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Two Tyrone Road Workers Sacked For Painting Big Yellow Box In Maghera ‘For The Craic’
It has emerged that the big yellow box, which has since been reduced in size, was painted by two men from Kildress for a laugh, and also to waste up yellow paint as they were getting paid by the stroke.
The two men, one of whom is married to a Derry woman, admitted they’d had a few drinks in them that morning, the day after Tyrone beat Donegal in the Championship. They revealed that at one stage they considered extending the yellow box halfway up the Glenshane ‘just to annoy the Derry ones’.
“Aye I’m disappointed to lose the job but we’d good fun watching the first few motorists trying to get their heads around the big box, from our cabin camera. At one stage there were about six cars driving along the kerb trying to avoid touching it. And we were getting paid by the stroke so it was a good pay-off.”
The culprits were caught that evening after falling asleep in a Portacabin around the corner, with their homemade CCTV still trained on the yellow box. They’d drunk three 6-packs of Carlsberg each.
Meanwhile, the Maghera Historical Society has asked people to come forward to share their memories of the days of the big yellow box.
Tyrone GAA Deny Plan To ‘Drive Derry Back To Divison Four’ By Infiltrating Key Positions In Oak Leaf County
Tyrone GAA officials have refuted allegations that an initiative to infiltrate Derry GAA managerial jobs at all levels, as well as schools, to return Derry to Division 4, was discussed at the County Convention last year, after it looked like Derry was going to come close to winning a second All-Ireland in the coming years.
Derry GAA has since revealed that they have been inundated with applicants for county managerial jobs from Tyrone men at U17, U20, and Senior level, despite the jobs never being advertised or needing to be filled. Additionally, a whistle-blower from within the Tyrone GAA camp has alleged that a secret convention was held between major stakeholders within the county to discuss breaking the Derry revival and “driving the bastards back to Division 4“.
The unnamed source added:
“They talked about a secret agent who was going to take over a major post in Derry and endear himself to supporters by winning a few matches, only to push them over the edge from the highest point of the hill. Then all underage structures would be targeted in a strategically timed manner, starting with getting Tyrone men into Principal jobs in schools around Dungiven, Bellaghy, Ballinderry and Maghera.”
A Tyrone GAA official has denied the allegation but admitted it didn’t look good for their dear neighbours before walking off and singing Danny Boy and winking.
West Tyrone Water Shortage Victims Were Beginning To Smell Like Derry Ones
Strabane plumber yesterday
The water crisis in West Tyrone had escalated to the extent that many friends and visitors of those affected were unable to tell the difference between them and Derry people, especially around Castlederg.
As the NI Water industrial action temporarily ends, enabling most homes to return to normal, baths and showers have been running freely again with many people returning unused Lynx and Soft & Gentle Roll-On deodorant to chemists.
During the height of the crisis, with rivers close to an unbearable temperature, many decided to hold out from a full body washing in the hope that the NI Water came to their senses and looked after its customers.
A cousin of one of those affected informed us:
“You’d have thought you were in Feeny or Dungiven or Maghera even. There was a wile smell of Derry off the Castlederg folk and it was quite confusing. It would be like sniffing a clove rock and smelling Brussels sprouts.”
One of those affected, Brian Furey, admitted he almost took home the wrong wife during a shopping expedition in the Spar in Claudy, Co Derry:
“There were a pile of women at the check-out and I normally can indentify my wife due to her neutral odour compared to the Derry women. But because of the water crisis she just blended in. I closed my eyes and luckily grabbed the right one.”
A 44-year old father of three in Strabane is still refusing to wash, claiming he is taking part in an experiment after he read somewhere in the Readers’ Digest in the 1980s that the human body cleans itself after three weeks anyway.
Derry To Hand Moneymore, Ballyronan And The Loup Over To Tyrone
By Fr Riddle Lynn (guest journalist from portglenone.wordpress.com)
Moneymore from a distance
There was great wailing and gnashing of what was left of teeth along both sides of the Derry/Tyrone border this week after an unauthorised and possibly nefarious offer was made by a Bann Valley based website to hand over large sections of the Barony of Loughinsholin to the custody of the O’Neill County.
The exchange would see the village of Moneymore, the hamlet of Ballyronan and an unidentified entity described simply as, ‘The Loup’, secede immediately without any local consultation or financial compensation. A spokesperson for the website concerned explained;
“Luxy, we see this as the beginning of a rolling process. A quick look (very quick look) at the Annals of Ulster clearly shows that the entire barony was originally under control of the Earls of Tyrone and this is borne out in the nomenclature we still see today. Take for example the village of Glenone, the townland of Ballyfrankiequinn and there is a fella in Maghera who is sometimes called, ‘Hugh Roe’.
The spokesman denied accusations linked to 30 year old emails which were forwarded anonymously to Tyrone Tribulations that the entire plan was an elaborate feint aimed at giving away large parts of County Derry until the only two Gaelic football teams left in the senior championship would be St. Oliver Plunkett’s of Greenlough and Newbuildings outfit, St. Oliver Cromwell’s GAC.
“That’s a big pile a shite, we would never give up Bellaghy and risk losing its two principal natural resources, Starry Plough flags and potential poetry.”
We contacted our own legal team on the matter and they have advised us that nothing in law prevents such a transferral but cautioned that under a un-repealed bylaw of 1741, any such conveyance of territory would result in both counties being obliged to hand over their ‘Cladys’ to a third party, namely Armagh. That county’s solicitors, Diesel, Apples and Diesel, issued the following communique;
“We would be only too delighted to accommodate these villages within our boundaries. They would be such diverse additions to our already cosmopolitan collective. Tyrone’s Clady is a picturesque bubbling metropolis on the border of a third county whereas Clady in south Derry is a picturesque bubbling metropolis on the border of a third county!”
Understandably the good people of Tyrone (and the inhabitants of The Brantry) were more than a little suspicious that this deal seemed too good to be true but we have been assured that there is no catch. Portglenone.wordpress.com explained;
“In making this offer, we have only one small request and that is that we first be allowed to make a tiny alteration to the coastline of Lough Neagh…….
…..seems reasonable.”
Tyrone Tribulations 