The Captain's Log - Volume 33

Continued from Volume 32

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 09:50:53 AM
Email: ciaranatrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Volume 33 for ye. Looks like the mayoral campaign is going very well! I wonder did the "Phantom French-Letterer" get the message after Albert Bree's piece a couple of weeks back and then big John Ryan's speech at the campaign launch??
Ciaran
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 05:26:31 PM
Email: cc@rathcormac
Name: Constance
Message: Oh dear, no sooner am I erected than the realtives want to clear out of the place. Imagine puting my ancestral home on the market at this time.
Date: Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:44:53 AM
Email: le@crean'scross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: My dear Countess I am so sorry to hear the bad news about Lisadell. Alas we live in modern times, the gyres spin faster as Yeats foretold. One can only ask where will it all lead to in the end. We can only hope and pray that it will be in safe hands. At least it has not been desecrated like Hazelwood House or allowed to fall into ruin like Cleavereagh House and Browns.
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 01:26:07 AM
Email: gardai@sligo
Name: The polis
Message: We certify that we have checked all of the Mayoral candidates for tax evasion, rate evasion road tax evasion etc, etc. All we can say is that a bigger shower of cute hoors are in parliament, and these ones are safe beyond compare. So vote for the lot of them. And you too can donate to the Scout Den at Rosses Point
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:43:34 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: The Sligo Lyre Players Weekly is gone wack. I keep getting an edition from last August and if I wanted to read an august edition it would be The Irish Times however as 'tis the current edition of the Sligo Lyre Players I would like to read and I cannot read it I am left without anything to read about the area in which I reside and like to read about
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:44:49 AM
Email: qmch@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: Och MM what's up with ye. Himself is here ranting and raving that he cannot find out whats on in the Gaiety or the Savoy this week. I tould him forget them things I have nothing on at all!
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:45:44 AM
Email: cm@drumcliffe
Name: The Countess
Message: To thin this is what men and women went out for in 1916? The naked truth from Queen Maeve.
Date: Monday, May 26, 2003 at 03:24:44 PM
Email: spoonerisms@neologism.com
Name: Festy McFethridge
Message: Tis a fecking shame Sir J is selling out, sure did'nt de free state pay for de new roof for the BBC Aristos programme, I luv my people..."pull.....". and don't be looking at me cholerically, tis enough to give a dacent chap de runs. De wandering gyre de centre cannot hold, tis de universal disentrophy, will Casimirs potrait of Kilgallon be spraypainted over? with up the rovers or Kilroy was ere? Lisadell pale light of evening, Great windows smashed open to de south, 2 girls in cotton combats, both vacous, one quite unwell.....
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:51:19 AM
Email: cm@rathcormac.ie
Name: Con
Message: Now, now my good man Festy. The Gilroy's were caretakers and deserve to be recalled rather than Kilroy who is merely a.n.other in disguise at any rate. Cassie was indeed a very good artist and would even today better than yer man McDonagh that goes prancing around the house. In regard to your reference to my sister being unwell, please retract that. Eva despite her many sufferings was a very good poet and did much for the working and non working women, whilst men were only interested in screwing them in more ways than one, if you get my drift, Festy. Her poems are still sought and enjoyed by many to this day. Alas Eva sacrificed her talents as a poet for the love of her fellow man. Sarcasm was not required in her work or life. And I will have you know that Mr Branley An Cathaoirleach of the County Council and his able assistant Mr Roger McGuinn once of the Ropewalk are putting a motion to a special meeting to secure Lisadell House for you the people.
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:55:41 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Any news on the oul Mayoral election at the Point? Aye Countess 'tis right ye are. In fact 'twas yer grandfather supplied the axe I used in Ballymote to break the door down. Truth is he did not know I had borrowed the axe and he never axed so I never split on meself. I hope the shower sitting under me here on Quay Street put motions too about the house, only methinks they might prefer to pass them in a small room.
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:58:00 AM
Email: willie@the bank
Name: WBY
Message: I see the Editor of the Saturdayer and Sundayer has suggested Lisadell House would make a fine Yeats Museum. My good man should ahve it pointed out that there is a very fine Yeats Museum at the Yeats Memorial Building on Hyde Bridge. What is wrong with a Gore-Booth museum, after all the two gazelles did so much for so many, which proved Churchill's idiom wrong.
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 02:41:31 PM
Email: cuplafocail@spoonerisms.com
Name: Festy McFethridge
Message: A Con, de ya not know ye can take me quote out of context, but ye cana take de context out of me quote! Sure I wana talking bout yeself an yer sister, I was arising "to bid you strike a match, and strike another til time catch; should the conflagration climb and consume the great gazebo your forefathers built, for they convicted us of the guilt of preserving your clann's posterity! Now Con, bid me strike a match and blow!" and enough of yer smuttiness. As old Louis McNeice said once this personality business,tis a complete reductio absurdum, Is mise le meas, Festy
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 03:08:35 PM
Email: IKB@salford.mu.uk
Name: Islambard Kingdom Brunel
Message: Me hears this fellow Goreboot is asset stripping yee family estates now in Eire, his great grand uncle Henry caused ructions mortgaging half of Salford in 1850 to cunais several female acquaintences and their if not his progeny. Tis a bloody shame this chap has to sell the goose to live better on the hog. Was'nt he the chap who took a ship Aeolus of Greenock through my Manchester Ship canal and took those poor pheasants or was it peasents to New Brunswick. Can't that alumni of the London School of Economics Bartholomew Aharan not engineer a devilish plan to turn the place into a folk park or science museum.
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 05:08:40 PM
Email: bedehokey@fal-de-deh.com
Name: byegums,begobs,begorrah
Message: Scuze for being thick like, but what was Churchill's idiom loike? Roy
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 11:18:36 PM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: "Never before have so few done so much for so many" re The Battle of Britain. Possibly uttered by his double whilst old Churchill was having a number of doubles
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 11:20:54 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint
Name: Seagull
Message: Tisone sure thing about an Irishman, Ye can take him out of the bog but never the bog out of him and thats why he is always looking into the past in the mane manner. Begrudging a poor man 3 million of this monopoly money. Why can't ye be dacent fer once?
