Church Care Team

Trials for the church care team will take place at 3.30pm next Sunday. Anyone interested can sign up in Pa Brophy’s at 3pm. Fr. Fiachra will be doing the judging. The first round will be shining the candleholders with a dry cloth; anyone found with a tin of brasso will be disqualified. Second round will be a stretching competition: who can reach the highest cobweb and the third round will be the really physical side of things. Ye’ll be put through yer paces by Fr. Fiachra, he’ll make ye run 3 laps of the high field while trying to shine chalices. Tea and sandwiches in Pa’s after the competition. All welcome. Proceeds from the event will go to the church spire restoration fund.
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Nature Report

When you think of all the things we take, without a second thought, from this beautiful land of ours: the rivers and lakes give us water to drink and fresh fish to eat, the rich earth grows our nutritious vegetables and the grass to feed our livestock so we can have meat to eat, grains for our bread and to feed our chickens who lay us eggs. We take, take, take, but do we ever give anything back?
I do. Three or four times a year I go up the bog and bury a trailer load of tin cans, glass and plastic bottles, old clothes, crockery, maybe an old bike or a broken TV, anything to hand really. Over time these will rust and rot away and enrich the surrounding soil with their goodness. It’s a long term investment, they say a child’s nappy takes a million years to break down in the soil – well a million years from now the soil might be glad of it.
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Garda Prank Call Now Animated

Tommy, just when we thought we had heard the last about the Garda prank, hasn't some bright spark added animation to it. Isn't it great what can be done with computers, Tommy.
Click this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YwQ9mRyBjc

More Strippers Wanted

Feckin hell Tommy, we have competition. I see there in this weeks Mayo Echo that they're lookin for strippers as well in the recruitment section at the bottom of page 19. It was the bright colours that drew me to the advert: naznookie.com is the website. If Pa Brophy wants a class act in the pub to draw the crowd he will have to pay handsomely for it now. It's supply and demand Tommy. Anyway Tommy, maybe our successful applicants didn't see it. It would be a pity to lose them now to another crowd and have to go through the recruitment process again. Still I suppose if we have to interview a new batch and get them to audition, so be it.