on RTE Radio heard the word "Cunt" liberally used ,I am as usual out of kilter.Now don't get me wrong I can use expletives with the best of them but only in context.Like for example when trying to motivate a lad's football team.,as anyone who has had any serious involvement or even basic knowledge will know.
And it is in this context that I first and for the only time heard the words used in the heading supra.
Jigser Powell,since deceased,was a team mate of mine in Saint Brigid's Club,Blanchardstown for many years.He was a hardy guy and a typical corner back of his era,as tough as old leather.
Over many decades we all togged out together.Jigser never wore underpants and eventually some grave soul plucked up the courage to ask him why."They're only for fellas with dirty arses" said he.
Now the kapos who run our country at the direction and for the benefit of the EU and Atlantic Philanthropies are fulfilling every thief's and criminal's wet dream by publishing the names and particulars of every farmer's entitlements to payment from the Common Agricultural Policy single payment scheme, which will save them considerable research and help them focus on the more isolated and lucrative turkeys to be plucked and reveal particulars of their most intimate financial affairs for all the world to see.
Conversely Dennis O Brien,a billionaire and media mogul,none of whose otherwise mouthy journalists have offered even one word of criticism against his actions,has gagged the other electronic and paper media from reportindg a single word said by an elected member of our Dali in relation to his financial dealings.
The Kapos who are supposed to run our country are too busy arse licking the EU  and Atlantic Phil .to be even arsed doing anything about this information deficit and threat to democracy,which demonstrates,at least to me, that one law applies to billionaires and another to the rest of us.
Truly it entitles me to restate Jigser's adage as
 "Confidentiality is only for lads with well wadded arses".
Atta boy Jigs.

GAA needs to up it's game.

As I understand it there is  a new sport to be introduced for the Olympic Games in the future,a form of rugby sevens ,I think.
Everybody knows that the Irish ladies rugby team won the World Cup recently.
The rugby coach tasked with promoting the Olympic sevens team has stated that the reason the Irish ladies won the world Cup was because they had vetted the Ladies GAA  players and turned them from GAA  football to rugby and that they would be doing the same to men GAA players  for the Olympic sevens.
Now the IRFU is tendering to get the World Cup Rugby Finals hosted in Ireland and the GAA is promoting this venture , is bent in making all its facilities available for his purpose and the General secretary of the Association is a member of the hosting committee.
If this event is secured for Ireland the popularity of rugby here will soar.
Why  in the name of all that's Holy  ( and there is very little that's left ) would an organisation that's competing for the sporting  minds of Ireland youth hand over the reins of its stadia to an organisation that is already actively and deliberately pooching it members and increase the popularity of its greatest sporting competitors.
Is there anyone with any principle left at all in Gaelic Ireland or is it destined to go the way of the Irish language ?

Some people ( and Countries ) you just can't help

The person first.
There was this woman who fell on hard times through excessive drinking.She lost all her worldly possessions and took to sleeping in an unused shed.Her neighbours and friends took pity on her and through the milk of Christian compassion took to collecting money for her in a neighbourhood emporium.
Each morning kindhearted customers took to donating money for her benefit through putting it in a mug designated for that purpose in the emporium.
Each morning when she came in the contents of the mug were given to her.There was always enough to buy a mug of tea and a sandwich in the emporium which she did.And there was always enough to buy cigarettes ,which was another of her many addictions,which she did also.
Through the rise in the price of cigarettes to place their purchase beyond the reach of the poor, the day came when there was not enough money left in the mug after paying for the tea and sandwich,to buy a packet of cigarettes.
She rattled the change in her fist and looking the owner of the Emporium in the eye she just bent down ,dropped her knickers ,shit on the floor of the Emporium and flounced out the door.
The staff and the customers were speechless and appalled.
The most generous of owners asked if anyone there was prepared to clean up the steaming mess.No customer volunteered.
He asked the staff one by one if they would clean up the mess.
Each replied that their contracts stated that this nature of work was not covered and declined.
The owner had to go down on his own knees and do the job.
The next morning the lady entered the Emporium as usual and looked for the mug.
Her expectation was not fulfilled .and the owner told her that she would no more have the previous arrangement applied to her and that she was denied access to the emporium henceforth.

