The Captain's Log - Volume 27

Continued from Volume 26

Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 01:29:50 PM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all and a happy 2002 to you all! We're getting close to our 30th volume of the Guest Book at this stage. Thank you to all the regular contributors who are helping to keep this site alive 'n' kicking with your consistent postings! I thoroughly enjoy reading the latest banter every morning. Rgds, Ciaran

Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 08:26:22 PM
Email: kp@sligoNo.1barracks
Name: Killargue Pat
Message: Deer Sur, regarding your inquiry re the wonderful statues of Sligo, as a member of the polis here I can indeed vouch for them as to their honesty, trustworthiness and followers of the truth. For nigh on 103 years Lady Erin has minded the bicyles of many thousands of Sligonians and visitors alike; no one ever lost their vehicle. P A McHugh gave comfort to the unemployed of Sligo, as they sat on the seats around his feet. Metal Man is indeed the only dependable witness in the court of conscience around these parts. And as for coded messages, begobs Men In Black in Washington, if only the locals would listen, the Place of Shells would be the better for their advice.Yours sincerely Patrick Aloysius Sarsfield McGinty O'Flaherty Special Branch of the Polis, Oyster Island. PS The Countess handed all of her weapons to the County Sligo Museum in 1923. (Worn out, I might add)
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 05:54:38 PM
Email: finbar@fancyfocail.com
Name: finbar McFerret
Message: A ghuine Usula, was the Burrow Council flushed away by de big Navan Man in Dublin? I've been seeing a lot of dem Burrow boys hanging out in de burrows up the back avenue, waiting to mount their burra's, jinnet mules or de like for the 4.45 at de Sligo races. Dem boys haven't a bogs notion about running a burrow, sure the're the reason Sligo is in de s-it- state its in. Dem boys is so far up their own burrows that only for their tonsils they'd be climbing out their mouths. As Connie would say in true francophone revolutionary zeal "off wit their heald de lot of dem" and bring back de Ballymagash town commissioners to run the place!
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 11:39:14 PM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Ballymacgash Urban Council at least made some decisions.And as for running, the only running these lads and lassies seem to do is for election and then the office of Mayor. What makes me shriek with laughter is these people's attitude to the gerrymandering that went on in Derry over the election of Mayor's there in past years. The Sligo twelve will tell us they have 'an agreement'! A shower of thundering gob@#*tes is what they are.Imagine what would happen if a Cavan man gets appointed by the Navan man as Commissioner. I'll be off to Australia.
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 05:14:42 AM
Email: flangan2@pacbell.net
Name: Brendan Flanagan
Message: Happy New Year to all at "the Point". I have a photo on my desk looking south from about the Golf Club at the lightkeepers cottages behind the long white wall on Oyster Island, Knocknarea beyond and the Ox mountains on the far right. Henry Middletons high stone wall has been removed, which allows a full view of the channel. Today at 5.16 pm the sun a great golden orb sank into the Pacific. It was directly to the west. At "the point" it would be going down to the north west over Maugherow church. That is if you could see the sun. The fond memories of a native son on a distant shore.
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 10:12:21 PM
Email: mousefoley@hotmail.com
Name: claire foley O'Connor
Message: I, keep mean to get up early on Sunday morning to log on to ROSSES POINT CHAT. I, viewed the sligo web tonight, snd it looked like Aidan Foley walking up O'Connell Street in the rain. Its a beautiful evening here in Beecher, Illinois, but cold and yet the sun is shining. All, my best to all checking in. claire
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 11:00:49 PM
Email: cminacrate
Name: Countess Marckievicz
Message: My goodness, Killarague Pat those guns were indeed well used when I donated them to Sligo Museum. At least in our time there was no balderdash from us at council meetings. I have to agree with the Editor of The Sligo Lyre Players Weekly about this fiasco of where to place my statue.These people are all talk and no action. Slan Con
Date: Friday, January 18, 2002 at 05:10:09 AM
Email: maeve@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: "tis time they elected women like Agatha McGee to Sligo Borough. See how she took on the giants in ther trucks. More power to you ma'am. Now go and get Countess Con our of her box and on display.
Date: Friday, January 18, 2002 at 05:15:14 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Meself and Seagull wouldlike to have the Stations on Blackrock. And we are going to boycott the Burns night. Not enough sex in his poems like Willies.
Date: Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 01:03:07 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P. A McHugh
Message: I am organizing a prayer meeting at the Holy Well for our Town Councillors,and I have invited Alderman Declan Bree as father of the council to lead the prayers. In this way we can hope to convert the council to normality.
Date: Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 01:04:33 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: I see the invisible man visited twice. I wish he would use ink that does not disappear.
Date: Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 05:05:32 PM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Is there anyone online who grew up in the Rosses Point of the 40's and 50's?--- just to say hello once again!. Cheers to everybody. Isn't it great to see the evenings getting brighter?
Date: Monday, January 21, 2002 at 01:51:30 PM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B Y
Message: My dear Robbie 'Upon the hem of the unfruitful sand/An old man passed with visage worn andw an/ And time seamed his brow with many a band/ A Templar cross of red was sewn upon/ His shoulders thin, his eyes but dimly shone/ And he at times at that thing or at this/ Of memory would smile, but had when done A pilgrim's face-O lonely thy path is The way/His comrades are mainly 'mong the dead I wis." I wrote this in a series titled 'Under the Moon'. Ros Ceite for the Gael, Metal Man, Seagull and myself will be in Austie's burning your drawers!!!
Date: Monday, January 21, 2002 at 01:54:36 PM
Email: maeve @misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: Och Willie, yer words are so nice, I'll send for Emer of the great bladder and she can pee over to the point from here and douse the lot o them Scots motherless sods!!! I suppose the mane Cavan eejit is running Mary's and flogging yez all bad porter which gives yez all Glaswegian accents as ye choke. Austies and the Gael for me too on the 25th.
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 12:57:07 PM
Email: inflagrante@ballyshannon.com
Name: Willie Allingham
Message: Oh up the aery mountain and down the rushy glen Robbie!, we going a hunting for fear of little men. We folk, good folk trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, white owl's feather! Do I get no special night, statue or memorial? Even la belle dame sans merci Marchiecvz is getting one from the good burghers of ballymacgash UDC.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 01:28:53 AM
Email: yeats@thebank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: My good man Willie of Ballyshannon, haven't they given you a bridge down there? To think that all my work is due to you and those lovely lines quoted above. I still recall how sad I felt when I discovered the Rosses you wrote of were not my beloved Rosses Point. Yet in the long 'twas best, as it meant I and my brother Jack could adopt the Rosses. 'Tis a pity that the present shower do what they do, still when ye get a mane cavan motherless sod inheriting something and then he wants to make a bob, what else do yez expect.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 01:32:46 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Imagine promoting that blended rubbish when we have our own finest 100 year old Foley's Whiskey from the Lough Gill Brewery and O'Connor Bros best 200 year old and Martin's Distillery the finest in the land. I have come to the conclusion that the only reason there is a Burns Night, is that these people can pretend they know what they are talking about. Indeed if they muck it up, no one will be any the wiser. O' Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff and take that thundering gob*#!te with ye. Seagull meet me in St Louis.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 01:37:18 AM
Email: misguan@sligo.ie
Name: Maeve
Message: He who now takes all night to do what he used to all night and oft can only talk all night of what he used to do all night wants to know how we can put in a claim against a lottery ticket in the courts. There must be some way? Great bladdered Emer is here drinking water,porter and whiskey by the bucket. Begobs she will drown that Burns crowd and if any of them are smoking in there begobs they'll ignite the water when it hits!
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 01:39:54 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: I will organize the bandsmen from The Foresters Hall, The Temperance Hall and the Hibernian Hall along with Pat O'Hara's Band and Tony Rossi's Orchestra to come and play Moore's Melodies outside this dreadful place on the 25. Aye and we can have Caruso Finan and Blind Paddy Healy sing 'Oft in the stilly night".
