continued from volume 8
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 05:27:28 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Another new guestbook volume. Our statistics tell us that we are getting
hits well over 1000 a week, so make sure you all sign the guestbook regularly! regards,
Ciaran
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 09:47:17 PM
Email: --
Name: Martin Kane
Message: Let me be the first to enter Vol. 9 and have one up on Foley for a change.
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 10:37:23 PM
Email: osulvn@indigo.ie
Name: Simon O Sullivan
Message: "Well Done" to all who put together such a great site.
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 at 10:43:57 AM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: The cheek of you lot putting up another page and allowing that impudent
brat to get in first. Why I remember him when had nothing and he still has nothing. Declan
PS Is there any truth in the rumour that the entire www is owned and taken up by this
webpage!
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 at 11:24:57 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Just testing,I can`t get into the Captains Log
Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 at 03:20:20 AM
Email: MM@EU
Name: MetalMan
Message: Dear people of my beloved Yeats Country, please do not believe all of this
tripe about the Seagull and myself having Ansbacher accounts. The Seagull has informed me
about 'certain' frequenters of Austie's who have ben whispering that M1 & SI are the
codenames for me and Seagull on this list of 120. Well who is A1:Austie? B1:A Bruen: C1:
See you in tea? D1 Drunken man/woman. E1: Old Sligo registraion number; F1:
Foley/Ferguson/Fahey; one could go on "but I being poor have only me dreams" as
young Willy Yeats said. Slan MM & Sg
Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 at 01:50:23 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi all, I've taken down the new homepage I made as there were complaints
about it being too slow to load. Please let me know what you all thought of it and if I
should keep it or not, or if I should create another one that's quicker to load. regards,
Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 at 11:51:14 PM
Email: ........
Name: Martin Kane
Message: Is the interest in the Sunday Morning Chatroom starting to fade? It seems
that week by week the number of people calling in is getting smaller. 11.00 P.M. Saturday
12.00 Noon Sunday Be there
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 at 07:13:45 PM
Email: rianm@GGZRegioBreda.nl
Name: Rian (Femail)
Message: Hey Ciaran, Finally I got around to visit your site. and hereby you have
your 'bloody' link1 Every can pick it up at my guestbook where you put it! hahahaha.
Anyway, the kids need to go to bed so i have to take a raincheck on visiting evey link you
put in here! I promise i will, as soon as i have more time cause the frontpage looks
promising!
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 at 07:20:29 PM
Email: look up!
Name: Rian (Femail)
Message: Geeee, I saw what I wrote previous to this note:"My god, those
mistakes!" Ahum, I apologize for making myself look like a dork....I am not one! ;-)
Anyway....now the kids are really screaming...so, see ya soon Ciaran at ICQ, and you'd
better be sober! LOL
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 at 10:22:29 PM
Email: ammount@x-stream.co.uk
Name: Anne-Marie Mountifield (formerly Kerins)
Message: Hi everyone great website, very impressive - like the seagulls!!! My
family come from Sligo although I live in England. I have been many many times to Sligo
and know all the sights Keep in touch as I'm due a visit there before end of 2000
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 at 06:50:41 AM
Email: murraylewis@yahoo.com
Name: Murray Lewis
Message: Interesting site. Mr. Buren recommened it. Thanks, M Lewis
Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 at 12:58:05 AM
Email: callen@sciti.com
Name: Peggy Allen
Message: Enjoyed all the pictures and info on Rosses Point. This is a place we have
put in our travel plans for next year. Charlie, Kelly and I look forward to a visit, as
we're looking for a home or hospitality exchange in your area. Peggy
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 at 03:33:00 AM
Email: apjames@wagga.net.au
Name: Adrian James
Message: I was searching for Tir Nan Og stuff
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 at 02:16:34 PM
Email: mgmg@gis.net
Name: Leonard V. Stocker
Message: Leonard Stocker, Principal Lighthouse Keeper, from Sligo was my
Great-Grandfather Cecil Stocker (his son) was my Grandfather, and my father, Henry P.
