The Captain's Log - Volume 32

Continued from Volume 31

Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 10:42:26 PM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
Here's a new volume. Please continue to fill it with your generous and amusing ramblings and thoughts!
Rgds,
Ciarán
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:01:40 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Thankfully we have something to rejoice in the midst of turmoil on the world. Imagine if yon eejit Bush mark 11 had enlisted the assistance of the Statues of Sligo allied to the Lyre Players Weekly and the oul Saturdayer and Sundayer for propaganda, and of course herself and himself atop yon mountain. Why, man dear he'd have had Iran in the palm of his hand without having to land one plane at Shannon for a toilet break.
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:02:52 PM
Email: blackrock@rossespoint.com
Name: The Lighthouse
Message: Flash yer right flash Metal Man flash I agree flash with you flash. 'Tis flash dizzzying flash . . . .
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:03:54 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Arrah Lighthouse can't ye stay still fer a few seconds, ha ha, yer flashing there like a man with nothing on.
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:07:23 PM
Email: tgb@pearseroad.ie
Name: The Gillen Brothers
Message: We Roddy, Gavan and Michael Gillen once of Pearse Road and now of Ros Ceite are planning to take over the County Sligo GAA team. 'Tis high time the Sam McGuire came to Sligo. All interested parties are invityed to attend a meeting to decide stratgey and players at Corscaddens or the Boathouse on the 31 April next. PS bring your own boots, and gear as this will be done on the cheap.
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:09:01 PM
Email: tgbatsea
Name: THE Gillen Brothers
Message: Dem fellas from Sligo town have a cheek living in Rosses Point. We're the original Gillen brothers and most of us went to see the sea, however if they can work a miracle with the Sam McGuire we wish them the best of luck.
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2003 at 11:12:22 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs MM, 'tis a good job bush mark 11 didn't enlist the Lyre Players Weekly, not a bit of it to be seen on the www since the ides of March. Yer man in the cemetery must be happy at the reduction in free news from the place of shells to the world. I heard the Liam Tymon has all of us statutes for sale in New York, alas it proves the yanks will buy anything:)
Date: Friday, April 04, 2003 at 09:36:11 AM
Email: SBLB@rossespoint.com
Name: The Lifeboat
Message: I was just having a quick gawk out the window of me boathouse the other evening when I noticed a strange light. It took me a couple of seconds to work out that it was indeed my friend the Metal Man with a brand new solas! Bejaysus MM, you're like one of them fancy new cars with the halogen headlamps now! I'm looking forward to my crew taking me out the bay on a nighttime jaunt just so's I can see what kind of range you have.
Take it handy, Elsinore nua.
Date: Saturday, April 05, 2003 at 12:34:16 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Arrah shure Lifeboat, 'tis not my style to be boasting about anything. Yes, indeed a brand new halogen light. I can see things I never saw before at night now. You would indeed be interested to learn that a few couples have moved their bedrooms to the other side of their houses since I got this solas mor !!!
Date: Saturday, April 05, 2003 at 12:39:56 AM
Email: er11@buckhouse.uk
Name: HM QE11
Message: May Phil the Greek and my good self hide on Coney or Oyster when that dimwitted Texan comes over to Europe soon. Even the corgis went berserk when that young man Blair jerked his mouth and head as he spoke of President Bush's forthcoming visit. I do believe he wants to talk to the people of Ulster. Is he going to thank them for being guinea pigs for 30 years or more in training soldiers how to deal with anarchists or is he going to threaten Paisley that he will not need to buy laxatives if he won't toe the line? Oh dear what has the world come to.
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 12:08:43 AM
Email: twm@edenhill.sligo
Name: The Monument
Message: To think that I was erected after "The war that was to end all wars." Now the leaders of the coalition of the willing are coming to Ireland to discuss what next to do in Iraq. I notice the little Australian fella is not invited.
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 12:12:53 AM
Email: tsol@njshore
Name: The Statue of Liberty
Message: I need your assistance monsieurs. As you know I have lived here on tne New Jersey shores for more than a century, and like the Metal Man never told a lie to anyone, only welcomed one and all with an upraised arm. (Metal Man can vouch how tiring that is for so many years). I hear that this eejit Dubya now wants to remove me as part of his anti French tirades. He proposes to put me on the Tigris!!!
