We Know what you paid

[hamish]

Don't usually listen to the Joe Duffy Show but did anyone hear it today? Apparently a Priest/Parish in south Roscommon decided to publish a list of parishoners and HOW MUCH THEY PAID towards the cost of his parish house. Total per house was to be around 570 euros but some had paid only 20 or 30 - list was to "encourage" them to contribute the full amount.

Unbelievable - he got crucified on the show, even by elderly RCs

[Plastic Paddy]

My father (who, incidentally, sends me a "jokey" text message every Sunday morning reminding me that "Fr. Joe is waiting ;)" - :mad: ) stopeed attending Mass for over twenty years because his name was read from the altar one Sunday for not having paid the appropriate contribution to some fund or other. Scandalous.

No feckin' example at all, any o' them; neither moral, social nor financial. Praise be to God for Liam88! :cool: :D

:ball: PP

[Plastic Paddy]

No feckin' example at all, any o' them; neither moral, social nor financial. Praise be to God for Liam88! :cool: :D

Liam, I'm trying to send you a PM. Clear your inbox out ffs, you donkey... :rolleyes: :p

:ball: PP

[paul_oshea]

Total per house was to be around 570 euros but some had paid only 20 or 30 - list was to "encourage" them to contribute the full amount.

f off, it was ballinasloe, galway. not roscommon, galway. sly one with the south roscommon hamish!!! :D


over what period of time was it though??? i dont understand???

[Green Tribe]

my priest at home sounds similiar, but he's never went that far..... :eek: :D :rolleyes:

And the 2nd priest has a 5 bedroom house :eek: and a big flash top of the range audi :rolleyes:

[hamish]

My father (who, incidentally, sends me a "jokey" text message every Sunday morning reminding me that "Fr. Joe is waiting ;)" - :mad: ) stopeed attending Mass for over twenty years because his name was read from the altar one Sunday for not having paid the appropriate contribution to some fund or other. Scandalous.

No feckin' example at all, any o' them; neither moral, social nor financial. Praise be to God for Liam88! :cool: :D

:ball: PP

Place is near enough to me - Taughmaconell - know a lot of people there who're involved with Skyvalley Rovers FC. A sounder, more decent bunch of people you couldn't meet anywhere. This highly progressive and successful club raised the money for their own ground in 1984 - all raised locally, no lottery then - have added a second pitch and other facilities lately.
It's only a townland too.
Reminds me of Meath where at funerals the contributions were read out.
Priest claimed that there was no intention to pressurise anyone and also said that he never thought, in advance, that people would interpret it as pressure.
Now, he's either very hypocritical or very stupid. Jesus, he was crucified on the show.
The story broke when the Athlone Voice had something about - must hobble out to the brother in law next door - he gets that paper.
A real GUBU story.

[paul_oshea]

stopeed attending Mass for over twenty years because his name was read from the altar one Sunday for not having paid the appropriate contribution to some fund or other. Scandalous.

PP, i assume your father lives over here, surely he could have just gone to another parish???? :confused: :confused:

that priest was just a poor implementation of catholicism. your father shouldnt be leaving the church just because of one ignorant priest. :o

[Plastic Paddy]

Well now sirhamish, you know where my lot are from, so you may possibly know the parish and the priest in my father's case. Small world and all that.

Which leads me on to a second-and-final warning for O Sé tonight. Diss Ballinasloe and you're taking on two of us. East-county-Galway(and Sligo)-via-Shepherd's-Bush here, and proud... :mad: :p :D


PP, i assume your father lives over here, surely he could have just gone to another parish????

that priest was just a poor implementation of catholicism. your father shouldnt be leaving the church just because of one ignorant priest.

No, that was back then (1950s) in east county Galway. He was young enough for it to have etched something on his mind for many a year. He's back at Mass now though. :)

:ball: PP

[hamish]

f off, it was ballinasloe, galway. not roscommon, galway. sly one with the south roscommon hamish!!! :D


over what period of time was it though??? i dont understand???

Utterly wrong POS.

Taughmaconnell is in south Roscommon, about ten miles from Beeslow and five or six miles from Athlone. It's not near Galway. :p Address is Taughmaconnell, Ballinasloe, Co. Roscommon OR Taughmaconnell, Athlone, Co. Roscommon - depending which part of the place you live.

Roscommon begins near "new" Dubarry Shoe factory, not the Suck.

Don't know about the time factor TBH - wasn't mentioned on show.

Can you imagine the people who couldn't afford it. A young lass who works part time in shop across road lives in Taughmaconnell and certainly wouldn'y be able to stump up 570 euros.