Stocker ("Harry") was aslo a lightkeeper. My father left the Irish Lights at 28
years old and came to America. That's where I was born. I was happy to see this
information on my family. Thanks. Leonard V. Stocker
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 at 03:40:47 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Its a shame to see that the chatroom is not really getting off the ground.
Its a great chance to talk to all the Ex Rosses point people and of course the people
living there now,but nobody seems interested Come on down to the chatroom and talk about
the past and present topics of the village.Anyone agree with me?
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 at 12:08:02 PM
Email: simmo@melbourne.net
Name: Graham Simmons
Message: Was privileged to visit beautiful Sligo a couple of weeks ago, a totally
mind-bending experience. I was looking for the village of Puckoon, which according to
Spike Milligan lies "several and half metric miles north-east of Sligo". The
nearest I could find was the half-horse township of Leckaun. Any connection there? Cheers,
Graham Simmons
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 at 11:14:53 AM
Email: Paul.Devaney@XTRA.CO.NZ
Name: Paul Devaney
Message: Hello from Auckland, New Zealand
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 at 02:12:44 PM
Email: frasdarrah@email.msn.com
Name: Fraser Darrah
Message: I was most interested to find the story of the Arandora Star from a German
prisoner's prospective. I am developing some pages on the Blue Star Line which ceased
trading in 1998. The web page can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3591/marine/bluestar.html and contains
photographs of more recent BS ships. Your site is excellant, I probably have some distant
relations in that part of the world with my surname!
Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 at 02:15:34 PM
Email: rick@zoinks.fsnet.com.uk
Name: Paul Kenny
Message: Please say hello to the McDermotts of the point !! Noel McDermott who
works in the town for P J Coleman !!!! And family ! Noel is my mothers brother !!! Missed
them at Davids wedding !!! Wish them the best from The Kenny family in London !!! Also my
Aunt Kathleen McDermott !!! Love Paul !!!! My Mother left the point many years ago, but
returns regularly !!! Her name is Agnes !! Hope to go back soon myself !!! Been to long
!!!
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 at 06:26:29 PM
Email: kempc@indigo.ie
Name: Clive Kemp
Message: Fascinating web site. Congratulations. We will be in your area this
weekend, and visiting your site has decided us to vist Rosses Point if at all possible.
Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 at 02:15:29 AM
Email: mebilderback@webtv.net
Name: Minnie
Message: You have a very nice back!
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 at 06:32:41 PM
Email: jandm@cwcom.net
Name: Justine Gillen
Message: Hi there, nice to cath up on a piece of my heritage!
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 at 09:55:41 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Christine and myself are going over to Rosses Point on November 6th for 5
heavenly days when The Point is all quiet for the winter.......Can`t wait.....Kieran mines
a pint of Guinness in Austies on Sat urday November the 6th.....
Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 at 09:56:37 PM
Email: www.horse@heehaw.com
Name: John Gaynor
Message: Great site, anyone for a gallop?
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 at 03:15:34 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi all, Here's a recent pic of the metal man getting his annual facelift!
Also, any comment on the "watery" metal man on the front page, good or bad,
would be very welcome! Really!! regards, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 at 02:10:37 PM
Email: rick@ zoinks.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Paul Kenny
Message: Hello to the McDermott's of Rosses Point! From the Kenny's in London !
Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 at 01:07:02 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Another poor turn out in the chatroom this weekend,I don`t think its going
to work out unless we get more bodies in there,see you all in Rosses Point next weekend,I
can taste the first pint of guinness now
Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 at 11:19:05 PM
Email: -----
Name: Martin Kane
Message: It looks like we are going to be the only die hards Jimmy. Maybe we will
meet in Austies next weekend.