Now the country....Ireland.
For over 800 years the populace of the Country was persecuted,enslaved ,the subject of attempted genocide and scattered to the four corners of the globe.
Its Catholic priests and practitioners were hunted down like wolves and hung drawn and quartered if apprehended,like Saint Oliver Plunkett.
But even in the face of certain death  many  refused to take the soup of betrayals and stood by the Lord.
And in 1916 a hand full of brave men and women declared a republic "In the name of God"  and "under the protection of Most High God "and for their trouble many were executed.
And it came to pass that the smallest colony of the greatest temporal Empire the world has ever known had its fate given back to its citizens to rule over.
And for nearly 100 years now its citizens have ruled over its territory,with the free will that is part of God's promise.
And over the years there have been many who lived the way the Lord wants and there have conversely been evil people who who sight to and succeed to enact  the law of man ,called secular law,some of which  follow the ways of the evil one.
They have sought to make it common to murder the lives of the Innocent unborn and have denied the Lords dictum on the permanency of marriage.
And the many faceted and evil  body politic,speaking uno voce, have with their companions of convenience ,including false prophets hiding in the midst of mother Church in order to undermine its teachings  persuaded a majority  of its citizens that the teaching of the Church,modelled on the family of Jesus Himself with Mary as His temporal mother and Joseph as His temporal Father  is incomplete  and that the Lord's message is a lie.
Now I call this a dumping on God's  floor  and a betrayal and denial of the men of and women of 1916.
I pray that God in his mercy will forgive me for living in a society that allowed such a thing to happen when I stood idly by.
And I pray that the scribe who describes people like me as "hate filled bigots "and that those who designate me as "unfit to live in today's society " and as a "homophobe " because I champion the Word of the Lord ,in as far as I can,repent before they meet the fate of the alcoholic woman.
And I know I am the most imperfect of men.

What "Yes"campaigners think of us.

I voted "No" in the recent plebiscite to change the definition of a family in the Constitution.
In this I was swam against  the tide of all the political parties,state sponsored businesses and corporations ,the Unions of the Gardai and homosexual inspired  sports organs which are supposed to be politically neutral but sided with the sexual preferences of their drivers for want of a better word.
Over 720,000 other free thinkers decided that it was not in society's interest to debase the word marriage by extending it to same sex couples.
For daring to take this stance the acclaimed and best selling writer of romantic literature Marian Keyes has offered this tip regarding people like me
"I'll give you a tip .Move to Roscommon / Leitrim and pal around with your own kind of hate filled bigots"
Roscommon /Leitrim is the only constituency which voted to retain the constitutional provision interpreted  as defining  marriage as between a man and a woman.
So now you know what motivated the proposers of change and what they think of traditional values and now we know what sort of people and political bedfellows some of our kids in the main prefer to look up to in preference to us..
Talking of bedfellows these homosexual activists and their devotees have made it increasingly clear that their  ultimate loyalty lies to each other in preference to the political organisations they populate and they have proved successful in organising all the political parties,some ex presidential families (the Mac Aleeces for sure ) and the printed and electronic media to speak uno voce in their favour.

