Comments on The Pensive Quill: An Appeal For Help

Do you know my family itsjustmacker?. There's ...

2012-05-23T11:50:02.700+01:00

Do you know my family itsjustmacker?. There's me thinking I was anonymous..........

John Paul. Your just like your Da, and , Your Lat...

2012-05-22T23:45:36.678+01:00

John Paul.

Your just like your Da, and , Your Late Granda, full of wit, ive never been through Carnmoney Grave yard, but then again, I have the utmost respect for any burial place, even though carnmoney should have been filled up.

John Paul, if it wasn't for wit and black hum...

2012-05-22T05:53:55.832+01:00

John Paul,

if it wasn't for wit and black humour it would be a dull old place. Had the same thoughts myself many a time

haha john paul loved that comment. a classic no ma...

2012-05-22T04:45:02.695+01:00

haha john paul loved that comment. a classic no matter what the politically correct who post here say about it

I agree AM. I have often wondered around carnmoney...

2012-05-21T21:46:47.476+01:00

I agree AM. I have often wondered around carnmoney grave yard, which is littered with ruc/ loyalist graves. Not once did it ever cross my mind to damage a grave. But if the truth be told, it did cross my mind that its a pity there wasn't more of them buried there.

Nuala, I agree. My parents were cremated so ther...

2012-05-21T21:16:41.653+01:00

Nuala,

I agree. My parents were cremated so there is no actual graves to go to but I can see how anybody would feel about the grave of a loved one being desecrated.

I think Joe O'Connor's grave has been desecrated a couple of times. I have no idea who is behind the attacks but their motives are hardly honourable ones.

I recall being at funerals in Roselawn and then dandering around the place and seeing the graves of cops and loyalists. I would no more have thought of damaging them than I would have thought of damaging our own.

Graves to me are a neutral space.
I don't agree with John McGirr that we should necessarily respect the dead but do feel we should simply leave the dead we don't respect alone.

There is something particularly vile about someone...

2012-05-21T19:21:21.219+01:00

There is something particularly vile about someone who would destroy a grave.
I go to my parents grave every week and I cannot imagine what it would be like to have it damaged to any extent.
I think cowardly and vindictive sums it up.

really dont understand the intricasies of all that...

2012-05-21T18:09:01.068+01:00

really dont understand the intricasies of all thats going on here at this stage. But it looks nasty.

jmmcallister I would hasten to say, I very much d...

2012-05-21T16:03:24.399+01:00

jmmcallister

I would hasten to say, I very much doubt this to be thuggery, Marian gave the oration at Joe joe's grave side, she is still interned,this family is being hounded, seems not all weapons were decommissioned, but, saying that , Im sure the psni/ruc turned a blind eye. The O' Connor family needs help.

Is it 'mindless thuggery' or was this grav...

2012-05-21T12:52:08.514+01:00

Is it 'mindless thuggery' or was this grave singled out on purpose?

Any desecration of graves seems perverse. A while ...

2012-05-21T12:37:26.436+01:00

Any desecration of graves seems perverse. A while back it happened to graves in the plot at Milltown. It was wrong then and it is wrong now whoever was behind it.

Good luck Martin I know you will rebuild vol J O ...

2012-05-21T10:35:25.982+01:00

Good luck Martin I know you will rebuild vol J O Connors grave,can you put up a picture of the damaged grave I seen it in the Irish News I think it would let people know what sort of mindlees thugs we have here,