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 at 11:15:54 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Gaday Cobbers, The seagull and I have arrived at Dublin Airport after our
annual holiday down under. We're looking forward to getting back to Rosses Point. I have a
suite at the North Star Hotel and the seagull is perched on the roof outside. We tried to
visit Declan Foley in Melbourne, but we were told he was dead to the world. I called
Kieran Devaney when I got to Dublin but there was no reply. The seagull tells me he has
moved from Lucan and is living on Blossom Hill. There are some nice people in the North
Star. They tell me they are a choir from Romania and know a man called John Ryan. They
were going to sing in Sligo until Austie called them. But then, that's another story. I
assume the Bishop and the Mayor will be on the platform at Sligo Station to welcome me
back to my winter residence. Yours truly, The Metal Man Co: The Haughey Suite, North Star
Hotel, Dublin.
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 at 11:44:13 AM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Well, I must apologise for not being in the chat room lately...been up to
my eyeballs with other stuff. It seems that each weekend something else crops up. Last
weekend I was in Dublin, the weekend before, in Finner Camp visiting the Search &
Rescue helicopter crew with some of the lifeboat lads, the weekend before that? Well, at
this stage I can't even remember! With the Winter approaching I'm going to strive to be
there more often. I must figure out a way to get more people involved as well. Any
suggestions are very welcome! And again, any comments on the home page Metal Man are also
very welcome! Regards, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 at 05:58:58 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi again all, New pages up - a couple in "Tales of our Village",
a couple in the "Coming of Cuellar", and one on the "Captains Table".
Enjoy!
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 at 11:48:21 PM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Cobbers & Mates please ignore that impostor who said he has returned
from Australia. Me and the Seagull have been back in Sligo since August. In fact we have
played golf with Ciaran and Kieran at the Point. Who is this imposter? I think he is a
Roomanian choirboy in disguise seeking a place in the Rosses Point buoys choir. And
Imagine me speaking about Chralie in that way, We all know Charlie wouldn't be seen dead
in The North Star now, as for the City Morgue next door, well that is another thing. I
invite you all to be my guest in Austie's tonight! Slan MM and SG
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 at 11:57:19 PM
Email: sob@eejitnet.com.gaa
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Ladies & Gents of Rosses Point it has been a pleasure to read a new
page sans that eejit Foley from OZ. I heard on the medical grapevine he has obtained a new
glass eye on the National Health. That is why he has been so quiet! Then they took pity
and gave him a facelift. This has made him look so young, his wife is now mistaken for his
mother, and she gets the childrens allowance for him every week from the Australian
government! And, too cap it all there are rumours he is getting a Knighthood from the
Queen of Australia in the New Year's Honours list. I could cry! Seamus at the E A
FitzPatrick home for the bewildered.
Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 at 10:55:25 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: What's going on? I am the real Metal Man. The Seagull stayed with the
Romanians at the North Star and I caught the train by myself. There was no reception
committee on the platform at Sligo Station and I had to walk all the way to Connolly's
before I got a lift. Harry Ewing brought me out to the Point in the back of his truck.
He's a decent man. I swam the rest of the way back to my rock. Things have changed since
I've been away, there are more horses on Oyster Island and a China woman is living in
Kate's Cottage and drinking in Mary Hackett's. I'm told she has a catwhich was given to
her by Louise at the Elsinore. at closing time. It fell off the roof, rather like Kieran
Devaney. Michael Leyden has gone to New Orleans to ask a doctor if he can drink again, and
there are strange trees growing on Coney Island with lights on top. The lifeboat has got
bigger, a bit like the Seagull's mouth. Jimmy Bruen is coming back this weekend. Perhaps
he will bring me out a drink?
Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 at 02:11:50 AM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: How can I stop the water running into my room from around the MetlaMan. I
phoned the North Star Hotel and they told me that the Seagull hired Foley's brother's
limousine to take him home to Sligo. It seems that he and MetalMan fell out about buying a
drink for the Romanian choir. MM wanted to use the credit card that CJ had given him. SG
implied that would be urinating on the graves at Arbour Hill. MM's reply was 'Well haven't
we been doing that for many years already!' The resulting fight scene was far better than
that between John Wayne and Victor Mac Laglen in The Quiet Man. And that's why MM went
home on the train. Rosaleen O'Grady (the Mayor) good woman that she is was manning the
picket line in the nurses strike! She can't be in two places at once!