Cromwell's men murdered all before them in Dunderry Parish

In 1641 /42 Charlie Coote (Sir ) led a  murder squad which murdered Mrs Eleanor Taaffe of Tullanogue,a sixty year old woman and six female companions. and burned alive an eighty year old blind beggar woman.
Later that day they came to Kilbride where they hanged two more women and two decrepit tramps who made the mistake of begging for alms.
They next went to where I live in Philpotstown ,Dunderry and murdered all the ploughmen they encountered,before heading to Ardbraccan(Dorhamstown),where they murdered 42 men women and children and eighteen infants and battered to death a woman in a mill race.( officr in charge Richie Grenville (Sir)
In Stonestown Parish a cairn of stones is the last vestige of a burial plot of a community of people from that area murdered while reaping corn
These are just a few of the many thousands of atrocities perpetrated against the people of Meath in that period .
Isay this because I cannot see how any decent Irishman can stomach a knighthood which joins him at the hips to these butchers of his own people,butthere again no decent Irishman would accept such a knighthood.
The reason these people were murdered was because they were Irish and Catholic.
It is therefor sickening to see how many supposed Irish Catholics have so easily been turned against their religion ,seduced by the forces of evil,turned their backs on the customs and beliefs of their parents and are so vociferous in their hatred of their own race.
HUGE SWATHES OF THE YOUNGER POPULATION HAVE PREFERRED THE HAPPINESS OF THEIR HOMOSEXUAL FRIENDS TO THE TRADITIONS AND H BELIEFS OF THEIR PARENTS AND THINK IT HIP TO MAKE THIS CHOICE.
Cromwell would no doubt approve.
And Neda and Joan and Mickie and Gerry and Lucinda and all political leaders played the pied piper.
They  abolishing the teaching of history anddowngrading teaching of Irish.
Guss why.
And ye hip  young things who turned your backs on the traditions of your parents have taken all and given back just broken hearts.
Ye shall reap as ye sowed.
Patrick Kieleys "A history of Dunderry " is the source of the historical information.

Magnificient "No" vote despite overwhelming odds against.

The world should know that every political party in Ireland,that is Fine Gael,Fianna Fail,Labour,The Greens,Sinn Fein and the Worker's Party and most of the Independents supported the concept of homosexual marriage and that any politician of any of these parties opposing the concept were thrown out of the Party.
All the papers and all the Radio and Television Stations ,especially  the people's subsidised station RTE ,despite supposed legal constraints about balance ,did all they could to promote homosexual marriage ,whether by cunning and deliberate rescheduling of programmes showing the Catholic Church , which  opposed these unions, in a bad light in the run up to the plebiscite or conversely showing homosexual people in a flattering light.
ADDITIONALLY INTERVIEWERS WERE BLATANTLY HOSTILE TO THE "NO" SPOKES PEOPLE AT ALL STAGES.
The ex president Mary Mac Aleece ,having passed herself for years as a practising Catholic and upholder of the Constitution ,did a hundred and eighty degree turn when she discovered that her son is a homosexual and did all she could to discredit the Catholic Church to ensure that he can engage in a form of union with another man which makes a mockery of the word marriage as traditionally understood.
She has let people like me ,who were stupid enough to believe that she was what she put herself forward to be ,down with a bang.
But there again she wouldn't be the first to take the soup.And the American Bishop who said to Mac Aleece "God help Ireland with you as it's President " was a very wise man.
And of course the Government played along with her by giving her full exposure in prolonged T.V.footage with Prince Charles ,future head of the Church of England and his divorced wife Camilla in Mullaghmore.
Quite how  a retired President found her way there as a national representative  is beyond me,She was clearly a plant by the Government to promote its agenda.
Clearly there is a huge deficit in Catholic leadership in the Dublin diocese.The Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was so wishy washy about this and other core Catholic doctrines that he has clearly lost the trust of his flock and Dublin Catholics are devoid of leadership entirely.
How else can you explain that 70% of a Catholic population can vote against a core Catholic value.Really he and the other priests who are not prepared to vigorously uphold core Catholic values ,should get of the pot and let in others who will uphold these values without compunction.
The former Pale voted against traditional values but this is nothing new historically,as the inhabitants of this area have always been more Gall than Gael and Lizzie's taxpayer funded  Uni showed its true colours by voting 98% against traditional Irish values.
A Government which shamelessly coaxed its taxpayer funded subsidiaries and the Unions of its supposedly apolitical  policemen to take sides in a political matter is shameless and unworthy of Office
.Sinn Fein ,who are riding the crest of  wave of popularity are nothing more than a more mouthy version of Fianna Fail lite and are a massive disappointment to me.
To cap it all the Government gave Dublin Castle ,at taxpayers' sexpense again,
 to the victorious homosexuals and their fellow travellers to party and rub salt into our wounds.
Now my family have implored me to stop stating my grounded views on social media for fear of abuse and violence against me and them.
Having already been told that I am not fit to live in society because of my views by a yes activist and been branded a homophobe and  in the knowledge that the Gardai have voted to support the Yes side and are unlikely to protect me ,I will take whatever is coming on the chin.
Oh and bye the way the other 750,000 brave souls and "No" voters,who surmounted huge odds and pressure to vote "No",as against the 1,200,000 who voted "yes"are now in a political void with no current political party to represent them and promote their views .
This void will have to be filled sooner rather than later and a covenant instigated to revisit this issue again constitutionally sooner rather than later,in my view.