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 01:43:34 AM
Email: le@marketcross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Just show Blind Paddy a letterbox at 1 o'clock in the morning and he will surely sing "Oft in the Stilly Night." Back in the 1970s there was a Festival of Sligo. Christy Houze omitted Paddy from the group represetnign McLoughlin's pub. So Paddy went to Houze's residence and sang 'Oft in The Stilly Night' through the leterbox. Naturally he serenaded the entire street. And as he walked off he shouted out, now who says I can't sing.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 08:59:49 PM
Email: Scottishrose14@aol.com
Name: Rose (Devenay )Housel
Message: Trying to find information on my Great Grandfathers Family. All I know is that he was born in 1848 in County Sligo, leaving there in 1868 for Port-Glasgow, Scotland. where he married Mary Ann Stewart in 1870. Would love to know who my great great Grandparents were, or if my great Grandfather had any brothers or sisters. His name was Michael Devaney. any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Rose
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 09:50:22 PM
Email: dugganb.com
Name: margaret
Message: Where are the Duggans playing these day's? Did they make it big in the showband business? Where, did the big fella go i think his naame was Ian? does he have the same teeth, or did he get them fixed? Are any of them with west-life? I, used to go hear them in Bundoran as a teen there.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 10:17:22 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: My dear lady seeking a Devaney, 'tis like looking for a particular herring in a shoal. You see there are the Rosses Point Devaney's, The Carrowrow Devaney's and the Carrowmore Devaney's: Three divine townlands but begobs there are more of Devaney's in them than there are loaves and the fishes in Tighe's and McArthur's bakeries and Flynn's and Gannons Fish shops. You will have to be content and proud that your ancestor was a Sligo Devaney and that counts for more than anything let me assure you.
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 03:27:32 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Reading the diary of this Lord Lucan makes me very sad, along with the pantomime in this neighbourhood. When I think of the times I spent in various jails in Ireland and England, aye and other good Sligo men like me. We got not a penny out of anything, in fact many of us were the poorer for out actions to gain a nation for ourselves once again. Now more than a century on this is the fine thank you we get. The rain here covers my tears. P.A
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 09:45:58 AM
Email: rogerbarr@arven.co.uk
Name: roger barr
Message: tell me more about the guinness
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 03:58:24 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Ahha now I know why Robbie was always drunk as a skunk, his birthday and that of Guinness Porter are the same. Yez old bowsy.
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 04:40:05 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Well I haven't seen such a crowd as was here last night at the Town Hall. Amazing what self preservation can do! Our glorious men and women didn't shirk their duty to the people of Sligo. Now the fun begins.
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 11:00:12 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: seagull
Message: will someone give yon eejit above a key board?
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 at 11:25:08 PM
Email: ptg@slough.uk
Name: Phil the Greek
Message: I am out here in the woods with my lap top and a belly dancer almost broke it dancing upon it. Perchance can someone throw any light on why the web site for NWR the popular radio station in the Northwest and midwest as they claim does not bloody work properly? Have the still got bicylce powered generators or is it powered by all the hot air they talk? I would like to get the news, weather before Liz and I and the corgis visit Ireland soon. I read somewhere the other day that my eldest loony is going to kiss a tree in County Clare. Is there a Camilla tree there?
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2002 at 06:27:38 PM
Email: youngwan@rossespoint
Name: A young person
Message: How did the Robbie Williams Night go? Did the great man from Stoke-on-Tent show up in person? Did he sing that song with Nicole Kidman? WE LUV ROBBIE!!!
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 12:58:01 AM
Email: poo@oyster
Name: Polis on Oyster
Message: Well I never in all of me born days saw such bedlam as was in Rosses Point on Friday night. Men crying and women howling like wolves and someone said it was poetry. We arrested three thousand for indecency on the public roadway, wearing kilts and no drawers. I wouldn't mind them wearing kilts if the wind wasn't blowing, or for that matter if they even had a relic of auld decency to display. Like Robbie they were all withered. And the mane Cavan fellow ating his dinner out of a drawer while the patrons looked on.
