The Captain's Log - Volume 25
Continued from Volume
24
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001 at 05:56:09 PM
Email: .
Name: ciaran
Message: Yes, folks....it's another volume!
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001 at 06:00:40 PM
Email: .
Name: Metal man's long lost cousin
Message: Jaysus the weather in Sligo is desperate! Ye must have a weather system all to yerselves here!
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:10:57 AM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Son have pity on me whos has stood here at Market Cross since 1898 in hail, rain, snow, sleet, sun, drizzle, wind, and oft timesgale force at that, storm and the occassional balmy day in between. And you think that's bad? Well until the 1960s I was protected by railings and even had beautiful gas lamps to show me off. Then they removed the railings and every dog in the town came and defiled me. You think that's bad? Then Sligo became a stranger's town and the locals all pissed on their own and these good Sligonians left for America, Australia, Canada, England, Germany etc, etc and since these people let the sun doesn't shine here anymore. So son I hope this explains why my beloved Sligo has foul weather.
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:13:23 AM
Email: deporres@smaf
Name: St.Martin at the Friary
Message: Lady Erin my colleague in stone, you are right and to compound this the dark day for Sligo was when my beautiful friary designed by a Sligo man was demolished for reasons of vanity.
The tears of deceased Dominican's have added to the downpours on Sligo.
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:16:57 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P. A. McHugh
Message: Lady Erin my colleague in stone you only had your railings removed. The motherless sods moved me around to the back of beyonds in Quay Street. Where once I was in the midst of the throng and my beloved Sligonians came and sat upon my pedestal and shared the gossip of the town, I now have to listen to bladderskites shouting meaningless words from an equally meaningless council chamber. That you all may drown for all I care, and I the man that borowed an axe to break down Ballymote courthouse door. Aye Ballymote has sunshine because the left my fine statue where it was first erected.
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:23:40 AM
Email: wbyeverywhere
Name: W. B. Yeats
Message: My Dear Lady Erin, at least you and P.A and to quote Joyce, Holy Salt Martin are erect and depicted as you were in human life. The unwashed have bent my back and the continual pain is something shocking. A woman in childbirth would know what I suffer, and to make matters worse the rain goes down my chest. If some kind Sligonian could only adorn me with an parasol as the did P.A. McHugh in the 1960s, how happy I would be. And as for the inclement weather, I have to agree that you have indeed destroyed this once fine town. I look upon the Swan where my ancestors had a mill and where once was a beautiful salmon leap, als tis no more.
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:26:23 AM
Email: m@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: Och me dears, here I am with my head in the clouds and rain washing around me feet. I have to agree with the statues of Sligo. A shower of one handed adulterers with no vision are now in charge of Sligo. This once fine town has been ruined by bad planning, neither green nor belt to be seen between house and house, nor street and avenue.
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 05:27:35 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: I am so upset I can only cry and this makes the weather worse!
Oh come back mavourneen's that left this shore and save us all from a fate worse than drowning.
Date: Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 05:23:57 AM
Email: er@buckhouse
Name: Elizabeth 11
Message: It could be worse you could have Paisley for Mayor of Sligo.
Date: Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 05:27:14 AM
Email: gb11@wh.usa
Name: Dubya
Message: Can anyone tell me why Al Gore hasn't stopped saying out loud Thank God for last November? I can't feegure out why he is so happy to have lost the election. Me, I have being crazy by now if I wasn't already ifin I hadda lost it. Thanks fer your prayers and please keep them up, we need them.