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 at 01:52:51 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Could anybody tell me where I could find accomodation to rent in Dublin
for my daughter Jenni and her cousin and a couple of friends.They are working in Dublin
and cannot find anywhere. In particular the Clontarf area if possible. I will be staying
with relations in Ballyweelin till thursday,and can be contacted on cyrilie@indigo.ie Hope
someone can help!!!!!!!
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 at 02:33:37 PM
Email: fabado@bigpond.com
Name: Fay Dobbyn
Message: My Husbands Family are direct Decendents of the Dobbin's in the site
"Voyage Home" I was very interested with all the information, some of it I knew
but it did fill a quite a few gaps. Thankyou Malcolm for telling me about this Web Site, I
will be back to read a bit more another time.
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 at 11:36:29 AM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: Rosses Point Heritage Association and the Sligo Branch of the RNLI will
host a public lecture on Friday, November 26, at 8.45pm in the Yeats Country Hotel.
Captain Adrian Walton lecture is titled "An Around the World Trip with Family and
Friends." Captain Walton, who's representing Belfast Mariners, had a distinguished
career in the Merchant Navy where he became an extra Master Mariner (RSA medallist). He
then became a lecturer in Naval Architecture at the Nautical College in Plymouth and
Southampton. It is Adrian Walton's second visit to Rosses Point and we look forward to
meeting him again.
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 at 04:26:15 PM
Email: annejon10@hotmail.com
Name: anne johnston
Message: what must I do to use one of your articles for a small local magazine.
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 at 05:04:14 AM
Email: bahdah96@aol.com
Name: B mckenzie
Message: great grand father was born there in feb of 1854 his name was darby laydon
but I think it might have been lydon,any info you might be able to send along would be
greatly appreciated,we hope to visit next sept looking forward to visiting your beautiful
home.....thx so much B Mckenzie
Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 at 12:29:57 AM
Email: warkar@uniserve.com
Name: Karen McGowan
Message: Kieren: We recently discovered that our James McGowan(b.abt1784) and wife
Mary Hart or Harte(b.abt 1810), were probably of Coney Island. They came to the US on the
Britannia in the early 1830's. One son, Patrick McGowan was born in Ireland. I would
really like to correspond more with you concerning this family. I would also like some
information about the availibility of records from this area. Blessings, Karen
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 at 03:48:11 AM
Email: seagull@sligo.com
Name: Seagull
Message: what's gone wrong? is everyone gone mad?
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 at 09:27:09 PM
Email: cockatoo@com.au
Name: Dr Christy
Message: Has something gone wrong with the guest book?
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 at 10:40:20 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Apologies for the recent problem...only just discovered it myself.
Normality will return sometime over the next few days. As it's Christmas, I probably won't
get this sorted 'til Stephens Day or after, but I promise all will be well very soon!
Meanwhile, Happy Christmas to you all! Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 at 01:17:41 AM
Email: cockatoo@com.au
Name: Cockatoo
Message: Are you all still in the pub since Christmas Eve?
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 at 05:48:56 PM
Email: mjkelly422@hotmail.com
Name: Matthew Kelly
Message: Happy New Millennium from USA. Still researching for all information on
the BRUEN surname. Would like to hear from all Bruen/Bruin family members. My great
grandfather was Michael Bruen.
Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 at 10:52:30 AM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@TV3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: Happy Millennium from Kieran and Tom.
Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 at 01:15:49 PM
Email: webmaster@sligo.ie
Name: sligo.ie
Message: wishing Rosses Point the very best for 2000. Nico
Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 at 03:08:27 PM
Email: roger.kelly1@virgin.net
Name: Jane,Roger and Marion Kelly
Message: Have a great time tonight wherever you are and whatever you are doing.Best
wishes from all here in Scotland to all at Rosses Point.Cheers!!!
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 at 12:30:01 AM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Welcome to 2000 Best wishes to all from Australia
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 at 02:57:42 AM
Email: Bmarin@aol.com
Name: Brian Marin
Message: Happy New Millenium from the wild geese of America. Health, Happpiness and
Success to all.