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 12:50:05 AM
Email: 1798@carricknagat
Name: Teeling
Message: Monument, what's the betting Dubya's visit to Northern Ireland won't include any sightseeing. Just like his (visit) years in Yale, he never once set foot in the library there. On his last day he asked a fellow student, "What's that builidng over there?" The astonished response, "The library!!"
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 12:53:13 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: The news from the statutes in Washington is that Dubya has people read the bible to him every morning at six AM and he takes his cue from there each day. The White House chief of Staff has bought a Triumph Herald motor car for Dubya to ride around Iraq in. It says in the bible, "And Moses came out of the desert in his triumph."
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:10:01 AM
Email: teachban@washington
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Rosses Point, I am coming to Belfast fer a few short days, alas I can't get to visit you because of cant and discussions with "call me Tony" of London and Bertie of Drumcondra. One of my aides read a passage from the bible to me yesterday about "Moses coming out of the desert in his Triumph." We looked up 'Triumph" on the internet and saw O'Gara's Garage of Sligo and Ballisodare had a Triumph for sale in good condition, well shod and taxed. Can any of you go and check the car out as I want to ride into Irag in a Triumph just like Moses. Which is the better Triumph: Herald, Vitesse, Dolomite, 2000 or convertible?
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 10:58:03 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Dear Mr Dubya, may I suggest that you try the Sligo Motor Engineering Works, Adelaide Street; McGowan & Nairn Motors Wine St; O'Connors Garage and Hotel, High Street or Gilbride himself in Bridge Street, and of course O'Gara's on the Short Line and Ballisodare. Now if you have no luck with these you could go the Gilmores or Daly's in Ballymote, Brennans in Collooney or the blacksmith in Coollaney. I don't know if any of the Sligo blacksmiths' Kelly or Hamilton on the Short Line or Gillen or Conmey on Corcoran's Mall would have a motor car, but they could indeed make great shoes for your white horse, or if you choose to ride on an ass like another great man 2000 years ago, they would ensure it was indeed well shod!
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:00:37 PM
Email: ihum@teachban.us
Name: Isaac Humblemouth
Message: On behaff of President George W Bush, not to be confused with his daddy who is already confused with his son who is totally confused about the world at this confusing point in time I thank you sir Mr P A Mc Hugh for your advice. Now can someone tell us is there really an airport in Belfast that is not pot-holed?
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:04:05 PM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Maeve
Message: Yer man for the new world wants to know if there is unpot-holed airport up yonder. Of course there is sir, alas its very wide and not very long so the pilot will have to be alert and awake. Remember forewarned is forearmed and tis better to be forewarned then afterwarned if ye get my drift. PS If yer up to it himself is away for the week. hee hee.
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:15:59 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.ie
Name: Seagull
Message: I heard that a medico gives Dubya a medical every Monday morning and that last week when the Doc checked Dubya's inner ear with his little torch the light shone on the floor behind Dubya! Is it true that the meeting at Hillsborough will take place in the library, but that every book has been removed except for one copy of the bible. Not for Dubya to read himself but for one of his aides to read to him. This will be the second time in his life to be in a library, as he never had reason to visit one when at school or at Yale.
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:18:32 PM
Email: bigian@ulster
Name: Ian
Message: Now listen here Mr Dubya there's only one mon with a grasp of the Bible and that's me. So don't come here preaching on my territory. I'm the saviour of Ulster. Yankee go home and take the micks with ye.
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:20:43 PM
Email: conin the crate
Name: Countess Markievicz
Message: Oh if only my statue was erected at Drumcliff I would lead the charge myself. How come there was no trouble like this getting Willy and P A (twice) and Bart Teeling erected?
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2003 at 11:21:58 PM
Email: le@creanscross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Why my dear girl, you forget I was here first to flirt with the men, so you see why they got erected so quickly. :)
Date: Monday, April 07, 2003 at 07:18:12 PM
Email: stone919@yahoo.com
Name: Patrick Stone
Message: Hello! I'm descended from Irish Stones -- a line of Patricks, actually -- who came to the US in 1860. From the little research I've been able to do, it seems that Stones haven't been on Inishmulclohy in centuries! Is there some concentration of us nearby? Where are all the Stones now? Best wishes to all in Ireland, and especially to all in County Sligo. :) / PS
Date: Monday, April 07, 2003 at 10:45:30 PM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: The last Stone in Sligo town was a man who had a grocery shop in Old Market Street and his neighbour's were the Rock family.
Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 at 11:27:00 PM
Email: teachban@us
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Rosses Point we had a pilot on board by the name of Devaney and he put Airforce One down in Belfast on a runway that was so short but so wide I could not believe it. We landed with a thump and Colin and Condelleza both looked do pale with the shock! Gee this land is so green what fertilizer do you use? I could run a few thousand buffalo here. The fella with the beard and glasses Gerry ??? made a few jokes about me be'en an amdadan ?? . .Bertie says it means a big gobshite in Gaelic and "Call me Tony" made a little laugh. Thank you for yer help on the auto, I look foward to riding into the middle East when the whole area is serene and peaceful a week from now and the A-rabbs go back to riding camels and herding goats while we the intellectyouals run the free world. Excuse me I has an incoming call on my mobile . . .sorry that was my banker saying I just hit another trillion in my savings. Be like me trust in God, that's the name we call our greenback. So long.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 06:08:07 PM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: On a serious note ,a great friend of Raughley and Rosses Point Mr Brendan Herrity has passed away in USA.He was a wonderful,kind man& loved the Point where he will be returning to on Sat. next. R.I.P.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 02:21:09 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Wherever our children roam they never forget their earthly home. A spiritual returning is indeed consoling for those remaining in Ireland who have suffered silently from the departure of their family and friends to othere shores in years gone by. God is great.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 02:27:14 AM
Email: tet@gayparis
Name: The Eiffel Tower
Message: Madams, mademoiselles & monsieurs, I 'ope you all understand the reesun our Prisdent object to unilateral invashun of Eeraq. The UN is offeecal body to take care of all of the peeble and dear countree and not jus the oil wells. See 'ow the 'ospitals are been looted and robbed. Disgusting eh? Statues of Sligo I am so sad to see false liberty, how lucky you are that you have 'oly wells and not oil wells or, is dis how you say it, the gobshites Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would be invading U2. Vive la France, Vive la Sligo and Vive la UN
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 02:33:10 AM
Email: sp@irishpress.ie
Name: Sean Press
Message: Howya this is Sean Press Foreign Correspondent of The Irish Press reporting from Iraq. Saddam Hussein was seen heading over the Iranian border in a Vauxhall Viva with a sticker on the rear window that reads "Another fine used car supplied by Joe Dunleavy Motors, Kennedy Parade, Sligo" It was distinctive in that it was leaving a trail of burning oil. A US offical spokesperson said, "Saddam is trying to lay a smoke screen." An Arab bystander observed, "No, not Saddam's trick, Joe Dunleavy the only man to fool Sadddam selling him a car without valve seals!"
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 08:47:33 AM
Email: gwb@teachban.usa
Name: Dubya
Message: This guy Dunleavy he tried to sell me a Vauxhall Viva to ride into Baghdad, claimed it was better than a Triumph. I had my dad look it over. It said on the brochure that no one ever sat on the back seat, dead right, hundreds camped on it and not a few wimmen lost their cherries there!!
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 12:50:37 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: If Saddam had purchased the Vauxhall Viva from Templeton it would have been an Opel Kadett in disguise sans valves let alone valve seals!
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 12:55:49 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: The Sligo Lyre Players Weekly is not to be seen on the web. Rumour has it that the ghost of one who once ran it on a shoe string budget is indeed happy that there is no free news availble. Those who sit in the chamber here in Quay Street are happy because no one from afar can criticize their inaction by constant gasbagging. Ah well the ould weekender better jingle jangle along the banks of the Sligo River.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003 at 07:45:00 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Bad enough that the Lyre is not on the net,but for those of us who drive many miles to buy a copy every Thursday night to find it is the only County paper not to arrive in N.Y.This happens twice per month.Oh if we could only get the weekender.
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 04:24:29 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: My dear back avenue how terrible to have to drive so far and possibly in wind snow and rain to get the news from the ould sod. I will take this matter up with McHugh of the Weekender who is a distant relative of my own and hails from the County Leitrum like meself.
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 04:44:23 PM
Email: tvernie@yahoo.com
Name: Terry Verney
Message: Kieran and the crew, I have missed the storytelling and banter since you left London, I look forward to coming either to you or you to us at the earliest opportunity. I love the look of the village and really can't wait to come along and see the proper way to wait patiently for a pint of the black stuff. Longing to be somewhere peaceful Terry
Date: Friday, April 18, 2003 at 04:29:53 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Seagull would ever go into Barton Smith's and get me a big golfing umbrella?
