The Captain's Log - Volume 26
Continued from Volume
25
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 04:37:16 PM
Email: ciaran@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi again all, as the last volume was getting a bit long I've decided to put up a new volume. I'll keep this as the last normal volume before Christmas and then replace it after the holidays. Only 20 shopping days left!! Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 04:49:50 PM
Email: down below in Watherford
Name: Metal Man's brother
Message: I believe it's getting rather wintery above there in Shligo. I hope MM isn't blown off his pedestal! It's not too bad here so far, although it did get a bit breezy a couple of days ago. Happy Xmas all in Rosses P. and further afield!! Declan, I suppose you'll be havin' the big dinner on Bondi Beach??
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 06:08:03 PM
Email: ferrets.galore@fancy focail.com
Name: fergal McFerret the third
Message: Jaysus tis great to see the message boards back on line. Twas like been off the drink for advent without it. Here's to a great lead up to St Wencleas day now that were plugged in again.
Twas that bucking video of some would be Denis Hopper on a motor bike cruising the prom with the windows down that banjaxed the whole ting. He would'nt have been a Cavan man down on the bus with his free pass for the day. Sure there no hurrying these It fellas for all their fancy salaries, the technology works at light speed but not whemn dem boys has to fix it!,
Still good work ladz,
Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 at 09:21:41 PM
Email: ciaran@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Careful now ye divils or I'll subject ye to more spins up and down the village! And the reason everything went pear-shaped was because those fine folk who host our wonderous site moved things to bigger, brighter and faster servers, but unfortunately deleted vital files that run our marvellous guestbook! But what they did do was allow us here in the nerve centre of rossespoint.com to have our own rossespoint.com email addresses! Isn't technology wonderful?? Anyway, you can contact me on the above address or one Kieran Devaney on kierandevaney@rossespoint.com! rgds, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 at 11:16:56 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Dec Himself
Message: Begobs MM's brother, 'tis currently like a Sligo summer here wet and windy. Alas, Bondi is about 1200 kilometers from beautiful Victoria. And the last time I visited Bondi I ended up in the Cardiac ward of the local geriatric hospital. All those young ones wearing nothing only an upper and lower smile. The doctor had to give me intravenous derector.
However enjoy Christmas in your part of the world.
Declan
Date: Thursday, December 06, 2001 at 11:18:57 PM
Email: mm@rp.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: How is the statute coming along? I haven't heard from Extractor Smith in a while. Imagine Foley being in a Cardiac Ward from ogling young ones, many's the poor motherless sod he carted out of Cardiac wards. I see the race is on between the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly and The Weekender to be first on the world wide web. Did any of you see the planning notice on the Greenlands?
Someone is seeking planning permission to erect a 24 hour brothel. Begobs if Foley sent photies of Bondi Beach smiling ladies you'd have the brothel erected rapidly!
Date: Friday, December 07, 2001 at 03:42:40 PM
Email: sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: I am going back to sligo for the first time in over 30 years.Has it changed much?.I want to rent a car at McCairns Motors on Corcorans Mall.Can i get petrol atMcgowan&Nairns on wine St.Miss Kilgannon had great 2d icecream,Kevinsfort maybe.Does the Lido cafe still have great chips,can i still get into the Savoy for 4pence,is Paddy Ford still keeping them in line?.What price are rabbits in Healys,Iwill cross Gratten St for a pint in Lambs or maybe currans.I hope Higgins&Keighrons has those broken biscuits on sale,i need some thermogen from Kosses.Ihope to get some rashers in O,Connor bros and a pullover in Johnstons.How much is a haircut inHamills,Ellis,s or McGees.Is the Wood&Iron still the place for furniture,i can get some sweets at Woolworths,is the House forMen still good for suits.I might not be able to climb the steps to the Gaiety, or to get my slab toffe at McDonaghs or get milk macroons in Jennys
Date: Saturday, December 08, 2001 at 12:48:52 AM
Email: le@marketcross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: My dear back avenue, I suggets you read the poem of Yeats about romantic Ireland being in the grave with O'Leary and his other line that goes 'and time runs says she' for that's what has happened in Sligo. However if you care to visit the cemetery you can catch up with some of those named, as for their premises, alas that is all you will see. The nameboards are changed, sure who even mentiosn Griffiths Corner these days let alone Corcoran's Mall or Robbers Lane or Lover's Lane or Charlotte Street or even the Back Hill come to that. Aye sir or madam as Yeats wrote In the Rose of the World.
Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode:/Before you were, or any hearts to beat,/ Weary and kind lingered by His seat;/ He made the world to be a grassy road/Before her wandering feet.
