The Captain's Log - Volume 28

Continued from Volume 27

Date: Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 09:33:19 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, here's a fresh volume - our 28th! Rgds, Ciaran

Date: Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 02:25:17 AM
Email: Webmaster@jivenaires.com
Name: Jivenaires
Message: Hello - We're working on a project that maybe you or someone you know could help us with. A few years ago a whole lot of folks were putting on their best clothes and heading out to dance to tunes played by bands like ours. There were, we are told, over 800 bands total. We're trying to assemble a list of as many of these bands as we can. You can see the list as it now stands at our website: http://www.jivenaires.com. If you can think of a few more names, please drop us a line at Webmaster@jivenaires.com. We're also looking for scans of photos of the Jives as well as other showbands, dances, dancehalls and showband memorabilia (just click on the "Can You Help" link on the bands page at the site.) Thanking you for your assistance ..and please pass this along if you know anyone who might find it of interest. ~~The Jives Webmaster@jivenaires.com http://www.jivenaires.com
Date: Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 07:36:56 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Begobs bands, well Pat O'Hara and Toni Rossi, The Cleffonaires, The Savoy Swing Seven, aaah I want to cry.
Date: Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 08:19:30 PM
Email: tc@sligoleitrimbog
Name: The Candidate
Message: Deer peeple of Ros Ceite and surrounding whater I come before you to ask you to stand behind me in the election that is yet to be called as we have had the preelection trial and no one knew wheter yes meant yes or no meant no while in fact yes did mean no and no did in fact mean yes and as matters are now neither balck or white I have to raise the matter of the few Euros gone astray as poor old Bertie sans anorak plus Celia wants a Soldiers Field in his honour which will double as a playing or sporting arena as in that old song and around the perimeters it will be a resting place for brown paper bag or envelope carrying Fianna na hEireann memebers only and whatever you do next time vote early and vote often
Date: Monday, March 11, 2002 at 02:14:23 PM
Email: dzinck@telusplanet.net
Name: Judy & Dave Zinck
Message: My husband's mother's maiden name was DeVan. We had traced the family back to a Michael DeVan in Halifax in the 1830's. Recently we obtained the following: "I the undersigned having received the mutual consent of Michael Devanny son of Darby Devanny and Margaret Gillan of the County of Sligo,Ireland and Ann Magown, daughter of James Magown and Bridget MacCown of the same county married them in the presence of John Stewart,Patrick MacMullin and John Scollian."The date was Nov. 24, 1831. Michael and his sons were shipbuilders who settled in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Any help in tracing Sligo families welcomed.
Date: Monday, March 11, 2002 at 11:43:44 PM
Email: MM@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Ciaran agra there are some who should never be let near a pen or a computer for that matter, as when they sit down to write their brain gets numb from the weight of their body pressing down.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:34:10 AM
Email: Metal.Man@rock.com
Name: Real Metal.Man
Message: Paddy Bruen is coming and so is the summer.
Date: Friday, March 15, 2002 at 08:50:05 PM
Email: efoley@parkregencyatl.com
Name: Eamonn Foley
Message: My dad Tony Foley has a house in Upper Rosses. I'm hoping to be there this summer some time. I love the place. I'm looking forward to a cold one at austie's.
Date: Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:59:15 PM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Just in case I do'nt get through on the 17th--Happy St Patrick's Day to you all in the Point especially to old neighbours in Greenlands Tce.-- Mary Devaney,sorry Murphy, and Willie and to all the Finnegans in Ballyweelin. God bless.-- Love rossespoint.com. I check in every night for more nostalgia!!!.
Date: Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:08:08 AM
Email: demselves
Name: The Statues of Sligo
Message: Wishing you all a happy and enjoyable St Patrick's Day 2002. And spare the Guinness, Jameson and Orange. Come one and all to our ceilidh in O'Connell Street Sligo tonight. Signed with a flourish MM, Lady Erin, WBY,PA McHugh, The Monument on Pearse Rd,and all of us in the various churches throughout Sligo.
