33 thoughts on “Anything Good In The Northside People?

  1. that post office was a bit crazy….. people used to just shout out their pps numbers to get paid!!

  2. Just because she held batshit crazy views doesn’t mean she wasn’t respected. It just means she was widely respected by the batshit crazy.

    Not going to invoke Godwin here, but you can see where the point could go to…

    • She appears to have been a not very nice lady who besides running a post office. Oh also she was a far right anti-abortion campaigner.

    • @ Shaymo – Mena Bean Uí Chribin is believed to be involved on the fringes of the organisation(Coir). The name of this post mistress cropped up during the infamous Roscommon incest case. When it emerged that she lobbied social workers asking that the children in the case be left with their mother.

  3. Of course he is outraged, his wife lost her job when it closed.
    (Have a look at the far right column)

    i wonder how she got that job…

  4. they didn’t want the post office getting into anyone else’s hands becasue then all the children under the stairs might be be found.

  5. I wonder is she somewhere looking up at us all and still spouting latin from the tridentine faith.

  6. f**k democracy! I’d be too….. well I would if I was reared in an autocratic world that did not bend its way of thinking to mine…. or me bat-$hit crazy Ma’s.

  7. There’s an RTE radio documentary (Documentary on One
    “Míne Bean Uí Chribín – My Granny”) about her that’s worth listening to. While she had very strongly held (and voiced) views that most would view as quite extremist (& quite objectionable to my own way of thinking incidentially), it’s worth listening to the the programme as it paints quite a different picture of the woman. – here’s part of the descriptions -

    she reportedly provided ” free grinds for those sitting state exams, providing a place at the table to anyone who called, particularly the homeless and children.

    Much of her work was for those she, supposedly had no time for: unmarried mothers and divorced people.

    Mostly, she brought her knowledge of the public service and legal process to help those faced with resistant officialdom. ”

    The programme makes it clear that her involment in the Roscommon incest case was not quite as it is being reported here and something she apparently greatly regretted.

    The world is more often shades of grey than black and white I find…thankfully.