Date: Friday, April 18, 2003 at 04:30:30 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Off course MM, why is the sun too hot for ye?
Date: Friday, April 18, 2003 at 04:31:23 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Not the sun Seagull, these bloody golfers keep hitting me with their blasted balls!
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 at 07:08:21 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: One month without the Log is just too much.The loss of the Liar i can bear,but not you,thank you Ciaran.
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 at 09:16:11 AM
Email: webmasteratrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
As you can see, we appear to be back up again. Sincerest apologies for that few weeks downtime. Everything is hunky-dory again. (Or at least I hope it is!) Please keep your pearls of wisdom coming as much as before.
Best regards,
Ciaran
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 at 11:00:29 AM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: All my fault I'm afraid. Forgot to pay the rent. Now paid for the next two years so we're back in business!
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 at 05:54:28 PM
Email: down@Muddy sheebean
Name: The Real Metal Lady
Message: Must have been a rear sale of eggs up in Greenlands! Great to see the Point back online.
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:29:25 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well I never in all me days saw such a carry on as this triennial disaster. And me just about to talk about all the latest news and now tis all gone from me short term memory! The Sligo Lyre Players Weekly is back with five minutes of reading material and the date is changed once a week as usual. Otherwise one would think it was still the 1800s.
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:30:39 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Your right MM a triennial disaster, yer man Devaney puts everything on the long finger. "Tis no wonder his mobile gas cooker keeps getting cut off!
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:35:15 AM
Email: hm@buckhouse.uk
Name: QEll
Message: You people of Rosses Point and Coney Island don't realise how lucky you are. I had that little ma from Australia Sean Beag visit here last week, event he Corgis cringed behind the chairs. One cannot turn ones back to him for all he wants to do is lick. Absolutely deelighted the book is back. Beats listening to cross-eyed 'Call me Tony' and his man of Straw and the Hoon blathering on about some place called Eyerack and how that horrid Texan will evangelize the middle east and make the world content.
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:39:19 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: In the past few days we have had a request for accommadation at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men from a dozen or so people wearing black berets and carrying trunkfuls of dollar bills. One of them gave his name as Sean Mac Hussin and says he was from Ballintogher, but his accent sounded more like he was from far east of Ballintogher.
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:46:21 AM
Email: tndd@teacleinster.ie
Name: The New Doc in the Dail
Message: Just to let you all know that I'm working hard fer yez all. I have been able to have the contract for the new road through Sligo town given to the following: Wehrly Bros, Gillen Bros, Bellew Bros, O'Connor Bros,The Dodge Bros,the Marist Bros, Monson & Co, The Sligo Wood & Iron Co, Harper Campbell, Fatty Jackson, Blackwood & Co, Soup Healy 1, 11 & 111 (for the supply of chicken soup for the workers). Thank you one and all for your contributions of suggestions for more things for Sligo. The next item on the agenda will be the widening of the runway at Lar Easa, there have been complaints that it is longer one way than the other and this will even things up!
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 12:54:58 AM
Email: cc@drumcliffe
Name: Countess Constance
Message: How could anyone do this to me!! Just as I get erected you pull the plug on this site! Are you all afraid of the power of us females? It's still unfair here in Sligo three or four female statues to several male.
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 12:53:49 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: MM you would not believe the state of the village road. Fellas diggin fer water have left it in a state of chaos. And to add to this people are parking their ass and carts and bikes along the old road on the two sides. Gavin Gillen side swiped a few of them the other night walking home from Austie's! And then he fell into on fo the pot holes and the life boat had to be called out to rescue him.
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 12:55:40 AM
Email: sgbil@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull's brother-in-law
Message: That's nothing SG, there all afraid to drive on the new road says it's haunted by a ghost of a donkey. Some other fella reported a kangaroo. Makes one wonder what's in the Woodbines these days!
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 12:58:33 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.,com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Never mind pot holes and haunted roads what I wnat to know is how come I have stood here in fair and foul weather for close on two hundred years and all I ever got was a new coat of paint and the odd new lamp. And the first time that Paddy Boles wired me up with the electric I got a shock! How come no one will make me a Freeman of the place? At least like Michael Yeats I was not born in Sligo, which makes me wonder ho can you make a Freeman a Freeman?
