Patrick Cullen
@patrickcullen.bsky.social
Irish (northern). Union rep. Interest in urbanism, Irish history & politics, labour history, modernism, cinema, jazz, soul, social policy & reconciliation. Slow runner. Football ref & rubbish cricketer. Join a union. Ní neart go cur le chéile ☘️
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I mention my great aunt Maggie, who has been covered in the press before - when she took the occasion of her 106th birthday to call out the Queen. As always, my auntie Patricia told her stories best, as in the tale of her son's trip to hospital when he was in his eighties.
![Old Mrs Dundas - your great grand aunt - died at 106. She had two sons, Sonny and somebody else and they never got married and they lived with her. She got up ever morning and she made them dunner and kept house and the two boys were fond of going down to the pub in Derrygonnelly and she had a terrible job minding them. But anyway, one of them had a prostrate thing and was in the hospital. He was 81 and this aul bitch of a nurse - hated Catholics with a vengeance - was saying to me, since I was a social worker - "you'd need to speak with someone, had a drink last night, came in from Lisnaskea", almost as if since I was a Catholic, I'd be able. So she rang Sheila and Joe [my parents] asking them to bring in his clothes, and they went in and chatted with him and he seemed grand. But when they go to pick him up, the nurse says he's raving. Sheila says "he seems fine to me" and the woman scoffed - "we asked him who he was going home to and he said his mother" and Sheila said, "well actually he is" Now Sheila wouldn't think that was funny, she just said "yes he is going to his mother, it's quite true", and the mother died at age 106. There was a photograph of her in the paper. At 106!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreif4b6irssliyom26yxhnxpunpfw2ajtm5whyh5ml7ieypj5tci2vy@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I mention my great aunt Maggie, who has been covered in the press before - when she took the occasion of her 106th birthday to call out the Queen. As always, my auntie Patricia told her stories best, as in the tale of her son's trip to hospital when he was in his eighties.
Sorry to bring it up 😂
July 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Sorry to bring it up 😂
Sounds like your cabinet
July 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sounds like your cabinet
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Hard to believe the US just allocated $100 billion for the fiscal year 2027 to invade and subjugate itself but here we are. It's like we turned a meme into reality.
July 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hard to believe the US just allocated $100 billion for the fiscal year 2027 to invade and subjugate itself but here we are. It's like we turned a meme into reality.