In a sense BAck Avenue, you may as well rave here in public as in bed.
Slan
Date: Saturday, December 08, 2001 at 06:35:41 AM
Email: owsagc@new york.com
Name: One who stood at Griffiths Corner
Message: As one who stood at Griffith's Corner for manys a day whilst seeking work in Sligo and then decided to emigrate to Noo York, all I cna say is that reading the news in the Champin is nothing new, all that has changed are the dates and the names of the people. The topics are the same
Agggghhhhhh
Date: Sunday, December 09, 2001 at 05:05:29 AM
Email: hwhnts@here
Name: He who has nothing to say
Message: Maisie McDaniel come back all is forgiven. Fintan Stanley bring the accordion too. Has any one heard from the statues of Belahey,Curry,Tubbercurry, Ballymote, Keshcarrigan, Branchfield,
Knoxfield, Ladies Brae etc etc ?
Date: Monday, December 10, 2001 at 10:15:14 AM
Email: mikekb1uk@yahoo.com
Name: mike beavis
Message: hi its mike beavis, maureen devaney's son just letting everybody in rosses point know that im ok and im doing well.
i hope everyone is well in what i consider as my home town. and i just want to let them know i will be over soon when i have time off work to visit my family. ps. HI GRONJYA , KERIAN, COLLUM, ROSHEEN, JAMES, STEVEN AND THE REST OF THE GANG @ ROSSES POINT SEE YOU SOON
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 09:24:42 AM
Email: mm@tramore
Name: Metal Man's brother
Message: Jaysus, only 2 weeks to go until the big day! I hope me brother up there in the Point has got me something nice....something warm from that fine establishment Mullaneys perhaps?? (hint hint!) Anyway, I was thinking of taking a jaunt up from Waterford to see the aul' divil, could do with a few hot ones from Austies, and then maybe follow that with a couple of long pints in Harrys. I hope he isn't barred these days!
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 01:17:52 PM
Email: Backavenue
Name: Sligo
Message: Ladyerin,are you telling me things have changed in Sligo.I hope you wont say the skiffle group no longer play in the boathouse at hooks(cushgaddens),or the Jail road is gone.Did you say the Model Factory is open still.Is robbing Brownes orchard still the biggest crime commited in town.Do you ever turn your head to see if prescotts or Munsons are still there or the Mayfair Cafe(one of that family is doing well with some dance band ,i hear).Do you get your newspaper at Peebles or Wallaces,you should go to McCafferys if you get a cold,orWalter McD has great soup.I cant wait to see Sligo after all these years.P.S.Iam flying in to Rineanna.
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 02:07:54 PM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, We're thinking of having our Annual Christmas Internet Night in Austies again this year. The date in mind is Friday the 21st of December probably kicking off at 8:30 or 9pm. Things have to be fully confirmed yet so keep an eye on this guestbook for full details within the next week or so. Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 10:48:03 PM
Email: LE@marketx
Name: Lady Erin
Message: YES,the skiffle group no longer play in the boathouse at hooks(cushgaddens),NO the Jail road is not gone. NO the Model Factory is not open. Brownes orchard (you make me cry) Prescotts,Munsons are of days past. Mayfair Cafe gone (one of that blow-in family is doing well with some dance band ,you hear). Peebles, Wallaces,McCaffery in the cemetery. Walter McD as good as ever only no more soup.If I could find Sligo, I too would not wait to see it, and as for Rineanna it closed after Foley emigrated to Australia. Suggest you fly back via a time machine.
Sadly LE
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 10:52:00 PM
Email: pam@townhall.sligo
Name: P A McHugh
Message: In last weeks edition of the Sligo Lyre Players Weekly young Finn once of Holborn Street asked why is everyhting in Sligo delayed, such as my old friend the Countess's statue, the mid-block route and may other things. The answer my friends is blowing in the wind! Ther are few visionaries in Sligo town, any that had vision left and the laggards left behind only want to add the ha'pence to the pence in the greasy till. Neither statesman or woman to be found as in my time, er. our time Countess, my apologies.
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 04:12:47 PM
Email: CM@silk.kimonos.com
Name: Constance
Message: What a retro bunch you Sligo folk have become, in my day, we had the world at our feet, the moon was in the seventh heaven, O'Leary not yet conceived and chaque jour we ventured forth to strains of "Carpe Dieum". Have the old ascendant mercantile class of the garrison town of Sligo not being replaced with fine entrepreneurial off-spring of the much vaunted Celtic tiger?
Or have you been pleasured with the mediocracy of the bourgoise, a pleasent sleepy place on the backwater of the Garavogue, most notable for well-fed Gondolas.
