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: helen location: icy texas |
Ha ha Mick I thought of that one meself. That's funny!!!! | |
| Name: mb location: lg |
Sean maybe you have a 99! Try Jersey Shore John at byrne0035@gmail.com |
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| Name: Helen location: |
I meant a CLONE!!!!! | |
| Name: Helen location: Texas 12/15 |
That's funny Sean maybe you are there unbeknownst to yourself or have you a cone, I wish I had one!!!!! I love reading your posts of times gone by ... cause the way things are going girls will not be walking them roads on their own much longer! It's a damn shame to say you can't even wait for a bus without getting nearly kidnapped by some bastard. This is the kind of crap happening these days and did you see the piece in the Drogheda paper with the Brothel being busted and them talking about human trafficking (spelling>)its bloody awful specially when I think of us growing up ... here's one for you, me and Tricia missed the bus one morning and took on to walk and just about Ganderstown some car stopped and asked us did we want a lift? We did know the car but the lads in it were not who owned the car but the driver was absolutley GORGEUS!!! We reckoned if the Clogher lad who owned the car thought enough of these lads to give them a lend of his car shure we would be good enough to take a lift with them!!! In we got and they dropped us off at school good as their word! We had great craic with them and it turned out that they had pulled into the Harbour from Kilkeel and your mans father was a great friend of Daddy and Lukes so we were away on a hack!!! But them days are over too because you could end up God alone knows where or even dead! Yeah you have to walk the streets these days and be more afraid of the living than the dead a bit of a turn around for Clogher there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He! He! Later we are under an ice watch here! But it will be 75 on thursday!!! | |
| Name: sean location: london |
Where did Wellingdon, Shrobshire, come from, Well I know where it is and even went there one time. but heck,thats not my address.sean | |
| Name: sean location: Wellingdon Shrobshire |
John, I tried to mail you but your mail address does not seem to work. sean |
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| Name: sean location: london |
John, I am really sorry it has taken me so long to reply to your very kind writing, when was it, back in November. I appreciate what you said and it has made me again think of times long ago. Maybe people get tired of hearing about how Clogherhead was in the 30s and 40s. When I think about it, I am struck by the enormous different in the quality of life, then and now. For example, people to day, when they go home from work in the evening, they spend hours in front of their TV sets, some which never get turned off. Then TVs are now part of their lifes.------- In your grandparents’ day families and their friends would sit round a open fire, no lights ,only the flames from the fire to cast a warm glow, and spend the whole evening telling stories and at times having a sing song. In Ireland at that time people stayed up late and did not get up very early in the morning. You see there were very little jobs available for people to get up for. When I think back to those times which are now impossible to recreate, the main reason is at that time there was a satisfaction with life, There was something in the air, something that you could almost feel, some sense that everything was right, people did not want to live anywhere else. I find it difficult to explain, but there was something there that has now gone for ever. Clogherhead was a peaceful place , no noise, no lights at night. Beautiful place to grow up.------- Anyhow about you , what a long journey you have to make to get home. Do you drive home every night? Did you grow up in Clogherhead? -------- It was kind of you to remember my grandson. I am enclosing the poem that you spoke about, and also information about the early life of Francis Ledwidge, Ledwidge was born at Janeville, Slane in Ireland, the eighth of nine children, a large and poverty-stricken family. His parents, Patrick Ledwidge (the Ledwidge name comes from an English village in Shropshire, Ledwyche, former residence of the Anglo-Norman family that was granted land in Meath after the Norman invasion) and wife Anne Lynch (1853-1926), believed in giving their children the best education they could afford, but when Francis was only five his father Patrick died prematurely, which forced his wife and the children out to work at an early age. Francis left the local national school aged thirteen, and while he continued to self-educate himself, he worked at what work he could find, as farm hand, road mender and supervisor of roads, as copper miner (sacked for organising a strike having been a trade union activist since 1906) and shop assistant. Appointed secretary of the Slane branch of the Meath Labour Union (1913-14) he had aspirations of permanent white-collar work[1]. Strongly built, with striking brown eyes and a sensuous face, Ledwidge was a keen poet writing where ever he could even on gate posts. From the age of fourteen his works were published in his local newspaper, the ‘’Drogheda Independent’’ reflecting his passion for the Boyne Valley. While working as a road labourer he won the patronage of the writer, Lord Dunsany, after he wrote to him in 1912, enclosing copybooks of his early work. Dunsany, a man of letters already well-known in Dublin and London literary and dramatic circles, and whose own start in publishing had been with a few poems, promoted him in Dublin and introduced him to W.B. Yeats with whom he became acquainted. Dunsany supported Ledwidge with money and literary advise for some years, providing him with access to and a workspace in Dunsany Castle's Library where he met the Irish writer Katharine Tynan, corresponding with her regularly[2]. Dunsany later prepared his first collection of poetry Songs of the Fields, which successfully appealed to the expectations of the Irish Literary Revival and its social taste for rural Irish poetry. “ Oh what a pleasant world 'twould be,How easy we'd step thro' it,If all the fools who meant no harm,Could manage not to do it! He shall not hear the bittern cryin the wild sky, where he is lain,Nor voices of the sweeter birdsAbove the wailing of the rain Nor shall he know when the loud March blowsThro' slanting snows her fanfare shrill,Blowing to flame the golden cupOf many an upset daffodil. |
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| Name: Albert Jein location: Chelmsford Essex-14/12/08 |