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 09:09:50 AM
Email: qm@misguan
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Did you ever read such bull*#@* in that rag the Irish Independent? Some thundering gobs*ite Damien Cassidy, a trustee of Kilmainham and I quote "It would be a lovely place for tourists to visit in County Sligo, where there is little else by way of tourist attractions". And this little hussie Nicola Anderson one might ask are her brains in the cheeks of her ass or what. This is war!
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:13:11 AM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: WBY
Message: How disgraceful for a Trustee of Kilmainham Jail to say that about Sligo. Why the man must never have read any of my poems? I will arise and go and hanut Kilmaninham . . .
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:15:18 AM
Email: cm@rathcormack
Name: Con
Message: Now, Festy this means war with the chappie in Kilmainham Jail and we must unite on this attack on Sligo as being bereft of attractions. Look at all os beautiful statues, and the site of the Battle of the Books, the beautul views from the shore, the lakes, the mountains. O mavrone mavrone I weep with rage.
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:18:12 AM
Email: le@crean'sx
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Send that shifty motherless sod down here to me and I will bash him with me banner. Irealnd free for the likes of that, that only knows Kilmainham and no place else. Has he never heard of McDermott or Billy Pilkington or Basher Williams or Donnie Cross? Or is it only Dubliners who fought for Ireland? How dare this impudent pup say things about Sligo that are untrue. Where is the Sligo Lyre Player now with its motto "Truth Conquers"?
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:19:34 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: The bloody Irish Independent was never Irish nor Independent and was and I see still is anti-Sligo. Tis high time we banned it from coming into the county. Roadblocks at the borders I say.
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:20:37 AM
Email: smaf@sligo.ie
Name: St Martin at The Friary
Message: I am a man of prayer and peace, but this fellow at Kilmainham Jail takes the biscuit. I will travel as St Joseph and set the ass upon him.
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:22:03 AM
Email: tm@mcrjunction
Name: The Monument
Message: Time to arise and go now once again and not to Innisfree but to Kilmainham Jail and release the memory of the heores from that mans ignorant grasp. Sound the charge and awaken the dead.
Date: Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 02:24:24 AM
Email: tmm@peace
Name: The McMarbh
Message: On behalf of all the war dead who fought and died for Ireland whatever you do lets us rest in peace. We're tired of you lot who don't know your history or your country as we did. Why we walked it from top to bottom and side to side and sometimes we were going side to side. Howver that said, as a last resort we will hanut that motherless sod if he does not apologize for his idiotic remarks.
Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 at 08:37:22 AM
Email: cupla.focail@spoonerisms.com
Name: Festy McFethridge
Message: Con, Lady E, PA, WB, St Martin in Friary, the erection in Strandhill, Our Lady at bottom of Gallows Hill and Temple St ( or was it an apparition, or too much Vin Ordainire from Monmarte?), we're right behind ye, onward Christian Soldiers marching to de Sligo drum, do a French Farmers job on the Middle Abbey street rag and their stool gazing columnists. Load the guano seagull, close the bomb bays....who says we need weapons of mass destruction to protect the honor of this fair land. Festy.
Date: Thursday, June 05, 2003 at 09:03:40 AM
Email: sblb@rossespointpier
Name: The Lifeboat
Message: I hear Candidate Devaney (K.) is having a mayorial fundraiser in Coda on Friday night. Hired some young lassie (or lassies?) to sing for the occasion too. I, unfortunately cannot attend as I have to be on call 24/7 as they'd say across in amerikay. Oh well...maybe one of the attending statues, whom I presume will be attending, will drop me down a 7-up and a few canapés?? Cheers lads...VROOM!
Date: Thursday, June 05, 2003 at 09:32:51 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Meself and Seagull want to enter some of our artistic work in the competition. But, how do we frame it?
Date: Friday, June 06, 2003 at 01:44:04 AM
Email: cc@rathcormack
Name: Con
Message: Oh Festy ye do me heart good. If I had had more gassurs like you in the Fianna Ireland today would indeed be free, but of what I don't know as we seem to have failed in freeing TB in animals, freeing women from the kitchen sink, men from being called to the bar. Why even the free milk and buns has gone from the schools! Worse the sod that is my descendant has sold the family bed, piano and chairs from Lissadell House. Nothing for a poor soul to sit on, sleep in or even to play 'Come back Paddy Reilly to me!"
Date: Friday, June 06, 2003 at 01:47:59 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint
Name: Seagull
Message: Vote me No 1 for Mayor and I pledge to purcahse Lissadell House and reclaim the chair, bed and piano. Me an MM are sick of living in the open air and it would be a nice place to return to each evening and gaze out the windies to the south.
Date: Sunday, June 08, 2003 at 12:30:42 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Well MM & Seagull if you do purchase Lissadell House I cna send you the overflow from the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed & Orphaned Men. We currently have a waiting list of men who have either "lost" their intelligence or have been given "wrong" intellegence. The tragedy is that many poor have lost out because of this lost/wrong intellegence as the money to provide them with food is now feeding muntions manufacturers. And as you know here at the E A FitzPatrick we only accept asylum seekers that are loaded luggage in brown paper bags.
Date: Sunday, June 08, 2003 at 03:54:17 PM
Email: electoralexpert@good@brownpaper€
Name: ChampagneCharlio
Message: Wha kind of a MAYOarl race is this? In my day...I paid a few oul ones shopping in A, suppermarket, a well dunn; gave out free 2XXXXdriving-licenses, setup a run on packaging-likes de world never dreamd! YE NEED EXPERT HELP!!! A: Ghoul-Will NOT HAUNT!! the bees 2 sting the cow and sour the milk! an B: FreeBees(solong as tis milk'N'honey)-Queue 2 Dublin outside CODA-compliments agusTV3. C: SeaseeGull-Lisadell House. D: Seamis O'G Free rooms 4 BROWN paperbags I propose As THE ONE AND ONLY candiate MARY HACKETT -Virtuall ROSSESPOINT 1€-1vote Adreess: MH Hacketts Rossespoint Co Sligo!