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 11:02:22 PM
Email: sbil@rp.ie
Name: Seagull's brother-in-law
Message: Aye, Constance and the Corporation members are still inquiring at the estimates Meeting about who will feed the gondolas.
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 12:29:21 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: My goodness I'm after reading in the oul Weekender that yer man and his ma from Westlife had such red tape to go through applying for a parking disc for his BMW convertible. Begobs, and sure our residents here in the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Orphaned and Widowed Men New York have no such problems parking their Cadillacs where ever they like. Marion Harkin is praying Seamus Monaghan, the former FF director of elections who nearly lost Sunny Ray his seat back in '82, will be in charge again at the next elction;FF will top the poll and not even get a seat. When asked for a comment Mr Monaghan, said he knew the Irish system backwards, as the Citizen remarked, Yes that's how you got it back to front, Ellis ahead and out and Sunny Ray behind and scraping in on FG and Labour preferences. Slan lath agus plaster lath.
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 03:40:09 PM
Email: Backavenue
Name: Sligo
Message: Could anyone please say what band is in The Silver Slipper on Stephens night.Does that nice group play in the Baymount Lounge before the dance.
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 07:52:43 PM
Email: murphywillie@eircom.net
Name: Colm Murphy
Message: To Mike, glad to hear from you, hope training is going ok,all the gang send their regards, keep in touch and try and come over when you get leave. Colm
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 08:14:53 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Begobs, BA, you're might for asking questions about the past, perhaps you could answer a few about the future? How come yer man from the Searoad doesn't get a mention in the polls in the Sliog Lyreplayers Weekly? Does this mean that the peedee party is peed off in Sligo? Who rings the chimes in the Cathedral? Why does it not snow in Texas? Now back avenue, you answer the above and I'll find out who is in the Silver Slipper on Stephen's night. The little band is now grown up and is bigger.
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 at 03:08:56 AM
Email: Backavenue
Name: Sligo
Message: Metalman,i dont know anything about the Sea Road, or the Pd party,i hope they had a good time and did'nt go too heavy on the booze.Iremember a Mr Joe Whelan did the chimes.It does not snow in Texas because the temp.never drops below 30.Now, who is playing in the Slipper.Thank you for your kindness.
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 at 04:22:44 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well Back Avenue, yer true to yer word. And Man Dear let me tell you the Silver Slipper is no more alas, so the ghosts of us all who danced there and Joe Loss, Victor Sylvester, Brose Walsh. Och yez have me in tears and Liam Tymon too, talking about Cushcaddens and the Skiffle Group in the boat house. As for the thundering gobs#*t! on the Sea Road, tis as well you know nothing of him.
I have to go me tears are swelling the tide and could swamp Austies!
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 at 04:24:20 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I forgot to mention that it was Foley's Uncle Joe who tokk over the job of Sacristan after Joe Whelan and his Uncle Jimmy used to maintain the clock and chimes. May the all Rest In Peace
Date: Sunday, December 16, 2001 at 11:03:12 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: I haven't seen a sheep on Oyster in yonks, have they all gone to Afghanistan?
Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 at 09:06:49 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, the 5th annual Austies Internet Night will take place on Friday the 21st of December, that's next Friday. I suppose we'll kick off proceedings around 9pm (Austies time) or so, so those of you who cannot be with us in person please log in virtually to the chatroom. I'll open both rooms in case there is anyone out there who has problems logging on to the main one. If there is a problem with the main one, please be assured that is none of my doing and is probably a problem with Multicity, the people who host the actual room. See you all there!! rgds, Ciaran
Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 at 10:29:35 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi again all, I have just discovered that our local golf club now have their own website, check it out from the link on our home page or go to htp://www.countysligogolfclub.ie Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 12:25:15 AM
Email: maeve@misguan.ie
Name: Maeve
Message: 1970 saw yer man here in Sligo, will you come and visit me Back Avenue? Ah wait till yez hear this. Himself, Finn the slack jawed eejit I have fer a husband heard on the raddio that Sligo Rovers had beaten the gooolies off Leeds!! He fell in a faint. Then he read in the Indo on Monday that it's a new Football crowd down in Munster. Is yer man Cretaro related to a drop of the oul' crayture! Has dem fellows in the County Sligo Golf Club plenty of balls?
Herself
Maeve
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 12:41:19 PM
Email: kurisu@hehe.com
Name: Chris Haran
Message: A warm welcome to all the Harans there- may we meet some day.
This particular Haran is living in Kobe in western Japan.
I will be sure to visit Eire in 2002.
