Pew Sheet 21st June 2026
Refugees by Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or I
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
( Now read from bottom to top )
June
Tuesday 23rd Ecumenical Movie Night
‘Who would Jesus Bomb?’
7:45pm Parish Hall
July
Sunday 12th Choral Evensong in St John;s Church 7pm
August
Sunday 30th United Service 11am in St Mary’s Church,
followed by Parish BBQ.
All Ireland Holy Communion Service in Kilgarriffe Church, Clonakilty, on Thursday. 2nd July at 11.30a.m. Teas/coffees to follow. Please bring your own lunch and tasties if you wish. All welcome! Also 150th Anniversary MU Outing to Fota House/ Gardens on Wednesday 15th July.Lunch at 12 midday at the House cafe and a tour of the house at 2.00 pm. Gardens are open to all. Price is €11.00 for over 65s and €13.00 for younger folk not including lunch. Please bring the right amount in an envelope if possible.
Booking necessary – contact Deirdre 0862613442.
Random Notes DXXXIII
Dogged with misfortune.
In September 1987 on the openein day of the duck hunting season, Michael Martin, 24, a would be duck hunter, pulled his boat into the bank of Lough Ree. Just then, however, his dog, Lindy, stepped on the trigger of his shotgun and shot him in the leg.
Corsican cover up.
In June 1994, an Irishman who tried baring all on a Corsican beach ended up in a sticky situation when he was pounced on by two burly locals, who covered him in bright red paint from head to toe.
The ex-files.
Penelope Smith of Co. Cork obviously enjoyed weddings. She was so proud of having bagged an Italian prince as her husband that she married him four times in 1835. At one ceremony 13 of the guests were her rejected suitors.
How to fatten your woodworm.
In the early 1980s, researchers at Trinity College wanted to do some work that needed woodworms—plump ones.
The available ones were too thin, so Dr Sean Thompson, the team leader, fed them on dog biscuits. Within a month, they had grown to 20 times the size of an average woodworm.
MMPC
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