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Raheny Library - Details of the location of, access to and facilities provided by the library, which offers picture lending, internet access and media rental as well as hosting a reading group, language learning and talks.
The Capuchin Franciscan Friars at Raheny - Information on the Capuchin Friary and the many works undertaken by its members.
Killbarrack-Foxfield Parish (RC) - Taking in Foxfield in Raheny and much of neighbouring Kilbarrack, offering a range of information, including service times, contacts and events, and news.
Catholic Parish of Raheny - Details history, location and activities of this Roman Catholic district, along with service and personnel listings, notes on the church and schools and links.
St. John Ambulance Brigade - Unofficial site about local first aid group, with news, information, online contact form and polls, an e-letter and pictures.
St. Francis Hospice - Charitable organization offering day, in-patient and bereavement care with regard to those suffering certain severe illnesses provides details of history, facilities and access.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Society and Culture The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Society and Culture If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Society and Culture The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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