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 03:36:37 PM
Email: jeal@ihug.com.au
Name: John Houze
Message: g'day to all in R.P the question is: Ciaran for mayor of Rosses Point! vote no 1! regard to Calista and family happy days John, Ali, Katy (10), Tessa (7), Tadhg (5), Luka (5months)
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:19:00 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I would like to propose and second myslef for the posiiton of Mayor of Rosses Point, Coney Island and Oyster Island. After all I am in a posiiton to know what the place requires after spending these past years watching the lot of you, and if you people living along the promenadem I'll tell the world all about your goings on!
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:21:08 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Arrah give over your ould codding MM, you only want the free trips to America on St Patrick's Day for launching books and lunching in Queens with a bunch of queens. I'll be the best fro Mayor as I can deliver the manure right to the door, sometimes on it!
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:25:13 AM
Email: tgb@somewhere
Name: The Gillen Bros
Message: On behalf of Roddy, Gavin and Michael now of the Rosses and once of Pearse Road I axe yez all to vote for the first triple mayorality of Rosses Point, Coney Island and Oyster Island and we'll throw in the Blackrock too! We promise that the new road through Sligo town will come to Rosses Point, and that the runway at Strandhill will be extended to Coney Island. Oyster Island will have a new longe with a seven day twenty four hour license and that the brothel on the 19th hole at the GC will be filled in on grounds of morality or lack of same.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:29:31 AM
Email: gb @shamrocklodge
Name: The Real Gillen Bros
Message: Now look nere you lot of townie blow ins, de yez tink fer one minite we will take this standing up or lying down. We propose our family man Don as Mayor. He will clean the lot of yez out with his golf club and on his own he will build a new hospital, old folks home and asylum for the area, fill the potholes, tar the streets and paint the town red.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:34:35 AM
Email: tb@mountstreet
Name: The Boss
Message: Be the holy did yez see the polls, no not the polis, them's never to be seen when ye want one. Imagine all the empty promises I made personally to the peeble of Ireland and dis is what yez do to me, yes me, Bertie sans anorak plus Celia. De yez tink if I was to reinstate the 1800s proposal of a rail link between Sligo and Rosses Point it would do me any good?
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:38:52 AM
Email: wwog@themart
Name: Wily Willy of Grange
Message: Who is the eejit running this site? Why man dear I spent a night sleeping rough in a first class hotel in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the middle of Ireland so that I could start early in the morning and play a round of golf in the four provinces of Ireland in the one day and I did and you were not on line to report that I did what I did and because I did what I did and said I would did it I did did it. Now in future pay your bills on time and you can have it recorded in this wonderful guest book that I did what I did when I did did it! Willy the one armed golfer.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:42:29 AM
Email: willy@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: My dear Mr Farrell, by chance are your related to the Sean in Lady Gregroy's "Rising of the Moon"? Spike Milligan would be proud of you with your aliterative 'diddys'. I once heard a lad on Sligo quay, circa 1880, sing a ditty, " Did he or did he not not tie her . . . in a knot." Perchance some one could tell me where this line originated.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 02:44:12 AM
Email: smaf@sligo.ie
Name: St Martin at the Friary
Message: The next ceili for the statues of Sligo will be a welcoming one for the Countess. Pat O'Hara is tuning the oul violin ofer at Corscadden's with the Bughouse Five.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 03:47:46 AM
Email: magfenn@msn.com
Name: Maggie Fenn
Message: We are visiting this summer. Looking forward to the beauty of the land and more importantly the beauty of its people.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 06:17:42 PM
Email: bob.law3@virgin.net
Name: Diane
Message: Hi, I keep coming back to this excellent site. Still looking for details of my g.g.grandfather Thomas Devaney b.1856. and his father Patrick. Believe they were both licensed victuallers. Thomas was in liverpool by 1881 and remained there until his death.Any info gratefuly received. Keep up the good work!
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 02:34:43 AM
Email: tc@rathcormac
Name: The Countess
Message: Oh Willy you are indeed still silly about those little ditties. Casimir and Oliver Gogarty would do well to be here and enjoy the banter that goes on at this guest book. I see things haven't changed with empty promises being made by replete politicans. Fancy that a Mayor of Rosses Point and all for Charity. I hear Willy there is a very good essay on your poem about Eva and I in a new book on your grandfather titled Prodigal Father Revisited.