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 03:08:54 AM
Email: 1914on@pearserd.ie
Name: The Monument on Pearse Road
Message: I have found my voice at last. The good fairy visited me last night and has allowed me to speak after standing here all these years on the corner of the Albert Line and Mail Coach Road. The good fairy told me I must now call it Pearse Road and I now can attend the Stephen's Night Dance of the Statues in O'Connell Street. When the good fairy saw I was puzzled about O'Connell Street, she said it was once Knox's Street. So I said "upper or lower" and she gave me a clout with her brolly! I am going to sing O Willy McBride for you all at the dance!!!
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 04:21:00 PM
Email: cminthecrate
Name: Constance
Message: 'Tis well for you War Monument, allowed to speak. At least you have been on show for over 75 years to the public and have a grand home where you are saluted daily. Her I am all boxed up and nowhere to call home. Remember the poem about the old woman of the roads wishing for a houseen of her own? And to think that the town I loved so well, does this to me. If we only had Foley back here from Australia he'd change things very quickly.
All I want for Christmas is my own little site, why even the new statue in Rosses point had a site before it was created. Bloody peelers!!
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 11:28:31 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Tonight's the night at Austies! Free booze,women and song.
And Ciaran will be there too!
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 03:43:35 AM
Email: kelleyf@greenapple.com
Name: Kelley Finan
Message: What a wonderful site. Came across it as I was researching the Finan family on the Web. Believe grandfather, Charles Finan, was born in Sligo in the late 1880s. Came to Pennsylvania in the 1890s; married my grandmother Mary Coyne, also from Sligo, I believe, in the U.S. around 1910. They moved to Akron, Ohio, in the 1920s or 30s, and had eight children (now, there's a surprise!). Would love to hear from any Finans/Coynes in Sligo that may know of a Pennsylvania or Ohio connection. Am planning a trip to Ireland next year, and will definitely visit Rosses Point. Can anyone suggest the best time of year to visit weather-wise? Really enjoyed the site and the wonderful senses of humor! Makes me feel as if I know you all!
Sincerely,
Kelley Finan
Columbus, Ohio USA
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 09:10:02 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Actually MM, tonights the night in Austies! You're a day behind! And today (21st December) is the Winter Solstice....it's all uphill from here on, happy solstice everyone! C.
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 07:26:00 PM
Email: movingstatues@alabaster.com
Name: Statuary obligations
Message: To all the statues in Sligo, moving, talking, walking or plain still, a christmas cheer from all your mates, flozie, Daniel, Thomas Davis, Oscar, Tart with cart, Jimmy Joyce, Patrick Cavanagh, Lord Ardilaun, Oisin, the famine folk on the quays, the ticket seller ouside the screen, and so many more who would have signed but the courier could'nt get round them all with the shagging traffic. A big hello to our favourite Sligo statue, the wee wooden woman in hazlewood who so tragically recently lost her head along with her friend the two wooden ducks. Are ye sure Sligo is a nice place to live, we wondered whether the indo got it right!
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 07:33:30 PM
Email: oscar@theacad.motionpicture.com
Name: Oscar
Message: Greetings fellow statues from Hollywood. It great you guys have such a humungous thing going down there in Sligo, its like the dance of the toys in the sugar plum fairy (the bad fairy Liam is stateside in NY). Metal Man's annals and lady Erin's diaries could make a fine film, I can see it now, metal man played by Brad Pitt and Juila Roberts as Lady E, who knows it could win one of me!
Chow for now,
arrevederchi
oscar
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 10:38:29 PM
Email: @Austies
Name: Query from Austies
Message: ELSINORE - How did it come be used as a name for the John Black/Henry Middleton lodge opposite the pier? We think it's from Elsinore Castle overlooking the Skattigat into the Baltic. All observations welcome.
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 at 11:53:59 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: As far as I can recall it is the Elsinore Castle in yon faraway country. As a youngster I though it was from oul' Will the sassenach bard but as I studied Will the Sligo poet I discovered the truth of the matter. Hence I write to you on this here magic lantern. Sorry to have missed you all on the Austie's night.
Date: Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 12:01:43 AM
Email: sm@thefriary.sligo
Name: St Martin De Porres
Message: Dear Statues' from Ata Cliath agus Hollywood. Many compliments of the season to you, and no Sligo is not such a bad place to live. Like the world over we have our share of blackguards, and there is always a reason behind vandalism. Those people believe it or not are crying out for help. But, us statues are neither hard hearted, soft brained or slack-jawed eejits. We forgive them as we know like Costume on the bridge of Athlone, there are many more to replace us. I look forward to packed houses on Wednesday, and if you only visit once a year you are as welcome as if you visit every day. And don't forget the dance on Stephen's Night in O'Connell St. Tony Rossi's Orchestra and Pat O'Hara's Band will be playing.
