Newry Journal – Page 20 – Newry News and Irish Fun

Offensive Bird

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and a worse vocabulary.

The final night’s offering at Lislea was from the Sillan Players of Castleblaney and was Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians, a most complex, layered, metaphorical and allegorical play. Indeed far too much so for most teams of the confined circuit, and this it proved to be.

I was driving on the outskirts of Newtown’ one Sunday afternoon recently when for the first time I encountered a Bullets match.

The group of affable and enthusiastic young men were solicitous to direct my oncoming car safely through, but I quickly pulled in to the grass verge and got out, to signify my interest in the game in hand. With military regimen the contest resumed.

The following information was unearthed from the local newspapers of sixty years ago.

It may seem hard to believe nowadays, but in former times even the mattress on the bed was home-made.

That night we started making holes in the walls of buildings adjoining the GPO, leading along Henry Street. This proceeded until we observed the enemy at about 3 am – 4 am on Friday morning. At that point we were ordered to cease work.

We cut the sod. We dug the heavy mould

To bare the stones which stronger folk have laid

Over their tunnelled dwelling.

I know a woman

She knows me

She invited me to tea ..

Will you have a cup of tea, Sir?

Newpoint Triumph

Allow me to be the first [almost!] to congratulate Sean Treanor and his…

When I returned to the hospital she lay there, cold, gone from a world that never gave her much, emotionally or materially.

A little-known law which prohibits people dying while in the Houses of Parliament has been voted the UK‘s most ludicrous piece of legislation. The punishment for offenders was not included in the statute books.