Continued from Volume 19
Date: Monday, March 19, 2001 at 11:33:38 PM
Email:
Name: Ciaran
Message: 20th volume, would ye believe it!
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 at 09:14:21 PM
Email: cain@nfdc.net
Name: richard and jeannine cain
Message: we have stayed at rosses point twice. we are planning a trip to Ireland in
oct. probably for a month as has been our last two trips. rosses point is very beautiful
and has nice restaurants. hope to play a round of golf on our next trip. i am not very
good but i try.
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2001 at 09:08:02 PM
Email: snipe_r@maramgrass.com
Name: The snipe
Message: Greetings to all the feathered, metalled, fleeced or pelted folk in the
glorious village of the Rosses. Whilst flying over the rooftops last week with an eye
peeled for me ould matey Captain Birds eye seagull himself, I got me tiny wee bird brain
befuddled from the new microwaves that to that sinbads pebbled shore now abound in a
certain part of the hamlet. I was laid up for two days & have not sorted meself since.
It's like bally K with unmarked vans, high jinks and paddywhackery...are we really on the
road to Clonakilty with the nice man singing the chorus. I may be late but it's nice to be
here, snipey
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 at 02:24:22 AM
Email: hs@australia.com
Name: Himself
Message: I can't access you via my wn computer, had to come to the local library.
Some gobs###e send a virus to me and I have mother board problem, now if I get a hold of
the motherless sod tat did this, he will be minus a father as well.
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 at 01:42:38 PM
Email: mandy.balcombe@whiteandsons.co.uk
Name: Mandy Balcombe
Message: A wonderful web site which truly describes a stunning and most beautiful
part of the West Coast of Ireland. This web site certainly sells Rosses Point to tourists
and visitors. I am one of the very fortunate to have visited Rosses Point three times and
will be coming for my fourth holiday in July this year (we have friends who live in
Ballyweelin). I cannot wait until July when once again I can sit with a pint of guiness
outside the Waterfront at Rosses Point (a new refurbed attraction) and just revel in some
of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Thank you. I've enjoyed my visit to your
website immensley and it has bought memories flooding back.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 03:28:17 AM
Email: ljg5@prodigy.not
Name: John Gorman
Message: Liked your site! Hope to visit.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 05:09:37 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: My ould computer became booged down with salt water, and Kierna came to
the rescue, Told me delete the temp files whatever that means, and begobs it did the
trick. Maybe if we deleted Charlie Haughey's and Ray Burke's tempfiles all their troubles
would be over. The sheep on Oyster are worried sick! Foot and Mouth! Now they'll keep
quiet, as better not herd baainng about nothing.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 09:48:41 AM
Email:
Name: The Seagull
Message: AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!At last!! Revenge is sweet, and I didn't have to do a
thing!! Those sodding sheep had better be careful from now on, or else I'll be contacting
some of my brethern on the east coast to get some of that terrible disease business flown
over to Oyster Island. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 11:14:03 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: The Real Metal Man
Message: I've had my differences with the sheep in the past, but I would never wish
that dreadfull disease upon them. Enough of this conversation now. It is time for
solidarity.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 11:16:41 AM
Email: Sheepinwhitesuit@eircom.ie
Name: Larry Lamb
Message: Thank Ewe Metal Man from all of us on Oyster.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 07:59:07 PM
Email: carolwilson@oceanfree.net
Name: Carol
Message: Thank you to all the people who have welcomed me so warmly back to the
Point. You have made it truly a home-coming. I am very, very happy to be back!
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 09:26:52 PM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well Carol, I never even knew you had left. Seagull, I know you spoke
tongue-in-cheek, shows how dense the bloody sheep are. Foley is taking orders for Kangaroo
and Crocodile meat. Along with the rabbit farm he has in Australia, this will make him a
fortune overnight. Good man I say.
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 at 01:23:58 AM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Well, I never in all my bond days heard such a thundering gob@#*te as one
man named Smith, moya I say. Dear children of Connacht I now call for a boycott of the
Sunday Independent. How dare that half-witted as#### write of our beloved Sligo like that.
Let's show the motherless sods, dump the Sunday and daily Independent. And tell the Sligo
Weekly Lyre Players mag to leave their web site.
