"While goin' the road to sweet Athy
A stick in
me hand and a drop in me eye
A doleful damsel I heard
cry,
Johnny I hardly knew
ya."==================
--- On
Fri,
26/2/10, William Finnerty
<newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
From: William Finnerty
<newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: "Johnny I
Hardly Knew Ya"To: President of
the European Council Herman Van Rompuy
<
press.office@consilium.europa.eu>, EU Foreign
Minister
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
<hlinfo@parliament.uk>, UK Prime Minister
Gordon Brown <webmaster@pmo.gov.uk>,
Dr Anne Jeffers
(Consultant Psychiatrist) Ballinasloe, County
Galway <info@hse.ie>,
Prime Minister
Brian Cowen TD
<taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie>, "Chief Inspector Michael
Winters (Omagh Police Station)"
<omagh@psni.pnn.police.uk>, Minister for Justice
Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern TD
<Dermot.Ahern@oireachtas.ie>, Attorney General Paul
Gallagher SC <info@ag.irlgov.ie>,
Director of Public
Prosecutions
James Hamilton <dppwebmaster@indigo.ie>,
"The Chief State Solicitor (Republic of Ireland)"
<contact@csso.gov.ie>, "Guardian of Republic of Ireland
Constitution (President Mary McAleese)"
<webmaster@president.ie>, Peter Sutherland Chairman of
Goldman Sachs International Bank, Steering Committee Member of
the Bilderberg Group and European Chairman of the Trilateral
Commission <trilateral.europe@wanadoo.fr>, "Chief
Justice John L. Murray" <SupremeCourt@courts.ie>, "Mary
Hanafin (Minister for Social & Family Affairs)"
<minister@welfare.ie>, "US President Barack Obama
(Constitutional/Civil Rights Lawyer"
<info@barackobama.com>, US Vice President Joe Biden
<info@www.joebiden.com>, United States Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton <questions@friendsofhillary.com>,
Deputy Prime Minister Mary Coughlan TD
<Mary.Coughlan@oireachtas.ie>, Health Minister Mary
Harney TD <info@maryharney.ie>, "David Cameron MP
(Leader of UK Opposition Party)"
<camerond@parliament.uk>, G20
<g20@fazenda.gov.br>, The Whitehouse
<president@whitehouse.gov>, Dr Elaine Byrne Lead
Researcher for the Transparency International National
Integrity System Country Study on Ireland
<info@transparency.ie>, First Minister of Northern
Ireland Peter Robinson MP <info@dup.org.uk>, Martin
McGuinness Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
<info@sinnfein.org>, Minister Dick Roche
<Dick.Roche@Taoiseach.Gov.IE>, Jane Burgermeister
<jmburgermeister@gmail.com>, Nick Hardwick Chair of the
Independent Police Complaints Commission
<nick.hardwick@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk>, Noel Treacy East Galway
TD <noel.treacy@oireachtas.ie>
Cc: Northern
Ireland Housing Executive Manager Ivan
Armstrong
<omaghdistrict@nihe.gov.uk>, Tyrone & Fermanagh
Hospital Consultant Dr Thomas Foster
<tfoster@slt.n-i.nhs.uk>, Chief Executive of The
Northern Ireland Housing Executive Paddy McIntyre
<hmobelfast@nihe.gov.uk>, communitysafety@nihe.gov.uk,
new.scotland.yard@met.police.uk,
Gerard J Madden Senior Social
Worker <gmadden@slt.n-i.nhs.uk>, Northern Ireland Chief