Date: Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 09:49:04 AM
Email: CM@silk.kimmonos.com
Name: Countess Marchivewicz
Message: This terrible dribble about the perennial drizzle is making making me sad, the great windows to the south have been wedged closed against the lashings of rain for months. Alas all you other folk including dear Willie got a statue before the developers ran riot in Sligo. I merely got a park where the peasents play with a pig bladder at the merest chink in the storm clouds. No doubt thats the reason that our counties peasents have'nt won a thing since the 1970's, they just don't get to pay much. After all my contribution to our blood sacrifice, the burgeoise burghers of Sligo could'nt name a dodgy chipped tile Gaudiesque bench after me..... Charming! The bright light of evening, tis a distant memory, and me a gazelle, never captured in wet limestone graffitied like McHugh,
Date: Monday, October 15, 2001 at 12:54:51 AM
Email: wbyoutsidethe new temple of ireland
Name: Willie's statue
Message: My Dear Con, I never knew you had such rhythm, why your verse is indeed prosaic. Eva would be so proud as indeed would Casimir. Do you recall the fun Cas and Gogarty had when George Moore was confined to his chambers by his neighbour Sir Thornley Stoker, Bram's brother? And to think Stoker like you and I were impresed by our Sligo childhood and we did so much for mother Erin and now they wet our heads daily. Come back St Patrick and rid this land of Taraxacum officinale (dandelion to the great unwashed; pess the bed to Fianna Failers').
Date: Monday, October 15, 2001 at 01:06:56 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Can yez ever stop this here wailing about the weather, yez are uspetting the folk here at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed and Orphaned Men. And I just had them all calmed down after the recent events here in NY. There is a simple solution to all of your problems. When it rains here some of the fit patients sell umbrellas on the streets; others go around the buses and trains to collect the ones left behind by passengers and resell them.
Surely yez could get the IDA to fund a similar project in Sligo, and it would be twofold in creating jobs and opportunity.
Slan agus plaster lath Seamus
Date: Monday, October 15, 2001 at 09:06:46 AM
Email: CM@silk.kimmonos.com
Name: C Marckiecivz
Message: Dear Willie;
you brought back fond memories, I laughed for the first time in months and your talk of dandelions did my urge incontinence no good, still what's a drop like that in the oceans of rain and the p-- spluttered at Soldiers of Destiny Ard Feis. You remember that Mairtin O'Deirean poem about the Rattus commonus that flourishes after the war. A terrible beauty has been born, is raised and now stalks this fair land. My verse is indeed prosaic, pedestrain and a tad pedantic, I never had your genius Willie, even with the prozac afer rain. Never received the standing, leaping, soaring ovation, just the crouching one!
Beir Beannacht,
Con
Date: Monday, October 15, 2001 at 11:12:48 PM
Email: 123456
Name: curious
Message: all this talk from statues in the town,
ye cannot be seen until one goes looking for ye, what about the big monument of a burned out ship docked in sligo and an eyesore to all that enter our town from the north and much more visible than any of ye statues,
can we put ye all on board when they decide to take the ship out and sink it.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 02:06:46 AM
Email: pam@town hall
Name: P. A. Mc Hugh
Message: At least Mr or Ms Curious A, we had the decency to state our names and B we all have done something for Sligo to put it on the map. Now in regards to the object not d'art on the docks, that is a matter which if we the famous statues of Sligo were to respond here on our beloved Rosses Point Guestbook could lead to an unsavoury discussion in the local establishment on Teeling Street titled the Courthouse. And let me tell you here in the Garden of Eden lawyers do not exist, we believe they are living elsewhere, somewhat hotter. From my personal knowledge of Irish government affairs there are ways and means legally to remove aforementioned vessel. I would suggest in all honesty you contact young Monaghan the Fianna Fail appointed Chairman of the Harbour Board on this one. At worst I suppose it could be turned into a private abortion clinic or a brothel or a saloon bar called the Pink Flamingo?
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 02:12:09 AM
Email: wbeverywhere
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Ahhh Con you remind me of what I once said of Maud when she came to berate me about the Government wanting to hang young Sean,
"What a woman!"
