HOLLINGSWORTH-PULSE 3rd and FINAL AQUATHLON RACE Pulse Triathlon Club will host the third and final Aquathlon Race in the Hollingsworth-Pulse Race series on Saturday 17 July in Clogherhead, County Louth.
Local fishermen might be forgiven for thinking the King Prawns really are in town when a crowd of wetsuited triathletes emerge from the sea on Saturday 17th July in Clogherhead to complete the 3rd race in the Hollingsworth-Pulse Aquathlon Series. This is no ordinary Race Day... the Aquathlon is part of an action packed programme for the weekend to celebrate the revived CLOGHERHEAD PRAWN FESTIVAL!
The Village, beach and harbour will be buzzing with a festival atmosphere throughout the weekend with activities for all the family and fun guaranteed for everyone. Programme includes lots of outdoor activities; a traders market, a dog show, Tall ships, plus lots of entertainment from the Belfast Circus, bands such as Boogie Nights, The Classic Beatles, Rattle & Hum and many more
To find out more details please refer to the poster above and theie website at www.pulsetri.com
Local fishermen might be forgiven for thinking the King Prawns really are in town when a crowd of wetsuited triathletes emerge from the sea on Saturday 17th July in Clogherhead to complete the 3rd race in the Hollingsworth-Pulse Aquathlon Series. This is no ordinary Race Day... the Aquathlon is part of an action packed programme for the weekend to celebrate the revived CLOGHERHEAD PRAWN FESTIVAL!
The Village, beach and harbour will be buzzing with a festival atmosphere throughout the weekend with activities for all the family and fun guaranteed for everyone. Programme includes lots of outdoor activities; a traders market, a dog show, Tall ships, plus lots of entertainment from the Belfast Circus, bands such as Boogie Nights, The Classic Beatles, Rattle & Hum and many more
To find out more details please refer to the poster above and theie website at www.pulsetri.com
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| Name: Albert Jein location: Chelmsford Essex-23/12/08 |
John......... interesting to see your note about Marconi. (btw the site is www.njhalloffame.com) Living in Chelmsford ........ it is linked very heavily with Marconi as he set up his factory here in the late 20's and indeed when I moved here in @ 1990 I think it was the biggest employer in the town. Where I used to live I could see the head office from my back bedroom window. Unfortunately when they got taken over by Plessey/GEC in the early nineties they made the fatal decision to change from a defence/radar based industry to mobile phones. How they ever thought they could compete with the Japanese technology/expertise is beyond me and eventually they failed as a business.Marconi himself was a very interesting character and a fascist I think. Mussolini was best man at his second wedding. His mother was part of the Jameson Whiskey family and although she was a staunch Catholic ............. he became an Anglican and apparantly she was devestated. Btw......... the Marconi head office is now a plush Volkswagen car showroom.......... it will be interesting to see how long that lasts?? | |
| Name: helen location: tx 12/22 |
Wow its quiet on here, yis must be all getting ready for Santy!its absolutley freezing here and we are getting freezing rain tonight but a good old 74 and rain on friday so maybe we will have a tornado instead of snow for the Christmas holidays! Oh Joy! | |
| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 12/18 |
this guy walks into a pub and orders up a pint and makes himself comfortable. He sees another guy further down the bar and he and he calls over to him " Say there you look familiar where are you from?" "Dublin" says the second guy. "I'm from Dublin too what part?" says the first. "St.Marys Park" says the second."I"m from St.Marys also"says the second "When were you born"asks the first."1958"answers the second" " Me too"says the first and "Where did you go to school?"he asked "St.Patrick's" says the second [Stop me if you heard this.]"Why I went to St.Patrick's myself when did you start?""1964" says the second. It being a slow day the waitress stopped by to chat with the bartender. "Why are you so forlorn?" she asked him. 'OH" he says "It"s the Murphy twins their drunk again" When Den complained about the content of the YB maybe he should try bartending. Then he could appreciate the finer things in life. You did a good job Den now can you check out Orion and Sirius for us. | |
| Name: Helen location: TX 12/18 |
What am I missing here John You said I finished with the Murphy twins? You have me lost, honest to God I have no idea what you are talking about but I will vote for Marconi no bother!! I dont know any Murphy twins! Least I don't think I do! | |
| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 12/18 |
Helen your saying you finished with the Murphy twins. There is a web site www. njhallofame.org seeking votes for entries into their hall of fame. Marconi the wireless man just missed out last year and deserves admission. His experiments brought us to where we are today in communication. His mother was Irish and home schooled him till he was 16. He continued 2 years in a Italian secondary school where he took a terrible ribbing over his Italian with a brogue. Remember his mother and give him your vote. | |
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Listen up man be cool man what sort of a nane is Den smokyhill, your pa and da must be eating mushrooms when they gave you thar name, hell man that name stinks , do something about it , God man if I had that mame I s----t myself man your name sucks. man Listen up man you must feel terrible stuck withy a name like Den Smokyhill. What about your young ones, they cant be happy getting called young smokyhill or fat smokyhill or smelly smokyhill I tell you man do something about it . Call yourself somrthing like Den Damproof Course or Den Morning Glory anything but Den Smokyhill Listen up man send me your address and I man will send you a little something that will make all your trouble go away , Yea man be cool |
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| Name: helen location: tx 12/17 |
