Clonard Novena starts to-day

[T Fearon]

Anyone else ever go to this? I try to make a trip every year and have seen a fair few prominent GAA players at it as well. Always find it spiritually uplifting

[Orior]

Expect to bump into ONeill.

[stephenite]

Got dragged along as a kid every year - used to deliver to the nuns there for a couple of summers as well as a teenager. Hated the place

[donalmac99]

not even the novena could force me into visiting a pit like west belfast 

[fred the red]

Where you from donal?

[donalmac99]

Where you from donal?

carrickmacross

[fred the red]

Where you from donal?

carrickmacross

lovely.

[donalmac99]

Where you from donal?

carrickmacross

lovely.

it is indeed.

[Shamrock Shore]

Didn't the famous phone message about them "effing bells" relate to this Novena.

Pray for us heathen Southerners lads.

[ziggysego]

Where you from donal?

carrickmacross

lovely.

it is indeed.

my sister's dating a bloke from castleblaney

[Orior]

You okay there Ziggy?

[ziggysego]

Bored at work. On the bloody phone all day.

[Hardy]

Didn't the famous phone message about them "effing bells" relate to this Novena.

Pray for us heathen Southerners lads.

What was that, SS?

[Shamrock Shore]

Some irate punter rang the monastery to complain about the bells driving him nuts. He left a message on the answering machine that was hilarious.

I heard it a few years ago. As good as 'zip up your mickey'

[Hardy]

Must look that up.