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niall mellon township building blitz 2009

 

950 Volunteers – 1 Week – 200 New Houses

I had disappeared for the last week or so…. and it seems in Ballyboughal terms I missed quite a bit… congratulations footballers!!
This is what I was doing….

Wallacedene, Cape Town, South Africa.

My third year to travel with The Garden of Hope Team, this year was always going to [...]

o’connors pub – it’s official – it’s opening

 

Moaning all in Ballyboughal, it official from the horses mouth, written on Moses’ tablet, cast in stone, she opens on next Monday 20th Oct.

…this time its really happening

some thought it would never happen. some thought it was never possible. In a town where the drop, the craic, the entire knowledge of what encapsulated community [...]

Things I hate… blow ins

 

I hate them? I don’t even know them. My Father was a blow in. He moved here. My Mother was a blow in. She moved here too. They didn’t tell anyone. Not many people lived here then. Nobody knew they’d moved here. I can drive my vehicle how I like. You can just wait behind [...]

Things I hate… pub?

 

The pub is gone. Move on. Blows in. Blow out. Move on. The lads ran a pub. It was theirs. They can do do what they like. They did. Well done. Move on. It closed. Now I hope it stays that way. I didn’t at first. I hate that shit about will it open. People [...]