Am sending you home a big wooden spoon for Christmas Denis!! There needs to be nothing on the telly more often there cause this is the most action this book has seen in a while! I'll tell ye what I bet there is a quare difference in the price Sean paid for his jersey than what you'd pay for one today! Do you iron them as well? !! No don't answer that one I can hear you cursing from Smokey Hill! Seeing as your signal must finally have found its way to Smokey I suppose an ould email is out of the question???! | |
| Name: Den location: Smokey |
Well now yis have to admit that was just deadly wasnt it talk about a slaughtering match and all over there was nothing on the telly so i decided to do an Eamon Dunphy see how many i could get to hate me in one night.. Sean,Albert,john and the rest on here my sincerest appologies did i spell thet right but anyone that would know me i was only taking the p..s and to be honest im as bloody clogher as you will get so sean keep up the history..Oh and by the way the jerseys are still black and red cos i friggen WASH them..P.S paddy man how the hell are things man wel have a pint over xmas cos im sure We both know each other very well as your laughing reading this... | |
| Name: sean location: |
Helen Sorry about the date, of course I knew your age and you don’t look a day over 20. I once remarked how well you looked and you thought I was referring to somebody else in the photo. I know it was the 80s |
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| Name: Helen location: |
You have to admit though 8 posts overnight! Not bad!!! | |
| Name: Helen location: 12/17 |
Im in an awful hurry here cause I have to go bring the kids to school but in the interest of not pissing anyone off but there is no format for this guestbook, no structure or intent just a little guestbook for whoever Clicks on Clogherhead.com to put on whatever they want, have a chat, post a message, put in their opinion (get their arse chewed for it!!) whatever lets not make a whole to do over this. Denis simply stated his opinion and got the book hopping cause we are slightly slighted because we do take the time to write and most don't. This wont change anything Sean so continue as usual when you get time.! Ihave said it for years that actual locals should write more but they dont and they wont so that is just the way it is. We all get insulted on here sooner or later, it used to be good craic later and some people went too far at times but it was a laugh at least! I really have to go but Sean I was born in 1966!!! I worked in the Harbour Bar in the early 1990's but I did do a stint in the 80's!!! Denis is my little brother Im 42, Lorraine is 41 and Denis is 40. I guess TV was not needed in Clogher in those past years!!!!!!!!!!!!! Later! | |
| Name: sean location: |
Dens recent posting about what is on the site is very surprising. It may well be that when the site was first set the aim was to make it a portal for messages. However the internet has moved on at a great pace and today everybody with a computer has also a email address and will contact each other by mail. I send over 40 email daily and receive a similar amount and they include person and private information which I would not want to put on public display and am sure that applies to everybody else. The period of time that I have looked at the site, it seems to me that only three people have consistently used the site and that was Helen, Albert and myself. Yes I have written not the forty years that Den speaks about but the period of over seventy years ago. Helen has written about the 60s and when she worked in the pubs and Clogherhead at that time , and I love to read about it. Albert had written about the 70s and his aunt the dress maker who lived in Strand St. and it was lovely to read. Yes and we have included the occasional joke, clean and funny and does not cause any offence. After Den ( is he related to you Helen?) posting, we must ask ourselves what is the site for. It should stand for the heart and spirit and soul of the village. It should reflex the human spirit that has kept the village going in good and in bad times. It should be a beacon to the many families that are now living in various parts of the world. I do not wish to upset anybody with what I write but I do believe that much more could be written about the village by the people living there now. If I was living there I would find more than enough information to fill these pages every week. Information that would be welcomed by all the people that have a great fondness for the village. If we accept that Den is right in his posting, and we should only use the site for messages then the site has no future. If it is to be just a message board then there is no point in discussing it further, but if visitors to the site want to keep up to date with the village then that’s fine. The main reason any site is successful is constant writing every day or every couple of days. When you revisit a site you need to see new material on it or you will not return to it. I must ask Den how often he has written on the site in the last year, how often he visits it and how often he make a posting to it. Sure Den has every right to complaint about the site, especially if he is a regular contributor to it. While I am very busy working from 8am to, 8pm I have been trying to find the time to write some lines for the site. And I have enough material for half a dozen books but I do not have the time. And I will be sorry to say Good Bye to my many friends on the site if it is decided to discontinue it in its present form. I want to make a request,, Over 60 years age I bought the first football strip for our Clogherhead team and we were playing our first game within 2weeks. I bought the strip in Gallagers of Shop St Drogheda and the only colours I could get quickly were black and red. I would like to know what are the Dreadnots colours 60 years on. Maybe somebody will let me know. |
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| Name: Helen location: TX |
John you have me absolutley lost! I don't know any twins in Dublin! Ha ha mission accomplished Denis! Nice one there hasn't been this much action in the book in ages!Leave it to you to rouse the masses!!! | |
| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 12/17 |
