St Marys Dominicans
Popes quay
Nice ppl
Hadnāt really taken much notice up to now but this morning in a quarter full church, I suddenly realised after looking around, I was one of the youngest if not the youngest in attendance
Is that you out collecting for prisoners?
Na - but thatās my church
Started this course last Wednesday
Absolutely brilliant ordinary meek humans
The Dominicans
Guy I knew selling āan phoblachtā
On Pana ( corks main St)
Used roar
ā money for bullketsā
An phoblacht - republican newsā
āMoney for bulletsā
PS it was illegal to sell it in public at the time
77/ 78/1979 ish
It was actually on the old o-level syllabus up here
By God
Remember selling it as a kid in the pubs around the city
My late bro Noel took a few days off to come up to Derry for the Easter commeration one time,
His boss wasnāt impressed as next week in the republican news thereās Noelās big smiley head on the front page
Just as the colour party fired
The crowd surged and he made the picā:blush:
ā Noel you donāt look v fuckin sick there boyā?
Mick Hegarty could do with some beer money since Colm Murphy went to the old brigade in the clouds.
Donāt k who mick H is
Heās the fella who got convicted for building this. He was an old flatmate of mine. Stomach burnt completely out of him from the fumes of mixing bombs.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/1300lbs+BOMB+IN+A+GARDEN+SHED%3B+Police+point+finger+at+renegade+IRAā¦-a060688501
Not opening
He must be a bad mixer
Good coffee grinder
Double mix
Good mask
Forensic suit
Bobs your uncle
( thatās the townie version for garden sheds)
Chaps on the country were spoiled- big cow shedsš
He was dabbling with incindiaries I bet,
Old pal Maurice Healy of mine in Derry
Rip
First time I met him I noticed the claw,
Only after a while did I cop on heād a glass eye aswell,
This guy had degrees from Queens etc etc coming out his hole
But still managed to fuck up a mix and whatever he was at in the lab went 
Maurice eventually went into peace and reconciliation as a full time job,
Could have fucked off out of the 6 countries as heād married into a v prominent Boston family
But he stayed,
Got cancer and done.
Sad. There was a bright future in that line of work for many as time softens us.
Mick left County Clare at 13/14yr old, wanting to join the IRA in the mid 60ās and made his way to South Armagh. They taught him to build bombs there and thatās what he did. Spent almost all his adult life in jail. Heād get out, build a few, get caught, rinse and repeat. He had a tube coming out of his stomach when I knew him, which heād have to get fed through at regular hospital visits which he usually ignored. Ate pints instead. Didnāt cope too well with the waning of public support for conflict, but was staunch all the same. I lived with him in a flat above the Deerās head on Parnell St, until Colm Murphy took him in, in Louth.
God must have been lazygirl jobbing/quiet quitting in his WFH role when this happened.
Fuckā:scream_cat:colourful chapā:clap:
Is he still alive?
FFS heād have stuck out like a sure thumb in S A
Never let me down yet