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 02:40:40 AM
Email: willie@the bank.ie
Name: WBY
Message: Ah my dear Con, Indeed those were the days when Caismir was the great raconteur of The Arts Club. Yes, I have been informed of that essay, it is titled 'Every Paddlers Heritage'. And did you see where my son received the honour of being made a Freeman of the Borough just like your self Con. Old times indeed and we thought the country was drowning in drink then! Bedad the crowd today would leave the men and women of our time in the ha'penny place. P. A McHugh and Lady Erin are lucky to be on high pedestals. Twas only passing dogs one time!
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 02:48:35 AM
Email: tgb@pearseroad.ie
Name: The Gillen Bros
Message: The planning for "Bring the Sam to Sligo" is going to take a little longer than we thought. We were swamped with volunteers to assist us, indeed so swamped Corscadden's fell into the lake and half of them drowned. Well when we got back out of the water there were many missing, so we assume they drowned or went to the pub and drowned their interiors. Our plan is now going to be set for the year 2020. A nice round even number and that will be the odds also of us bringing the "Sam to Sligo". One suggestion was that we hire this years winning team and bring them to Sligo for a months holiday. We could then put the Sam in Mullaney Bros windie in O'Connell Street. More anon and tell no one else but yer man in NY Liam MacGus is on the look out for a couple of good forwards.
Date: Monday, May 19, 2003 at 12:25:52 AM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Och what's wrong with young wan. There were never male chauvinists in my day and there should not be any today. All for one and one for all that's our motto. You young ones are all about being on top. With us who know that men and women are equal its equal time on top. And for heaven's sake what woman wants to be chained to office, ha ha.
Date: Monday, May 19, 2003 at 02:26:24 PM
Email: rebuzno@aol.com
Name: Bill Bray
Message: Looking for any Bruen who has delved into the family history of the Bruens of Rosses Point and Sligo Town. My wife's ancestor, Edward Bruen (b. 1820), according to one official record was born in Co. Sligo, but we don't know exactly where in the county. We suspect he was related to the Bruens in Sligo town who lived there in the 1860's to 1880's. Can anyone help? Thanks! Bill Bray Midlothian, Virginia USA
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 01:40:04 AM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Keys of the office tucked away in yer cleavage! Neither good to man nor baste up there. All you'd get outta of it would be a pearl necklace. My office is in the right place and ye can haunt away, the village is all lit up these days with the electric. Add in the Metal Man with his halogen torch in his hand and the flasher on Carraig Dubh and sure not a one would see hide nor hair of ye. Them Bruens yer man is seeking might be the ones owe meself and himself for a few calves and lambs their fox took.Let me know if ye find them.
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 01:44:53 AM
Email: tmob@irag.us
Name: The Mare of Baghdad
Message: Greetings el Mare of Rosses Point. Meester Bush he make me Mare of Irag, he said I 'ad a fine ass and I tell 'im I never 'ave an ass only a 'orse and he was a jennet. Meester Bush he ask "What's a jennet." I say " You are" ha ha ha all the village go. Could we how you say it?, make a tie between our City of Baghdad and your city of Rosses Point. We could exchange Mare now and then. Meester Bush he say you have holy wells and no oil wells and that why he no go to there.
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:44:17 AM
Email: MM@aa.com
Name: ContinuityMetal Man
Message: Vote Kieran Devaney for Mayor of Rosses Point!
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 12:57:18 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Why waste space with idiotic messages,when we can have fun?
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 05:03:41 AM
Email: wille@thebank.ie
Name: WBY
Message: How can the Sligo Weekender insult me like this. Imagine giving a big piece of a page to a new book which has all of my faults listed and they ask the people of Sligo to defend me? Me the son of the Great Yeats! I'll call a good defender. Foley where are you?
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 05:05:11 AM
Email: cg@rathcormac.ie
Name: Constance
Message: Oh Willy if I had a gun now I'd defend you to the hilt. 'Tis all McBride's doing. Running off and marrying Maud.
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 05:07:05 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Now, now Con take it easy. The pen is mightier than the sword, or gun in your case. And remember paper never refused ink, so Mr Jordan can write, but answer me this will he be in as many libraries as Willy? No, my dear.

Continued in Volume 33