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 at 12:52:12 PM
Email: smyths2@bigpond.com.au
Name: Isabella &Jenifer Smyth
Message: We have spent hours reminicing about the old Rosses Point,although in all
your stories where we were mentioned our name was spelt Smith not Smyth.Yes its the same
lot who used to live in The Victoria Bar. Isabella is fine and is in good health.She made
the journey last year and caught up with a few old collegues.The flight from Australia is
a bit too much now. So this will be her contact from now on. Good bye for now and thanks
for a beautiful web page. Isabella and Jenifer. 31/3/01.
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 at 03:28:45 PM
Email: jcunnion@postmaster.co.uk
Name: Joanne Cunnion
Message: Typed in my surname on the internet and found this site. I knew my name
derived from Ireland so I do not know if we have any relations connected to this site.
Thanks anyway - most interesting.
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2001 at 02:56:57 PM
Email: paul@pholmes76.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Paul Holmes
Message: I was doing some research for a project I'm doing and needed some info on
Easkey. Got as far as your website and now I've lost the best part of a day browsing it.
Although I was born and bred in Birmingham where I now live, I Did spend some years in
Tubbercurry. If there is anyone who still remembers me, could you please pass on my best
wishes, especially to Peadar Dwyer and his family in Coolany.
Date: Sunday, April 01, 2001 at 01:50:35 AM
Email: gaea@epix.net
Name: Shirley Carson
Message: Hi, Hope you enjoy "The Old Refrain". It sounds really beautiful
there. I've always wanted to visit Ireland and England, I even learned Irish knitting, in
cables, and patterns, and such. I read about it in books,which is as far as I'll get; I'm
afraid to fly. I have to be content here in the mountains, but I love the sea, too. Thank
you for your website. Sincerely, Shirley Carson gaea@epix.net
Date: Sunday, April 01, 2001 at 08:35:54 AM
Email: sgbil@eejit.net
Name: seagull's brother-in- law
Message: I heard on the grapvine that a Sligoman in Australia won the lottery there
last night, said to be 20 million! Now, who could that be?
Date: Sunday, April 01, 2001 at 08:49:40 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Let's all boycott the Sunday Independent in County Sligo until they
apologise. I am calling a mass meeting at all masses today to enure that the masses mass
in a class mass action against the Sunday Independent.
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 at 06:09:22 AM
Email: Trika@gateway.net
Name: Patricia
Message: I have visited this web site many times and I so enjoy it. I hope someday
to visit Rosses Point in person. Sincerely, Patricia
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 at 06:09:22 AM
Email: Trika@gateway.net
Name: Patricia
Message: I have visited this web site many times and I so enjoy it. I hope someday
to visit Rosses Point in person. Sincerely, Patricia
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 at 12:59:47 PM
Email: irishpics@lineone.net
Name: Liz
Message: Hi - just wanted to say I have found so much useful information during my
visit to this site. Thank you :) http://website.lineone.net/~irishpics/
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 at 07:52:34 PM
Email: paul@pholmes76.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Paul Holmes
Message: Does anyone remember when I locked the keys in my VW Beetle outside a pub
by the Metal Man in 1976? Which reminds me, we have an Iron Man in Birmingham. He's welded
to the ground at a perculiar angle outside the TSB Bank. He has a few pigeons that clamber
over him and crap on his head and although he'd love a seagull, they don't bother with
him. Could I borrow yours as a pressy for him? Got to go now. My medication is due.
Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 at 10:42:15 AM
Email: bog_man@ihug.com.au
Name: John Houze
Message: Hi I am looking for an email or phone # for an old friend of mine. Her
maiden name was Callisa O Carroll. I am led to believe that she is currently building a
house In Rosses Point. Can any one help? Regards to all in R.P and Sligo Hello to Ciaran
and Eithne
Date: Saturday, April 07, 2001 at 01:25:25 AM
Email: Jamez@voulez.com
Name: Jamez Vous
Message: Allo, allo, allo to toute mes amis en Rossi nil point! I am getting how
you say over the cnoc, n'est ce pas et I have enjoyed all my visits to your belle country
& county of Monsieur Yeates et la Grande Dame Marchievcz. Mais it is such a long time
since I have visited now, since with my arthritis and senescence only for the wonders of
Viox & viagra all my stiffness would be, how you say in the wrong places.
Congratulations on a wonderful website, Deja' vous jamez?