Date: Monday, June 09, 2003 at 01:59:10 AM
Email: sbil@rosses point
Name: Seagull's brother in law
Message: I suppose 'tis what you'd call one Euro, one woman, one vote?
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at 12:38:39 AM
Email: mylesnag@aol.com
Name: Brian Nolan
Message: Nice site, good job...I'm outa touch....but this brought back 20 year-old memories...all good 'uns...Hi to my sister Sheila (& Joe) Gannon in Rosses Point...and to Paul ..headin to East Timor...Eoin..in Taiwan...and Glen in some Carribean island... a few more of ye and they'd have the world covered... anyway...hello also to Frank & Ann Armstrong..hope all's well at the Point.. Brian Nolan, Oradell, NJ
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 03:58:43 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: What is happening in Sligo town at all. Some people want to knock the half of High Street down and erect blocks of apartments. Begobs WB when you penned that line about "fumbling in the greasy till" them fellows you wrote fo were indeed in the ha'penny place. Ould Sligo will soon all be down in the mash, as Gangster Reynolds used to say.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:00:23 AM
Email: smaf@highstreet
Name: St. Martin at the Friary
Message: Aye MM and what they take down will be like the fine edifice that once stood here, irreplacable. Why Brothe Philip can't even ring the bell in this church, the entire building could collapse from the sound waves. Some modern engineering eh!
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:03:09 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Agh, tis shocking that the men of '98 and 1916 are being dumped upon by this new crowd of money grabbers, tax evaders and one handed adulterers. Have they no shame to be trying to pull down lovely buildings that have been neighbours sor hundreds of years. Aye Willy, "The innocent and the beautiful/Have no enemy but time"
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:08:53 AM
Email: willie@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: Lady Erin, I quote from my poem "TO A SHADE" If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,/Whether to look upon your monument/ (I wonder if the builder has been paid)/ . . .For they are at their old tricks yet." All this ruckus about me visiting Lissadell House, which was only for a few nights at any rate. Why Lissadell House should commemorate the Gore-Booth sisters and their work and the generosity of their parents in hard times to tenants. I and my crowd have the old Royal Bank, a lovely edifice. But we must preserve the High Street of Sligo town. If not for our statues sake, at least for the descendants of the men and women who gave character to this town.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:11:13 AM
Email: cm@drumcliffe.ie
Name: Con
Message: Thank you Willie, I always knew that commemorative poem you wrote for Eva and I was well intended, though a little awry on finer detail. At least you rememebred us, unlike some who forgot very quickly our service and allowed our father's house to decay and the lands lie fallow.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:12:56 AM
Email: tm@pearseroad
Name: The Monument
Message: Save the High Street, sound the bugle and awaken the dead to haunt the living if we must. This is not progress, it is wanton destruction of the streets of Sligo.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:14:36 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Listen to me and the statues of Sligo ye shower in there in yon council chamber. Wake up before 'tis too late. I put an axe through a door in Ballymote, I didn't tear the building down.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:17:54 AM
Email: ttm@carricknagat
Name: The Teeling Monument
Message: Men and women of Sligo I call you all to the ramparts in High Street. Why we bought our victuals there for the 1798 Rising. Ah WB I have to recite this, "Was it for this the wild geese spread/The grey wing upon every tide; /For this that all that blood was shed,/For this Edward Fitzgerald died,/ And robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,/All that delirium of the brave?"
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 04:19:36 AM
Email: smaf@highst
Name: St Martin at the Friary
Message: The next Dance for the Statues of Sligo will have to be held here in High Street. Midsummer eve. And don't forget WB's birthday on Friday. We will all meet at the bank for a banquet.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003 at 06:59:14 PM
Email: paulgillen@hotmail.com
Name: Paul Gillen
Message: Greetings, I have traveled to Sligo twice in search of information on "My Gillens". This much I do know: My grandfather, Patrick Joseph Gillen, emigrated to New York City in 1908 from Ballyconnell, County Sligo. He was born in 1884 or 1885, the son of James Gillen and Bridget Gilmartin. I did not know my grandfather. He died in 1965 when I was nine. He shared little information w/ my father about the family he left behind in Sligo when he came to America. Mr. Regan, @ the County Sligo Genealogical Center, helped me w/ some basic information re the names and birth dates of my grandfather's siblings. I also have a copy of the 1901 Census that I have extracted some additional information from. If anyone has any thoughts on how I might proceed or knows of any Gillens that might be "mine", please feel free to forward this note or email me @ your convience. Thanks, Paul
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 12:26:21 AM
Email: willie@the bank
Name: WBY
Message: Thnak you to all who attended the banquet for my borthdya on Friday. What a party. Now Monday June 16 is Bloomsday and we must all read a piece from James Joyce.
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 12:27:38 AM
Email: cc@rathcormac.ie
Name: Con
Message: Did you all read the reports of the special meeting of the SLigo County Council to save Lissadell House. Great ideas and great talk, will the action take place is the burning question.
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 12:31:03 AM
Email: sg@rossepoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Someone has been firing shots into the air near Tabby McDonagh Place. Missed me tail feathers by centimeters!!
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 10:42:07 AM
Email: cupla@focail.com
Name: Festy McFethridge
Message: Sure con dem boys in de council ain't too fond of change and as Neitchze said "to change and to change for the better are two seperate things! The sulphurous gases emitted at such meetings of de burrow council or county council, are hot air, whimsey, horse s-it or burrow -h-t, full of sound and fury but meaning nothing. Why don't de lottery buy it for de state, tis'nt it hooching wit culture and daz wot we buy de lottery tickets for. Sure seagull is a culture vulture in disguise. "Et tu guano"
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 11:13:47 AM
Email: pollockelaine@aol.com
Name: elaine pollock
Message: What a site! I have tremendously enjoyed your site. It has brought back so many happy childhood memories of when we holidayed/visited family in rosses point. I am related to the Devaneys. My mother was Eileen Devaney who had 6 sisters & 1 brother. I still have an aunt there. Always remember my mother saying "Ben Bulben & Knocknarea show the way to Sligo Bay!"
