Dunderry GAA Club as I see it.

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

Miracle in Meadstown.

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

Media and Democrats are Russia's best friends.

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

Circle of hate at it again.

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

Zappone lives in parallel universe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 12 percent rule.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Parable of the Spancilled Goat.

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

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

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

A PAINE IN THE STOMACH

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

Bob's Boulevard.

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

Seditious Nature of RTE Reportage is Vile.

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

Kenneally starts for Meath in O Byrne cup.

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Christmas 2016

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

Needs must.

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

CHRISTMAS 2016.DUNDERRY MASSES.

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


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

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

Ginger Nuts.

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

Death of Mary O Brien,Longwood.

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