Date: Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:08:41 AM
Email: in the cemetery
Name: The other statues
Message: And what about us standing guard here in the cemetery?
Date: Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 07:42:01 PM
Email: Hardy@bigtop160.freeserve.co.uk
Name: Moira Hardy (nee Bruen)
Message: Happy St Patricks day to all in Rosses Point.If anyone sees my Dad,Paddy Bruen(usually in Hacketts)tell him not to get too drunk on his first St Patricks day at home for over 50 years!!!
Date: Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 07:55:40 PM
Email: Hardy@bigtop160.freeserve.co.uk
Name: Moira Hardy (nee Bruen)
Message: Happy St Patricks day to all in Rosses Point.If anyone sees my Dad,Paddy Bruen(usually in Hacketts)tell him not to get too drunk on his first St Patricks day at home for over 50 years!!!
Date: Friday, March 22, 2002 at 05:05:20 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Is Declan Foley ever in touch with this site anymore.Hello anybody
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 03:19:39 AM
Email: metalman@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Back Avenue, Foley is in touch with the whole bloody world let alone this fine site. I know he is busy writing at the moment and preparing scripts for a big event in his sister's pub in Wisconsin in June. Slan MM
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 04:09:21 PM
Email: meown
Name: wontallwomam
Message: jas, hope yez all had a great paddys day, de photo's were great on Ain'es site. did yez see them ad all. com ear til i tell ya , any caravans for rent in the point? please, post it here. thanks very much now,
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:41:18 AM
Email: pam@town hall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: I jusy visted Aines Sligozone and the photies is lovely, reminds me too that the photos on the ould Weekender website are very good quality un,ike the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly, chape as the man sez. Still and all the mane gene is in the marrow. I read about Albert the red from the red quarter at the county council talking about looking for knifes and forks on the new route. Must be short of them in his house. I wonder what an archaeolgical dig would find on his farm?
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 10:33:21 PM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W .B. Yeats
Message: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. The rain in Sligo falls bloody well all on me!
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:15:00 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I hear Frances Bruen is coming for the weekend!
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 03:39:02 AM
Email: MM@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Seagull and I shall be hosting pre-West of Ireland drinks at Austies on Good Friday, Media, golfers and ball hoppers invited. We ill be having lamb on Sunday for lunch, Austie is over on Oyster tring to catch one, he came back twice with a goat, he is getting doddery.
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:15:43 AM
Email: .
Name: A N Other
Message: It could've been worse MM, he could have brought back a horse from Oyster! Happy Easter all!
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:41:54 PM
Email: SG@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Can some one give Redmond Bruen a kick in the pants for what he did to Scooby Do. The poor oould donkey now brays louder than a bunch of jack-asses when he hears the church bells, reminds him he has lost his golf balls.
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:45:31 PM
Email: sob@eejitnet
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: We have our annual Easter appeal for the E A FitzPAtrick Asylum for Oprhaned and Widowed men. Last year we lost the ten cents in the gutter while collecting it on the streets of NY. So we have decided to appeal to our supporters via the internet. All donations are tax deductible providing you can find a gullible revenue man or woman. Perhaps Redmond Gillen could train that donkey of his to sing the tenabrae?
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:47:44 PM
Email: maeve@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: So that's the noise we hear up hear at noon and evening. We thought it was a foghorn.
Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 at 12:57:03 AM
Email: kealanc@hotmail.com
Name: Kealan Coleman (Tom Downs's grandson)
Message: Hi to all of you!! Great website!!! Well Done!! For those who might know me, I'm the middle grandson of Tom Downs, originally from Sligo, living in Dublin returning nearly every year to Rosses Point. Most of the time staying opposite "Austies", but in recent years staying in the apartment my uncle, Ronan Downs (living in New York), bought on Mrs Boyers land (On the corner, opp the Tennis Courts). There ya go... that's some of the history!! I'm introducing my girlfriend to Rosses Point for her first time this Easter weekend!! (Sat 30 & Sun 31 March 2002) We're going to stay with Mary in Hacketts... hoping for an 'ol ceili or sessuin!?!! I'll be hoping to introduce her to as much as possible so if anyone has any ideas let me know (email: kealanc@hotmail.com or at Hacketts) See you all soon.... Kealan Coleman P.S. If anybody needs me to bring anything from Dublin you can phone me
Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 at 01:55:29 AM
Email: yeats@thebank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Young Kelan, would you be so kind as to pick up a pound of Hafner's sausages for me. . er two kilos in new measurement. And mind the young one, Austie might take a liking to her, or Bertie Kivlehan or Gavan Gillen!!!
Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 at 01:58:03 AM
Email: the cleft at alt
Name: The Echo
Message: I heard through the trees that it was someone using Gavan Gillen's chemistry set he got for Christmas 1954, that caused an explosing in a rushing sheep with its tail docked in the shelley river.
Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 at 02:05:31 AM
Email: docdevin@canalst.sligo
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: As the fine candidate for Shligo in the forthcoming general election dat hasn't bin yet announced. ( Hurry up Bertie!!!)I would like to announce that the new splitting road for Sligo is getting the go ahead through a series of bookkeeping manouveres that will leave Charlie in the one Euro cent place. Not alone will this new road go through Sligo town it will now go around Strandhill, Coney Island, Oyster Island through the golf course at the Point and up to the Hills of Donegal. There will be three major roundabouts in the water between Strandhill and the Point to allow ships and aeroplanes pass as well as asscarts and asses with turf creels. ( Jaunting and joyriding will be strictly prohibited) And whatever yez all do, vote early and often whenever the election is held. And when I'm elected Willie Farrell a Grangeman like myself will be my right hand man. Slan Jimmy
Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 at 01:48:56 AM
Email: scribllerat theinkwell
Name: The Scribe
Message: Any of you who may be in or near the lovely town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on June 15 and 16, 2002 THE PUB (props: Aelred Gannon & Bernie Foley, once of Sligo town) will be hosting a two day Irish Literary event. Saturday June 15 there will be four talks on W B Yeats, AE (George Russell), Ezra Pound and a dramatic presentation on W B Yeats. Sunday June 16 is Bloomsday and there will be readings from Ulysses amongst other things. Director, organizer of this two day talk fest is another former Sligonian, Declan Foley. All enquiries to 262-567-8850
Date: Sunday, April 07, 2002 at 03:15:13 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I am seeking singers to form a choir for the Sligo International Choral Festival in October. Reherasals will be in Ward's Pub on Coney island each Friday night. Boats will leave from The Point, Raughley, Strandhill, Lough Gill, Glencar Lake at 7 pm SHARP!
Date: Sunday, April 07, 2002 at 05:33:04 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Metal Man could you pick me up for the Choir practice at Cushcadden's.I once sang a bar or two around Town.Do you want me to contact Maisie or Roddy,maybe Pat Ely.Let me know.
Date: Monday, April 08, 2002 at 05:58:17 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Why not Back Avenue, and we could stop by Shoot-the crows and gather Basher Williams and Teresa Gorman. Does yer man Fintan still play the squeeze box? I think that we should enter for the Brother Einard cup. What do tou suggest 'Down by the Salley Gardens' of 'Oft in the Stilly Night' (That was blind Paddy Healy's favourite. I wonder if Caruso Finan could be gathered up too!)
Date: Monday, April 08, 2002 at 06:39:12 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs, perhaps we could get the councillors and corporation staff to form a choir and for once they might sing in tune. They could sing The Irish Rover, especially that line about one million bags of the best Sligo rags! Maybe they could alter it to a million bags of rubbish!
Date: Monday, April 08, 2002 at 06:40:20 PM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: How about us statues of Sligo entering and performing "Singing in the rain".
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 07:48:12 PM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Well I never in all my stone days here at Market Cross read the tripe that is reported in the Lyre Players Weekly about the first hamburger in Sligo. It was John Harkin in his Carlton Cafe that introduced the hamburger and hotdog to Sligo town. He also brought American style seating to the Carlton. The lovely fresh buns and onions he cooked!!! All this Castlerea fella did was to ruin the hamburger with blasted tomatoe sauce, copying the Wimpey that came to town and didn't last. However happy retirement neighbour.
