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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
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
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Liam, I'm trying to send you a PM. Clear your inbox out ffs, you donkey... :rolleyes: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
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f off, it was ballinasloe, galway. not roscommon, galway. sly one with the south roscommon hamish!!! :DQuote:
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.
over what period of time was it though??? i dont understand???
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:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
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.
PP, i assume your father lives over here, surely he could have just gone to another parish???? :confused: :confused:Quote:
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.
that priest was just a poor implementation of catholicism. your father shouldnt be leaving the church just because of one ignorant priest. :o
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
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. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
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Utterly wrong POS.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
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.
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
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
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How would you know - I thought you were a pagan??? :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kerr's tribe
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
I think the Roscommon sign is between Creagh Church and Dubarry Shoes - about a mile or mile and a half East of River Suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
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
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Originally Posted by sirhamish
My feet still bear the scars of their leather slip-ons...
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I used to be a nun, you know.... :eek: :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
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Originally Posted by kerr's tribe
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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??
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
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.
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Originally Posted by sirhamish
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??? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
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.