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 11:43:49 PM
Email: sg@rossspoint.ie
Name: Seagull
Message: Arrah, Festy you make be blush. I just like to be aware of me "sirroundings" like Thady Kilgannon was. Anyway me ould mates MM, Lady Erin and P A McHugh always fill me little head with the great history of the place of shells. A score and eight years or so back, a delegation from the Sligo Chamber went to the Borough Council one night to discuss a traffic plan for the town and a Councillor from the North Ward who once wore the chain of office stated that the trio before them knew nothing of the history of the town! The same man used to fill a hot air baloon at every meeting which of course sent the agenda up in the air.
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003 at 11:49:08 PM
Email: willy@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: Why my friends are so many harping on about my slight connection with Lissadell House? Not a word about Thornhill or Merville, the former where I composed some work and the latter where I was introduced to fairy stories or the lovely Rosses where I holidayed and the fine edifices my ancestors once had there. A bank once made a gift of a bank alongside a bank of the river in Sligo town: the Yeats Memorial Building. Is that not ample for me have? Commemorate Con, Eva and their family at Lissadell, and the entire group of men and women who used their intellect to set Ireland along the road to self government.
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 08:40:19 PM
Email: Walt.E@true-blue.com
Name: Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Message: Congrats to all you fair statues living in the mankiest town in Ireland! Must be kinda nice to improve from "very heavily littered" to complete dump, cesspit, tip, armpit of the western world. My God I thought Gary Indiana or Calcutta's slums won that one, but Sligo you dun us proud! How can you improve ? crack open the sewers, pour the slop outa the windows, shovel the dung onto the footpaths until its up to PA's neck on his pedestal ?Ya you guys is right Sligo sure surprises the crap outa us tourists. Tabby's Gondola's can be used to punt about on rivers of cess running down your streets pulled by the pigs, let outa your parlours. Have a nice day now muckers, here! Walt.
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 12:14:26 AM
Email: willy@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: Now, Ralph, I am amazed at you sending doggerel like that in!!
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 01:39:46 AM
Email: avduffy @aol.com
Name: adrian duffy
Message: very interesting history i was back three years ago from canada were i now reside. it was the first time in twenty three years i was in ireland i am eileen devaney son from the lower rosses my aunt masie (disceased) and betty lives there to this day i wish that i was there now anyway we can allways dream regards to mrs hacket who treated me with nothing but kindness when i visited her yours fondly adrian duffy and my father willie who is from donegal (bridgend)
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 11:27:15 AM
Email: cm@rathcormac.ie
Name: Con
Message: Oh Festy imagine how shocked I was to read in the Saturdayer & Sundayer that my paintings at Lissadell House and those of Cassie have been sold for filthy lucre!
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 11:03:08 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Now look here Mr Emereson this here report was of flawed pedigree and this ahs been confirmed by non other than Marc son of Sunny Ray of Alcantara and when it comes to talking of persons with flawed pedigree Sunny Ray of Alcanatara is an expert. So next time you want to bag the place of shells with undignified ditties that don't even rhyme, look in your own back yard first. Better still have a peep into Dubya's cupboard.
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 11:06:30 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Sirs with all of these 4 & 5 star hotles now coming to Sligo, how on earth are we at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed and orphaned men to compete? All these furringners with brown paper bags will be going there. Do yez think we could purchase Lissadell House? ( Only the poor buy, the wealthy purchase. We tried to make a donation to the Rosses Mayoral Election, but the powers that be said we were trying to bribe a candidate.
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 11:05:04 AM
Email: mayor@rp-walking-the-2nd-beach
Name: The-Mayor-To-Be
Message: Seamus, when I'm mayor I'll be proposing the purchase and renovation of Elsinore so ye can move the good asylum over to this side of the pond. I'm sure E A FitzPatrick wouldn't begrudge the widowed and orphened men the chance to get back to the auld sod were he still among us now, would he?? The vote counting in the Rosses Point Mayoreal Campaign is taking place on this Friday night (the 20th) in Hacketts so all interested parties, watch this space!
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 09:42:53 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Tonight's the nite as the young fella said to his bride once upon a time. Well tonight is the night for the Mayor, so me and Seagull are off to the pub to act as scrutineers for young Devaney.
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 09:44:43 PM
Email: trd@roscommon
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: Now look what a doc lets happen to the health boards. My goodness when I was in the Dail we would not stand for this lying down as this young fella whose ancestors came from Grange is in regard to the dismantling of the Health Boards.
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 09:45:20 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Tell me reel doc, is them boards made of wood?
Date: Friday, June 20, 2003 at 05:07:38 PM
Email: RWE@true-blue.com
Name: Ralph Waldo E
Message: WB do you know your dog form your doggrel,"to be great is to be misunderstood" and every hero becomes a bore at last. Sure "what is a weed but a plant whose virtue is undiscovered" and if you fair town be that weed of towns with tumbleweed blowing on its fethid streets. "society is a wave, the wave moves onward, but the pestilent waters of which its composed of does not". "A foolish consistency WB, is the hobgoblin of little minds" why then is your town so good at coming last in your tidy towns competition? Walt.
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 02:12:02 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Begbs thery are all so full of beer and wine over yonder at the Mayoral election coun they have forgot to send a signal to let us know who is the Mayor.
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 02:17:03 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Dear Mr Emmerson 'Tis unfair to be asking our fair poet such impertinent questions. The Yeats family along with Lady Gregory, AE, and many others did much for this little nation. Do we go your country and ask your statue to account for the untidyness of your borough? No sir. So ask the people who litter and the people who judge. And while your at it question the parents who raise their children with out any civic pride. Dammit man we who have been memoralised in stone and brass have tried and did our best for the ancestors of the citizens of today.