A man walked into the ladies department of a Macy's and shyly walked up to the woman behind the counter and said, "I'd like to buy a bra for my wife." "What type of bra?" asked the clerk. "Type?" inquires the man, "There's more than one type?" "Look around," said the saleslady, as she showed a sea of bras in every shape, size, color and material imaginable. "Actually, even with all of this variety, there are really only four types of bras to choose from." Relieved, the man asked about the types. The saleslady replied: "There are the Catholic, the Salvation Army, the Presbyterian, and the Medhotist types. Which one would you prefer?" Now totally befuddled, the man asked about the differences between them. The Saleslady responded, "It is all really quite simple... The Catholic type supports the masses. The Salvation Army type lifts the fallen, The Presbyterian type keeps them staunch and upright, and The Methodist makes mountains out of mole hills." |
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| Name: Albert Jein location: Chelmsford Essex-14/12/08 |
A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already. The little boy says, "Dark in here." The man says, "Yes, it is." Boy - "I have a baseball." Man - "That's nice." Boy - "Want to buy it?" Man - "No, thanks." Boy - "My dad's outside." Man - "OK, how much?" Boy - "$250" In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together. Boy - "Dark in here." Man - "Yes, it is." Boy - "I have a baseball glove." The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?" Boy - "$750" Man - "Sold." A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch. The boy says, "I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove." The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?" Boy -"$1,000." The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that.. that is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess." They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door. The boy says, "Dark in here." The priest says, "Don't start that shit again; you're in my closet now. |
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| Name: mb location: los gatos |
Hi John, The bride is fine, thanks for asking. Check your email, you should have one from me. |
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| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 12/11 |
Michael thanks for jumping on my sight seeing questions so fast. How are you and the Bride doing? My brother declared me to be computer illiterate for not cutting and pasting your E-mail address so could we get in touch I am at www.Byrne0035@G mail.com. And by the way Paddy Connolly dubbed me "The Yank". Helen, I was first drawn to the Lynch estate by your picture up at the cemetery so I knew there was something there. You guys should try that Google Earth/ satellite/ more/ under more you have wikipedia & photos Then we will all know about Cashier, Sands, The wind farm and the Callystown school. I can't believe a old sailor like yourself didn't know what I was talking about unless its its them GPS's taking all the fun out of the night. I'm waiting to hear that Ann Faulkner at the Development Gp.has checked her G-mail. | |
| Name: Helen location: TX 12/9 |
Hello there Sean, sorry its been so long since we chatted but you are right I have been on top of me head. We put in new floors and done a load of painting and my mother was here and painted 2 bathrooms and a kitchen!!! It helped me out greatly for her to do that cause now I only have the hallway and I will think about the other rooms next year!!! But the trees are up and we are almost ready for Christmas! Ashley is back swimming sorta (we go to Little Rock on friday to see if he will be medically cleared so he can go about making up for 6 months of no swim! Conor is belting away he has a meet in Little Rock Sat and then Logan is ploughing up and down the pool like nobodys business!!! This weather is demented I was up at five this morning with Ashley getting ready for practise and it was storming really bad, I mead Conor and Logan ended up in the bed with me the thunder was banging soloud and the lightening lit the house! It was spilling rain and the whole street was flooded and I put on the news to see we were under a tornado watch! You see the temp was 69 yesterday and conditions were really favourable for a tornado this morning and tonight its giving a freeze warning! a few flurries! and its giving 50's and 60's for the rest of the week! Would you beleive it, the weather is absolutley mental. John, Michael is right the Celtic Cross is the new graveyard and Eamonn Lynches house is across the road. It's in a field by itself as far as I know... its amazing you saw it it being so small and all!!!!! Am messing! Anyway will talk to you all later! | |
| Name: mb location: lg |
Hi John, I haven't seen the google earth yet but I believe the celtic cross you found is the new graveyard, St. Denis's, the feild across the road is Eamonn Lynch's (Pat's son) house. Hope all YBers are well, start being nice cause yoy know who is watching, mb. |
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| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 7/12 |
Hello Lorraine, Sean and all. Sean did you see my posting on 22/11? Google Earth has a up dated satellite shot of Clorherhead and I think I finally found the Pitch. No luck with the painted stones on the head but I have seen a fine Celtic Cross laid out in a field on the sea side of the Drogheda Road. What is in the field on the other side of the road there. | |
| Name: Lorraine location: 5/12 |
Hey Sean, Hope your well, I'm helens sister and believe me she's been very buzy having a ball with our lovely Mammy over Thanksgiving, bet she will be back full time after sunday, mind you she will probably need some time to mop up the tears XX | |
| Name: sean location: Wellingdon Shrobshire |
Helen Have not heard from you for some time. No doubt you are very busy with your wonderful boys. Please believe me when I tell you that I have not forgotten my promise to you regarding the video. It is not yet ready, hopefully soon and you will be the first to receive a copy. Say Hey to the man of he house. sean |
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| Name: Helen location: TX 11/29 |
I have no idea of who youare talking about John but I absolutley know what you mean Sharon even though I am land locked here, you just cannot shake that feeling of wishing you were beside the sea, God I miss it, I really do. Maybe that is why I keep all three of my kids in the pool 24/7!!! Well its water isnt it!!!!!! | |
| Name: Sharon location: NJ |
Was just going through my pics of Ireland, need to get back and explore more. But Dad, funny how you just wrote about Orion, I remember you telling me, when I was young, to look for him and his trusty pal if I ever got lost and they would lead me home (to the sea). I always do! | |
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Just a reminder that the dreadnots/Fechins under 21 team are in the Louth U21 championship final tonight in Darver. Best of luck to the lads and hopefully they will bring another cup back to the cross. also it is exactly four weeks today till the St Stephens Day Chernobyl Swim. Make sure you get your sponsorship cards. I can feel the goosepimples already!!!:L:L |
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| Name: John Byrne location: Jersey Shore 22/11 |
Does anybody know or heard of Albert Cashier or Anita Sands ? | |
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