Death of Thomas Glynn

Mick and Janette Glynn and family live in Iskaroon in this Parish and are good friends of ours.
Mick's younger brother Thomas,who I don't know , who too lived here in Iskaroon  for many years but who had been suffering bad health in recent years, died unexpectedly today in Palmerstown in Dublin.
When I hear more I will let ye know.
May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
His mortal remains will be reposing in Heffernans Funeral Home in Trim this Thursday from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Funeral Mass this Friday 29/5/2015 in St.Patrick's Church ,Trim at 11.00 a.m.with burial afterwards in Dunderry graveyard.

Underhand RTE Bias towards "Yes" side this last week.

I listened last night to the debate on RTE Radio 1 concerning the upcoming referendum on the redefinition of the family chaired by a lassie called Shanley,I think it is spelled .On the "Yes" side you had a Scot and a Royalist .The Scot was a nasty bit of stuff who used the most derogatory terms to describe his opponents making inter alia a bitchy reference to the sister in law of a lady on the "no  side ,whoever the sister is I don't know. .
But it is the blatant bias of the presenter that  most upset me. .She continually interrupted the "no " side and challenged them far more than the "yes " side to whom she gave a free and uninterrupted ride ,even allowing the last word to the "yes" side.
But this is what I have come to expect from RTE whose behaviour on this and similar issues in recent times can at best be described as defiantly and aggressively unbalanced  all the time awaiting a chance by the presenters and programmers to let their personal prejudices shine through..
Now I have a grand young cow.I also have a stock bull who makes this cow and  her comrades very happy and fruitful.And it is necessary that I know the daddy and mammy of each calf for a multiplicity of reasons.Certainly every calf knows its mother from the moment of birth and every cow would die for its calf and every calf looks to its mother for protection ,milk and sustenance.
Naturally had I no bull or a homobovine l bull  I would be out of business fairly quickly unless I impregnated the cows by artificial insemination.
Certainly  cows of a queer nature would be no good  to me at all.
Now I am not using this analogy to describe my views on the proposed redefinition of the family.
But this very fine cow had a most perfect calf three weeks ago and both she and I minded it like a newborn baby.She adored it no more than myself.
Then as a result of a freak accident the calf died.She was bursting with milk and I bought a suck calf from a dairy man to alleviate the  pressure on her elder.
Well talk about turning Turk.She has turned into a bovine assassin intent on killing the substitute.I have to stand over her to make her allow the calf to suckle her and as soon as I turn my back she lines the calf up for assassination.Neither shouts,threats nor copious amounts of nuts will deter her from this irrational hatred.
Now I feed the cow ,sustain her and give her a good life.I would rather she acknowledged and desist from this behaviour.
Now most of the RTE reporters and programmers are like this.
Through my licence fee I support and maintain and suckle them.They know they are supposed to give equal balance to each side in the forthcoming referendum but like the cow  as soon as your back is turned they turn assassins against the "no "side.
Ray Darcy ,who has before this outlined publicly his dislike for Catholicism on the airwaves ,never misses to take a nasty potshot against the Catholic Church ,who are on the" "no" side.
Successively this last week he he had a suspended Priest called Flannery on his show and gave him full licence to reinforce his personal prejudice's  against the true Church  .And boy did Flannery oblige.Falnnery is stridently against all the laws of the Church including the definition of the family as a core unit involving a  father and mother.( one must ask which of his male father or female mother let him down ).Of course Flannery got full opportunity to trash Catholicism and full encouragement from the biased presenter.
Then we had wee Daniel ,who was raised by his mother solely as his father died when he was young and who opined that not having a father he could remember and whose influence he could gauge ,he didn't give a damn who raised a child and that as far as he was concerned a father's input was clearly superfluous.(This is my interpretation of what he said not his precise words.)
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Of course Darcy egged out of him his intention  to vote "yes".
After whining for a while about the necessity to show balance he cold called someone from the Iona institute to gave an opposing view,a person who made it clear that he hadn't even heard the interview.