Date: Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 12:30:46 AM
Email: hmregina@buckhouse
Name: Elizabeth 11
Message: Perchance the esteemed elected members of the Corporation of Sligo could loan us the Superloo. Phil the Greek as he gets older finds it harder to hold on longer, and as we will be going for lots of walkies at Christmas in the woods, I thought that the superloo could be placed upon a trailer attached to our Range Rover. You see the motor follows us just in case. Toddleoo and have a jolly Christmas. My eldest son is looking for a nice hotel or saloon bar to hold his wedding reception in, do any of you have recommendations?
Liz
Date: Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 06:44:00 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: will any one be in the chat room today Sunday 23 December?
Date: Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 10:33:23 PM
Email: SUEYEN404@AOL.COM
Name: L.ELLIS
Message: I HAVE ENJOYED VISTING ROSSES POINT VERY MUCH. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION ON PROPERTIES FOR SALE IN IRELAND THEN PLEASE E-MAIL ME. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED IRELAND!
SINCERELY:
L. ELLIS
Date: Monday, December 24, 2001 at 11:07:39 PM
Email: sob@eejit,net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: HELP!!!!! Our front door is being battered by a fella claiming to be Liam Lawlor from Lucan seeking asylum in the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men. He is carrying big brown paper bags, and worse he has four plain clothes cops with him. Our residents are upset and have run out of places to put their craic away. And this is meant to be Christmas Day in New York, we're emigrating to Dromahair!
Date: Monday, December 24, 2001 at 11:10:09 PM
Email: le@marketcross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: A Happy and Holy Christmas to you all from the statues of Sligo. May 2002 bring you all every blessing, and we the statues of Sligo sincerely hope that Countess Marckievicz will soon be out in public.
Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 05:01:38 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Happy Christmas from myself and Seagull to all our guestbook comrades and all of our readers from Sligo to Sri Lanka and Anchorage to Australia. May the twelve days be refreshing for all of you.
Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 01:00:40 PM
Email: sarsfield@limerick.ie
Name: Liam of Lucan
Message: I have been disappointed with my reception at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Orphaned and Widowed men here in New York. I counted many scoundrels around the Christmas tree openig presnts this morning, yetthey refuse me refuge. Seamus O'Gallagher The Master of the Asylum muttered something about the truth. Seems I have to return to Mountjoy and my two prison cells once again. Why do I suffer this when all I have to do is reveal my pupeteer? Well let me tell you, Irish thickness, that's what. Feck the lot of yez, I'll never rat on my billionare mate in the whest.
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 11:16:45 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P.A.McHugh
Message: Who won the Christmas Day swim at the Point? Did any one swim? Was the tide in? Telegraph the reply please.
Date: Friday, December 28, 2001 at 06:14:29 AM
Email: heatsomewhere.com
Name: Himself
Message: Oh Metal Man, how do you do?
Did they sing you a song in Austies last night?
Did you get a visit from Santa on Christmas night?
Do you know why the Sligo Weekender is gone offline?
Is it that McHugh himself has lost his wand
And can't make magic any more in the land?
Apologies to Willy McBride
Date: Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 12:02:51 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Methinks that all guests have writers cramp from holding pints over Christmas. Has anyone seen Backavenue around town?
Date: Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 12:52:06 AM
Email: lm@gaolservices.ie
Name: Lord Mountjoy
Message: I await the 2nd of January with glee, we have had two cells throughly cleaned and a new horse hair mattress installed for Lord Lucan upon his return. As the Sligo docker cried out to W B Yeats, "you have come again" so will I greet this fine specimen that Ireland has for a parlimentary representative.
Date: Monday, December 31, 2001 at 08:50:40 AM
Email: loloutsidemountjoy
Name: Liam of Lucan
Message: Ye thundering gobs#@*% Mountjoy, yex bether have bether food this time than last time. Honestly, sardines on toast and spaghetti and rashers every second day. I lost several pounds in weigh, not to mention many tousands in udder ways. Any chance I could slip in the back door this time? To think that only a fw days ago I was treated like a clebrity politican in Noo York with plain clothes polis mindin' me and the missus and geting VIP treatment at Dublin Airport upon me retunr, no checking of duty free. Charlie sent me a Kinsealy Singing Christmas Card and Sunny Ray sent a gorilla stripper. The missus near kilt me with her brolly. They say Gilmartin of Sligo will be singing this year.
