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 " - ) 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!

PP

[Plastic Paddy]

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

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

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!!!


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.....

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

[hamish]

My father (who, incidentally, sends me a "jokey" text message every Sunday morning reminding me that "Fr. Joe is waiting " - ) 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!

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????

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

[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...

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.

PP

[hamish]

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


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. 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!

[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...

PP

[hamish]

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

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

How would you know - I thought you were a pagan???

[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!

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...

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.

[Plastic Paddy]

Dubarry Shoes

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

PP