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 04:07:26 AM
Email: mol@finegael.ie
Name: Michael of Limerick
Message: My dear people of Rosses Point, Coney Island, Oyster Island and The County Sligo Golf Club pary lend me your eyes for a moment or two. As you all know from recent news reports I have been chosen to lead Ireland's second largest political party Fine Gael. Now the bloody polls are showing me down where I do not wish to be. I need a charismatic candidate, is there such a one amongst you? If there is contact me in Dublin asap. Eirinn go brath agus O'Donnell Abu.
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 04:13:18 AM
Email: motfpp@andail.ie
Name: Mary of the fisheries patrol plane
Message: People of Rosses and surrounding areas known lovingly as the Yeats Country. You know how much I care for you, why I even used your airport to get to Manorhamilton recently. I would have officially opened the Burns Night but the mane cavan motherless sod who hovers round there wanted Gerry who now haunts Westminster. We in the Peedees will look after you from the womb to the tomb, alas like Michael of Limerick we need a charismatic candidate, yer man from the c road is about as charismatic as are round spherical objects on a heifer if yez get me drift. Put Mary in to keep the others out, have to go now the new fella has a smile that promises something good for dinner!
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 04:18:53 AM
Email: bsapc@andail.ie
Name: Bertie sans anorak plus Celia
Message: How yes all down der in Sligo? Well we have no worries like the others, we in Filling our pockets Fail are going great in the polls, all we ahve to do is wait for the election and shure in Sligo yez have a great man in the Doc and laste of all dis fella is a reel doc not like the buck from Roscommon that once trod the dance halls of The Point and The Hill and played in a Country and Western Band with yer man Mickey Feeney of Treacy Ave as they travelled the country in an Opel Admiral that more often showed a Guinness label on its windeyscreen instead of a tax disc. But, the burning question of the day, were Bowmaker's ever paid in full for the Opel Admiral?
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 07:56:23 PM
Email: bevthomas21@hotmail.com
Name: Bev Thomas
Message: Well a friend introduced me to this site and I must say I was extremely impressed with the layout and information. In fact I was so impressed that I will probably take time to visit such a lovely place. Thanks to all who have taken the time and trouble to put this site together.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 01:17:44 AM
Email: ag@elsinore
Name: Austie Gillen
Message: Arrah woman shure 'twas no trouble atall to fellows like me. We sailed ships in the dark of night and the light of day and never got anywhere, so 'twas easy setting up this fine web site. Our biggest problem as usual is money . . for drink.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 01:22:24 AM
Email: drumcliffe
Name: The Sligo Poet
Message: The Great Day Hurrah for revolution and more cannon shot;/ A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar upon foot;/ Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again,/ The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on. W B Yeats June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 07:38:01 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I can't hear meself talk with the wind. Poor old Seagull is wore out trying to fly, he can't get anywhere, and the fish are down deep. We'll have to go to Austies for dinner.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 07:44:26 PM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B
Message: My dear Metal Man you have the wind and the sea to contend with, natural things. In the town here we have motor cars with lights so bright I can see a Euro on the pavement grey in the dark of night. When I think of Sligo with the lovely yellow gas lights and how romantic it was at night. In the late evening Gas Houze going around to light the gas lamps and again in the early morning switching them off. Now there is so much light the ghosts of yore cannot be seen by the plain people of Sligo.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 09:34:03 PM
Email: tom.horkan@abbott.com
Name: Tom Horkan
Message: Great site ..hope u got the words of Believe me Sligo Rgds Tom
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 06:14:26 AM
Email: mrp792@hotmail.com
Name: Philip Henry
Message: Just to say hello from Boston to everyone in the Point. Hope to have a walk soon on the 2nd beach. And a nice pint in Austies! Regards, -P
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 11:53:46 AM
Email: sean.bruen@btclick.com
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: Please note my new e-mail address for all the Glasgow Bruens to note. i'll be over 8th Feb 2002, see you all at the Celtic match. slan
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 10:36:10 PM
Email: sbil@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull's brother-in-law
Message: Looks like the big wind blew the words of robbie burns away, and pray tell me what you did in Rosses Point on the 28 January to commemorate the anniversary of the death of our son of not alone Erin but of the Rosses. William Butler Yeats
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 09:29:55 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, sorry about the blank entries. It's some sort of glitch in the script that drives the Guest Book and I, unfortunately, don't have the expertise to sort it out. Not that it's a major fault, but I realise it could be frustrating to those whose entries don't appear properly. Apologies for the inconvenience! Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 09:51:52 PM
Email: g.tolbecq@pandora.be
Name: guido
Message: Hi Ciaran, In march last year we were in Sligo and Rossespoint. A few days ago we were back in town. REAL COOL PLACE and nice people. Sligo is a marvelous county,I am sure we come back again. guido
Date: Friday, February 01, 2002 at 06:02:21 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs I can't make head nor tail of this here borough council. They want recycling and yet cannot do it. And as for the public gallery they want their loaf and eat it at the same time. Where is the civic spirit was in my time and that of Willie Yeats and Con Marckivicz? What say you Lady Erin?