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. Alas, look at the state of this beloved place of shells, raped, ruined and ripped asunder in search of fools gold. The fools, the fools while they hold this ship the docks my grand uncle designed will forever be unfree.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 02:15:18 AM
Email: stol@newjersey
Name: Statue of Liberty
Message: There is no doubt that you have heard the goodly news that I now belong to the State of New Jersey, at least it made Caruso Finan's two sons of Harmony Hill harmonious as they reside in New Jersey. Is any of you statues interested in a global statue convention? We could plan it for the new Bertie Bowl.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 02:23:59 AM
Email: soa@here
Name: Society of Authors
Message: What a great group of writers'. The last time there was so much fun like this was when Tom Palmer Rest His Soul, was running the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly. In the midst of our time of unease you have brightened our hearts. Thank you.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 12:50:06 PM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran
Message: TThe full story of the fire on the Russian ship is now on the Captain's Table with pics by Ciaran Davis.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 10:07:37 PM
Email: CM@silk.kimonos.com
Name: Georgine Markiewcz
Message: Willie,
though the leaves are many, the root is one; through all the lying days of our youth, we swayed our leaves and flowers in the sun; now may we wither into truth. Hoards of vandals, Huns from a county of tribes South who claim their county Yeats, not Sinbads squally shore. Not true, theirs is Disneyland of mescalined munchkins. Raving Autumn shears blossom from the summers wreath of memories; Sean, felled by the all destroying blade carried by the wandering fool. Jewish lightening on quay, pyre of desire, of Ireland they come, great hatred, little room, crawling from womb with fanatic heart. Oh for the land of hearts desire, of up the rocky mountain and down the rushy glen, where no one gets old, godly and grave, crafty and wise or bitter of tongue. Where we folk, good folk, trouping all together, green jacket red cap, white owls feather! There is a road from eye to heart not going through the intellect, like a new road in Sligo, which knocked old Polloxfens stores.
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 12:35:43 AM
Email: chc@the hermitage
Name: Col. Harper Campbell
Message: Dear Countess
T'was my very own stores and family house that were demolished.
The Pollexfen family dwelt opposite us and the store was next door. Me thinks the Electrical Trades Union bought the old Pollexfen house. I shall have to check it all out, my memory is getting a bit forgetful, after all these years awaiting the Resurrection. It gets damp here sometimes, not good for the chest. Fatty Jackson would be the one to tell you all.
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 09:10:59 AM
Email: .
Name: Ghostwatcher
Message: I've never seen such a collection of entities from days of yore gathered together in one place! Yez are very fortunate to find such an abudance of statues in the town of Sligeach to reside in my friends! It must be with the approach of All Hallow's Eve. When's the next céilí??
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 02:33:48 AM
Email: smap@the friary
Name: St.Martin de Porres
Message: Dear Ghostwatcher
God Bless you indeed. Sligo has always been a great place for ghosts, from the long man in John Street who grew longer as you ran from him to banshees up the back hill. The next Ceilidh will be Hallow Éen. We are expecting the little man from Eyre Square in Galway to join us and the floozt in the jacuzzi from Dublin . . WB is looking froward to meeting her I might add.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 11:11:21 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, I have just put up a very nice poem sent on to me by Jimmy Bruen in Liverpool. It's by Christina Lloyd and can be read by going to www.rossespoint.com/stories.htm rgds, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 02:21:46 PM
Email: jade bruen@yahoo.com
Name: jade bruen
Message: hi there i had a nice time in your hotel
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 01:42:46 AM
Email: tm@col.sligo
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: And all of you townies what about me? You W B should be ashamed of yourself for forgetting me, didn't your brother Jack attend the centenary ceremonies at Carricknagat and do a fine drawing of the whole crowd. Anyway I'm not one to hold a grudge and I will indeed be at the dance on Hallow 'Een in O'Connel Street.
When we get this new rail service for south Sligo we won't know ourselves. I miss all the news from Tubber and Castlebar that used to come on the Claremorris line. Up the Republic!
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 01:46:25 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Mant
Message: Welcome aboard old soldier of '98. I apologise for not inviting you earlier, alas we in north Sligo too often neglect the south of the County. Indeed I recall Councillor Kivelehan many a year ago saying this at a County Council meeting. However, now that you are geting your new rail system up and running, do ye think we could have the Rosses Point line for which the drawings etc were completed in 1887 put into place.
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 01:50:32 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: G'day from the big apple. We had a parcel delivered here the other day and it had white stuff in it, post marked Dublin. Anyway we called the polis and guess what was in it. Craic!
Aye it seems that Dubliners have found a new way to sell Irish music, song, poetry and Guinness and Jameson in a package, they call it Bancraic. Begobs the residents that have tried it have been dancing on the roof ever since.
