Joe Brolly has discussion with Jamie Bryson

[armaghniac]

If you want a textbook example of the reason Catholics in the north, almost universally, regard the south as having ignored them/let them down, just listen to this short clip of Eamonn McCann speaking about how the Bloody Sunday families were treated by the establishment in the south in "around 1990" as part of their campaign for truth and justice:

https://twitter.com/DanielCollins85/status/1267451641600659458?t=qhHsRdSFRcyT1zns9K5ipQ&s=19

And it is not just northerners, there was little heed paid to the victims of the Dublin bombings.

[Main Street]

Yeah maybe I heard it wrong. Maybe he meant at home but he left it very vague.
I think he said he was an abused boy but didn't say in what way.
Could it just have been from what he saw at home from the troubles?

For once Joe was knocked off his perch and left stuck for words, caught somewhere between breaking down and choking up.  My understanding and of others who watched it with me was that 5 year old boy Joe was abused at home. Whatever it was that happened was deeply sinister, more than just  growing up  during the 'troubles´ and attending  boarding school.

[Tony Baloney]

2 Lad up the road from me were send to boarding in Armagh. Which was 25mile + away, far at the time for the late 1980's. 1 family thought their son was too good for anybody and the locals were a bad influence. She was correct on this point lol 😂. The other family holidayed all the time and it didn't suit him coming home every day for their lifestyle. Heard stories not overly good about boarding up in Armagh from the lads themselves. Bullying was rife and  a hammering part of the course.

Was it not CBS when boarding? I wouldn't have sent a dog to be looked after those cnuts. Plenty of men in their 60s and 70s round here in Armagh have nothing good to say about them. I know of a few parents paying for boarding because their wains didn't pass the transfer. I can't pass comment as do not if I'd do the same in their position (and had the money to do so).

A fella I know in passing has 3 wains boarding in England at about 30k a pop. I have heard that he has non-dom tax status which would explain why he spends months at a time abroad. Boarding obviously the cheaper option.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

He was sent to board in Armagh

I know that but I'm curious as to why people send their children to boarding school. I get that it's a thing amongst the posh in England but find it strange for someone who grew up in Dungiven.

Long tradition in Dungiven of boarding. Before St Pat's came to the fore they boarded in St Columbs in the city up until late 60s

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Joe never passed as a typical Dungiven lad/man. He be the only guy out of Dungiven who wouldn't have cut you in two on the football field, on the team he played on they been fairly sturdy with the odd animal on it. He stood out as stylish but needed that vicous streak all the rest of them had on the field.

Was McGilligan not a big dochal

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

2 Lad up the road from me were send to boarding in Armagh. Which was 25mile + away, far at the time for the late 1980's. 1 family thought their son was too good for anybody and the locals were a bad influence. She was correct on this point lol 😂. The other family holidayed all the time and it didn't suit him coming home every day for their lifestyle. Heard stories not overly good about boarding up in Armagh from the lads themselves. Bullying was rife and  a hammering part of the course.

Was it not CBS when boarding? I wouldn't have sent a dog to be looked after those cnuts. Plenty of men in their 60s and 70s round here in Armagh have nothing good to say about them. I know of a few parents paying for boarding because their wains didn't pass the transfer. I can't pass comment as do not if I'd do the same in their position (and had the money to do so).

A fella I know in passing has 3 wains boarding in England at about 30k a pop. I have heard that he has non-dom tax status which would explain why he spends months at a time abroad. Boarding obviously the cheaper option.

St Columbs the same ,beat the crap of the boys , especially the wee poor non boarders from The Bog

[bennydorano]

2 Lad up the road from me were send to boarding in Armagh. Which was 25mile + away, far at the time for the late 1980's. 1 family thought their son was too good for anybody and the locals were a bad influence. She was correct on this point lol 😂. The other family holidayed all the time and it didn't suit him coming home every day for their lifestyle. Heard stories not overly good about boarding up in Armagh from the lads themselves. Bullying was rife and  a hammering part of the course.

Was it not CBS when boarding? I wouldn't have sent a dog to be looked after those cnuts. Plenty of men in their 60s and 70s round here in Armagh have nothing good to say about them. I know of a few parents paying for boarding because their wains didn't pass the transfer. I can't pass comment as do not if I'd do the same in their position (and had the money to do so).

A fella I know in passing has 3 wains boarding in England at about 30k a pop. I have heard that he has non-dom tax status which would explain why he spends months at a time abroad. Boarding obviously the cheaper option.

