Not too bad a spot. Like their rugby. Most English towns are fairly soulless,( grafton street headed the same way), as only the usual suspects can afford the ground rents on the high street.
Its a fucking shithole. There is a few nice indians though
Around an hour [U]before Sean Parkerâs funeral mass began[/U], an elderly man walked into the church in Glinsk, Co Galway.
He took off his cap and knelt down. A short time later, he got up and left.
He had fulfilled his mission by paying his respects in front of a coffin carrying a man he didnât know.
The last time Sean Parker was in the same village was in 1946, before his family left their home on the Galway / Roscommon border.
After the death of their mother Annie the previous year, the Parker family of five girls and two boys moved to Dublin with their father.
A few years later, in the early 1950s, Sean Parker moved to England. He spent the rest of his life there, experiencing the same hardships many Irishmen of his generation did in London and other British cities in the mid-twentieth century.
Despite those ups and downs, memories of his Galway childhood endured. It was these recollections that led carers in southeast England to begin a search for friends or relatives of the 79-year-old here, when he died last July.
That journey came to an end when Sean Parker was laid to rest in Ballinakill Cemetery, a short distance from the village of Glinsk, on Wednesday afternoon.
Recognising the name when an official from Medway Council spoke to Joe Duffy on RTĂâs Liveline, local man Jimmy OâToole called some others who would have known Sean Parker as a boy.
One sat beside him in school every day.
Another remembered his last day in the village, when the tearful ten-year-old left his beloved terrier dog in the care of a neighbour, before setting off for Dublin.
Others, who were slightly older, remembered carrying Seanâs mother to her final resting place in the mid-1940s.
In the weeks that followed, the community came together to do all it could to ensure that the man who left them seven decades earlier would not end up in an unmarked grave in England.
All repatriation and burial costs were covered by businesses and individuals both here and in the UK. Sean Parker would be brought home and laid to rest beside his mother in Co Galway.
His last journey a mirror image of hers, as locals shouldered his remains on the half-mile walk from church to graveyard.
Joining this small community on a day filled with emotion, were people from Cavan, Clifden, Clare and elsewhere. None of them had any link with this village in northeast Galway.
None knew Sean Parker or much about the life he led. But his passing and his voyage home held a symbolism that was revealed in the eyes of those watching the simple coffin as it was carried from the church. Here was somebodyâs brother, somebodyâs son.
He could have been anybodyâs brother. Anybodyâs son.
The man who had left the village before the funeral mass began summed it up.
âI was in England too ⌠they were tough times ⌠but thatâs another story.â
Enough for the moment to remember those who never made it home. And today, to remember one who did.
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The man who had left the village before the funeral mass began summed it up.
âI was in England too ⌠they were tough times ⌠but thatâs another story.â
Enough for the moment to remember those who never made it home. And today, to remember one who did.[/QUOTE]only the toughest and best of the Irish survive and make it in England, only the likes of myself, chewie and the rest of the exiles know what though times are, those cunts that stayed at home on the dole and to keep the lights on whilst we went out and suffered to send money home to keep the place going should be ashamed of themselves
Here here
We came out of an Ireland that didnât want us , or couldnât feed us because of the legacy of colonialism. Yet, now, thereâs fuckin room for Poles and Nigerians. We were better off poor.
Ireland is in the sewer an unrecognisable place to the one I grew up in, leave it to the corrupt bankers and politicians, the welfare tourists and the Nigerians
Sure we shouldâve conquered the world when we had the chance .
Good day for British GAA with Fullen Gaels and Kilburn Gaels qualifying for the All Ireland Junior and Intermediate hurling finals and John Mitchels of Liverpool qualifying for the A/I junior football final
Anyone know a way I can set up rte player on an iPad, I donât mind paying for a vpn but every time I try use hola the app recognises Iâm not in Ireland
Yeah Hola just isnât a long tern reliable solution. Did you try overplay?
Just bought a months subscription but it wonât connect on either iOS or android for some reason, just wonât find the server
Have you done all this stuff?
https://support.overplay.net/customer/portal/articles/1830126-setup-overplay-smart-dns-ios
It works for me. At what point are you getting an error?
Did you buy the dns and vpn?
I tried the vpn and it wonât connect, I entered those dns details, but canât see how I change location
tard alert
Both I think, 9.95 a month? it generated vpns for me, I can see them in the vpn menu in settings but none connect
Sorry I gave you the wrong link.
https://support.overplay.net/customer/portal/articles/1878107-setup-overplay-vpn-ios
Itâs the VPN you bought, not the DNS.
Did all that, says the server is unreachable
Iâd just set up a support query with them. I had to do that when Windows 10 launched and they were helpful.
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