Helen could we have thoes twins down in Dublin have a talk with that poor soul. Sean and Michael I'll be i n touch. | |
| Name: Albert Jein location: Chelmsford Essex-17/12/08 |
MSN groups are closing down in Feb next year and are migrating to multiply.com. Any of you who have joined the group in the past will still be able to re-join the new group on multiply and simply clicking on the link on the "links" page will bring you there. Its never been very active in terms of participation but it is a great place to share pics if anyone is interested in that. It is solely designed to be a partner to this main site.If you have probs with joining then just let me know and I will sort it out for you. Albert | |
| Name: Albert Jein location: Chelmsford Essex 17/12/08 |
Den, I think you have it absolutely wrong . A lot of people want to hear what was going on in the village in the past............. some of us were not fortunate to have gleaned the information from our relatives before they passed away and its interesting for some to read. Of course its also good to hear whats going on in the village at the moment and the bulletin goes someway to fill that void............... however, a constant theme on here is the fact that not enough villagers post on here and therefore its left to many ex-pats to fill the gaps and try to keep the site alive. Sometimes its an odd joke or two..... sometimes its a look back at how the village used to be.............. and sometimes its a comment on whats happening in the wider world. If everyone kept it to private e-mail as you seem to suggest then what is the point of all this?? Please don't knock those that put in effort and maybe you could tell us unfortunate enough to live outside what is going on on a day to day basis?? | |
| Name: Helen location: TX 12/16 |
Damn Paddy no location I want what you are on, Man! You sound like if you were any more relaxed yid be asleep there man! Wonder what kind of life you have there out in the real world!!! I can see where our Denis is comming from because there has been a sad lack of posts from people no matter where they are and the ould chat that used to be on here is sadly lacking cause nobody is bothered any more and yet yis are all on the sidelines (as usual) reading away and saying nothing (as usual) till someone says something to wake your arses up! Good man Den! Anyway, the truth is Denis a lot of the times there is a joke put up its to fill a space cause nobody has posted in days on end and it gives the sideliners something to read! As for Sean's or others postings about life in Clogher long gone by its nice to read and I reckon Sean should put the whole lot of his postings together and make a book! I too am not interested in political crap on here either but if it was not for the likes of a few of us the rest of youse would have nothing to read or give out about! As for you Paddy dear you could only wish for the life our Denis has!!!!!!!!!! Peace MAN!!! Night night now ya'll!!  |
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| Name: paddy location: |
Den smokey hill lighten up man, lighten up. What a load of b---------ks you are writing man. Lots of us out in thr real world lovve the jokes man you don’t like them, too bad then don’t read them man.go and get a life man, do something useful, make love to the wife man and then you will not be so grumpy man Relax man | |
| Name: Den location: Smokey.Hill |
Well Well Well i had a wee peep at our oul guestbook 10 mts ago and altho i got shot down for speaking me mind cos i actually used to love coming on to see messages of fun and seeing a lot of the clogher gang all over the world keeping in touch with each other and esp home here cos correct me if im wrong but it is called the clogherhead guestbook but look back in the last 10 mts 26 odd pages average of 8 msgs wats that 1 message a day from around the world all because of what,well if ye wanna hear what happened 2 centuries ago ye buy the bloody book,Incase youse dont know but we DO have television that keeps us well updated on anything interesting happening in the world i.e barrack obamas election that youse spoke more about than the man himself,Yis can come now fingers flying on keys like no ones business giving out but i happen to live here 40 years now and think the site is 1st class idea keep it as a guest book and not a history lesson,political debate or a documentary on bloody star gazing keep the long winded essays and jokes for private email and ye might jus see a few more on that we can get the chance to ask them how the hell are they cos if the truth be known am sure they do have a sneak preview then go awh here thats enough of that.Sorry but had to be said...Happy xmas helen xx | |
| Name: sean location: london |
First Class Vs. Economy A plane is on its way to Houston when a blonde in Economy Class gets up and moves to the First Class section and sits down. The flight attendant watches her do this and asks to see her ticket. She then tells the blonde that she paid for Economy and that she will have to sit in the back. The blonde replies, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston and I'm staying right here!" The flight attendant goes into the cockpit and tells the copilot that there is a blonde bimbo sitting in First Class that belongs in Economy and won't move back to her seat. The copilot goes back to the blonde and tries to explain that because she only paid for Economy she will have to leave and return to her seat. The blonde replies, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston and I'm staying right here!" The copilot tells the pilot that he probably should have the police waiting when they land to arrest this blonde woman who won't listen to reason. The pilot says "You say she's blonde? I'll handle this. I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde." He goes back to the blonde, whispers in her ear, and she says "Oh, I'm Sorry, " and she gets up and moves back to her seat in the Economy section. The flight attendant and copilot are amazed and asked him what he said to make her move without any fuss. "I told her First Class isn't going to Houston." |
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