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Perhaps Love.
Lyrics: Written by American Folk singer and songwriter, the late John Denver (Real name Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.).
Sadly Mr Denver lost his life on the 12th of this month October, 26 years ago, [1997], following multiple blunt force trauma; obtained when his light home built aircraft crashed into Monterey Bay, near Pacific Grove, California, USA.
Vocals: John Denver.
Perhaps Love
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm.
It exists to give you comfort; it is there to keep you warm.
And in those times of trouble when you are most alone,
The memory of love will bring you home.
Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an open door.
It invites you to come closer, it wants to show you more.
And even if you lose yourself and don’t know what to do,
The memory of love will see you through.
Oh, love to some is like a cloud, to some as strong as steel.
For some a way of living, for some a way to feel.
And some say love is holding on and some say letting go.
And some say love is everything and some say they don’t know.
Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of change.
Like a fire when it’s cold outside or thunder when it rains.
If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you.
END
An Biúró um Shócmhainní Coiriúla Tuarascáil Bhliantúil – Criminal Assets Bureau Annual Report.
The Annual Report of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) for the year 2022 has now been published. Same which can be found published HERE.
During 2022, the Bureau focused on all crimes which involved wealth acquisition and returned to the Irish Exchequer in excess of €6.3m million.
CAB seizures included cash, property assets, luxury cars, watches (including Rolex, Breitling and Hublot), together with items of clothing (Christine Louboutin shoes and Louis Vuitton bags). Further details can be found in the annual report.
In total, for the year 2022, the Bureau denied and deprived criminals of their ill-gotten gains to the sum of €6.359 million, and the value of assets under the new proceeds of crime cases commenced by the Bureau ranged in value from €9,718 to €1,948,147.
Internationally, the Bureau continued to liaise and conduct investigations with law enforcement and judicial authorities, throughout Europe and worldwide.
This included extensive cooperation with law enforcement agencies in Northern Ireland, including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The 2022 Annual Report evidences the hard work and dedication of Chief Bureau Officer Mr Mick Gubbins and all of the staff and agencies involved in CAB.
Between the years 1996 and 2022, CAB has denied and deprived criminals of over €210 million worth of assets that have been returned to the Exchequer.
Of this, €35.5 million came under the ‘proceeds of crime legislation’, €169 million was from Revenue collections and over €5.8 million from Social Welfare recoveries.
In 2021 the Community Safety Innovation Fund, which reinvests proceeds of crime, same returned to the Exchequer by CAB, was returned back into communities, thus funding innovative local projects and building stronger and safer communities.
Local Divisional Asset Gardaí Profilers, trained by CAB, played an important role in every Garda division, provided information to CAB; becoming the eyes and ears of the Bureau while providing a vauable increased reach to all areas of this island.
An additional 37 Divisional Asset Profilers were trained in 2022, and extra training was provided for 130 existing Divisional Asset Profilers. At the end of 2022 the total number of Divisional Asset Profilers stood at 572 nationwide. In 2023 the number of Divisional Asset Profilers reached its highest level ever, in the organisations history, with over 600 Profilers.
In 2022 this total number included: 545 Gardaí; 19 Officers of the Revenue Commissioners engaged in Customs and Excise duties; and 8 Officers of the Department of Social Protection.
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death, today Sunday 29th October 2023, of Mrs Joan O’Dwyer (née Horan), ‘Inch Farm’, Ballinahinch, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and formerly of Golden, Co. Tipperary.
Pre-deceased by her husband Andy, brothers John and Tommy, sisters Kitty and Nellie; Mrs O’Dwyer (a retired Teacher, Knockavilla N.S. Dundrum, Co. Tipperary) passed away peacefully, while in the care of staff at Acorn Lodge, Ballykelly, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
Her passing is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by her loving daughter Jo (Kelleher), sons John, Andrew, Aidan and Declan, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, sister-in-law Jane, nephews, nieces, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mrs O’Dwyer will repose at Devitt’s Funeral Home, The Green, Cashel, tomorrow afternoon, Monday October 30th, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm same evening.
Her remains will be received into the Church of the Assumption, Knockavilla, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary at 11.30am, to further repose for Requiem Mass on Tuesday morning, October 31st, followed by interment, immediately afterwards, in Cormac’s Cemetery, Wallers-Lot, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
The extended O’Dwyer family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis.
Hereunder, Paterson Joseph reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29: “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes.”
What do you tell a friend who is suffering from depression: ‘It’s OK for you to NOT feel OK’. ‘You can continue to move forward in the face of your depression’. ‘I’m here for you, no matter what’. ‘Help is available’ and your story isn’t fully over’.
But sometimes such advice and encouragement is not enough, so it is important to get across the message that we all feel depressed during many stages in our life and in living. ‘You’re not alone’, can offer more comfort sometimes to those depressed, as in the realisation, that “the man with no shoes can often meet the man with no feet“.
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, was written possibly sometime between 1593 and 1601, and speaks of a character, possibly himself, who is in a serious state of depression, stating that when he meets with misfortune “disgrace with fortune” he feels disgraced in front of other men, “men’s eyes“. He weeps alone “alone be weep” and cries out to heaven, latter who appears to be deaf to his same appeals “deaf heaven with my bootless cries”, and he is now left feeling much self-pity and regret, cursing his situation “and curse my fate”.
He wishes, “wishing me”, that he was a man who had more hope, “one more rich in hope”, and wishes to be like those, “featured like him”, who are handsome and appear to have more friends, “him with friends possessed”.
He further wishes that he had been provided with another man’s skills, “desiring this man’s art”, or with someone else’s opportunities “that man’s scope”, which he now has set his heart on, but doesn’t have mastery over, thus making him unhappier, “what I most enjoy contented least”.
In spite of hating himself, “thoughts myself almost despising”, he thinks of this love, “I think on thee” and those thoughts now lift his heart like the lark in the early morning, “lark at break of day”, latter who flies upward towards the sky, as if to sing at the very gates of heaven itself, “hymns at heaven’s gate”.
He says thoughts of his love somehow bring him a sort of emotional peace, which in turn he compares to wealth, “sweet love remembered such wealth brings”, and that he would not wish to exchange this peace with the material wealth of kings “scorn to change my state with kings”.
Shakespeare – Sonnet 29.
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heav’n, with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate.
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
END
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death, on Wednesday last 25th October 2023 of Mr Michael Armstrong, late of London and formerly Blackcastle, Two-Mile-Borris, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Pre- deceased by his parents Mick and Eileen and his nephew David; Mr Armstrong passed away peacefully at his place of residence.
His passing is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by his loving wife Clare, daughter Michelle, son-in-law Chris, adored grandchildren Bella and Josh, sister Carmel (O’Halloran), brother-in-law Joe, niece Danielle, grand nephew Billy, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The funeral of Mr Armstrong will take place in London, followed by the interment of his ashes in Moycarkey graveyard, Thurles, Co. Tipperary at a later date.
The extended Armstrong family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
In ár gcroíthe go deo.
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