Date: Friday, February 01, 2002 at 06:05:38 PM
Email: le@marketcross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Well P.A I've stood here at Crean's Cross, or Market Cross as it is now better known, since 1898. And I often missed me railngs and gas lights. I saw Willie Yeats's piece about Gas House, he always spoke to me kindly, did Gas. But today I am thankful that me railings are gone, imagine the rubbish they'd throw in here. Does anyone know if they moved the railings and lights from the buttermarket where they were stored?
Date: Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 01:17:20 AM
Email: misguan@ireland
Name: Maeve
Message: Ailell says yer man must be using an invisible man keyboard to send the invisible messages.
Date: Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 04:47:50 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: The best version of Beleive me Sligo[say's Thom Moore] is sung by Donal McLynn in his bar,drop in and hear it.
Date: Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 11:43:42 AM
Email: Chris@suwon.freeserve.co.uk
Name: Christina Zealey
Message: Hi everyone! I came to Rosses point in May of last year, and stayed at a bed and breakfast called "Iorra's" I had a brilliant time and was amazed by the views and surroundings that encompased me. It was beautiful. I've just visited peter Gillian's website on Rosses Point and relived my memories. Keep your world beautiful I hope to live there one day. Le Gra Christina xxx
Date: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 05:41:16 PM
Email: cathyheaddock@tinyworld.co.uk
Name: Cathy Headdock
Message: Hi I am looking for the marriage of WINIFRED DEVANEY & PATRICK MALONEY pre 1849.Also info on their births. Thanks Cathy
Date: Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:48:22 PM
Email: Willy@the bank.ie
Name: W B Yeats
Message: At least you are now talking about me in Rosses Point, February 20, well better late than never. But, I have to take my hat off to Mr Foley once of Sligo town for his excellent work in orgainzing the seminar on my father,my wife George and my siblings in Chestertown New York last Fall. The event is the talk of academia and plans are underway for another Seminar in 2004.
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 01:01:04 PM
Email: dm@reculer_pour_mieux_sauter.com
Name: DM Hanley
Message: Yes indeed lady Erin, the civic pride was loftier in our day before the Gondaliers took over the Asylum. This opera boufa we have elected in our wake ensures Sligo is truly the land of the faeries. Not the land of hearts desire, where no one gets old crafty and wise, where no-one gets old and bitter of tongue, but where all cringe, blush and deny the turgid insipid ruminations of the bony burghers of Sligo. "Primo singula creat, secundo rapit, tertio perfecit!" DMH
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 01:19:39 PM
Email: CM@silk.kimmonos.com
Name: C Georgine Markiewicz
Message: Good people of Sligo, how is my memorial coming on? The Ballyshannon balladier has his bridge and we don't wish any of his type in our hallowed borough, as we name our bridges after our enlightened political class. Well said Willie, Eva and I will get the Womens suffrage movement to burn our brassieres on the steps of the Town hall in protest at the desecration of the countryside by fly tipping and even more fly aldermen. Tiocfaidh ar la, these ghosts are more than able for the limpid lux of the "bright lights of Sligo" Is mise le meas Madame, the Red Countess.
Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 at 03:40:55 AM
Email: pam@townhall.sligo
Name: P A McHugh
Message: DM you have once again used your words wisely. I read in the Sunday Independent a letter from a Sligo Rat. He or she should have been honest and signed themselves as a scoundrel, for only a scoundrel would write an ignorant piece like that. Bad cess to the blind Spaniard for his telling Irish people they would not have to pay any tax once the British were gone.
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 02:04:11 PM
Email: wildfire215@hotmail.com
Name: nancy coulter
Message: my husbands great grandparents were from sligo,his grandmother margaret sherlock,her father and mother were edward sherlock and mary brennen,my great grandparents came from isle on mann..you have a great website..enjoyed the photos
Date: Friday, February 15, 2002 at 01:23:56 AM
Email: mousefoley@hotmail.com
Name: claire o'connor(foley)
Message: Just to Wish yez all a Happy Valentine's day. I,had a good laugh tonight reading all the e-mails. You lads are a trip, keep it up its good fun and food for the soul. Regards to all, claire(U.S.A>)
Date: Friday, February 15, 2002 at 06:35:52 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Ah well Charlie's me darlin' boy now says Mary like a loose cannon while himself looks on an' yer man Et tu Brutus has his tongue firmly in cheek this time. Indeed changed times in Ireland. The first time a Prince of Wales visited the Catholic Bishops put up his racing colours in Maynooth College, causing the Citizen in Ulysses to say it should have been pictures of the women he rode, and WB asking the bishops would they be betting 3 - 1 on a horse wiht no name. Aye the one yer man crossed the desert on. Perchance is there a photo of Camilla in Austies?
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 01:42:19 AM
Email: le@marketcross(formerly Crean's x)
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Oh dear what can the matter be/ the ould weekender is not appearing/while the Lyre Players Weekly gets bigger on line. The ould grave must have stopped spinning! He who wished one time to be personally in a particular female's sanctum sanctorum has come and gone and would like his mummy to come and stay for a few days too. Perchance then yez could get the statue of herself Madam Marckievicz erected soon.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 01:48:16 AM
Email: hopper@oz
Name: Tie me kangaroo down sport
Message: G'day, I see yer next door neebour's young fella came ta visit yeez. Jeez musta bin good! That young fellow came here a few years back an' he was in Wagga Wagga on a day yez could fry eggs on the road. He was wearing a fox fur hat all the living day, sweat trickling down his brow. An Aussie with one too many says to him; "Hey Mate watt yez wearin' dat dam fur hat for on a day like this?" He replied:"When I was leaving Buckingham Palace, mummy was coming in and she said 'Where are you going to son?' and I said 'To Wagga Wagga' and I'm certain she said, 'wear the fox hat'.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 01:50:53 AM
Email: mm@london/newyork/cairo
Name: Macmillan
Message: We would like to see the work of the writers' of this page with a view to publishing.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 01:55:31 AM
Email: le@marketsross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I forgot to tell you about the unholy row on the street on Saturday. Dolly bought a hen for the Sunday lunch at the market. 'Twas a live one and she asked a young fella to kill it for her. The brave young man twisted the hen's neck and Dolly plucked it and as she pulled the last feather it began squaking and it bit here on the hand. Reminds me of the day Blind Paddy Healy put the turkey in a plastic basin and reheated it in the oven!!
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 05:41:06 PM
Email: delafield wi.
Name: claire and martina
Message: hi, declan We wet our nickers laughing at that good joke about cousin charlie.. we called Catherine in Madison, and she had a good laugh too. SEND MORE, WE NEED MORE LAUGHS LIKE THAT. CLAIRE AND MARTINA
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 07:07:15 PM
Email: joe@grace'n'favour.com
Name: doctor Joe
Message: We the hard working healthcare workers of Cavan hospital for the bewildered strongly object to the Captain boasting about his log! when this winter wommiting virus has lakeland swimming in faecal contaminated fluid. The Captain should be so lucky that his is fully formed bullet-like and not tearing the proverbial out of himself every five minutes or so despite the Lectade. Did you ever try to get a round cell virus out of a square hole? Dr Joe.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:01:00 PM
Email: cc@memoryharbour
Name: Captain Courageous
Message: My good Doc Joe, from what I garner in recent years and not so recent years the place with more lakes than days in a year has been feeding fish meal to pigs and those same pigs have been feeding the lakes that one cannot count with effluent, yes Doc Joe eff u 2. Now answer me this, "Is it true that Cavan men ate their dinner out of a drawer -no, not drawers, that would be beyond their taste--table drawer? And as for getting squares through holes, yez haven't heard of Sunny Ray our local one time Tan asti and minister for no money who was one time on about getting new windows into his house Alcantara it made the daily news on radical eireann. The only think that ever gives Sligo men and women the runs is green cabbage from Soup Healy's orchard.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:02:36 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well thank my good maker and that of my statue colleagues, while we have plenty of s h one t dumped on us from high we never get them.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:03:57 PM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P. A. McHugh
Message: Well MM, while we live in public we never go in public or private for that matter. I suppose this is what one calls anal retentive?
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:04:50 PM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Indeed Pa and the only curse I have is the bloody dogs peeing on me!
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:05:29 PM
Email: yeats@the bank
Name: W B
Message: I'll have to reread my poems to catch up with you on this
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:06:12 PM
Email: smaf@highst
Name: St Martin at the friary
Message: Now whatever you do don't go into the gutter.
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:06:59 PM
Email: twm@pearserd
Name: The War monument
Message: I thought that Sligo now had sewerage, St Martin
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 12:21:46 PM
Email: srpv@gte.net
Name: Stan Valerga
Message: I live in Sarasota, Florida in the U.S. and I am doing genealogical research on my great great grandfather James Dwyer Ward who was born in County Sligo sometime between 1827-1834 and died in San Francisco in 1873. Can anyone tell me exactly when he was born and who were his parents? I would love to come visit. Thank you, Stan Valerga
Date: Friday, February 22, 2002 at 10:56:03 AM
Email: cc#birthsdeaths&marriages
Name: Con Census
Message: Sir, do you realise that there no fewer that 3333 Wards born and registered in the period you mention, add to that another several thousand who were not registered. You would need the name of his father's mother and her mother and father's mother's name and that of his mother' mother and her mother and her mother, in fact right back to Adam and Eve. Then we might, just might be able to assist you find the Ward you want. In the meantime all donations gratefully received.
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 12:31:11 AM
Email: mm@rossepoint.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Dr Joe rumour has it that Johnny Chadda sent a Sligo Rovers sub to Cavan to get fresh air in a bottle and he(the sub) drank Cavan Mineral Water Lemonade, alas and alack 'twas bp and not lemonade, some mane cavan motherless sod switched labels on the sly and yer Sligo man got sick and vomited on a batch loaf in the shop and the mane cavan motherless sod just wiped the vomit off with a dishcloth that he was left by his great great grandmother (never once washed- both her and it)and dat is how cavan got ecoli. Serves ye right if you ask me
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 12:33:13 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Fellow statues of Sligo I propse that we buy a horse and cart and collect the refuse from the householders. We could charge five euros a bin. We cna discuss it at the next dance in O'Connell Street.
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 09:31:24 AM
Email: peter1974@austarnet.com.au
Name: Beryl and Peter Douglas
Message: Hey How are you 2 havent chatted for ever so long still got ya pics here ya sent me long time ago, Grandpa here !! Bye 4 now Beryl and Peter
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 11:40:18 AM
Email: Metalman@rock.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Anyone seen Gavin Gillen?
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 10:56:54 PM
Email: hm@oz.outback
Name: Elizabeth Regina II
Message: My dear people of Rosses point & Coney Island, how lucky you are. Phil the Greek and I are out here in Ooztrailya. Absolutley lovely people are the Irish,(except for that Sligo man who has the alleged kitchen table upon which Phil the Greek first appeared into the world on display in his front garden), but these plastic poms are disgusting to say the least. I have to meet three corgis today, at least they are not one hopes,involved in you know what scandals. The little man they have for prime minister . . what a laugh. Oh dear how I long for the peaceful glade of Oxford Street, car horns blaring,the only ones that salute me now that he is old and past his prime.

Continued in Volume 28