Date: Saturday, April 07, 2001 at 04:57:57 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O Gallagher
Message: The P Flynn's are here in NY screaming for asylum imagine Charlie Bird
doing that to this fine lump of an agricultural Irish girl and on top of it all Mrs Jimmy
Devins ating her sister in court and Jimmy wants to be a Tee Dee for FF in Sligo/Laytrim
be the Holy Good God I betcha anything dat the lot o them will be on their knees led by
the Metal Man in Sligo Cathedral when the little flower comes to visit or what's left of
her.
Date: Saturday, April 07, 2001 at 05:04:55 AM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Och dears what's gone wrong with this place. T'was lovely and peaceful
with the F&M keeping visitors away and I was having a beuatiful reverie of himself
between my lusyt thighs and this din spoiled it all! A bloody flying machine with some
eejit hanging from it by a rope on a litter. Och, will yez catch yerself's on. What's this
here viagra frenchie is yapping about?
Date: Sunday, April 08, 2001 at 12:55:01 PM
Email: paul@pholmes76.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Paul Holmes
Message: Have all these people got nothing better to do than browse this website
day after day? My God, and I thought I had a sad life! I'm going back to the Tubbercurry
site. They've got a picture of their 'Central Plaza'(that was 'The Square' when I lived
there). Is anyone interested in my poetry about a metal man and a seagull? Don't all rush
at once.
Date: Sunday, April 08, 2001 at 11:28:31 PM
Email: sgbil@eejit.net
Name: seagull's brother-in- law
Message: Dear all Fianna Failers, dacent men one and all and women too I might add.
There will be a church gate collection at all churches in Ireland, north and south on
Easter weekend. Can we have volunteers for C of I, Methodist, Anglican, Muslim Temple,
Jewish Synagogue and the Polly Hall in Sligo and surrounding areas. The monies collected
will be donated to the poor Pee Flynn and daughters of Mayo Cumann, as they have been hit
badly by the citizens a.k.a peasants attacking their fortified position as the Royal
family of Castlebar. PS. Only volunteers with pocketless clothing will be accepted. All
enquiries to Sunny Ray and donations may be sent to Annsbacker Bank Coney Island Branch or
if that is closed for lunch try the Oyster Island branch
Date: Sunday, April 08, 2001 at 11:30:29 PM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Imagine Tubbercurry having a Central Plaza. When Humbert strode up Piper's
Hill there were a few good things there too!
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 06:56:44 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: GREAT NEWS!!!! The four Sligo/Leitrim Members of the Dail, TD's to the
locals, have pledged support for an equal mount of money to be spent on the football
stadium on Oyster Island as will be spent on Croke Park!! The PDs say they won't support
this for Oyster as they want to see the recipts from past games played there. Any good
bookkeeper out there?
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 10:35:56 PM
Email: sm@tf.sligo.ie
Name: St Martin at the Friary
Message: Just to,let you know the first dance of the year for the statues of Sligo
will be on Easter Monday morning from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. We're all getting old now, Con will
be there despite all the protests by the peeler. Is there any truth that there is a
collection being takne up for a statue to Roddy McGuinn? Music by Pat O'Hara's Band,
breakfast afterwrads wherever we can get it!
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 04:00:56 PM
Email: eeyorepiglet69@hotmail.com
Name: Sarah Gillen
Message: I am trying to trace my family history I know that my grandfather Francis
(Frank) Gillen was either born or his parent lived in Sligo, he married Mary Marjorie
Taylor. He had 12-13 siblings some of them sadly have departed and I know of them. The
ones who are still alive are Anne, Andy, Pat and Mike (who live in Las Vegas), Margaret
and Kay. I am trying to trace back from there where they were born etc. I think that he
lived on a farm and trying to find where he lived. My sister and I are thinking of coming
to Slio to try and trace the family back. If anyone can help please e-mail me.
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 at 05:26:59 PM
Email: dstronach@sjm.com
Name: Sandy and Dave Stronach
Message: We are delighted to tell you that we'll be visiting rosses Point this
June/July. Sandy and her sisters ,Hilary and Katherine, left there for Canada in 1950 and
are keen to rediscover their old home for a time this summer.We'll see you very soon.
Sandy.
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 at 08:49:06 PM
Email: bgallagher@bawc
Name: Bill Gallagher
Message: This is a great site. Will return from time to time.
Date: Friday, April 13, 2001 at 11:26:57 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Real Metal Man
Message: The boats are back in the water. There's no foot and mouth on the Island
and its Good Friday. I'm going for a pint in the Golf Club tonight. Has anybody seen Paddy
Bruen?
