Better title :'Irish Army surrender to the developer Michael O'Flynn'.... the Celtic Tiger cretins did more to damage the Irish state than PIRA. Little Mickey got his hands on 100s of acres of prime Real Estate for a song... sleeveenery par excellence having no other proper bids... built a shabby ghetto...
I remember my mom collecting me in Scoil Padre Pio and bringing me over to Farrenree to look at this. Amazing to see how fast 20 years has gone by. I'm 30 next week.
The correct date is May 1955 and it's the Munster Motor Club's hillclimb on the Kinsale road near Farmers Cross. A number of Cork assembled DKW saloons feature.
Jack Lynch was a gent and truly deserves the send off that he got. The turn out by the people of Cork just shows how well he was liked for all the right reasons.
I was over on a visit 1996 this time. Went into a pub called the Cork Arms.Fantasic time . Remember in the back table there was a family there. looked like hippies dreadlocks and all .Semmed out of place these lot were.Didnt cause any trouble .But the m an next me says there just a bunch of crusties.The way he said it was effing funny.
I was only seven years old when Jack resigned as Taoiseach. I always loved his beautiful, resonant speaking voice. Wow he was a beautiful singer too. Bassy, very fine intonation and great timing. I remember when Haughey bet George Collie to replace Lynch as Taoiseach. This was FG house. But my folks regarded Jack Lynch and respected him as Taoiseach. Can't say that of Haughey. My dad saw him as a kind of crook , not to be trusted. Lynch was a great loss at the time. A respected , unifying leader was replaced by a polarizing, untrustworthy figure.
I saw him in Cork that day.We.stood on the balcony with our blue shop coats he couldnt miss us.He looked up and gave us a big wave.It was a great.day.A day i will forget.A great day for Irish.A great day for the Cork people.
The greatest Taoiseach to grace our island a man of steel kept the state stable during the worst times since Ww2 didn’t put a foot wrong really brilliant Jack!
I was in the Navy at the time, on the L.E. Deirdre, we were tied up in Dun Laoghaire when the explosion happened and immediately set sail for Bantry with many crew members left behind, I remember sailing into Bantry bay the next morning and witnessing the huge cloud of black smoke and the ship almost resembling a 'V" as it burned, the placr looked like a war zone, we later escorted a tug towing the for'ard section out to sea and it refused to sink when the seavalves were opened by the tug crew, so we put a few 40mm shells into it to make it sink. Very sad time for all involved.
I remember this day. I wasn't at the ceremony because I was in school but I remember it being talked about at school. I think we felt we should have got a day off for it. I remember once I was leading a pony trek through the regional park when I took a wrong turn and almost lead the entire trek into the army barracks!
Clon as a "Port" ??? Primary printed source commentaries 1820's to late 1880's (see British Government Enqiries, and various Pamphlets/Journals) point to the difficulties caused by serious silting of the bay, which never resolved the access issue - save for a small slip and pier at Ring (Arundels Mills). Generally, small boats or "Lighters" were the only craft to enter the inner bay area. "Port" is perhaps an over exaggeration ... poetic licence ???
