Guth & Tuairim, Eanáir/Feabhra 1984

DUNGLOE As promised, Santa did arrive and despite the recession he found it possible to respond to the requests of all. Over the Christmas period (Dec. 25.;.Jan,6) only those extremely difficult to please could care to voice a complaint about the quantity or quality of live entertainment which was on offer in the area. That's that settled; but who drew the biggest crowd? 4 . rz:i . p.. i::: ' "M NEW DRY CLEANER/ NOW OPEN AT • I Well, Prince Donal and Country Fever ~ith great ease performed magnificently in O.N.R, to a·delighted capacity "' audience, while Princess Margaret - the Junior Queen of (.) c... c... · o CARNMORE ROAD DUNGLOE country music - made her own unique (close to professional) contribution to an equally large audience at the same venue, within 24 hours. A few nights later, ~ down the road, when the real Queen of C,M, - .'" Susan McCann - appeared in Seomra Damhsa Naomh Dominic, 'i;i her performance was just brilliant. She sang her heart "" out again and again. The crowd here was as big as t5' what the Prince and Princess got, Susan made unsuccessful attempts to sign off but her followers cried for more and more. I understand that from early evening the crowds had queued up from the Market Wall in the hope of being admitted or perhaps just to get a glimpse of the Banr1on. The audience - which was representative of the young, the not so young and the old from the entire west - included at least one senior citizen from Dungloe who travelled early to the tidy town and was sighted using a stool in the queue and picking at a packed lunch. New Phones It is a little early yet to sing the praises or otherwise of this new system, but the one thing we can say with certainty is that we will miss the excellent service provided by our own local exchange. Like so many other things in life it is only when a service is taken away that one stops to think and to realise its value, 8ur efficient post Mistress and staff deserve our highest praise, congrat~ Bnd thanks for affording us, as only they could a first class service - the type of service which nobody could hope to replace, Automation is to be wslcomed, but only time will tell in our case whether it will compensate for the loss of that great personal 24 hour service. Personally, I believe that for a long time to come we will not only miss the efficiency l21!i the charm, the courtesy, the sincerity, all of which was so genuine - be it from Brendan Quinn (in the early hours) or Rountree 1 s time, after eight. Penny Post The provided all of us with an opportunity of saving at least 25p, and for those accustomed to giving the business to Her Majesty, a saving of 15p. An early shopper snatched up 1J8 of the offers but unfortunatley stuck 26 on each envelope. This done, ther e was no room for the address. The Weat her While we complain about the state of our .roads, and rightly so, we must admit that they stood us in good stead during the frost/snow as the potholes proved to be great stoppers as we sli d between the ditches. Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists were high in praise of the holes. N 0 w, the general feeling is that the Coalition must be thanked for seeing fit to leave the pot holes with us. For . ..., · i::l <I> "' <I> 0 Q ALSO OPENING SHORTLY AT THE SAME PREMISES LAUNDERETTE Tel. 075 - 21021 GLENTIES After Glenties getting the county award for tidiness last year, the towns people, no doubt, will re-enter the Tody Town Competition 1 84, Double the amount of work will be aimed for this year because ·the people · are thriving for the top award and indeed sometime they will succeed, maybe this year, who knows? Another. new arrival to the Glenties Farish in early December, in time for Christmas, installed by Bishop Seamus H eP".~rty was the new P ,P. of Glenties Fr, Con Cunningham, formely from Kilcar. This shift was le~ vacant by the death of Canon Thomas 0 1 Freil in November, Fr, Con was changed from the Donegal Town Parish where he was curate. Fr. Pat McHugh returned to Donegal from America during the festive season. He was situated in Glenties Comprehensive before leaving for America last Summer and so he returned to the School a few days before the Xmas holidays, The new year got off its feet with a howl as strong gales swept the area causing the electricity to go off and so the Christmas lights went out also but still the Festive Season continued, Wishing all my readers the bes~ in 1984.- DUN LUJCHE Christmas and the New Year is a time that people go out and enjoy themselves (recession or no recession), Well now that they've gone for another year things are very quiet so I don't have much to write this time, Things haven't been that quiet as far as the weather is concerned and the storms over the last few weeks have caused considerable damage all over Donegal including Dunlewey where some trees fell, slates come off roofs and windows were blown in. There was a lot of snow on the road behind Errigle and it had to be closed , for a few days. I wonder will Duke's Budget be as ~ stormy? ~ The football club have done very well so far in the i Donegal League and we all hope they'll be sitting on top of P! the stack at the end of the season. Congratulations t o that reason alone, one hopes sincerely that there will be no change of Government during this Century because experience has taught us how those in opposition might well cons1~er making monies available for the repair of the casans. An 8dd Comment • .~ Edward and Grainne who got married in the New Year. We food j bO wish them all the best for the future and hope all their 11 A 11 • I have great difficulty in finding suitable for my dog, 11 B 11 • Well that 1 s cat. "A". No, you've got it wrongt 8.~ troubles will be little ones. There are still some i::: § weddings to come in the near future so we wont put away ·'" -u the suits just yet, ..c:: Take care till next month. --------... ~:::: This crack is doing the rounds at the moment so I better tell it to you ••• Did you hear about the 3 men who were caught for stealing stale bread and got JO years each, There was a rule that they could take something into their prison cell, so the Italian asked for a woman and got one. The Englishman asked for a telephone and his wish was granted. The Irishman asked for a packet of fags and got them, Anyway, when the JO years were up the Italian came out with a family, the Englishman had made good use of the phone and he came out a millionaire and Irishman came out and asked the first person he met, "You wouldn't have a match?" (Thank you 1""":'--~~iiii~~~~;,.,,.""""....,,...,.,.. ... ~i Sir. I didn't know you could knit. ..C::•ri <I> ., tJ Good luck for 1 84 everybodyt