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 at 04:14:07 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Lady Hawke Dearest other love of my life . . how I often long for you . .
.
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 at 01:41:41 AM
Email: bubroq@aol.com
Name: Brian Gillen
Message: just visiting from my father's homepage, I would like to know more of my
family that is still in the homeland
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 at 06:37:46 PM
Email: sally@sholmes9.freeserve.co.uk
Name: Sally Holmes
Message: Your site was recommended to me by my father. Now I have had to pack up my
job as a police officer to give more time to browsing it. I was born in Sligo General
Hospital in 1973 but I brown a little bit since then. (I wonder if any of the nurses
remember me.)
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 at 06:37:53 PM
Email: cmitchell@ottervalleyuhs.k12.vt.us
Name: Colleen Slattery Mitchell
Message: My mother was Mary Ann Devaney from Cloonemore, Co Sligo born on July 16,
1906. Daughter of John Devaney. I am very, very new at using the internet, so I don't
really know what I'm doing. I have contacted a priest Father Kevin Loftus and found out
that I ahe a cousin Vera Ferguson Dunleavy still living there. She is the daughter of my
aunt Margaret Devaney. That is all I know. I an planning on coming over to Ireland in July
2002 and am trying to find out as much as I can before I come over. My mother came to New
York City in 1929 and never returned to Ireland. If you know of this branch of the Devaney
family and can give me any info, I'd appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 01:14:39 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Christine Bruen
Message: Hi everyone. I would just like to wish my husband Jimmy Bruen a very happy
birthday today! Hope to be back there soon.
Date: Friday, April 20, 2001 at 06:14:01 AM
Email: dfoley@interfusion.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Christine is this birthday the one which gets Jimmy the free travel? Buy
him a pint from me here in Australia and wish him the best of luck and may more birthdays
to come. Did he have his birthday suit cleaned for the occassion?
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2001 at 03:55:36 AM
Email: The weather report@1916-01
Name: Rob deGerry
Message: During the stations of the cross, the metals were pinned by the boagies.
The stormy shower from the Blenniks followed a hole in one to the rackett in Hacketts.
After the resurrection in Ballyconnell Jo sang the ballad of Lucy in Jordans-big port. It
was lashing chianti in the Market Street after noon and Dancing in the moonlight through
the McLaughlin's. Caved in 1864 gathering for another storm.
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2001 at 02:34:12 PM
Email: paul@pholmes76.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Iron Man Birmingham
Message: I am attempting to contact my cousin, Metal Man, but am confused by all
the different e-mail addresses. (Could it be that more than one person is trying to steal
his identity?) I need to contact him ungently with respect to the inheritance left to him
by a wealthy distant family member, Gold Man.
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 at 08:02:50 PM
Email: dawkins@iolfree.ie
Name: dawkins
Message: Hoping to visit Rosses point this weekend (27/4/2001) Delighted to get so
much information on the area, H Dawkins
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2001 at 03:32:34 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: There is a special meeting on the Rosses Point chat room at 12 noon this
Sunday 29 April 2001. To hear something to YOUR advantage come along.
Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 at 09:39:48 AM
Email: cdavisatirelanddotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, missed Sunday's chatroom session as I was in me mothers house in
Galway and had no PC access. What was this important announcement that was made? Or did
you have to be there???
Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 at 03:01:21 PM
Email: aorr@sprint.ca
Name: Rev. Dr. Aaron R. Orr
Message: Thanks for sharing your community with the world. This is one of the most
beautifully creative web-sites I hve ever encountered God Bless all! Aaron
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 at 01:01:05 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well sad to say the important meeting was poorly attended and those who
attended were the richer for attending the poorly attended meeting however as some of you
may have been poorly due to overdoing the rich Irish uisce beatha I extend a welcome to
you on the next meeting to hear the good news which may make you rich if you are poor or
vice-versa, no lawyers, publicans, grave diggers, parsons, priests or politicans need
attend. Slan MM
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 at 11:00:30 AM
Email: cdavisatirelanddotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: These cryptic messages are getting more and more intriguing....who are you
people and what are ye on about????? I'm going to miss Sunday's chat again ths week as
I'll be in sunny Spain!
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 at 11:03:27 AM
Email: .
Name: Ciaran
Message: On a more sober note, I don't know if many ofyou are aware, but Kieran
Devaney's sister passed away recently. I extend my heart-felt condolences to him and his
parents on their loss, as I'm sure you all do.