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 01:04:41 PM
Email: jade bruen@yahoo.com
Name: jade bruen
Message: hi there ur hotel is great and very nice .I really enjoyed myself.I hope to go again sometime and see u all again by jade bruen x
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 01:26:51 PM
Email: kilhar@ozzienet.net
Name: Wendy
Message: Hello.. Hoping that someone is able to HELP!! g/grandfather was Micheal KILGALLON [b 1819 st John SLIGO ]m Margaret O'Rann?? [b 1845] came to Australia as Enrolled Pensioner Guard 1865.Would appreciate any info.
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 at 03:29:33 PM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, I recently managed to shoot a couple of short videos from my car driving up the prom in the Point. These videos are available for download on the site now. Instructions and links are given on the Homepage. They are both short and have no sound and are in MPEG format, but unfortunately are still quite large in size so please have patience. Both files are zipped so you will need WinZip. I will eventually replace them with smaller, better quality movies. Enjoy!! (If anyone has any problems, feel free to mail me at the above address)
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 03:01:48 AM
Email: downunder
Name: cross-eyed
Message: Begobs I thought there was a 30mph speed limit in Rosses Point. 'Tis no wodner there wasn't a soul to be seen with the speed yez were driving at Ciaran. Lovely videos and I enjoyed them. How about Greenlands and the lower Rosses next.
PS do you do weddings? Because you could always do the Belfast fellows wedding in retrospect.
Will anyone be in the chat room today Sunday October 21?
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 11:50:29 AM
Email: sbil@rp.ie
Name: Seagull's brother-in-law
Message: I missed Mass last night, they changed the time and it was over when I arrived late for the 7.30 oç Mass, now it's at 7 oç on Saturday. The Mgr (is that short for manager) says he needs more drinking time!
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 11:57:22 AM
Email: dfoley@interfusion.net.au
Name: Dec
Message: I'm trying to load the chat room applet!
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 12:00:55 PM
Email: JADE BRUEN@YAHOO.COM
Name: JADE BRUEN
Message: HI THERE THIS IS JADE UR HOTEL IS THE BEST HOTEL I HAVE BEEN TO IN MY WHOLE LIFE I HOPE TO COME AGAIN JADEXX
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 12:06:20 PM
Email: dfoley
Name: dec
Message: The chatroom applet won't open
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 01:13:07 AM
Email: ptg@corgicottage
Name: Phil the Greek
Message: My good man Ciaran I would indeed deem it a favour of inestimable proprotions if you would be good enought to enter into the bowels of your web site, in particular on the front page where it says, and I quote, "Chat live with Rosses Point People" and go to 'view'then please click on 'source' and perchance my good man you will discover the reason why those old Sligonians so widespread from Austin to Australia and Antartic to Alaska cannot "Chat Live with Rosses Point People" as they so dearly wish to.
Gurra meal maith agait agus tiochaidh ar la to you all.
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 09:11:29 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, It's Monday morning and after reading your comments regarding the chatroom I checked it out...I managed to log on alright. I have a feeling its the server side as the chatroom applet runs from www.multicity.com. Apologies if ye are having trouble on a regular basis with it. I'll strive to find a more stable one and get it up by next Sunday. Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 04:34:34 PM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: please note my niece "Jade Bruen" should have stated the hotel she was reffering to is of course Yeats Hotel !, all the Bruens from Glasgow were there for the famous wedding at Magherow.
If anyone noticed 4 Scotch guys with kilts roaming around Sligo
last July, that was us !, we aslo nipped into Imelda Bruens house (the Stella Maris) for a wee dram after the officials were finished !
Please give Imelda and If Brendan and Finnoula are back from the USA all our love.