Date: Monday, December 31, 2001 at 08:53:33 AM
Email: smap@the friary
Name: St.Martin de Porres
Message: Welcome one and all to the New Year Ball in O'Connell Street Sligo on this New Year's Eve. Pat O'Hara will be sober we hope. He was drunk as a skunk on Stephen's night and couldn't play a note. Tony Rossi was wore out!
Happy New Year 2002 to one and all from the statues of Sligo Town and County.
Date: Monday, December 31, 2001 at 11:03:44 PM
Email: sbil@rossespoimt
Name: Seagulls-brother-in-law
Message: The entire population of rosses Point has been blind drunk since Christmas Eve!
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 at 02:50:27 AM
Email: pam@townhall.sligo
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Seagull come quck to O'Connell Street. MM is being beaten by Lady Erin, she says he is drunk again!
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 at 02:07:26 PM
Email: Tonyl1245@aol.com
Name: Tony Lloyd
Message: Happy New Year to all our friends in Rosses Point and Cregg!
Date: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 at 05:43:39 AM
Email: misguan@cairns hill
Name: Maeve
Message: Begobs himself came home from the shops with this new Euro. He says herself who is of Germanic origins won't accept the Euro in her relic shop! And her other half who has the tracks of a Greek kitchen table on his rear end from when he slithered out of his ma doesn't like the Euro either. Not British they say. Begobs he never cared if any young one in the midst of his orgy was British!! Well now that the sou is the same everywhere we're off to see the rest of Europe, no ye half baked eejit, not for a rest.
Date: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 at 05:50:25 AM
Email: tm@carricknagat
Name: Teling Monument
Message: Now, if back in '98 we had Euros instead of cannon balls and pikes we might have won! Still better late than never. I'm reminded of the story I heard at my feet one day. During the Civil War a Longford man serving as a soldier in the regular army was standing guard on Churchill in Sligo town, when two men approached he enquired where they were going. The reply, " To Kilmacowen." The irate soilder replied, "Yez bloody won't" and arrested them. After two hours in the Wine Street barracks it was explained to the soldier that Kilmacowen was the name of a Sligo townland, and no, they were not after General Sean McEoin.
Date: Thursday, January 03, 2002 at 01:29:23 AM
Email: sbtc@sligo.com
Name: Statue behind the Cathedral
Message: Good man Teeling you made me laugh, but we should explain to those not of Sligo like us that the Churchill you mention is that famed road in Sligo town and not yer man as decribed by Hugh Leonard in his play "Da". Being a lady I cannot use the words Mr Leonard wrote, I also had to skip that line in "Angelas Ashes" about the archbishop having to wipe his own @#!*. One thing about the statues of Sligo, they have more life in them than the living in the cemetery.
Date: Thursday, January 03, 2002 at 01:35:03 AM
Email: ll@basementmountjoy
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Day 1. Well here I am for a rest after my trip to the Big Apple. I'm sorely disappointed with yer man in the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed and orphaned men, Sunny Ray even 'phoned the man, alas to no avail. And if yez only seen some of the gurriers in safety there. Anyway I have all the duty free booze I brought back. Those gob@#*tes at the airport whisked me through places where even the Aer Rianta management cannot go, and in an O'Hanlon built ambulance, what a laugh. I have to go me 3 mobiles are ringing. More anon. LL
Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 at 07:54:08 AM
Email: ll@mountjoy
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Day 2. IT's cold in here. Did you read that blasted paper The Indo. Imagine describing me as a number in a cell, and that cartoon in The Times. If only these people knew the bother of juggling so many bank managers. And they're all overweight too. I was amazed at the amount of "Welcome to your new home" cards and Christmas Cake. I'll be charitable and give that to the murderers alongside me. Desmond FitzGerald wrote about them in his poetry, said they were more decent that the rest of the prison population. I fancy a pint of plain just now.
Date: Saturday, January 05, 2002 at 12:52:06 PM
Email: ll@mountjoy
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Agh the food is shocking after New York. I forgot last night and asked for a hamburger with fries and was laughed out of the canteen. Fish fingers and soggy chips and peas that were rehashed. Me piles are back with a vengance. Someone sent me a newspaper from Sligo and all they can talk about is the rubbish.
I must book a space in the new marine in Rosses Point for the young fellas yacht. Ah well 3 down 4 to go. And aye a few grand less in the ould bank to boot. Bloody wig bound eejits.
Date: Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 08:45:13 PM
Email: ll@mountjoy
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Want is my future now, the media say that if I stand for election I will be humilated at the polls and that is something I don't ever want to be, humiliated in public. You know I have never been to Donegal, I might buy a house in a secluded spot there and retire. I wonder do they have the electric light up there?
