The final slice of the 1957 Windsor Hill schoolchildren features (Middle, right) Hilary Frazer who went on in adulthood to marry David Cunnungham, principal of Kilkeel High School.
John McCullagh
GM v Microsoft
I love it when the super-rich who control our destinies get really stuck into one another. Our Administrator despises Microsoft and empathises with the following – though he’d like to replace the general references to computers (actually Gates’s Microsoft in this context); he uses the rival and better Linex system.
Agnes: SUV Drivers
Dear Agnes,
‘You see much more, from a four by four’, the slogan goes. How true!
From my elevated seat in my SUV, I see the great beauty of our countryside over the tops of the hedges.
But I also look down and see men in their saloon cars picking their noses when they think no one is watching: I see litter being freely dispensed through the open windows of these little cars. I see bad driving. And I see jealousy towards those of us fortunate enough to drive these modern vehicles.
You’re a woman of the world, Agnes! You know we choose SUVs not because they are a status symbol but because they are so versatile, safe, impregnable and… well… better!
I say ‘we’ for I’m certain you too are a ‘People Carrier’ woman!
Why must others always be so jealous?
Is there any answer?
Gladys Superior
Dear Gladys,
Are you that woman who spoke to her scrawny kid as she turned into the school car-park,
‘And now that we’re off-road, all I have to do is pull this lever and it becomes a 4-Wheel Drive?’?
The staff in that school are teaching the four-times tables differently now: 4 by 1 equals 4: 4 by 2 equals 8: 4 by 3 equals 12: 4 by 4 equals selfish, stuck-up, opinionated b***hes!
My readership may wish to know that SUV stands for Sports Utility Vehicle. No owner ever indulges in any sport, bar baiting other road-users. The furthest off-road these vehicles ever venture is the M&S car park.
Perhaps M&S is too ‘common’ for you?
How dare you imply that you have anything in common with me, you arrogant woman?!
Should I ever be misfortunate enough to encounter you on the public highway in my humble carriage, I shall do my utmost to run you off-road, where you belong!!
Agnes Dayee
Newry Film Club: 4 June
Newry Arts Centre Film Club (NACFC) has been formed in 2007 by a group of volunteer film enthusiasts to bring a range of films not usually shown by commercial cinemas to the residents of Newry and the surrounding area.
Handloom Weaver
My name is John McAtasney. I was born in 55, Sloan Street, Lurgan, Co Armagh on Wednesday 11 April 1934, the second eldest of a family of eight children, six boys and two girls.
New Years Honour?
Dear Agnes,
I’m a blunt man and I’ll come straight to the point! You, it’s said, have a finger in every pie and you know how to grease the wheels of government! Can you put some suitable award in my direction? I mean, surely I deserve to be decorated for my community and charitable efforts?
Bishop O’Doherty
It was about that time that the Bishop of Dromore, the Rev Edmund Mulhern went to his eternal rest. Our new bishop, a
Prison Notes
Newry Journal was delighted recently to have been offered a few reminiscences of veteran Republican Dan Moore from his early days of resistance to British Rule.
I walked the road
Today I walked the road
I skipped along when I was young
And fought to quell the rising melancholy in my heart: