Sunday last was Cemetery Sunday in the Columban Fathers headquarters in Dalgan Park just outside Navan. It is now just over a year since we buried Fr Martin. There was a good collection of Dobeys there - of course his 2 sisters - Auntie Sheila and Auntie Mary were there. Mary was with her eldest Louis. There was strong representation from Fr Martin's now long departed brothers (Sean and Brian) and sister Kay.
Sean's wife Peggy along with Joseph and his girlfriend; Kay's husband Denis along with Deirdre, Chris, Katie and Roisin and Kay's old friend Maureen. From our own crew we had Brian and Mairead along with Ronan, Roisin, Eoghan and Colin; Greg and Ger along with Christopher, Peter, Hanna and Rebecca. We had a lovely mass in the open air down at the cemetery. There are 192 priests buried there and there brothers sisters nephews nieces and friends were gathered together to pray and remember.
The Columbans as ever had tea cake and sandwiches for everybody afterwards. It was a great chance to meet up and catch up. Denis gave me all the reasons why he is voting No to Lisbon. I had a counter argument for each one except his final deal-breaker: "I tell you what, boy, I just want to give all those politicians a good kick up the ass". There is no arguing with that - unfortunately Denis may have captured the mood of a nation. We will see to-morrow - polling day on the Lisbon treaty is today.
We almost got the full compliment for a group photo - we missed a few who had just left before we got organised.
Back Row: Denis, Maureen, Sheila, Mary, Barney, Deirdre, Katie,Chris, Ronan, Mairead, Ger Front Row: Greg, Rebecca, Eoghan, Hanna, Colin, Roisin, Peter, Roisin, Christopher.
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