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 08:57:33 PM
Email: the fuzz@bettyblue.com
Name: sergent scratchy
Message:
In respect of a certain Mr Ciaran, who proceeded down the village at what we estimate to be ferocious speeds of up to 50 mph for a horseless carraige whilst using a new fangled type of cine camera, eating a big mac and communicating with persons heretoforth unknown on a wireless telephony device all at the same time, we are processing a warrant for your arrest. We have photographic evidence from 12 hidden speed cameras placed at 3ft intervals along the promenade and at full gallop it can be clearly seen that all four tires were off the ground contemperaneously, clearly in breach of section 28.1 of the road traffic act 1972,
Is mise le meas,
Sergaint Mactyre
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 09:09:00 PM
Email: W.B@stoned.iol.GB
Name: Wild Bill Pebbles
Message:
Fellow Sligonians I've been gone for many a year to that great orange future and elyssian tangoed fields, but that bag Lady Erin raised my ire, stuck in my gut and made me put on my walking shoes to cast a counter to her whinging. I looked out at that fenian wench for nigh on 40 years and she worse looking she got day by day along with her breed and kind. Tis not just the 4 lamps, railings and protection round her, but her whole turgid carcass that should have been tipped on the foreshore at standhill to do something useful like arresting erosion.
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 at 11:18:58 PM
Email: 123456789
Name: Martin
Message: Ciaran , the chatroom is a great centre of attraction on a sunday morn and has been a huge benefit to ppl home and abroad , and a great loss to those of us who made regular use of same, sort it out if ya can, it is about the only time we know foley is foley, ya never know what he is talking about in the log he uses so many different names ,
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 03:45:08 AM
Email: tm@the col.ie
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: Now Billy Peebles I never before heard you say unkind things of my colleague Lady Erin. Methinks that you are that ould get from Belfast Crawford-Blackwood in disguise. Well isn't it great news that the railways of South Sligo are coming back to life. From Tubbercurry to Achonry and Collooney once again we'll have the rollicking railway. Och if meself and Humbert only had that in'98
we would indeed have been a nation once again then!
The Statues of Sligo Abu !!! The West's Awake.
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 03:48:04 AM
Email: sbil@rp.ie
Name: Seagulls-brother-in-law
Message: Typical Scotchmen getting free drink of a single woman who has her in-laws to support though thick and thin. Do ye think if I popped in to Imelda she might give me a dram of Irish Whiskey?
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 03:52:08 AM
Email: sg@rp.ie
Name: Seagulls
Message: Pity that Sgt Mactire doesn't get on to Imelda for running a sheebeen. I heard she asked the Scotchmen for Five pounds towards the church restoration fund. They fainted and were revived by first aid man Paschal who threw them into the tide.
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 10:25:19 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: I swear to God I never rose over 35mph whilst filming my groundbreaking masterpieces!! Sure, ye wouldn't be able to see anything properly had I been clipping along at anything over 40! Martin, regarding the chatroom, I just had a look at it and managed to log on without any problem once again. I honestly don't know what is wrong with it on Sunday mornings...perhaps it has something to do with the pressure of traffic on the MultiCity.com servers at the weekend. As I have already said though, if I can find a more stable chatroom applet, I'll install it. Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 11:14:16 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi again all. Well, I have set up an alternative chatroom on the same page as the current one. Clicking on the button will bring you to another page and then it's just a matter of following the instructions. I will leave the 2 alternatives on the same page for the moment but I would appreciate some feedback as to which one is the better room access-wise. You can mail me at the above address or else leave a message here for me. I might even get the time on Sunday to join ye in between the times I'll be spending speeding up and down the prom!! rgds, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 03:23:45 AM
Email: ssm@grange
Name: Statue of St Molaise
Message: Am I black or what? Is it because I am of wood and you are of stone that you omit me from your ceilidhs and prayer meetings.
I know that we here in Grange have only got bottled gas recently, prior to that we had to depend on the gas from bottle stout for our energy. But, now that we have the 'phone lines in
I can get on the web at Frank McSweeneys petrol station. Keep in touch.
Molaise of Innismurray
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 03:26:16 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P.A.McHugh
Message: My dear St Molaise as they say in the town hall at Corporation meetings, 'Out of sight, out of mind.' Sure and I'm delighted to hear from you. Many's the time I prayed to you for a miracle, alas, I'm still waiting. Could you persuade them to move me back to me ould spot?
Regards
The man himself P.A. PS Is Frank McSweeney still selling bicycle tyres?
