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Tom Jones and remembering

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The most modern tune to be so far played in the bar is The Village People’s ‘YMCA’.  When was that in the charts? 1978?

Tom Jones ‘It’s not unusual’ was played.  If it was possible to write an autobiography by reference to pop songs, then ‘It’s not unusual’ would find a place in the early pages of the story.  It comes from those days when there were shops at every corner and heading from the village of Long Sutton towards the garage on the main road to Huish Episcopi, just …

CNN and the end of the world

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Believing Jesus to be someone who had a great deal of time for ordinary blokes and a good deal of contempt for overly religious people, esoteric beliefs have always been troubling.  There seemed always a difficulty in trying to reconcile the down to earth teaching of the man from Galilee with the more outlandish passages of Scripture that are seized upon by some groups of people.

Talk of the final battle, Armageddon, in the book of Revelation always seemed at odds with the Jesus who preached the Sermon on the …

Bad service

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My dad used to tell a story from his days as a boy in London. There was a Scout Jamboree held in London in 1948 and one of the Scouts from India had arrived with a revolver amongst his luggage. According to the story, he had been told repeatedly that Britain was a hostile place and that he would need the gun to protect himself.

“If people are told something often enough, they will believe it”, my dad would say.

The story in itself is interesting; I can find no …

Missing Garret

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Enda Kenny’s fear of the challenge to engage head on with Micheal Martin prompted thoughts as to what Paddy would have made of such a leader – Paddy was a member of Fine Gael in Mayo thirty years ago, a Garret Fitzgerald supporter

Being the pharmacist in an isolated town on the western seaboard, there would be callers at the house on a Saturday evening.  Frequently the callers would arrive by tractor; the only journey of the week from a remote farm.  The trip would take in shopping, Saturday evening …

From Clare . . .

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The counties blend seamlessly, one into another.  Offaly crops up at unlikely moments, west of parts of Tipperary and east of parts of Laois, and the rolling miles of Tipperary run from the Midlands almost to the south coast.  A single journey of thirty miles may bring a dozen or more radio stations into range.  Driving from Kilkenny across the western edge of Laois into North Tipperary, a flick through the stations brought the sound of Clare FM.  There was suddenly a feel of being in a different Ireland; this …

Holiness

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Sermon at Saint Mark’s Church, Borris-in-Ossory on Wednesday, 26th January 2011

“Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do ” 1 Peter 1:15

Back in the 1960s, a tape recording was made of children from Dublin’s north inner city retelling Bible stories in their own way.  Ten years ago, the stories were put into a cartoon animation called ‘Give up yer aul sins’.  One of the lines that sticks in the memory is a child recalling John the Baptist sending his disciples to …

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