Date: Friday, April 12, 2002 at 02:41:02 PM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Ah,Lady Erin you are so right.I can well remember John and his wifeserving what were then called Bunburgers{hamburgers}after the Savoy.Was Jim Gray around then?
Date: Friday, April 12, 2002 at 06:14:26 PM
Email: le@marektcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: My good man, there were several Jim Gray's in Sligo. Jim from Mail Coach Rd who used to keep pigs on the corner of The Line (Pearse Road)and the Short Line (Burton Street) next to O'Gara's Garage, Rootes Bros- Hillman , Commer dealer and of course Standard-Triumph. He had a son Jim and then there is Jim the reporter or journalist as they now style themselves at the Lyre Players Weekly and of course Jim the victualler.
Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 at 10:30:41 PM
Email: sbil@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull's brother-in-law
Message: Nere mind Austie's or Hackett's singing pint suppers, I'm going to get all the former patrons from McLoughlin's Pub from the cemeteries and we will give you a run for your money with the Aran Maids Wedding,, The Boys from Ballisodare and Old Moore's Melodies.
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 01:05:22 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P.A. McHugh
Message: Well there's one group who for defeinte won't be singing, " I can do anything you do better" Sligo Corporation, come to think of it they mayt belong to one of those choirs where their round sperical objects are removed at puberty.
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 at 12:11:05 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: The Drumcondra eejit visits the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly, what I wish to know, was it before or after the pie in the face. And The Doc says he can create a 'loan' for the mid block route, is this but more pie only this time in the sky. And Albert of the Red Quarter who was complaining about looking for knives and forks in an archaelogical dig seconds the proposal of the created loan. Boys oh boys, what the whiff of an election can do. Poor Bobby and all ye did was ask a question.
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 at 06:06:21 AM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: What a woman!!! Throwing cream pies at an Irish leader and then telling the truth how the modern Irish man and woman have lost: Is this what Connolly, Pearse and MacDermott fought and died for! As I wrote all those years ago: A statesman is an easy man/ He tells his lies by rote
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 at 07:03:13 PM
Email: sonjaconjar@yahoo.com
Name: Vanesa
Message: It's wonderful to see the places where I have been again on your site.
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 10:03:07 PM
Email: La.flame@sympatico.ca
Name: Larry Kearney
Message: Looking forward to visiting your lovely city in July
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 07:31:30 PM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Metalman , i just met Caruso,s son Bob in Town. He is home from the USA for a funeral!
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 03:41:45 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well I hope that Bob can sing as good as his old man could. Foley told me that he brought Bob a large bottle of Bushmills last September. I must visit New Jersey next time, I might get a ball of malt.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 04:06:31 AM
Email: pm@dail.ie
Name: The Boss
Message: Ah, I'm sorry lads if I upset yez over the undramatac way I dissolved the Dail, after all I was on a promise from Celia and she saiz if I wan't home by 9.30 pm dat woz it for de nite. I look forward to seeing yez all behind me and the reel Doc for the forthcoming election. There will be so much promised yez will forge the haf of it, any way dat's wat I'm hoping and so is the reel Doc. De yez tink I could give marylikealoosecanon a squeeze on the bum tomorrow morning?