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 03:27:32 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Ciaran agra, and why could you not have included me in the video and Austies pub? 'Tis time you paid a visit to the chat room.
MM
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 09:12:28 AM
Email: .
Name: Ciaran
Message: I'm getting to it MM, patience my dear chap! I'm waiting for the right light and conditions. One cannot rush these things you know. All in good time! Rgds, Ciaran "Cecil B. DeMille" Davis
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 12:57:26 PM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message:
Typical, you put a nice clean message on the noticeboard and all you get in return is smut !
Imelda is the perfect hostess and being a fellow Bruen requested no such monies for her whisky, and none was offered !
She did offer B & B at 30.00 pounds per person, per night, we
declined her offer as she only has one bedroom !, the thought of 4 drunk scothmen and Imelda I will leave to your smutty imagination.
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 01:34:08 PM
Email: bridie_nicholson@hotmail.com
Name: bridie nicholson
Message: very well put thoughtout-very interesting!
kind regards BN
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 12:49:27 AM
Email: sg@rp.ie
Name: Seagull
Message: I cannot imagine a patriotic woman as fine as Imelda offering whisky, let alone keeping it in her boudoir. Now if she invited you blokes to share her room it was indeed fine Irish whiskey, and she would have been as safe as if she was with the Metal Man.
PS Who left the bottle of Viagra in room 112 of the hotel that weekend . . was it the groom or the best man?
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 01:01:51 AM
Email: sbil@ rp.ie
Name: seagull's brother in law
Message: And to think that Christmas Day is but two months away!!
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 01:56:26 AM
Email: a@memoryharbour
Name: Austie
Message: Ciaran agra I had a long chat with myself in the chat room today. I was amazed at some of the tales I heard from myself.
All I can say is that Rosses Point is changing.
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 10:46:08 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all. I've been speaking to several people in recent days on the matter of the Russian ship at Sligo docks. Several people have suggested that a very good idea for getting rid of it would be to tow it offshore and sink it for use as a diving wreck and for fishing. I personally think this would be a great idea but I have no idea what the cost of such an exercise would be. There was a report in either the Champion or the Weekender, I'm not sure which, stating that the eventual plan is to have it brought to Belfast for dismantling. I think it would be a great attraction to the Bay for divers and anglers if it was sunk somewhere between say Aughris head and Inismurray, in deep enough water so as not to interfere in shipping traffic. How does anyone else feel about this? If enough of ye feel this would be a good idea, then we might be able to petition the Harbour Board and the current owner of the ship, who, I understand, just wants rid of it at this stage. Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 02:39:53 PM
Email: roger@loot.com
Name: Roger Willcocks
Message: Greetings All! Long time no see...
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 02:50:59 PM
Email: .
Name: Ciaran
Message: Well, finally we have our guestbook back! Thanks very very much to Roger Willcocks who helped us sort it out. It appears to have been something to do with our site host. They're after upgrading their servers and moved things around and the scripts that ran our guestbook got mysteriously deleted. But we're back in action now and I for one am looking forward to hearing from ye all again! Cheers, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:20:07 PM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: I have run out of things to write about and so much occured whilst the page was down that I can only frown, but let me say this that the peeler who objected to Con's statue was indeed one Sergeant Mac Scratchy, now how come the self same man listens to and enjoys Con Brio? And another thing why is there going to be a south sligo rail line when we already have a plan for a Rosses point railway drawn up over a hundred years ago?
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:23:31 PM
Email: sg@sligo-coney island
Name: Seagull
Message: Begobs MM that was a mouthful, but did you ever see such goings on about the Wine Street Car park. Joise May must be turning in his grave to see what is about to happen to the remnants of the Sligo Gas Works, imahgine all the concrete blocks,sand and cement that will be required? Money, money money as the old song goes. I propose that we build a shoping mall on Oyster Island in opposition.
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:27:47 PM
Email: hm@buckhouse.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: My husband and I and the corgis are deelighted to read in the Sligo Lyre Players weekly that Eire is to invite us for a Semi State visit. We would so like to visit Rosses Point ( Phil the Greek heard that there are charming young ladies who bathe nude daily there, and I heard that there are muscular young men like Roddy Gillen and Dominic Harte who drink Guinness and don't require Viagra, I can imagine W B Yeats line of "randy porters laughter" ( PS I have heard of Randy Crawford, is randy porter a funny man?