There was no boarding at the CBS in Armagh AFAIK, It was at St Patrick's College, run by some other branch of the clergy - Priests,  some order that I can't rememberthe name of. Interesting that CBS in Armagh had intakes of Protestants in the 60s/70s, no idea why but they did, not coming down with them but there were a few.

[Wildweasel74]

McGilligan, hell no, been a fairly tough guy, just didnt need to throw it about. There was plenty of volunteers to do that.

[JimStynes]

Where can I watch this online? It's saying I can't download the app in the occupied 6 region.

[Mikhail Prokhorov]

Where can I watch this online? It's saying I can't download the app in the occupied 6 region.

use a vpn 

[omochain]

2 Lad up the road from me were send to boarding in Armagh. Which was 25mile + away, far at the time for the late 1980's. 1 family thought their son was too good for anybody and the locals were a bad influence. She was correct on this point lol 😂. The other family holidayed all the time and it didn't suit him coming home every day for their lifestyle. Heard stories not overly good about boarding up in Armagh from the lads themselves. Bullying was rife and  a hammering part of the course.

Was it not CBS when boarding? I wouldn't have sent a dog to be looked after those cnuts. Plenty of men in their 60s and 70s round here in Armagh have nothing good to say about them. I know of a few parents paying for boarding because their wains didn't pass the transfer. I can't pass comment as do not if I'd do the same in their position (and had the money to do so).

A fella I know in passing has 3 wains boarding in England at about 30k a pop. I have heard that he has non-dom tax status which would explain why he spends months at a time abroad. Boarding obviously the cheaper option.

There was no boarding at the CBS in Armagh AFAIK, It was at St Patrick's College, run by some other branch of the clergy - Priests,  some order that I can't rememberthe name of. Interesting that CBS in Armagh had intakes of Protestants in the 60s/70s, no idea why but they did, not coming down with them but there were a few.

Correct.
St. Patrick's College Armagh was the junior diocesan seminary for the Arch Diocese of Armagh, run by the Vincentians. It was mostly a boarding school that took boys primarily from the length and breadth of the Diocese which ran from South Derry to Louth. It also had day boy pupils who tended to come from Armagh and areas close by that the UTA serviced. Like any other similar school there was some bullying. I was never bullied except for one occasion when I was a first year and a second year tried to prove his manhood by trying to kick my a$$. He didn't. We had the odd teacher/priest who was angry and that sometimes manifested itself in somebody getting a clout. We were sent to the prefect of studies or the Dean for formal discipline which generally meant getting six slaps from a cane on the hands. The more severe punishment could be described as "homoerotic" as you had to bend over and get caned on the a$$. However you had to do something pretty outside the rules to get this. I was not a boarder so I cannot speak to being deprived of my family which I can only see as horrible but I did hate Sandyhill. I hated it because I didn't think they took football seriously and they didn't field a hurling team

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/1476468095082504192?t=UzKzQwifx47n4xY9aQNw0w&s=09

I said it before, you would be seriously worried about Joe's mental health

[Main Street]

Joe Brolly in a  tv interview said he was an abused child, it happenned  when aged 5 and his Aunt said later that they should have got him out of that place. Joe said what does a 5 year old kid know and that his parents were regarded as heroes.

He said at some other part of the interview that he was sent to boarding school in Armagh and said nothing more about it.
Now we have Nordies, ignoring what Joe said (abused aged 5),  extrapalating that Joe was abused at boarding school and yapping  willy nilly about boarding school abuse. Is this an example of what passes for normal Nordie sanity?   

[Milltown Row2]

Joe Brolly in a  tv interview said he was an abused child, it happenned  when aged 5 and his Aunt said later that they should have got him out of that place. Joe said what does a 5 year old kid know and that his parents were regarded as heroes.

He said at some other part of the interview that he was sent to boarding school in Armagh and said nothing more about it.
Now we have Nordies, ignoring what Joe said (abused aged 5),  extrapalating that Joe was abused at boarding school and yapping  willy nilly about boarding school abuse. Is this an example of what passes for normal Nordie sanity?   

That's some sweeping statement on all Nordies! It's like saying all southerners turned their back on the north and blamed nationalist for the troubles

[restorepride]

Joe's parents, Anne and Francie, were a fairly successful musical duo on the Folk Club/traditional scene in the 70s so boarding school for the children helped to facilitate this. Joe may have overstated the 'away from the troubles' thing. From Dungiven .... to Armagh?!!