More Important Things. And More and More.
Who would have thought that Joe Dolan would be knocked off the news headlines by a man in Rawalpindi?
And this raises the stakes in the fame game among muintir gan Fhéile with Brother The Younger once having knocked on a door in London that was answered for him by Ms. Bhutto.
But it’s Christmas, so I want to talk about food.
Every year when I lived in America people would ask me what was my Christmas dinner back in Ireland. This is when they got past this question of course.
Well, I’m not telling you.
Okay I am, but in an oblique way. For that’s the kind of man I am.
Yes this is the season of over-indulgence, but I want it on the record that yesterday, St Stephen’s Day, I only had the one meal. If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that here in Towers gan Fhéile our main meal on the day after Christmas Day is a re-run of the Christmas affair.
So eaten over a background of horse racing, the one meal I had yesterday - technically breakfast for me since it began less than 90 seconds after waking - consisted of roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peas, sprouts, parsnips, turkey, ham, sausages, rashers, stuffing, cranberries, bread sauce, pineapples, cheese sauce, and gravy. And that was after the turkey soup, itself after the fruit cocktail.
And while I was eating my dessert - a trifle, thanks - I couldn’t help but feel shortchanged when compared with the years where a spiced beef would have rubbed shoulders and legs with the ham and the turkey, and most particularly when there would have been not one, not two, but three kinds of stuffings.
Anyway, because we know a group from Liverpool as The Spinners, it means we know a group in America, the one that keep working their way back to you babe (with a burning love inside), as The Detroit Spinners - much as America knows the English Midland’s Ska revivalists The Beat as The English Beat.
And that’s my way of saying that on the day after Joe Dolan has Mullingar Drifted on to more and more, there are more important things than food.
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