Now during the night RTE radio replays highlights of  the previous day's programmes .would you believe it if I told you that the Yes arguments were rebroadcast but not a word about the no side's.
See the simulator to the assassin cow.
And yet again he did his level best to get an American woman who was adopted from here years ago to condemn those who put her up for adoption and Irisher society in general,even ignorantly talking over her daughter in the process.You could hear the disappointment in his voice when she said the opposite.
Now the RTE programmers were more subtle but just as underhand.
Knowing full well that the Christian Churches are on the no Side they did all they could to discredit the Catholic Church.
This ranged from a rebroadcast of the Simpsons lauding homosexuality and sneering at Christian values,to rebroadcasting a programme presented by a guy called Sixsmith into the adoption through nuns,who were only people with the charity to take in unwanted children at the time,and have them adopted by mostly loving American families.
Now this bollix Sixsmith did his best to get everyone he encountered to condemn the Catholic ethos and State action in the matter.
Now a fella called Banville, a homosexual I believe,,who I believe is a writer of some sort and who is rabidly oppose to Catholicism agreed with him as did another guy called Milotte I think.I don't know much about Milotte but will research further.
Sixsmith managed to trace four of these children,all of whom had a sad story to tell.six out of sixty thousand.Now that is objective reporting for you ,is n't it.
And even at that some of the six were clearly not the full shilling and one poor mother was kept by the same nuns they were  dissing for 35 years .
He tried to make out that it was a simple thing in those bygone years for prospective adoptive parents to flitter back and forth from the States to inspect children  and enlisted the aid of a state employee to
try and make this  point.
Ten of my granduncles emigrated there  after the turn of the century and none ever had the fare to return even for a short visit.
The programmes assertion on this point is pure nonsense unless the people involved were all millionaires.
I  suppose that a near neighbour State  solution to unwanted preganacies ,i.e.murder the babies when alive in the mother's wombs ,would be more up the programme maker's alley.
And this bollix went as far back as 1925 in his determination to d sneer at Irish society .
Maybe he should cast t his mind back slightly further to the 1850's when the Irish didn'tcontrol their destiny and there was a systematic genocide over maybe two million people under the Union.
Anyhow this shit was broadcast in this sensitive time.
Followed by that middle class programme of a guy Called Demott Bannon refurbishing houses of the well off.And guess whose house was refurbished and whose loving relationship was on full display.
Yes you have it ,Catherine Zappone .fi ull lesbian and "Yes " vote activist and spokesperson.
My cow is only in the halpenny place.

Obama the Dunderry jackass

Dunderry Fair is in full swing around me as I write this.
But I just had to drag myself away to write this up lest I forget.Last year I bought a jackass called Obama on account of the fact the he shares a birthday with the Pres.He has proved that his tackle is in P.M.O.by siring an ass foal which looks like a mammoth.
Anyhow I had him tethered at the double gate to my house opposite Geraghty's pub today and overhead these two men conversing in there  today.I swear.
One guy says to the other ."I bet you a score I can make Obama laugh.""No way .I'll cover that bet ".
So the guy went across the road and whispered something to Obama after which the donkey split his sides laughing for a good ten minutes.
Then the loser says "You'll have to make Obama cry and give me a chance to get my money back."
"No problem " said he and crossed the road again to whisper into the donkey's ear.
And I swear the the donkey started to cry buckets of tears.
The loser forked up again and reckoned that he was entitled to an explanation.
"Right" said the winner ."to make him laugh I told him that his  tackle was smaller than mine"."And what did you do  to make him cry "."That's simple ,I showed him mine ".
And then a young boy saw Obama in full flight if you get my drift and said to his mother "What's that?"His ma said "That's a donkey"."No I mean that yoke there ".That's nothing "said the Ma.
He then asked the Da "What is that yoke ""That's his tackle "said the Da.
"But Ma said that's nothing."Well to your Ma that is nothing son of mine "
And beside me is a Kerry man who owns a zebra called "Spot".

