In this the 60th anniversary of The Meadow housing estate we continue our occasional series of reminiscences of growing up there in the long-ago! ‘Not unlike the season we are presently enduring, that Spring of 1957 had so far been wild, wet and windy. So I had learned a fair bit about road Bullets from the previous Sunday and had met some great characters from Newtownhamilton and An Port Mor. I had grasped the simple essence of the sport but there was more to learn. What with the huge expansion of our town in recent years, there are probably many of our exiles who could not find their way around the residential districts any more. For your benefit here is a list, each address coupled with others in the same area. I must apologise to our regular contributors – and especially to Martin Payne – whose articles have been sidelined for the duration of the Dr Having had a succession – including our own Eileen Mooney, current Chair of the Amateur Dr When first he saw the growing stick my father was a youngish man he got a spade and dug it out, then cut it – for to fit his hand. Brian Friel’s “Shoot the Crow” by Owen McCafferty – tonight’s offering in the Town Hall -is a sad and hilarious play about a day in the life of four Irish tilers on a building site. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton is Thursday night’s offering at the Newry Drama Festival. Tonight (Wednesday) Rosemary Dr Tonight’s play is the one most people have been waiting for, Sean Treanor’s production of Brian Friel’s Making History. The Big House is an early twentieth century play by Stuart Lennox Robinson who was an Irish dr I was a little unfair to AA: if you look carefully you will see the ‘bullet’ still in the right hand of this acrobatic player. Anyway here is AA’s story! ‘So after so many years of hoping to see what a Bullets match was truly like, I got my wish on Sunday 2nd March 2008. Rose-tinted reminiscence has its place I agree, But stare out of one eye and one view will you see.Meadow: 1957
The Bullets Competition: conclusion
Addresses in Newry: 1
Brown’s Yard: Haunted House
Drama Awards : Dundalk wins
The Walking Stick
Final night of Drama: Philadelphia
Shoot the Crow
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Country Boy
Making History by Newpoint
The Big House
The Bullets game
A State of Denial