Date: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 at 02:52:41 AM
Email: ll@mountjoy
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: I didn't sleep well last night, no not conscience, I don't possess any such thing. I was planning my future. If I become a born again christian I could give all my money away to charity and get a tax relief as well. Now let me ponder on the charity I have to create that will be acceptable to the oul revenue. Be gobs I could really fool the eejits with this. And yer man The Doc would even be a friend again! Brilliant!!!!
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 at 12:03:40 AM
Email: llsoon out
Name: Lord Lucan
Message: Ah the day has dawned again. Back to the grindstone. I'll garner a few friends who will treat me to dinner tonight, a decent meal at last. I must arrange a coffin with a metal box in it so that I can take my money with me when I die. After all I have worked so hard for it why should some gouger get it for nothing.
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 at 10:15:14 PM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: O I'm so heart broken yet again, Sligo is surprising me backside.
If only Billy of the ornage hue was here with his printers ink and his could palce his ems in their place and tell the people of this ancient place how silly the elected twelve are. Behaving like little childer over refuse and rates or non-rates I should say. Mavourneens why in '79 did you sell your souls. And to think that one of Cathleen Ni Houlihan's little ones would come to this!!
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 at 10:16:32 PM
Email: metalman@rossespoint.com
Name: MM
Message: Fergal McFerret yez are right about that IT crowd, the Sligo Weekender was stuck on the one page for night on two months.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 04:04:15 AM
Email: misguan@cairns
Name: Maeve
Message: Och me dears what kind of people are yez atall down there in the place of shells? One week we have no Weekender, then its abck and the Lyre Players Weekly goes off air! Then there's the bloody refuse pantomime going on in the Town Hall. I'm surprised to see that the elected dozen have not resurrected Ned Kelly the Town Crier to tell all far and wide about this continuous pantomime over the Mayors chain. Sinn Fein me backside, may feiners one and all.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 08:02:26 PM
Email: egillen1@aol.com
Name: Edward J. Gillen
Message: I enjoyed the site and wish I knew more about my Irish ancestry. Perhapse I'm related to the Gillen's in the Sligo area. That would help explain my interest in things nautical, especially sailboat racing on Long Island Sound. Although originally from the Cleveland, Ohio area, I'moved to Long Island, NY over a decade ago.
My wife and I are planning a trip to Europe latter this year. Maybe we should consider visiting Ireland. I guess I'll have to do some family research before seeing Rosses Point!
Ed Gillen
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 08:39:29 PM
Email: mousefoley@hotmail.com
Name: claire foley 'connor
Message: Ara its just me, wishing ye all a happy NEW YEAR.
Its, a beautiful day here, in sunny Chicago, Illinois (50 degrees)not the normal for jan. 11th.
Later,claire
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:21:09 PM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: TOWN HALL TONIGHT! Come and see this years pantomime, "Will they pull the chain and flush themselves away?"
In all me years as a statue I have never witnessed such tripe and onions as I have seen and heard in recent weeks over the estimates of Sligo Borough Council. Imagine desecrating St Stephens Day to hold council meetings. I propose that the statues of Sligo be elected to run the Borough.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:27:55 PM
Email: willie@outsidethe bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Dear people of Sligo please allow me to quote from one of my Senate speeches: "I doubt if any nation can become prosperous unless it has national faith, and one very important part of national faith is faith in its resources, faith both in the richness of its soil and the richness of its intellect, --appears the council dozen have more of the former than the latter, however I digress from my speech-- and I am convinced that as much wealth can come from the intellect of Ireland as will come from the soil and that the one will repay cultivation as much as the other." In 1922 and '23 we who are of Ireland grasped the thorny questions, now Sligo Borough members, 'tis your turn or hand the reins to P A, LAdy Erin St Martin De Porres and myself
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:30:10 PM
Email: marckievicz in a crate
Name: Constance
Message: Bravo Willie, we the great gazebo built, indeed bid us strike a match and rid the place of shells of these hollow twelve. Imagine fighting over the collection of refuse. And to think Willie how James Connolly and I fought hard to get sanitation for the poor.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:32:19 PM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I thoroughly agree with the previous speakers. Indeed let us run Sligo, for it appears that we have more life in us and reason that the elected dozen. A public meeting here at Market Cross with oil soaked turf sods on pikes on Saturday night would be a start.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:34:55 PM
Email: smaf
Name: St Martin at the friary
Message: My dear brethren, though you are of bronze and fine cut stone, and I am of alabaster, I will take my place by your sides in seeking election to the Borough of Sligo Council. I have sent an email to his honour in the Vatican seeking release from my religious vows for the next five years so that I may serve Sligo.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:36:49 PM
Email: theman@carricnagat
Name: Teeling
Message: Count me in, I was in action in '98 and never fear to speak my piece. Sligo abu! Faugh Ballagh!!!!
PS What time is the next train?
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:38:50 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well I would be delighted to participate in the running of Sligo town, properly I may add. Count me in P A. I propose that we begin construction of the north Sligo railway soon! Create employment in Sligo, that's my motto.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:42:31 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: The magnificent seven are back! Sligo will indeed be surprising after this. The seven aformentioned are all great dancers, now watch them as they propel Sligo into the 21st century.
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:44:10 PM
Email: mousefoley@hotmail.com
Name: CLAIRE
Message: YOU GO METAL MAN!
What time is the train at? Does it still take all day?
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 09:58:27 PM
Email: 1914on@pearserd
Name: The Monument
Message: I will indeed assist the Magnificent Seven in whatever way I can in running the good town of Sligo. After all I represent the glorious youth never matured, and unlike a Greek tragedy, we may yet save the day. Lady Erin for Mayoe I say!
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 10:00:21 PM
Email: 1914on@pearserd
Name: The Monument
Message: My sincere apologies, I should have said, "Lady Erin for Mayor"
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2002 at 08:37:40 PM
Email: shirleyduff@ntlworld.com
Name: The Duffs
Message: Looks nicer online then when I visited - rain rain and more rain !!
Slan agus beanacht.
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 12:15:51 AM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Just got our own e-mail up and running.Best wishes to everybody in the Point for 2002.Enjoyed a few hours once again @rossespoint.com and came across the poetry section. Kieran, I'm glad someone thought it worthwhile to print Alec Doherty's writings.Enjoyed Paddy Bruen's memories of the Point--just started writing my own and Rosie Devaney and Lena Barwood will figure!! Also Lizzie and Wow. Paddy Bruen is my godfather and once gave me half a crown!!!!
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 01:23:47 AM
Email: s.o.reilly@worldnet.att.net
Name: Sally O'Reilly
Message: Enjoyed the pictures. I came to America 1956 from Dromore West. It made me realize what a beautiful place Sligo is.
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 05:14:56 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Lady Erin,I had a wonderful time in Sligo at Xmas.You seem to have a tear in your eye,i wonder why.Isaw Rovers play,but could not see any Dykes.Armstrong,Oates,Moody,Reddy,Burnside on the team.I went to the Elsinore ballroom but there was no Dykes there either.I drove by you Maeve and recalled the Marist picnic in the Glen.Did you know you were on TV here in the USA afew days ago.Ihad a few in Austies and saw a man who may be Elliot,we may have built camps together up near Bluebell wood.I see they moved you P.A.,it must be so you can instill some cop-on inside the big building.Sad to say they are not listening.
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 10:46:53 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: Our Australian correspondent AKA Foley has sent me this site for you all to visit, it is a photograph taken from a space staion on a clear night last November. The beauty of creation he says.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 10:52:50 PM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: My Dear Backavenue, on behalf of the statues of Sligo thank you for your observations, alas as our Sligo poet WBY wrote, "and time runs on says she." Yes, indeed the great footballers have aged, as we all have. Tir na nOg is accessible via the second strand at Ros Ceite. Young Tymon who played at Cushcadden's sends his regards from New York. As you noted they moved me, and if only the silly dozen would be Sligonians with vision, the prayers of the Statues of Sligo would not be in vain. Come again Back Avenue, if not in person to the place of Shells, then at least here with some banter. Slan
Date: Monday, January 14, 2002 at 01:17:15 PM
Email: BBrndl@aol.com
Name: Bernadette
Message: I will be visiting Rosses Point in Feb02 I found the pictures lovely. The information was great to. thanks bernie
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 09:16:57 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net.au
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Dubhya was here last night seeking overnight assistance. Me thinks herself gave him a punch. We gave him a glass of Jameson, some advice and put him to bed for the night. When we got up this morning he had left a bag of pretzels!
All donations gratefully received at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men.
Slan lath agus plaster lath
Seamus
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 09:22:30 AM
Email: somewhere@washington
Name: Men in Black
Message: This guest book has been brought to our attention. Can someone please vouch for the contributors to this page. We are a little concerned that these could be coded messages. Do these statues really have conversation and go dancing? Is there such a place as Rosses Point and is there a man living there who has never told a lie? Could you please have a sworn statement sent to us confirming the above. God Bless America
Continued in Volume 27
