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Professor Dennis Pringle, Mentor; Paul Smyth, Chairperson; Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD, Secretary; Dermot Mooney, Vice-Chairperson: pictured in The Strand, Omeath, Ireland on Sunday morning, 10 April 2016, after the meeting of Cooley Environmental and Health Group

Sunday 10 April 2016

Starting at around 13:00 with Paul Smyth and Brian Farrell I played 18 in windy conditions.  Unfortunately I had an NR on the second hole but my card was marked with a score on every other hole.  I took 49 for the back 9 including a penalty shot on 11 and a 7 on 18.  I drove the ball very poorly on the last 3 tees.  Brian returned 89 – 7 = 82 including an 8 on the last hole.  Paul trying to play cagey golf retired in frustration and anger on 12.  I drank my bottle of RiverRock in the bar and ate my chunky Kit-Kat.  Watched Tottenham Hotspurs demolish Manchester United 3 – 0.  United held their own well until the first goal went in mid-way through the second half.  Then I took a shower in the locker room and changed my clothes.  Felt fresh enough and relatively pain-free.  Most of the people I spoke to were tired after their round due to the wind.  I thought Brian who was lagging behind at the end was very tired.  He did not come up to the bar because he had to take his woman, Elizabeth, to choir practice.  The airport choir.  I ate a dinner of beef stew, some cold smoked boiled bacon, an orange, a coffee; at home.  Journalled.  Watched Spieth collapse with a quadruple bogey on the par 3, 12^th hole, in The Masters.  He was twice in the water there.  Danny Willet ran out the winner playing solid golf.   I did not get to bed until long after 01:00.  Ate 2 heels of brown pan toasted with butter and marmalade and a mug of tea for a late-late supper.  In the morning I attended in The Strand a meeting of Cooley Environmental and Health Group starting with a fried breakfast including mushrooms at 10:00.  Me, Dermot Mooney, Dennis Pringle, Dessie Hynes, Paul Smyth.  €35 for 5 breakfasts.  I gave a financial report and bared my emotions talking about people falling through the cracks in the services.  The mentally ill, the homeless, the old, addicts, those convicted of crime.  So that was chosen as the theme for Winter Workshop 2017.  I took a group photo at the end and left Paul Smyth at home around 12:10.  Text’d Glenda looking for the name of the Japanese girl in the photo with her.  Later tonight I sent having received no reply a photo of Glenda solo to Pringle for the Cooley Enviromental and Health Group website although I had not Glenda’s specific approval.  As I pointed out earlier my mood was a little overhung by the thoughts of golf but when I got the golf out of my system I felt more at ease with the world.  Paul Smyth rang in apologetic mode later on this evening.  As of 1 March, with all payments made and all receipts for the previous year in, the balance in CEHG’s account was ~ €1860.  My handicap now is 14.4.