Constable Matt Baggot
<information@nipolicingboard.org.uk>, "Garda
Superintendent Enda P. Walshe" <crimprev@iol.ie>,
Republic of Ireland Chief Police Commissioner Fachtna Murphy
<Commissioner@garda.ie>, Minister Eamon O'Cuiv
<aire@pobail.ie>, Minister John Gormley
<john.gormley@oireachtas.ie>, Minister Eamon Ryan TD
<eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie>, Mary Carr Community Welfare
Officer <maryt.carr@hse.ie>, Dr Michael McCavert GP
<permanent.secretary@dhsspsni.gov.uk>, Dr John O'Reilly
GP <Lakeshoremedicalcentre@hotmail.com>, Police
Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Al Hutchinson
<info@policeombudsman.org>, The Garda Siochana Ombudsman
Commission <info@gsoc.ie>, Cardinal Brady
<info@catholiccommunications.ie>, Pope Benedict XVI
<ornet@ossrom.va>, "Dr Hans-Gert Pottering (President of
the European Parliament)"
<webmasterpresident@europarl.europa.eu>, French
President Nicolas Sarkozy
<s-allard@ladocfrancaise.gouv.fr>, "Jose Manuel Barroso
(President of European Union Commission)"
<sg-web-president@ec.europa.eu>, "Margot Wallstrom
(Vice-President of the European Commission)"
<margot.wallstrom@ec.europa.eu>, "European Court of
Human Rights Case Reference: 25077/05"
<infopoint@coe.int>, "Nikiforos Diamandouros (The
European Ombudsman) Case ref: 1867/2006/IP)"
<euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int>, "Northern Ireland
Social Security Agency (Reference Disability Case Reference
52-82267 for YH615974D)" <Private.Office@dsdni.gov.uk>,
"Vincent Salafia (Lawyer)" <uatuathal@yahoo.com>, "Kathy
Sinnott (Former MEP)" <kathysinnott@iol.ie>, "Patricia
McKenna (Former MEP)" <pmmckenna@eircom.net>, Lawyer
Siobhan Duffy <siobhan.duffy@ec.europa.eu>, Liam Cashman
EU Environmental Directorate
<Liam-Joseph.Cashman@ec.europa.eu>, UK Secretary of
State for Justice Jack Straw MP
<lordchancellor@dca.gsi.gov.uk>, The Law Society of
England and Wales <info@lawsociety.org.uk>, Law Society
of Ireland <general@lawsociety.ie>, Fine Gael Party
Leader Enda Kenny <Enda.Kenny@oireachtas.ie>, Labour
Party Leader Eamon Gilmore
<eamon.gilmore@oireachtas.ie>, Sinn Fein Party Leader
Gerry Adams <info@sinnfein.org>, "Libertas (No to Lisbon
Campaign)" <info@libertas.org>, "Fr. Harry Bohan
(Founder of The Ceifin Centre)" <admin@ceifin.com>,
"Marie Murray (Senior Psychologist & Irish Times
Columnist)" <mmurray@irish-times.ie>, Dr Maurice Manning
President of Human Rights Commission <info@ihrc.ie>,
Elaine Corcoran Mental Health Ireland
<info@mentalhealthireland.ie>, The Irish Centre for
Human Rights <humanrights@nuigalway.ie>, Senator Ivana
Bacik Barrister and Reid Professor of Criminal Law Criminology
and Penology at Trinity College Dublin
<ivana.bacik@oireachtas.ie>, John Reilly Barrister at
Tooks Chambers London <clerks@tooks.co.uk>, Lawyer
Adrian O' Kane Omagh <adrian.okane@pfahy.com>, Siobhan
Tara Finnerty <siobhan510@bigpond.com>, Gerald Finnerty
& Marjorie Dolan <margieandgerald@yahoo.ie>,
Lawyer Greg
Nolan at Hogan & Co, Ballinasoe County Galway
<greg@phoganandco.com>, "The Irish Council for
Civil Liberties (ICCL)" <info@iccl.ie>, "Dr Walter F.
