..that’s in the hands of The Man Above ..
referring to anticipated weather for a great event, sporting occasion or the likes. Not to be said in the presence of a priest!!
Sayings in everyday use yet 1
John McCullagh
Local sayings in Everyday Use [2]
Personal: ….. towards youth and the very young …
‘Who’re you looking at?
‘I’m looking at you
With your eyes so blue
And you’re nose turned up
Like a kangaroo!’
Mickey the Pluck ..
Peter Sloan also told of how his young sister used to weep at the cries of the geese that were being plucked alive on
Oliver & the Sealion
You can get too close to a “Beachmaster” sea lion.
Sayings in Everyday Use [1]
The Almighty: Church occasions require the use of the term, God, or The Good Lord. Sometimes referred to as, The Man Above, but then in a secular rather than a sacred sense. e.g.
The Ancient Kierans
Oliver Kieran is originally from Forkhill and now lives in
Forkhill meets Maoris
I am just returned from a trip to a speck of land on the bottom of the globe as near as possible to the exact opposite (its antipode!) of Forkhill, where I hail from!
Have ye shod any geese lately?
The late Peter Sloan of Bavan, Omeath – a native Gaelic speaker – told many a yarn and most of them true.
Omeath long ago
Michael Boyle spent most of his working life with the Great Northern Railway, an employment that came to an end with the closing of the Goraghwood-Newry-Warrenpoint line in 1965, an event remembered with sadness by the great majority of us older people. This is his story.