The Cancer Thread

[glenshane]

Oul fellas deserve their own thread. It’d be a gore fest of suppressed rage, confounded disappointment and bitter bitter resentment.

[Corksfinedtboy]

It’s life though

[Batigol]

Very sorry to hear that

[maurice_brown]

Saddened to hear that news. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

[binkybarnes]

@KinvarasPassion

Now that we’ve calving cameras in the shed I must get some footage of myself and ould lads interactions on the day of a TB test, them are the bits I’d probably miss the most.

Abusing the fuck out of each other until the moment the vet lands in the yard and then it’s back to happy families and big smiles.

. Like the couple in Father Ted.

[Corksfinedtboy]

Great post

[FatChops]

What’s the best/worst personal dunt he ever gave you in such an exchange?

[KinvarasPassion]

@FatChops

What’s the best/worst personal dunt he ever gave you in such an exchange?

Nothing direct. Maybe an extended back swing (when he knew damn well I was behind him) on the wavin when driving cattle up the chute.

[Corksfinedtboy]

Snaky devil
Down here that’s called a ’ sidewinder ’

Or was anyway when I was young

[flattythehurdler]

@Ambrose_McNulty

It’s important to carry on the intergenerational grudges and feuds. I need to catch up with the auld lad on a few of the origin stories of some of the falling outs we’ve had. You’d want your facts right when you don’t salute a lad or maybe plant a dig in the cunt some night based on what his father did to your father etc. He might have held back luck money on the sale of a baysth or his cattle might have broken into your meadow back in the 70s, and they didn’t build the wall. You want to be able to pass them on yourself some day without making shit up to fill the gaps.

Galway hurling in a nutshell.

[Achtungbaby]

Lost @fistoffury 12 months ago today, rest in peace pal, one of the good guys

[carryharry]

Hope you’re keeping well & had a good Xmas bro

[farmerinthecity]

RIP @fistoffury

[myboyblue]

Cancer cares not for money, status or jackshit. He won’t go easy anyway that’s for sure.

[maurice_brown]

@myboyblue

Cancer cares not for money status or Jack shit.

No truer word spoken.
It’s a cunt. I’ve been to 3 funerals so far in 23. All under 60 from cancer.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Sad and Scary as fuck

[Thomas_Brady]

Only seeing this now… A year already

How is his youngster coming along? Is he 3 now?

[farmerinthecity]

‘Aggressive form of cancer’

Doesn’t sound good.

[habanerocat]

He previously had a melanoma in 2003.

[anon67715551]

Poor oul’ Christy Dignam seems to be nearing the end. Family thanking all for support etc. At home currently with palliative care team calling the shots.

A bastard of a disease, relentless, remorseless and ultimately fatal.