Murphy (Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton
University)" <wmurphy37@comcast.net>, "Dr Garrett
Fitzgerald (Chancellor of the National University of Ireland)"
<registrar@nui.ie>, "Dr Joseph E. Stiglitz (Economist)"
<jes322@columbia.edu>, Rossport Solidarity Camp
<rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com>, Nelson Mandela
<nmf@nelsonmandela.org>,
Former
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Initiative)
<info@eginitiative.org>, "UNESCO World Heritage
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<wmf@wmf.org>, Mrs Sneska Quaedvlieg Mihailoviae
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<sg@europanostra.org>, Martin Cody Media Bureau Dublin
<mcody@mediabureau.ie>, Irish Times Editor Geraldine
Kennedy <gkennedy@irish-times.ie>, "Charlie Bird (RTE
Chief News Correspondent)" <charlie.bird@rte.ie>,
"Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
(Thomas Hammarberg)" <commissioner.humanrights@coe.int>,
"Venice Commission (Council of Europe)"
<venice@coe.int>, Youth for Human Rights
<info@youthforhumanrights.org>, "Louise Arbour (UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights)" <ngochr@ohchr.org>, "Ban
Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations)"
<public.participation@unece.org>, "Spirit of
Vercingetorix (Turoe)" <vercingetorixireland@yahoo.ie>,
"Spirit of Boadicea (East Anglia)"
<iceniqueenboadicea@yahoo.co.uk>, "
Spirit of King Ollamh
Fodhla (Tara)"
<ollamhfodhla@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Friday, 26
February, 2010, 12:26
Just think of it -- "
Imagine" -- a "
Bank of Mayo",
a "
Bank of Dublin", a "
Bank of Kerry",
Sligo,
Cork,
Donegal,
Limerick,
Longford, Wexford,
Galway,
Tipperary,
Roscommon, and so on -- i.e.
Carlow,
Cavan,
Clare,
Kildare,
Kilkenny,
Laois,
Leitrim,
Louth,
Meath,
Monaghan, Offaly,
Waterford,
Westmeath,
and
Wicklow, for the whole of our
26
Counties -- all of them "
of the people,
by the people, for the people", and the whole
"Group of
Twenty-Six" safe and secure for
present and
future
generations: under the
watchful, caring eyes and
protective wings of
"
The Bank of The Republic of Ireland" (owned by the
people of the Republic of Ireland, for the people of the
Republic of Ireland).
We would hardly know
ourselves -- would we?
==================
Change of
mindsetby Wishing Wed Feb 24,
2010 17:13
I believe we really do
have a problem with
tribalism regarding the way we
vote here, but, no more, or at least not all that much more,
than other nations have at the present time.
Also,
there is reason to believe that things may be
starting to
really change in some places regarding this issue: thanks
largely to the present
global banking crisis it
seems.
"It's
an evil wind indeed that does not blow some
good."For example, I've just read a recent
article about the way a lot of people in certain parts of the
United States seem to be abandoning political parties,
or at least putting their differences to one side to a very
large extent, in the search for
innovative,
real, and
lasting solutions to the banking
crisis (and all of the
closely associated and disastrous
social problems connected with it) -- and
happily
finding that there may well be major benefits for
local
communities, and for
society as a whole, by so
doing.
Basically, it seems that a growing number of
political candidates (and their supporters) -- belonging to
different political parties -- are together
proposing that
states generate their own
credit by
setting up their own
banks.
How I wish that a movement of
that kind might soon start up here in the Republic of
Ireland.
If such a "movement" was to suddenly appear
here in the Republic of Ireland, being carried straight to us
all on a hare's back, it wouldn't be half fast enough for me:
particularly if the same "movement" applied itself, at the
same time, to stopping the "
Great
Giveaway" of our much needed
oil and gas
reserves (reported to be worth
5.4 trillion
Euros): which,
AMAZINGLY it seems to me, and
for reasons best known to themselves (that I suspect might not
be of the best kind),
ALL of our
main
political parties appear to be
hell-bent on
pressing ahead with (
full-steam!!).
The text of
the "
Truthout" article
in question (which refers to the United States only
unfortunately at the present time) can be viewed at:
http://www.truthout.org/more-candidates-favoring-state-owned-banks57106==================
The
text in the section immediately above has been copied from the
following
Indymedia
(Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95793#comment265527==================
"You haven't an arm, you
haven't a leg
The enemy nearly slew
you
You'll have to go out on the streets to beg
Oh, poor Johnny, what've
they done to you?"
Military Band
Leader
Patrick
Gilmore -- the "Glynn Miller" (more or less) of the
American Civil War -- who came from
Ballygar
(County Galway), and who was the author of
"When Johnny Comes Marching
Home", is said to have informed someone, in 1863,
that "
Johnny I Hardly
Knew Ya" (an old Irish anti-war folk song) provided
him with much of the basic material he used for "
When
Johnny Comes Marching Home" -- a song which has turned out
to be one of the most enduring of that period, and which
continues to this day to be a firm favourite with the military
bands of the United States of
America.
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