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:18:28 PM
Email: ml@andail
Name: Michael of Limerick
Message: My deer peeble I who come from the county of O'Briens and tinkers appeal for your votes for my colleagues stan'in' in the forthcoming election in Sligo-Leitrim. As you all know as well as I know Sligo was the first town to use Proportional Representation in this find green land of ours ...no no not Greenlands in the Point, I mean Ireland my country..Now I hope to give an oration at Griffiths Corner soon, and can yez promise to keep that braying ass on Oyster quiet. Vote FG 1, 2, 3 and Labour 4. Slan abhaile
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:22:37 PM
Email: mary@peedees.ie
Name: Mary
Message: Halloo, as yez know I flew into Sligo Airport with my new hubby and inc ase yer wondering we tried to join the high mile club but the fecking plane kept lurching! How and as ever we will flog the lighhouse and the power lines and the railway between Sligo and Rosses Point and invest the money in jobs for the girls. Meself and himself and the candidate for Sligo-Leitrim, providing we find one, will go for a swim in the sea at Rosses. Vote early and often for the Pee Dees first and Bertie sans anorak plus Celia and his reel Doc second tird and forth. Erin go Brath
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:27:38 PM
Email: rq@labour.ie
Name: Ruari
Message: God Bless all here I axe yez to vote for the man himself Declan Bree a man like Connolly, Charlie Haughey, Eamonn de Valera and his father Alfie who stands for a free Ieland, free laying hens and free funerals for all . . no wonder Foley emigrated... however we will flog nothing, nothing even a dead horse. But I swear to Moses Monds buried in Drumcliffe graveyard 200 years ago, if that motherless gob#@*te of a living ass on Oyster brays when I'm orating I'll brain the fecker. PS Don't forget to give your 2,3 and 4 to FG. Ye'll know them with their blue shirts and yellow ties and baler twin for belts on their trousers. Is there a good wine shop in the Point?
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:35:57 PM
Email: mmaq@sligo.ie
Name: martin of abbey quarter
Message: God blast the lot of yez, ye'd sell yer own mothers fer the price of a pint. I am the best man for Sligo .. no it's not a bloody wedding, although who knows with FF stepping in and FG stepping out and Labour, the PD's and SF as wallflowers what can happen. But if yez put me in I'll keep them out! I carry the proud tradition of former fellow Sligomen: P A McHugh, John "Neighbour" Fallon, Gerry Foley and the original Sean Mc Manus who was born and reared in Garavogue, Sligo first, Connacht second and Ireland tird. A vote for me is a vote fer Sligo. ROVERS FOR THE CUP and Rosses Point fer yer holidays.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:37:41 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: As the only man standing in the county of Sligo who never told a lie I vouch for the lot of them. All I can say is come home all you who emigrated, your town and county needs you!
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 at 06:43:30 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: 'Tis well for ye in Rosses Point. We here in the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed and orphaned men are inundated with bookings for June and July. It appears the haf of Sligo will be here in New York. Look at this for a list. Foley speaking on Yeats; Petronella playing at Madison Square Gardens . .3 guesses who their manager is . . Foley's nephew! The Doc coming to celebrate his retirement from the Dail, and Albert of Longford and Garret FitzGerald to get away from it all, and Haughey to raise funds to wine and dine his friends ..his what!!! However all is well Petronella that fine Sligo band are going to give a free concert for the residents. I only hope they don't play too loud . .the Rabbi next door hates loud music. Slan lath agus plaster lath: Seamus
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 01:31:47 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Do you know, I'm coming to the conclusion that the sooner the west wakes up to itlsef the better for itself. I have never in all my stone still days heard as much rubbish as in the past few days from aspiring politicans.
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:46:12 AM
Email: le@marketx
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Do you know P.A. 'tis the truth you're talking. The youngsters today are too well off. Would you believe they don't have a slate in Shoot the Crow's anymore. The young one's all carry nothing less than 50 Euro notes. In your day a penny went a long way, now they call spending a penny having a oui-oui! The Stag's Head closed down too soon, the owners would be millionaires today, not stony broke like when they had it. Imagine P.A. no pawnbrokers in Sligo these days. Ah what's the place coming to at all.
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:47:21 AM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: And to think that when a youth I used to black my heels with shoe polish to cover up the holes in my socks!
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:51:40 AM
Email: Whore on the Shore
Name: ironmaiden.ie
Message: Hi Guys. I'm looking forward to coming to live in Rosses Point. Is the Metal Man still single?
