As some of you might know, I am the General Secretary of the Connaught Rangers Association whose only purpose is to honour the dead of that fine regiment of the British Army, to remember the wounded both mentally and physically who suffered for years as a result of wars and […]
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Private Egerton Arthur Emerson of the Connaught Rangers – Teb
One day in May this year I met a woman in King House here in Boyle who asked me the question as to how a man from Drogheda came to be fighting with the Connaught Rangers, we talked some more and this is the story that came out of that […]
Volunteering For Pleasure.
The two main thing you have in spades in retirement is dwindling money resources and plenty of time. Dwindling money resources, what with bankers, government and markets all joining up to rob you of all your hard earned that you had put by for a rainy day and plenty of […]
Ireland Then and Now
As regular readers of my blog will know, I had the absolute privilege of helping to put on a couple of live performances of a play From the Shannon to the Somme written by Neil Richardson which in a quiet way showed the changing face of Ireland in the years […]
Does Charity Begin At Home?
Well certainly it does but there are circumstances where it definitely shouldn’t and the tale I am about to tell is one of these circumstances. “Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Collectively and […]
Duggan: Was He Or Wasn’t He.
On the 23rd August 2011 I wrote a posting entitled Questions To Be Answered a quizzical look at an almost anonymous priest of the Salford Diocese and on the 30th April 2012 I followed it up with an allegorical look at the same question, How Not To Sew Seed: An Allegory […]
Remembrance Day 2012 At King House In Boyle
With rain threatened we all descended on King House at about noon to prepare for the event. As it happened the day was bright but as the afternoon wore on conditions tended to deteriorate but it stayed fine for our service. This is the 10th year we have commemorated this […]
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Prancing, Preening Popery.
I started this blogging vehicle on 24 November 2009 and since then I have written 59 blogs almost on a daily basis with the exception of an alcohol refuelling stop over the Christmas. Blog writing is a little like walking across the Sahara Desert. You set off nice and fresh […]
Decline and Fall.
For my secondary education in Manchester I went to St. Bede’s College, the Premier League for all Catholic boys, having first of all passed my 11+ examination and attended an interview with Monsignor Thomas Duggan, the Rector of the College. It was a school run by priests with a good […]