After so long in positions of power, the O’Hanlons (and indeed with them, the O’Neills and Magennisses) were wont to forget the allegiance (spiritual at least) they owed to the Church and were frequently in conflict with it.
John McCullagh
O’Hanlon raids The Pale
Already the English influence was confined mainly to a strip of territory centred on
Poyntzpass: Round squaring
There were four brothers in them days, Willie, Henry, Barney and Davey McSherry and they lived in Tullynacross. Henry and Barney worked at quarrying and did small road repairs. They used to go to Hugh Rafferty’s pub for a drink at dinner time.
Blond drops a bombshell
As a lorry driver stops for a red light, a pony-tailed blond in a bull-bar fronted SUV catches up. She climbs out and descends to road level, runs up to his lorry, and knocks on the window. The man lowers the window, and she says,
O’Hanlons : Boru to Bruce
The O’Hanlons were still the most influential family in the county one thousand years ago, when the last High King of Ireland, Brian Boru paid a memorable visit to them in
A well-earned dunking!
There was a particular night I remember that was a great bit of craic and at the end of it all, they all drifted off in ones and twos. Then there was just Paddy Watters, Hugh Rafferty and me.
Sammy, Sammy and Sammy
‘It seems singularly unimaginative’, yer man says, ‘ for yon wan to name all her three sons Sammy!’
ASBOs to each and all!
‘Warrenpoint last Sunday was very lively – quite a number of holiday folk being present not only from the surrounding districts but from Belfast, Portadown, Armagh, Dublin, Dundalk and Cookstown, special trains having been run from all those places which were availed of by a great many sight-seers.