Noonan lets mask slip.

Last week Sean O Rourke interviewed Michaael Noonan the Minister for Finance on his radio show on RTE 1 midweek.
He had the temerity to bring up the Minister's handling of how a construction firm was apparently sold so cheaply by NAMA .a State creature, to connections of Dennis O Brien,a Portuguese resident citizen ,who has huge commercial interests in Ireland and indeed worldwide.
As part of his very reasonable questioning of the Minister he asked why it was necessary to not only raise the issue by Parliamentary Question but also seek the same information by way of  enquiry under Freedom of Information before anything approaching the truth was forthcoming.
In this he was echoing a comment made by Justice Hamilton during the Beef Tribunal who made a similar observation when concluding that if the whole truth were told in response to P.Q.s expensive Tribunals might well be avoided.
Well talking about turning Turk.
When O Rourke threw in a remark about his Minister of Justice days.Noonan turned as nasty ,hectoring and insulting as a gurrier .
Perhaps power has gone to these guys heads and given this sort of example it is no wonder that proponents of the "Yes "side in the upcoming plebiscite on the definition of the family take a similar attitude towards proponents on the "No"vote,as I have learned from my hesitant forays on (anti ) social media on the issue.

Dunderry High Nellies Part 2.

It has been brought to my attention that my history of bicycle racing a lifetime ago has a glaring omission in that there was a third and unheralded member of the team who also gave it diddly as best he could and that was Georgin Herterich.
Like the "Showman" and the "Footballers Father "he was under the management of the old Showman who was also the team Sponsor.
In true Sponsor mode he supplied bikes for all three who hadn't the price of a fag never mind a bike.Not Pirrelli for sure but a pre cursor of Smith International ,Dowd Oil and Herterich Engineering.
It is rumoured that one year when the Ras Tailtean was passing through Navan the intrepid trio hid in the bushes the Kells side of Navan and when the rear riders had passed they wheeled into the tail end of the race unnoticed.
History does not record what position they finished in but some swear that they went through Navan cock a hoop.
Truly those who turn up on Saturday will be wheeling in the wake of legends.

Dunderry High Nellies

A lifetime ago there used be a bicycle race in Dunderry.I well remember the most intense of competitive of races between Frank Smith a.k.a "The Showman " and "Rodger Rabbit"and Tommy Dowd a.k.a. "The footballers father"
Frankien was not the first of his breed to be known as "The Showman "as his father,who was equally eccentric and entertaining also carried that name with aplomb and Tommy Dowd might justifiably claim to be entitled to call his son "The Footballer's Son "  as he himself was no mean footballer and some consider that had he a smidgen of the dedication of his son for training that he might be equally revered in GAA circles.
Any how the races were deadly competitive and never more than a wheel separated them.The route was around the block starting at Horan's towards Robinstown,through Retaine,down by where Vincie and Dot used live and where Con and Marie now live and by Joe Clarke's back to Dunderry.I cannot remember how many laps were involved but the competition was really intense.
I understand,as a side comment, that Frankien maintained his "Rodger Rabbit "persona deadpan while a patient in Hospital much to the amusement of patients ans staff.A shrinking violet he was not and I for one miss his hilarious antics.
Niall a.k.a "he Nailer " was his brother. Himself and Frank were as physically opposite as brothers could be.Frank was six foot plus and  Neill was nearer Five foot.
Both were truckers and the Continent was their workplace.For a big man Frank had a tenor voice and Nailer had a voice that rumbled from his toes through his booming larynx.
Nailer too had a sporting love affair with the bicycle.He raised thousands for charity through sponsored cycles over the decades.
Like Frank and their trucking mate Metal Mickey their involvement with trucks attracted adverse attention of the law at times and this caused considerable stresses at times.
The trucking Heaven they now populate and enhance is I fully expect devoid of such tensions and in between climbing the Heavenly equivalent of Mont Blanc they are cycling the roads and lanes of Jesus Street and Peter's Lane.
It is therefor totally appropriate that Nailer's wife Marie and their son Francie are up to their oxters in another cycling club the Dunderry High Nellies.,which as the  name implies is for cycling spins on the old "High Nellie "bicycle.
Next Saturday,May 2nd., at 4.00 p.m.in Dunderry they are hosting a family day out for all vintage cyclists.Refreshments are guaranteed during the trip and afterwards.There will be a raffle and a  few glasses of fresh milk afterwards.And if you implode during the spin there will be transport to bring you back to base.
No pressure then and all are sure of a "Cead Mile Failte."
Bi  ann