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 at 05:41:39 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hey all!! Happy New Year to you, where ever you may be! No Y2K bugs to
report here (apart from the site, but I'm not worrying about that now!). Rosses Point was
absolutely FANTASTIC last night! Such a party! The prom outside Austies was jammed and
there was a fireworks display that did an absolutely perfect job at ringing in the new
century. Happy twenty-first century to you all!
Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 at 12:35:02 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy&Christine Bruen
Message: Happy New Millenium to all our friends and family in Rosses Point God
Bless
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 at 01:16:41 AM
Email: seagull@sligo.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Friends I am sending this from the vetinary hospital on Oyster Island!
When they let off the fireworks on New Years' Eve, I was asleep on the Metal Man's foot.
The noise frightened the*#it out of me and I leapt into the air. Be the Holy good God
didn't a rocket go up my rearend!!!! Now I know why Killarague Pat used to say "May
it burn the hole out of ye!" whenever he asked a cyclist where his light was. I am
sitting in a bucket of iced water. Happy New Year Seagull
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 at 04:56:45 PM
Email: Sheepdip.com
Name: The sheep on Oyster
Message: My deepest and most heartfelt sympathies go out to that poor oul
seagull,we ourselves suffered heavy casualties the same night,still twas a great oul
hooley.Mary H as usual surpassed herself with her mothers pride artistry in the feeding of
the very drunken multitudes.After a lengthy monologue from big tv3KieranD,I was wondering
should he apply for the soon to be vacant post of the oul fella on the fast show, who sits
in the big red chair by the fire and is very, very drunk.BAA a very happy new year to all.
Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 at 01:16:04 AM
Email: birds@rossespoint.com
Name: spix's macaw
Message: hi flying over the point seen a sign for my new house. help build it for
me its cold in the water most of the time. help me. any money u havr to help send it to
sligo bay fund. thay need to find Ģ150,000 to get me my new house. HELP IF U CAN.
Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 at 12:12:19 AM
Email: ....
Name: Martin Kane
Message: Has anyone heard from Foley lately or have the authorities finally caught
up with him and imprisoned him for all the correct reasons. Or has he been gobbled up by
the "millennium bug".There again to those who know him, he was "The bug of
the last millennium."Any sea farers who might see a little raft or a dinghy or a
canoe with Foley on board "Sink it on Sight" as he was talking about getting
here in late 2,000 and this would explain his absence from the net.
Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 at 11:30:09 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Can anyone tell me why I am now finding it impossible to get into the
chatroom these days....I simply cannot access it? Help!!!!!!
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 at 03:44:47 PM
Email: 9735518@student.ul.ie
Name: Aisling
Message: Hi Ciaran and other Rosses Pointers, The web page looks great - other
people I've showed have been well impressed too! Tell Eithne she better be in the chat
room next week! See ye soon, Ash.
Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 at 10:47:26 AM
Email: ajpcoen@yahoo.com
Name: austin coen
Message: is there never anybody there to chat too
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 at 04:42:59 PM
Email: Sheepdip.com
Name: The real sheep on Oyster
Message: Bejasus there appears to be another talking sheep on the island, I think
itīs great these advances in rural edumacation.I hope this new sheep will not prove to be
mutton dressed as lamb,anyway everything seems to be quiet on the island at the minute
thank god.The bulls on Coney were telling me the other day that, since the pseudo
intellectuals have declared a literary ceasefire the oul site isnīt as much crack as it
was, schtill as pope Joe would surely only have to nod his simple brow in agreement it
takes a bull to know bull. I see Conlon the vet coming,I wouldnīt let him touch me not
even for an inflatable Tom Riordan .Baaaaaaa.
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 at 09:55:14 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: WOA! YOU LOT! Time to start calming down or I'll take down the book! The
banter is all very well, and indeed, highly entertaining, but I'll have no insulting going
on! If you'll all remember, the last time any serious slaggin' went on here 2 very
well-known and upstanding members of the RP community stopped talking to each other for
over a year. So kindly think of the feelings of others before letting fly! Thank you very
much, I'll stop being an aul' grump now.
Continued in Volume 10
