Comments on: Obama’s pick for Irish ambassador meets with opposition from an unexpected quarter

By: mark

mark — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:25:54 +0000

Im from kells and was at the funnrel and day are friends of mine and they are some of the nicest people you will ever meet

By: I WENT OUT WALKING | Tripping Along The Ledge

I WENT OUT WALKING | Tripping Along The Ledge — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:07:22 +0000

[...] Dundalk to meet former Traveller bareknuckle boxing champion, turned Evangelical Christian preacher Dan Rooney. He’d already cancelled one meeting with us and, on the second attempt, he was almost an hour [...]

By: ChrisNoise

ChrisNoise — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:52:49 +0000

I hate to be crude but I pity the man who does not shit with his arse…

By: Savo

Savo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:24:03 +0000

Dan or as i knew am as “Dan the man Rooney” is still a hero dude, and is preaching to his many followers in Dundalk most weekends. The original video of the fight was brought to us by a Paul Rooney, no relation. The revenue fined him thousands of pound due to the massive sales of the Crossmaglen fight which was sold on the black market. He also appeared on the Late Late and i also had a few pints with the man himself. It would deffo have made extra-visions no 1 of the year if he sold it legally. The best part of the whole video is the famous string quote from some cobbler ” there is a string and any man that crosses that string……………..well…..i wouldn’t like to be that man. With in the first two mins of the fight every man , woman and child had crossed the string. Legend stuff.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:56:04 +0000

I went to school and was friends (of a sort) with lots of Traveller kids. They had an exuberance of language that was just incredible. We would seek them out specifically to walk to school with and pick up on their colourful and inventive phrases (which we would later try to pass off as our own). Dan Rooney was a particular hero.

By: darragh

darragh — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:40:55 +0000

That might not be clear as to why the priest went off on one. It was ‘cos the pubs and shops refused to serve the travellers.

By: darragh

darragh — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:38:32 +0000

there are a few rooneys randomly buried in Kells including a former king of the tinkers. I remember the day of the funeral, I was around six or seven and all the local businesses shut. A few days later the priest berated the town with the most ferocious fire and brimstone sermon I ever heard. It was phenomenal stuff. My parents still talk about it in hushed tones. Mass was never as exciting since.