I'm voting "No".

My recent foray into the so called  debate on the issue of the forthcoming referendum seeking to redefine the notion of marriage from being the union for life of a consenting adult  male and consenting adult female to essentially being between two consenting adults irrespective of their sex has revealed to me the  intimidating ,threatening and ugly nature of the movement advocating the change in the Constitutional position.
For daring to say that I believed that a more balanced rearing would be given where a father of the male sex and a mother of the female sex were involved in parenting a child I was labelled with the ageist tag,told I was ignorant and a bully and threatened that society had no place for people like me.
I am supposed to be medieval to boot and as for being a Catholic,it is clear to me that that camp share the views  of ISIS in the main and would gladly throw the followers of the Cross overboard to drown  given a chance.
I am beginning to think that the spoiled child syndrome affecting the young single  children of China ,who are so pampered and used to getting their own way that they think they can do what they want and actually despise the traditions of their parents and ancestors is well rooted here too and that many over educated,spoiled and pampered youths of a certain age actively despise their own traditions and take pleasure in denigrating those who reared them and think nothing of ruthlessly stabbing them in the heart,as it were.
Some of the protagonists who attacked me seem have a deep rooted hatred of heterosexuals and blame us solely for all the ills in the world,including death by suicide of some homosexual people.
I would turn this on its head and suggest that many suicides of people my age could be rooted in the uncaring and aggressive discarding of our traditions and beliefs by a brash ,spoilt and uncaring cohort of spoiled and overdamanding young adults who are encouraged in their actions by a media that is out of sync with broader society.
AS for the politicians,hey are united in their view that supporting anything but traditional values is the mother lode to elective success and are both creating and hopping on the hysterical screeching of the homosexual brigade in the hope  that will garner another term of power.
This is nothing new for a blueshirt /laboue coalition as it was de rigeur for the same combination in the eighties who turned brother against brother in the plethora of constitutional elections in order to deflect attention from the horrible economic conditions and the depopulation of the country caused by economic emigration. Nothing changes.
Except that the coalitions  answer to massive under performance by a Government Minister is to announce that he/she or someone belonging to them is homosexual and to hide behind this relevation to protect them from justified criticism.After all to criticise a homosexual in any guise is homophobic and people are cowed into silence by the same tactics and the same cohort of people that orally abused and threatened me when I dared propose an opposing view.
Look ,all the politicians and the trendies are in favour of this gender balance thingy in order to have a more and better balance of gendered people running the county.Supposed to be a great thing.
Suggest that the same thing ought apply in the basic unit of society and you are a homophobe,ignorant,a bully .an out of touch auld fogey ,medieval heterosexual religious nut who has no place in society
.And all the unions,including the Gardai,and sportspeople  who have enough to do reaching the pinnacle of their games of choice and most especially providers of social media ,who are all  subsidised by the taxes of all the people of Ireland  ,should  keep their noses out of the politics of this issue and be thankful they are getting their pockets lined in these times of hardship .in large part out of the taxes squeezed from the plain people of Ireland .