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2003 at 12:36:51 AM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Maeve
Message: Himself called me out of the cairn the other night saying there were ructions over at Ros Ceite. He has to use the telescope he bought in Sweeney's the Optometrist's these days, the eons are catching up on us both! Anyway didn't I have a gawk meself and begobs there was a real oul hooley going on. Then Seagull arrives and says there all too drunk to count the votes! And that there dancing between the pubs. Says I if ye call that dancing then I'd hate to see them waltzing!
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2003 at 03:17:09 AM
Email: willie@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: Are these Special Olympic anything in resembalnce to the Talteann Games we held a hundred years ago?

Date: Monday, June 23, 2003 at 06:23:30 AM
Email: silksunrise@yahoo.com
Name: Blaze
Message: Haven't been in for a long while! See yer all still keepin' the faith and the bar seats warm! ;) Nice one Rosses Point! Can't wait to come back for a meal at Austies! Ta Ta for now...
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 03:48:16 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Have any of you read the nostalgia piece by yer man Foley the Australian in this weeks Saturdayer and Sundayer? He's on about the lovely names of places that are here in Ireland and how the current generations don't use them properly.
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 10:47:57 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Makes one wonder Lady Erin how come we can get news from Foley in Australia and the news of the Mayoral election in the Town Hall, but nary a word about the Mayor of Ros Ceite. Perchance did he or she run off with the money? Come on there wiht the news and don't be shy. The world awaits you like an oyster.
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 10:54:29 AM
Email: tn@drumcondra
Name: The Boss
Message: How yez all doing down there in county Shligo. Bejabbers didn't I get great news, yer man Flood wants to retire. I wish the lot of the feckers would get tired of these inquiries and let us get on with ruining the country, That's a typo should be 'running'. Wasn't yer man Sunny Ray of Alcantara the wise man. Yez can't bate the fellas from the west. Look at The Doc, born again Christian. That happened after he fell into Lough Derg in the south and was nearly drownded. Must be true what they say about yer life floating past ye. He ran the whole way to the other Lough Derg in Donegal and came back cured. For his last year in the Dail we had to kneel and pray outside the Dail bar every night with him. The daughter is doing well, yez will have to buy her book when it comes out. Slan agus gra, Bertie sans anorak plus Celia.
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 11:44:32 AM
Email: charlottehaker@web.de
Name: Charlotte
Message: Hi all together, this page is absolutely brilliant. You can find so much information here...that's so great. I'm from Germany, 24 years old and I'm visiting Sligo since I was 14...my first time in Sligo was ´94 as a student of McGarrys stables and I came back every year, sometimes twice. Worked in the stables for some time. I cant' wait for july, I will come back then. Thanks for such a great Homepage. I myself am webdesigner, if you need help, photos, etc. just contact me! I'd love to find more friends in Sligo! Greetz, Charlotte http://www.lotteswelt.de
Date: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 12:32:20 AM
Email: gerryianclarke@hotmail.com
Name: gerry clarke
Message: dear kieran, congrats on such a wonderful site.i have really enjoyed it, particularly the metal man. it might intrest you to know that it was my greatgreat grandfather who cast the metalman/men in the ham foundry in ballina all those years ago. i plan to visit the man himself this summer,perhaps we could meet up? by the way,if its not too late,good luck in the election. regards, gerry clarke.
Date: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 12:57:22 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A Mc Hugh
Message: The good news on the Mayoral Election in Ros Ceite is that Tom Devaney won the competition. Why could not the pair of Kierans tell us the news? Is because they went on a holiday with the funds? I was reading the AGM of the Rovers and nary a mention of Dixie Dean or Neighbour Fallon or Johnny Chadda.
Date: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 10:02:41 AM
Email: webmasteratrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Apologies for not letting you all know straight away who the newly appointed Mayor of Rosses Point is. I was, as correctly surmised by MM, away for a few days. I left on Friday so I actually missed the fun. So sorry about that folks! Dunno what Kierans' excuse is, mind you!
Date: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:56:58 AM
Email: damian.mullan@ntlworld.com
Name: Damian Mullan
Message: nice site very informative.keep up the good work , i hope to visit rosses point mid-late july damian
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2003 at 05:31:07 PM
Email: nanaannemarie@aol.com
Name: AnneMarie
Message: Beautiful site, I can smell the water. Are there any Middletons still in the area? I would truly like to get in touch with them. My G grandmother was Elizabeth Middleton, born about 1845 in Sligo. I have been told we are related to WB Yeats through the Middleton connection. that's where we all get our wonderful gifts of language and words! Some day I will come to visit. Looking forward to re visiting your site! Thank you for the dreams
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2003 at 07:22:21 PM
Email: spoonerism@cupla.focail.com
Name: Festy McFethridge
Message: Bye gum Ros Ceite has a mayor and truly needs one for that bountiful burrow of beautiful scenery. Tis rumoured Mayor Tom made a Rolls Royce of an inorgural speech...... Well oiled...almost inaudible... and it went on for a very long time..... Bouchais le dia, Shona diabh go leir Festy.
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 01:26:22 AM
Email: cm@rathcormack.ie
Name: Con
Message: Imagine a Mayor of Ros Ceite, how wonderful and I heard about the famed speech in which he promised the sun the moon and the stars but instead delivered a small fortune for the Scout Den. I hope that your sea scouts are like my Fianna Scouts.
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 01:28:52 AM
Email: willy@thebank.ie
Name: WBY
Message: Dear Ann Marie, possibly we are related. I am thrilled that some one of my blood kin on my grandmother's side has the gift you say that you have. Like Words upon the Window Pane you may hear me at your side one day.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2003 at 02:28:43 AM
Email: le@creans'cross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Well PA wasn't that a great turn out objecting to the new radio station. Imagine that new crowd saying that the people of the NW are of lower class, backward etc. etc. This will show them.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2003 at 02:30:38 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Aye indeed LE, this new shower of counter jumpers sons that are in business today. Looking down on everyone as they drive around in leased cars. I remember many of them when they had nothing and now all that the can do is insult the dacent people of NW Radio.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2003 at 02:31:53 AM
Email: mm@rossespointcom
Name: Metal Man
Message: Me self and Seagull agree with you PA. The weather was good and we had bumper crowds here at the beach today. And all the rdios were indeed tuned to NWR.