[CollegeTillIDie]

sir hamish

You of course are correct. Used to be secretary of my Colleges Women's Soccer team, back in the mid 1990's and our centre forward was from that area her postal address was Ballinasloe and she played bogball for Roscommon! :D

[Plastic Paddy]

Rós tries to encroach on Ballinasloe but falls a couple of miles short of the town, if I remember correctly. One of my abiding memories from childhood (long enough ago now) was the change of the flags on the houses from maroon-and-white to yellow-and-blue soon after leaving B'sloe on the Athlone road. :)

Good thing too. Keep the Rossies out, I say... :p

:ball: PP

[hamish]

my priest at home sounds similiar, but he's never went that far....

And the 2nd priest has a 5 bedroom house :eek: and a big flash top of the range audi :rolleyes:

How would you know - I thought you were a pagan??? :p :D

[hamish]

sir hamish

You of course are correct. Used to be secretary of my Colleges Women's Soccer team, back in the mid 1990's and our centre forward was from that area her postal address was Ballinasloe and she played bogball for Roscommon! :D

She probably played for Bealnamulla FC - ladies club which has a smashing new ground on the Brideswell road. Then again, must check RTE2 Aertel = page 552 - I think Skyvalley Rovers have a girls team in action at the moment so she might have played for them at some stage.

[hamish]

Rós tries to encroach on Ballinasloe but falls a couple of miles short of the town, if I remember correctly. One of my abiding memories from childhood (long enough ago now) was the change of the flags on the houses from maroon-and-white to yellow-and-blue soon after leaving B'sloe on the Athlone road. :)

Good thing too. Keep the Rossies out, I say... :p

:ball: PP

I think the Roscommon sign is between Creagh Church and Dubarry Shoes - about a mile or mile and a half East of River Suck.
True about the flags - Ballinaslovians will support both counties in Connacht Championship, as long as they're not playing each other - then the true colours are shown. :D

[Plastic Paddy]

Dubarry Shoes

:eek: :o

My feet still bear the scars of their leather slip-ons...

:ball: PP

[Green Tribe]

How would you know - I thought you were a pagan??? :p :D

I used to be a nun, you know.... :eek: :rolleyes: :D

[hamish]

I used to be a nun, you know...


:eek: :eek:

You ARE joking??? I dodn't know there were penguins in south Fermanagh?

Sister Jooooooooooleeeeeeeee, where's my cathechism? I can just imagine the scene. Thank you soooooooo much for that ammunition. LOL :D

What Order so??

[hamish]

:eek: :o

My feet still bear the scars of their leather slip-ons...

:ball: PP

Remeinds me of a spoof blues song I wrote for a micky mouse band I was involved with in the early 80s. I think the chorus went something like:

I'm walking tall and proud in my Dubarry shoes,
Guess I'm coming down with the Ballinasloe Blues.

Ah , the good old days.

LOL :D

Sadly, there's only about 40 involved with Dubarry now, it's mostly a distribution centre for shoe imports from Portugal.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Remeinds me of a spoof blues song I wrote for a micky mouse band I was involved with in the early 80s. I think the chorus went something like:

I'm walking tall and proud in my Dubarry shoes,
Guess I'm coming down with the Ballinasloe Blues.

Ah , the good old days.

LOL :D

Sadly, there's only about 40 involved with Dubarry now, it's mostly a distribution centre for shoe imports from Portugal.

Sir hamish

The Bard of Ballinasloe :D

[hamish]

Sir hamish

The Bard of Ballinasloe :D

More like The Beeslow Bull$h!tter - but you're too polite and kind hearted to say that, aren't you CTID??? ;)


Aren't you?? :eek:

Gas thing about it was that little band (called "Vienna" btw) had a bloke on bass called Sebash Matthews. He was from Singapore and a psychiatrist in St. Brigid's Mental Hospital here. When we had a gig lined up we'd ask, "Sebash, are you ok for Friday night?" He'd reply, "Nah, can't make it, I'm on duty in the madhouse". :D
Imagine getting therapy from him??
Last I heard of him, he'd left Lucan and moved to Wolverhampton or somewhere like that.
He was a football fanatic too and great craic. I actually signed as a witness for his Irish naturalism papers thingamajig.

[CollegeTillIDie]

More like The Beeslow Bull$h!tter - but you're too polite and kind hearted to say that, aren't you CTID??? ;)


Aren't you?? :eek:

Hey that was a class couplet here's one of mine


" You were rotten to the core/ No butts about it that's for sure" :D

[hamish]

Hey that was a class couplet here's one of mine


" You were rotten to the core/ No butts about it that's for sure" :D

:D :D :D

Sound like a lament for the UCD backfour??? LOL

I added an edit to my above post btw.