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:35:33 PM
Email: AG@rossespoint.com
Name: Austie Gillen
Message: Now look here you who use that nom-de plume, lady of the night and I suppose day now from what I hear. Rosses Point has always been a decent place and there never has been and never will be room here for women or men of the night, wife swappers, wife beaters ete etc. Try Strandhill!
Date: Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 01:08:03 AM
Email: bhreitheamh@yahoo,com
Name: d..judge
Message: enjoyed my visit (again) w/you great site....d.d
Date: Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 11:13:01 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs yer man the Ghost must be thinking of going into politics, as he guves us five messages at the one time, all saying the same thing and nothing at the same time. I wonder do people ever ask themselves how come if the political parties can promise the sun the moon and the stars before an election, it always pours rain afterwards and drowns their promises.
Date: Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 11:15:57 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O Gallagher
Message: INVASION DAY is here from Sligo. Were all of to the match between Sligo and New York. The residents here at the E A FitzPAtrick Asylum for widowed and orphaned men have never seen kindness like this, free tickets, free booze and free meals all provided by the good folk of County Sligo who are visiting for the match. All decent people, not at all, their pockets were picked when they visited!!
Date: Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 02:25:37 AM
Email: sbil@everywhere
Name: Seagulls brother in law
Message: Such a wonderful sight is Noonan's BaldyBus with soft drinks in the fridge and bon bons for all and rubber mats on the tables to keep the journos lap tops from dancing yer man goes prancing around the Irish country side promising false promises while Bertie sans anorak plus Celia throws leaflets from his ninety mile an hour motorcade promising even better false promises. But can any one of them show me their policies on glass eyes!!
Date: Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 02:41:24 AM
Email: ga@united.ie
Name: Gerry
Message: How yez, we of the united ireland party promise to reunite Rosses Point, Coney Island and Oyster Island once again as they were before the ice age seperated them. We of the northern part of seperated Ireland know what it is like for Scobby the ass to be unable to walk the plains of Maugherow and visit Carney the capital of Maugherow. After all it was only Christ who could walk on water, and it is totally unfair to expect Scobby to walk on water with the cross he has to carry: the Fianna Fail Party. Slan agus tiochad ar la
Date: Monday, May 06, 2002 at 04:02:14 AM
Email: misguan@knocknarea
Name: Maeve
Message: Ailell would beat the ghoulies off the lot of them. The only way I would rate Baldy; Bertie and Gerry is hoiw god they were in bed. Ruari is bald too and they reckon baldy men are better. Mary can test himself out and we will then decide how good they are. I read somewhere that Phil the Greek put his foot in his mouth once again . .the only man in the world who can kick his arse from the inside.
Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:04 AM
Email: td@soonatdail -I hope
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: Surs, our parties policy on glass eyes and false teeth and wooden legs is well known and has been known to the electorate of this constituency since yer man of the silver arm fought in the battle in Moytirra sevral thousand years ago. (His Doctor was a direct ancestor of mine, I might add) As regards glass eyes anyone in Sligo who needs one has only to go to Batty Flannery in Hanleys and he will cut one for him or her as the case may be. False teeth! Why you only have to go to Foley the undertaker and I'm sure he has lots of samples he could not get back into his clients mouths, and as for wooden legs, surely yez can cut a bit of a tree yerslef. Roll on election day, and if I win me seat I'll roll out the barrell!!
Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 01:14:30 AM
Email: tmapr@sligo.ie
Name: The Monument at Pearse Road
Message: And to think that this is what all these brave men fought and died for!
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 03:54:44 AM
Email: maybaby@hotlink.com.br
Name: joystar
Message: I have met an irishman from these shores. he will not be forgotten...he helped me into life again, probably doesn´t know how much...hope someday I can meet him in person to thank...
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 06:00:15 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.ie
Name: Seagull
Message: The men and women of this area have a long history of helping others through the problems of life, and W B Yeats who is laid in the heart of our homeland says in mockery: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" He means by that the negative side of life, and knows that we of Sligo with its ancient stones are always on the bright side which is why our nearest lake Lough Gill has the name the bright or shining lake.

Continued in Volume 29