Date: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 at 12:50:17 AM
Email: aewing@ix.netcom.com
Name: Aubrey Ewing
Message: I was surprised and interested to see my name appear in Frank Kelly's story entitled "The Great Snow". I wonder if someone can give me more information on the Ewing's of Rosses Point. In the United States, this is not a common name. Aubrey Knox Ewing III Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Date: Friday, July 04, 2003 at 12:34:38 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Ewing my dear lady in America is a popular name here in Rosses Point. One of our great golfers was the late Cecil Ewing. You are always welcome to visit The Point in person as well as on-line and do tell your family and friends about Rosses Point.
Date: Friday, July 04, 2003 at 12:37:31 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A MCHugh
Message: Friday morning and neither sight nor sound of the latest edition of the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly online! And worse it appears that the Saturdayer and Sundayer has become interested in making people pay to access the nostalgia column. The sad part about this is that they don't pay those who spend their time writing these lovely articles about times past. Shame.
Date: Friday, July 04, 2003 at 12:39:57 AM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Och me dears did yez read yer man from down Cliffoney way complaining about the land the Gore-Booths have and how they took it from the natives hundreds of years back and shouod give it back. Well what about all the living people whoi have had not alone their belongings but their character as well. Try to give that back.
Date: Sunday, July 06, 2003 at 05:55:39 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Be the holy the ould sod looks like its in a state of chassis! Betie san anorak is now sans Celia be the looks of State dinners he has been attending recently. Mary mac a loose cannon celebrates the fourth of July in Ireland: the Irish National Day she celebrated far away in Australia! Add in the climbing dole and the promised cutbacks in bad back pay outs from falls on slippery floors and begobs the cute hoor industry will make another cut in taxes payable and never collected. Potholes will be on the increase and the mid-block route might be put on hold. Ireland is in the 21 century and the tiger has gone home to Africa.
Date: Monday, July 07, 2003 at 05:46:31 PM
Email: teachban@dc
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Coney Eyeland, Oyster Eyeland and surrounding eyelands I come before you to stand behind you in time of war, pestilence, starvation etc, etc, I wish to stand once again for the White House, alas it is the only standing I do these times. How I envy Slick Willy. Even Laura complains these nights. Tony my little English terrier is sticking to the intellegence of mine which is small but no doubt middling about the weapons of mass destruction in Eyerack. The Pope thought wrongly it as about destroying Mass an I tol' him myself noooo sir. However as I am sent by God to do his work I need 200 million greenbacks to get back into the White House. That's what Laura wants in compo!
Date: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 at 11:15:05 PM
Email: ll@large
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Honestly Patrick Sarsfiled never got treated like this when he blew up the ammuntiton dump at Ballyneety. A few miserable million euros and all this hullabaloo. Ye'd think I was a criminal or something. Ye know if Jack was back, or The Boss was in charge this kinda carry on with tribunals would never be heard tell of. The day these fellas found the brillo pads to scrub themselves was a bad day for us hard working politicans.
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2003 at 04:40:17 AM
Email: pam@townhalli.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Ye won't believe this but 'tis a fact. The fella in the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly that puts the news on line went on vacation, yep took holidays, a break, and he took the bicycle that drives the generator with him. Its a tandem bike, 2 man power genrator at the Lyre Players modern office, and yer man and his wife went camping at Dooney Rock, Dromahair and Glencar. No, not all three places at the on time!
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2003 at 05:20:11 PM
Email: le@creancross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: P A my good statut there is a min edition of last weeks Sligo Lyre Players Weekly up at the monet on the internet. And there is a great tale of a fly by night visitor who stung the town. Banks shopkeepers one and all. Good on him.
Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 at 05:32:12 AM
Email: ll@thecastle
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: My name is William and I won't tell them what they think they want to know about my affairs because maybe I can't and maybe all I have is cant and make believe and maybe I don't know anything about my affairs at all because they could well be someone elses affairs that they are asking me about and then I would not know would I would you would anyone know what wood the wood is buried in and if it is in a wood is it an oak wood or a mulberry or apple or . . .
Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 at 05:34:35 AM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: Be the hokey imagine a pommie hairdresser becoming a carpenter in Sligo. I suppose shaving hair is no different than shaving wood and did you see how he shaved the Bank of Ireland. Imagine how poor Iggy must feel. Embarassed or just red in the gills?
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 10:12:14 AM
Email: tsw@place of shells
Name: The Shadowy Waters
Message: Never mind the bank, that was small fry. The likeable rogue at large bought a new jeep with a bank draft and some weeks later gave a sob story to the man from whom he bought it, who bought it back and gave him cash. The original seller then sold it again only to have it repossessed by the finance company from whom the likeable rogue had obtained a loan:)
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 02:47:08 PM
Email: SuzieC@etas.cc
Name: Suzie Somann-Crawford
Message: I enjoyed the article by Bruno Fehle. My father, Viktor was also on the SS Arandora Star when it was sunk. He was then brought to Australia and internned here for the duration of the war. He passed away on the 13th July 2002 in his 91st year.
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 11:50:32 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Indeed changed times in Sligo to read in the Lyre Players Weekly as well as the Saturdayer & Sundayer that the incumbent leading citizen wants to preserve a big house for the people. Lord Dunsany and AE must be laughing after all they work they did for the people of Ireland.
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 11:00:30 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well my record as the only man that nere told a lie remains untarnished. Tis a pity the same cannot be said for the 'Coalition of the willing donkey ends' Dubya, Call me Tony and Little Johnny.