Didn't this thread start about a priest in south Roscommon???

[paul_oshea]

No, that was back then (1950s) in east county Galway. He was young enough for it to have etched something on his mind for many a year.

ah pp, it says it all now, east galway, perfect sense. all put into context i take back what i said. area stands for a hell of a lot. :)

look three of the greatest players to play for galway in the hurling were from the ros side of balinnnaaaaasloooe, so remember that children.

how is hamish right CTID, if he says bsloe is in galway and her postal address is bsloe and she played for ros??? that would make out i was right. though then again i said bsloe was in galway so???? what do you mean young man?

[hamish]

ah pp, it says it all now, east galway, perfect sense. all put into context i take back what i said. area stands for a hell of a lot. :)

look three of the greatest players to play for galway in the hurling were from the ros side of balinnnaaaaasloooe, so remember that children.

how is hamish right CTID, if he says bsloe is in galway and her postal address is bsloe and she played for ros??? that would make out i was right. though then again i said bsloe was in galway so???? what do you mean young man?

Oh, for Jesus sake, POS, you're starting to annoy my hole. I fcuking LIVE here. Beeslow hinterland area takes in a huge area - Galway AND Roscommon - Mountbellew, Moylough, Kiltormer AND Taughmaconnell BUT Taughmaconnell is Taughmaconnell, Ballinasloe, Co. fcuking Roscommon while the eastern side of Taughmaconnel can also be Taughmaconnell, Athlone, Co. Roscommon. The letter wil get there no matter what county or nearest big town you put on the envelope.
I get fairly regular footie stuff from the Skyvalley Rovers lads and their address is Taughmaconnell, Ballinasloe, Co. Roscommon. That's where their ground- Oonagh Park - is located.
Anyway, you're North Roscommon - Ahhhh, now I know what you're up to - you know that there's a great rivalry between south and north Ros - even in Gah so you're winding us up.

Anyway, you showed me yourself that Beeslow straddles both counties - you even posted a map, for Jesus sake. That's was only a month or so ago.
Jeez, I even worked for a mining company back in 78 taking soil samples from both sides of the Suck so if anyone knows every inch of the place and where's where, I do.

Get up the yard, ya levitt. :D LOL :p

[hamish]

Plastic Paddy, fellow townsman - will ya go over and give that fella a slap and I promise I'll edit out all the Belladonna abuse I posted. LOL :D

Third paragraph - last two lines:

http://www.roscommonherald.ie/community/story.asp?j=1055

Even An Post has it wrong, then, nothing surprising about that. If you said to the lads in Taughmaconnell that they're in Galway, they'd be very.....er....hurt. :D

[paul_oshea]

good to see you posting a quality paper there, are you trying to tell us something hamish?

but what has that got to do with the price of milk??

[hamish]

good to see you posting a quality paper there, are you trying to tell us something hamish?

but what has that got to do with the price of milk??

LOL Repeat after me POS Roscommon/Taughmaconnell, Taughmaconnell/Roscommon.
Plastic Paddy is coming round to ya with a big weapon. :D

Herald was very good to me when I was involved in football - gave great coverage to the game.

[Plastic Paddy]

Plastic Paddy is coming round to ya with a big weapon. :D

Leave me outta this. Any man that's content to diss London whilst happy enough to work and earn a crust in this fine city ain't worth my time. You know who you are. :eek: :mad:

:ball: PP

[hamish]

Which leads me on to a second-and-final warning for O Sé tonight. Diss Ballinasloe and you're taking on two of us. :m

Knew I could depend on you....................NOT

:p :D :D

Back on thread, priest also said that they've plenty to spend on other things. Spoke to some people today - he's a total looper.
I believe there's hell to pay over it in the parish - one person there said if they came round to his house, he's kick them off his property and he has paid the full amount!!!!

[anto eile]

that priest was just a poor implementation of catholicism. your father shouldnt be leaving the church just because of one ignorant priest. :o
he should leave the church because its a sham

as for any priest that asked me for money id tell them to go f*ck himself

[hamish]

he should leave the church because its a sham

as for any priest that asked me for money id tell them to go f*ck himself

Brother in law works very near there - just told me that priest has a long list of crazyiness.
More concerned about London now TBH - hope you're not over there and if so, are ok man.

[Green Tribe]

LOL Repeat after me POS Roscommon/Taughmaconnell, Taughmaconnell/Roscommon.
Plastic Paddy is coming round to ya with a big weapon. :D

Herald was very good to me when I was involved in football - gave great coverage to the game.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :D

[hamish]

:eek: :D

Trust you to make it double meaning - I, of course, never meant it that way. ;)

Hussy :p :D