Its my own Irish home
Far across the foam
Although I’ve often left it
In a foreign land to roam
No matter where I wander
Through cities near or far
Sure me heart’s at home in old Ireland
In the county of Armagh

I’ve travelled through parts of the county
Through Newtown, Forkhill, Crossmaglen
And round by the gap of Mountnorris
And home by Blackwater again
Where the girls are so gay and so hearty
None fairer in Erin go Bragh
But where are the boys that can court them
Like the boys from the county Armagh

Its my own Irish home
Far across the foam
Although I’ve often left it
In a foreign land to roam
No matter where I wander
Through cities near or far
Sure me heart’s at home in old Ireland
In the county of Armagh

Vincent’s Victors Against Cross

St. Vincent beat Crossmaglen 2-9 to 0-11 in Sunday’s AIB All-Ireland Club semi-final at Navan played on 24 Feb 2008.
Brian Maloney’s second-minute goal and Tomas Quinn’s strike helped the Dublin outfit lead 2-8 to 0-4 at half-time.

Helped by the breeze, Cross cut the lead in the second half but they never really looked like getting on terms.

St Vincent’s set up a decider against Nemo Rangers with a degree of comfort despite scoring one second-half point.

Crossmaglen hit five points without reply in the final 20 minutes of the match but without a goal, they were never scoring points at a fast enough rate to get back on terms.

BBC Sport Gaelic Games

Crossmaglen Wins Quarter-final

Crossmaglen beat Tir Chonail Gaels 0-10 to 0-6
The sides traded two points apiece before Tir Chonail took the lead at 0-3 to 0-2 but Crossmaglen recovered to level at 0-4 to 0-4 at the interval.

Cross pulled away after the break with Tony Kernan scoring three points, joint top scoring with Oisin McConville who contributed three first-half points.

Darragh Kinneavy scored three points and David O’Brien two for Tir Chonail.

James O’Connell was the other points scorer for the Londoners at Ruislip.

Michael McNamee (2), Martin Aherne and Aaron Kernan completed the scorers for Cross, who are chasing their fifth All-Ireland crown.

St Vincent’s await Cross in the semi-finals on 24 February.

BBC Sport Gaelic Games

I could hear him scrabbling around up there where the spout bends toward the side of the house just under the eave. Standing on the seating of the deck, I tried to disconnect that portion of the downspout (our gutter guys did this once before when a critter got in, so I know it can be done without damaging anything). Unfortunately due to lack of brute force and/or manual dexterity on my part, I could not get the pieces separated.

I thought, why don’t I try to run a rope down the downspout from the top and maybe that would give the squirrel something to hold onto to climb out. (And maybe then the squirrel could hold the rope in its teeth and rapel down the side of the house to safety on the ground!). So I got a rope and the ladder, got up onto the roof and tried to run a rope down into the downspout from above. Well, it didn’t seem to be feeding into the bend too well. And maybe the squirrel would not be on the same wavelength with me regarding climbing techniques.

So while up on the roof I noticed that the gutters were clogged with leaves and such and took time out from squirrel rescuing to clean the gutters on both the house and carport.

Do-de-oh-do…
So the squirrel was still trapped.

Well my next move matched squirrel-think exactly.

If we can’t get out from the top, then we’ll have to get out from the bottom!

I tried to dislodge the plastic sleeve and tubing we used to continue the downspout underground. Alas, no could do. I had to get out a knife and cut the tubing to pry off the sleeve and open the bottom of the downspout. I covered our tubing that runs into the ground with a small piece of wood to make sure the squirrel would not fall from one downspout into another.

After a few minutes, squirrel tail began to appear. This was 11:29 am -

Here, the squirrel and I had a disconnect. I could not tell if the squirrel was being extra cautious about coming out of the downspout or if it was just plain stuck.
Here we are at 11:32 am -

He does seem to be having a problem getting the shoulders and head out of the downspout. Every time I would approach to check out his progress (and get a photo), he would scramble back up the downspout, probably not wanting to be eaten by the wild voracious animals lurking just below…

Well this had gone on long enough. By 12:24 pm, below, the squirrel had still not got out and I felt that after an hour of trying, he deserved a break.

So at that point, I got out the tinsnips, approached the downspout with the squirrel scampering madly back inside again - and cut the bottom of the downspout up about 3 inches.

I wish I had a picture of that squirrel flying out of that downspout so fast that I knew I’d done the right thing (especially since we don’t need a furry plug at the end of our downspout). I was a little miffed that the squirrel didn’t stop to say thank you as he flew off the edge of the retaining wall, bounced off the nearest tree and disappeared into the woods.

He’ll be back for supper later, I bet.

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Frank Gregory (1876-1940), shown on the step, may not quite resemble Robert Redford, but was a conductor for the electric cars that were being run by the Chicago City Railway . The car pictured is believed to be part of the #71 Ashland Avenue Line. This was the down-town Division and the route was as follows: Board cars on N. State Street at Lake Street, east on E. Lake Street to N. Wabash Avenue, south to E. Washington Street, west to N. State Street, south on State Street to Archer Avenue, southwest to S. Ashland Avenue and W. Thirty-first Street, south on S. Ashland Avenue to W. Seventy-fifth Street. It is believed that the photo was taken in 1904.

The electric car system was replacing the cable cars that replaced the horse drawn cars that were used for mass transportation for the City of Chicago.

More information about the Cable Car in Chicago will be detailed in a soon to be released article appearing at our sister site, Chicagology.

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Terry Gregory
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