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 11:23:27 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Be the holy good God the world is indeed in a state of chassis as O'Casey wrote. Why this week we have had more knocks and pleads on the door of the E A FitzPAtrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned men than ever before. One fella said his name was 'Call me Tony' and the Beeb were out to get him, than along came a fella says his initials are CIA and a large bush had fallen upon him. Then along came a fella who shouts through the letter box, "I'm Comical Ali, and he who laughs last laughs best." And off he goes with a roar of laughter whilst the asylum seekers tremble!!!!
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 11:30:01 PM
Email: gwb@teacban.dc
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Coney, Oyster and surrouding eyelands. Dis here carry on by that there media crowd in Londing is all wrong. My pal Tony stuck by me when Schroder and Chirac tol the truth, but I had the best intelligence and Tony said my intelligence was good, now believe me no skool ma'am ever tol me I had good intelligence they all said I was stewpid which is avarage ..I could never figger if avarage was a woman in a temper or someones age! Anyway we was seeking nukeller weapons not nuclear and dere is a difference. 'Cause my Daddy and Mommy tol me.
Date: Friday, July 18, 2003 at 01:17:37 AM
Email: fancy.focail@gobsmacked.ie
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Bedehokey, tis subject to royalties loike byegums, gegobs, egorroah, becrumbs, bejaysus, bexhrist from de performing rites society. Surely to feck dat fellow Ciaran would know dat from TV3 (more fees. Dis site is (allegedly liable) for de fees incurred by de contributers of dis site. Dis is de cream cheese, dr dogs bollox of websites, even if some folk don't know Megan is a Welsh name and de Irish foresook those inadequate members of de celtic brethern yonkes ago (some men went up a mountain and came down a hill just cause dey sobered up). Finbarr P.S why is Sligo so surprisingly dirty, minky, mankey, salach? Could Ciaran pls channel all swearing fees to Tabby's campaign to buy Lisadell Hse for winter Gondala storage.
Date: Friday, July 18, 2003 at 07:59:00 AM
Email: quietlywild@comcast.net
Name: Nidia Cullen
Message: Hello: I enjoyed your site. Thank you. I will be visiting Sligo in October, so your site is fodder for my soul. My true destination is Drumkeeran, where family resides. Kindest regards, Nidia Livermore California
Date: Friday, July 18, 2003 at 05:18:38 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Be the powers that light me light it must be Tabby's ghost that has been seen polling a gondola up the lake. Now Festy how about a new election in Ros Ceite to buy the Blind Man's Fort. Foley has only one eye so he says that lets him out from bidding on the place. But seeing that we have a Shinner first citizen who unlike his precedents wants to rescue a big house instead of heating the surrounding area with it, we might get a space there for the gondola in winter.
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 09:24:51 PM
Email: carl @duttonlocks.co.uk
Name: Carl Leckey
Message: Great trip would like to do the real thing sometime. Good luck
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:47:42 AM
Email: ll@large.ie
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Dear Metal Man how can it be that everyone in the world believes you are the most honest person? When all that you do is flash in one direction. Here I am flashing all round and assisting poor people to buy more land and what do I get but called, "Liar, liar your pants are on fire". Oh woe is me and now me fine mansion is up for grabs. As Padraic Colum wrote, "Oh to have a little house . . . . " Sunny Ray how luck you are down there and away from it all.
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:51:35 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Lucan old chap, flash in one direction maybe all that I do but all that I do is doing good for others in peril. Like the birds in the air I don't worry about bread of any sort, be it greenback or dough. Strangers sing to me as they pass with gratitude, "You are the light of my life." Take my advice and that of Oscar Wilde give it all away man and that of WBY "Come away oh stolen child, for the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:55:39 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Well I never saw such a crowd running for a train as there was last Friday for the no ticket day. Blind men cycling to the station to get a free trip to Dublin. Wheel chairs cast aside and crutches discarded in scenes that made a miracle at Lourdes look like an everyday occurence. One traveller who had to get off at Ballymote said it reminded him of being on a train in Calcutta, people hanging from the baggage racks and sitting on the roof!
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:59:56 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Lady Erin did ye ever hear about the member of the Sligo polis who was sent to catch Roundy Smith sleeping in the train carriage overnight? Well the polis went into McHugh's for a drink beforehand, he was in civvies. He sat in the carriage about one in the morning and fell asleep. Unknowst to him Roundy was asleep in the luggage rack directly above him - the lights were not lit, so to speak - anyway Roundy turned over in his sleep and fell off the rack and on to the sleeping polis. Each man ran off in opposite directions!
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 01:04:46 AM
Email: tm@thejunction
Name: The Monument
Message: P A there was a fella diggin a grave one wet and misty morning in the old cemetery. T'was alongside the path and 'twas just getting light when the grave digger stepped out of the grave and into the path of a gentleman taking a shortcut through the cemetery. Like Roundy and the polis each though the other was a ghost and the passer by ran home screaming and the grave digger never came back!
Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 at 07:41:18 AM
Email: fancy.focail@gobsmacked.ie
Name: f mcferret letter from fairyland
Message: Woz dis about Lissadell being a "black hole" for de state finances, sure Farmleigh was offered to de state for €6 million and they dithered til it had gone up to €25 and then de drumcondra supporters club got old rope for virtual "scaffolding" which was less than suitable or sufficient for purpose. What if de local govt representative donated some of their pneumatic expenses, sure dat would pay for 10 Lissadells, even one Farmleigh. There is no major attraction in the NW, Lissadell could be turned into a museum to Irish politics full of greasy tills, collections of brown envelopes, mohair suits and greeks bearing gondolas. " A Barba de neico apprende todos a rapar" - all learn to shave on the fool's (de great Irish public)chin ! Finbar
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 01:46:14 AM
Email: cc@drumcliffe
Name: Con
Message: Why my dearly loved people of Ireland and particulalry Sligo omit any mention of my dear sister Eva when you talk about Lissadell House? Why even Willie Yeats who spent but a few days visiting there gets more mention than Eva.
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 01:49:38 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: My dear Con, like everything else in life they hang onto a little of what they know instead of exploring furhter. The biggest laugh in Sligo must be the Town officilas who sold the Buttermarket a fine property in mid town for one million and now want to spend four million for a new council depot.