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 at 09:09:08 PM
Email: fitzpaul@iol.ie
Name: Paul Devaney
Message: Annie and I still can't come to terms with Maureen's death. She is to be
cremated in Hartlepool over the early part of the weekend, and her ashes will be interred
in Rosses Point on Monday. At least we get to say goodbye in the place she knew and loved
so well.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2001 at 09:44:59 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: I would also like to pass on our sincere sympathy to Tom and
Nellie and Kieran and Helen on the loss of Maureen.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2001 at 09:47:06 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: I was of course talking about the message above Declan Foley`s
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2001 at 12:52:30 PM
Email: dominic.keane@bnm.ie
Name: Ann & Dom Keane
Message: Looking forward to our holiday in the Point in August. Hope the weather is
good and that Dom will take the money off of Luke at golf.See you soon . Ann & Dominic
.
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 at 03:21:46 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Unable to attend this Sunday or next Sunday due to unforseen
circumstances. Talkk with you on Sunday May 29 DV.
Date: Monday, May 07, 2001 at 07:28:57 PM
Email: fdelahunty@eircom.net
Name: Frank Delahunty
Message: Excellent site,really enjoyed the history.I stay in Rosses Point quiet
often and Iam really interested the history and the people.I would love a tour if one was
possible.Best Wishes Frank.
Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 at 10:42:16 PM
Email: aebball@yahoo.com
Name: Annie Bruen
Message: Hi, my name is Annie Bruen. I came across this site accidently and it has
intrigued me. I live in Virginia, USA, but I have relatives originating in Ireland. I am
wondering if I have any connections to the Bruens of Rosses Point. My great-grandfather
came from Ireland. His names was Patrick Bruen and he married Margret Doocey, also of
Ireland. They had my grandfather, James G. Bruen, Sr, whom had my Father, James, Jr. Is
there a relation? If you know please do not hesititate to contact me! Thanks and greetings
from the US!
Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 at 12:20:22 PM
Email: moyeenmm.@yahoo.com.au
Name: Moyeen McCoy
Message: I have never met anyone who has the same first name as me and I was
delighted to see Moyeen Haran mentioned as one of the characters in the poem My Rosses
Point Life. I live in New Zealand but my father is from County Armagh and it was he who
chose my name. I lived in Ireland, in Clonmel and Dundalk from 1979 until 1981. I enjoyed
it very much but never met any Moyeens!
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2001 at 01:15:12 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well isn't that one for the books James Bruen gave birth to a child and a
boy at that! I see the sheep are in hiding, at least they have their feet out of their
mouth. Tis great to have the nice weather and the boats out here in the evenings. I wonder
could we put a web camera somewhere, that way we could show the folk abroad how thinsg are
here in the summer and what they are missing. Slan
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2001 at 01:20:17 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: All are well here at the E. A. FitzPatrick Home for Widowed and Orphaned
Men in NY. We are in dire need of a field in which the members of our famed institution,
which not alone gives asylum to widowed and orphaned men, but to Irish politicans, both
serving and former and deceased, on the run, to practice their running in. Is there any
chance we could get a Bertie Bowl? Is Sunny Ray of Alcantara still in the running with the
Soldiers of the Fianna? Could yez ask him to put in a word for us? Slan lath agus plaster
lath Seamus
Date: Sunday, May 13, 2001 at 08:26:36 AM
Email: thisllub@optusnet.com.au
Name: Julie Brown
Message: To Captain`s Log I have an asinment to pretend to be a convict or a
freesettler an and I need some infomation on what the jouny was like.
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE HELP from Julie Brown
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 at 01:51:43 AM
Email: sg@rp.ie
Name: Seagull
Message: Julie Brown is a clown if she cannot use her wonderful imagination to
write a tale of Irish settlers sent out by a cruel government whose actions today can be
seen in Little Johnnie's behaviour (Little Johhny is the brainless wonder that is PM of
Australia) towards the detainees in Port Hedland.
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 at 12:29:14 PM
Email: smyths2@bigpond.com.au
Name: ISABELLA SMYTH
Message: A truly beautiful website. Memories came flooding in. My family often log
in,and my Great Grandson often asks me to show him the birds and the ocean.(Your web
page).Thanks Isabella (a former resident of Victoria Bar)Now known as The Moorings.
Continued in Volume 21