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:29:36 PM
Email: Lightinthewave@Darkest
Name: Black Pearl
Message: What happened to AUSTIE ?
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:31:02 PM
Email: maeve@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: Och there's three more fine men for me to bed. It was so lonely here without the guest book to cheer me up. Himself is in a deep sleep for the winter. I had a telgram from some fella called Leydon looking for shelter for a few months, only trouble was he wanted to bring a dozen wives, now if he came all on his own, t'would be a different matter.On second thoughts rephrase that last line, I'd give him a hand. (Metaphorically speaking of course)
Yo!
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:32:10 PM
Email: ag@nazareth
Name: Austie
Message: I'm here in Bethlehem cleaning out the stable
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:35:46 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P. A McHugh
Message: I'm glad to see the fighting spirit of Dan Gethins' grandaughter over in Cranmore. She is repeating history, when the Corporation erected those nice houses on Knappagh and Mail Coach Road in the 1930s the residents had to do exactly what she did and the Judge of the Court said they were right. Come to think of it the Corporation didn't have any further house erections for many years after.
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001 at 12:34:05 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P. A McHugh
Message: I'm glad to see the fighting spirit of Dan Gethins' grandaughter over in Cranmore. She is repeating history, when the Corporation erected those nice houses on Knappagh and Mail Coach Road in the 1930s the residents had to do exactly what she did and the Judge of the Court said they were right. Come to think of it the Corporation didn't have any further house erections for many years after.
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001 at 02:31:19 PM
Email: @here
Name: Me
Message: Well, the guestbook is back one whole day and already the gibberish has started! It must be since they started installing computers in those big homes for the bewildered...
Date: Saturday, December 01, 2001 at 05:55:30 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Now look here yo that has not even the common decency to put your name let alone your address to your anonomyous letter, shut up or put up. We who run these homes for the bewildered and orphaned men know how well the residents are and we alone with the help of silly Fianna Faillers will decide these things.
Date: Saturday, December 01, 2001 at 07:15:49 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Ciaran, I have some early photos of Sligo Yachts, after Christmas I will email them to you. They were taken by John Jenkins of Charlotte Street.
Date: Sunday, December 02, 2001 at 12:45:19 AM
Email: rebuzno@aol.com
Name: Bill Bray
Message: My wife's ancestor, Edward Bruen, was born in Co. Sligo about 1820. When he was age 20, in 1840 he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary and would serve as a constable until his retirement in 1875. He served his entire career in Galway West, living in the town of Clifden. He died there in 1884. My question for those of Rosses Point: does anyone know who the parents of Edward Bruen might be? I have no idea what townland or parish he was from in Co. Sligo - all I know is that the Bruen name has figured prominently in that county and neighboring Co. Roscommon. Also, according to his RIC service record, his wife was from Co. Limerick, but I don't know her name. Any help or research suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks in advance!
Bill Bray
USA
Date: Monday, December 03, 2001 at 12:55:03 AM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Ciaran me ould mate are we going to have an international night in Austie's this year?
Date: Monday, December 03, 2001 at 09:34:15 AM
Email: rossespoint@online.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: I'm not sure as yet if we're going to have our annual Internet night in Austies this year. It took a fair amount or organisation in recent years and I have to say the turn out was less than expected. I'll have to go into discussion with one Kieran Devaney to see if it's worth it or not. Stay tuned to this here guestbook for fast-breaking news on the subject as it happens! Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 10:35:34 AM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: I think the general feeling is that the Xmas Internet Night has run its course. When we started all those years ago very few people in the village had access to the web. Now even the Metal Man and the Seagull are online. We will however be putting up the Xmas Guest Book and the decorations!
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 02:19:29 PM
Email: ciaran@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Well, there you have it folks. Straight from the boss himself! I'll be putting the Christmas decorations on the site soon and will put up the Xmas greetings book on the 8th. Rgds, Ciaran
Continued in Volume 26