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 04:10:09 PM
Email: fancy.focail@speechless.com
Name: Finbar McFerrett
Message: PA give those boys a raise and more expenses, just loike de lawyers they'll say what goes around, comes around and they is de main stoker of growth in de local economy! They is de reason people come to Sligo, to be very suprised! In fact de high incompetence of de local burghers is de reason so many people is attracted to Sligo. If de state ever gets off its pedestal (no offence to you PA) and buys Lissadell, it won't be Constance, Eva or Willie dat will be de attraction, but actors in full costume playing de part of de idiot savant burghers in de Tabby memorial folk park. It will be laughter in de aisles or isles, crack material for de Kilkenny comedy festival which will move to Sligo to be closer to de true font of farce.
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 11:11:28 PM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: Dear fellow Sligonians, well after being so long up here I am indeed rooted to the spot, however I digress from my task. "The Boss" Bertie of Drumcondra sans anorak and now sans Celia will be visiting our fair city with his parliamentary colleagues for a meeting of the waters. Whatever you do when the sing song begins please don't sing, "I wonder who's kissing her now", or anysong about broken hearts etc. Now broken promises are a different matter and you cna sing about them to your hearts content, oops!
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 11:13:49 PM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Finbar, I have heard it on the bush telegraph that the land at Cranmore that them fellas in Quay Street want to use belongs to the Tabby estate!
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Date: Sunday, July 27, 2003 at 11:05:31 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Me dear Ghoul, yes and no. Yes indeed Ballyconnell belongs to the people of that area, their tribe at least. Alas, as we now have legal ownership vested in individuals either jointly severally or unilaterally this raises a problem. The other side of the coin is that this family were 'robbed' by the deliberate inaction of government in the past 50 years. So in fairness three million is a little compensation. The intricacies of handing it to the State are more complicated than at first appear and there is the cost of maintaining it in the meantime.
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 01:12:02 PM
Email: fancy.focail@soapbox.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Good on ya PA!, who begrudges de begrudgers anyway, sure tis rumoured der is fellas up in Rusheen who got 9 for 20 acres and poor ould Josslyn would'nt be a wolly jumper and be fleeced twice! If I win the 5 million rollover tonite I'll buy it meself and let you all in for €30 per car. Sure de ministers are spending more at de Galway races. Where is de lottery cash when we need it, sure is'nt dis de dogs bollix of projects. Never could stomach those insipid kinda fellas meself, sure de micks is worse just look at Lord Classiebawn in Mullagmore. I see now why Sligonians put you up on yer pedestal PA,. Is mise le meas Finbar
Date: Friday, August 01, 2003 at 01:05:37 AM
Email: willie@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: My dear Finbarr, if I may address you in such familar terms, you appear to be a rock of common sense and remind me of many a young Irishman that lived in garrets and cellars in my time. Honest, decent,intellegent and FOR Ireland. One wonders how after all we did, Edward Martyn, Lady Gregory, George Moore, AE. Collins, Griffith and FitzGerald to name but some, this is what has come to pass? Greed, sloth, envy, etc, etc. James Joyce at least saw the way it is,while we dreamers and visionaries must await our dreams and visions to become reality, alas not on this green isle just yet.
Date: Sunday, August 03, 2003 at 04:27:24 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The mackerel are bing caughg by means fair and foul, aye and some are using fowl. One fell hit a golf ball from the third green and hit a mackerel on the head just beneath me plinth. Thankfully it missed me. "Tis nice to see the crowds around 'The Point'. How come Strandhill got the big radio tv thing? We'll have to get young Keiran and TV 3 down here.
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:17:27 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Oh I have been having a recurring nightmare for the past number of weeks. I dream that extreme republicans are calling public meetings in Sligo to save the big houses and castles originally built by the Anglo-Irish!! 90 years ago they were destroying them, so it can't be true
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:19:42 AM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: P A if you think your haveing nighmares what about the one I have of the leader of the real and true Irish people holding his daughter's nuptials in a French town guarded by English soldiers.
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:23:09 AM
Email: tm@albertline
Name: The Monument
Message: Well I can only say the monument that laughs last laughs best. Imagine I and my fellow monuments have been besmeared for years and "The Boss" goes off and pisses on the real Irish people from France and a chateau on a small height at that. I can hear the ghosts in the war cemeteries of France laughing too!!! The fools the fools.
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 01:14:13 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man & Lady Erin
Message: We wish to announce that we have purchased Lissadell House and are now seeking tenders for the erection of many tourist attractions.
Date: Friday, August 15, 2003 at 12:16:13 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Samus O Gallagher
Message: Aren't we lucky at the E A FitzPatirck Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men we have our own power from a VW beetle engine donated by our patron in his last will and testament. The only problem is it bunrs oil at a great rate and the EPA bang on our door. Someone the name of Charlie called up says he has to leave his mansion in Ireland and is seeking temporary accomodation here.
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2003 at 08:56:25 AM
Email: gobsmacked@fancy.focail.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: A ghuine usuala, ta me speechless at the lack of puck of de public representatives from de shelly place.De loss of Lissadell to Sligonians and de nation is a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions. For FCUK sake they spent 5 times as much on de Jeanie Johnston a future rotten mass of drift wood in 50 years. People of Sligo look at de VFM from your public representatives and ask could you buy better in Lidl! As Margaret Thatcher said "Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you are'nt!" De local burghers ain't no ladies, so what are we paying for??????? Ochon, Ochoon, Ochooooon, Ochooooooon OOOOOOOh! Finbar
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 01:20:33 AM
Email: willie@the bank
Name: W B Y
Message: Ah Finbarr, tis like the the Lane Gallery. The Dubliners would not subscribe then, just as the Sligo people won't put their hands in their pockets today. Sligo wants everything for nothing, and pay no one for anything.
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 10:18:33 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Well there's one sure thing the publisher of the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly won't be paying a cent toards the next Eastlife wedding, then one between yer man the chipper's son and the millionares daughter.

Continued in Volume 34