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Sometimes it seems there is a constant struggle underway for the heart and soul of Celtic.  It is incredible that for 125 years a community has managed to retain the conviction to help the less fortunate which drove forward those who formed the club.

Scarcely a day goes by without me receiving a message from someone offering to help those in need.  This week it was tables for the Wayside Club Gala Dinner (Saturday 27 April, check it out here), someone send in a box set of the Byrds, to raise money ‘for the homeless’, and a reader parted with a precious top signed by the Seville team, which I’ve to collect in Glasgow.

Much of this goes on below radar but when a call to arms is needed it goes out in impressive clarity; the Wee Oscar campaign slipped into an infrastructure established when Kano took ill a few years back (hope you are doing well, Kano and we hear from you soon).  Believe me, some of the work, and many of the discrete donations, would blow you away.

None of this is random.  At some point each and every person who has stepped forward did so, knowingly or not, because of the way the Celtic Movement infected them.

A number of Celtic fans, and one former treble winning captain, are helping the Celtic Charity this year with the objective of encouraging each Celtic fan to raise £125.  It feels like the right thing to do and if you’ve not brought yourself up to speed with the project yet, do it this weekend (more information here).

There will be formal events throughout the year but if you want to do a sponsored run/walk/cycle/jig, this is your invitation.  You are reading this stuff because of your link all the way back to that hall in the Calton; get involved and earn your place in that 125-year-old story.

The next major event is a mass huddle at the top of Ben Nevis, check it out here.

Enjoy your Easter holiday – but not before you get involved………

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  1. lionroars67

     

     

    sounds like the rantings of a guy who likes his super-fast broadband made locally.

  2. Good morning friends and a Happy and Holy Easter from a bright and sunny East Kilbride.

  3. Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK on

    Good morning CQNers and a very Happy Easter to everyone.

     

     

    On this holy day it could be considered inappropriate to submit a political post but tomorrow sees one of the biggest upheavals in the social security system there has ever been.

     

     

    May God help those poor unfortunates ensnared in this grotesque political manoeuvre.

     

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ftai12IOM

     

     

    .

  4. channelislandcelt on

    Morning Bhoys and a Happy Easter to You All

     

     

    Just seen the news of Martin O’Neill losing his job ,I know he had his flaws when in charge at Paradise but he left us with such wonderful memories.

     

    On behalf of Seville ,6-2 , Beachball Sunday etc I sincerely hope that Sunderland will be playing their football in the Championship next season :)

     

     

    HH

  5. Happy Easter to all,

     

     

    what shouldn’t be forgotten is that martin oneill and I am an O’Neill on my mothers side.is :

     

     

    On the wednesday before the motherwell game the bold martin was down in nottingham. lording it over the 25 year celebration of them winning the euro cup. good preparation for his team trying to win the league.

     

     

    Like his dyed hair and his supposed wife’s sickness. MON was false.

  6. Chris Torrey –

     

     

    I find your final sentence very disturbing.. If this was my house I’d ask you to leave.

  7. Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK

     

     

    nice choon made popular by that well known Freemason and closet queen

     

     

    Burl Ives

     

     

    but it sounds Socialist, so we all have to like it.

     

     

    Socialist simpletons

     

     

    Wake Up.

  8. channelislandcelt on

    Chris Torey

     

     

    I would caterogize your words regarding Martin O’Neills’ wife as beneath contempt.

  9. chris torey = archetypal hun (or green hun it doesn’t matter, they’re peas in a pod)

     

     

    torey by (blog)name tory by nature

  10. Like MON Burl Ives had had his eyes elsewhere.

     

     

    he had nice voice.

     

     

    Where is he remembered? Why in the masonic Museum in Washington.

     

     

    Don’t say MON will be remembered there, he was just a fellow traveller. A nonenity led there by his ego.

     

    Mind you he had nice hair.

  11. chris torey

     

     

    10:08 on

     

    31 March, 2013

     

     

    chris torey=scumbag

     

     

    change your agenda ya hurtin hun

  12. Valentine's Day on

    Chris Torey

     

     

    Not looking for a fight on Easter Sunday…….but your

     

    post is disgusting.

  13. Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK on

    Chris Torey

     

     

    Not a happy bunny this morning then eh?

     

     

    In fact I had a choice of two songs to accompany my post, this is the other one, perhaps its more to your taste…..then perhaps not….

     

     

    ww.youtube.com/watch?v=FvnCNpDq430

  14. Chris Torey

     

     

    10:13 on 31 March, 2013

     

     

    Big Rock Candy Mountain was written by Harry McClintock.

     

     

    Don’t know if he was a Mason or a closet queen.

     

     

    But I do know he was a Wobbly.

     

     

    Reckon that’s more relevant in deciding what the song was about.

     

     

    Seems to me the song is socialist.

     

     

    To be fair the syntax of your posts suggest that English might not be your first language so perhaps that explains why you find it difficult to understand the lyrics.

  15. northbhoy ... \o/ on

    A very Happy Easter to all,

     

     

    Looking forward to the game, it is ages since we were involved in the real name of the game, fitba. Enjoyed a real great sporting weekend I expect Efe to be there on time and him to give us one of his fantastic celebrations.

     

     

    What a history to have SFL league champions 2013, nae luck.

     

     

    Have a great day…….

     

     

    CYBIG

     

     

    Hail Hail

  16. C hris torey

     

     

    Your a popular man this fine easter morn

     

     

    No eggs under the lily :(

  17. From the cqn news update I see the herald carrying a story about big kelvins return to form

     

     

    Did they not watch our last game against aberdeen …

  18. Btw…. if nfl reads cqn … pass on this one piece of advise to kelvin…

     

    There are four stands in the stadium … if under pressure. .. punt the ball into any one of them

  19. Back of the paper…..’Sally praises players for title success in an unprecedented season’

     

     

    Does unprecedented mean first?

  20. Chris Torey – You’re a hurting Hun. No Celtic man would have uttered that last sentence. Go back under that rock you crawled out of and let us Celts enjoy our Easter watching the best team in Scotland.

  21. Chris Torey

     

     

    You address the blog with a Christian greeting and then negate its true meaning by uncalled for supposition about a man and the health of his wife?

     

     

    Antichrist springs to mind!

  22. Team for today? Matthews, Forrest, Brown, Rogne out, Ledley a doubt

     

     

    ————Forster————-

     

    Lustig Wilson Mulgrew Izaguirre

     

    ——–Wanyama Kayal———–

     

    McGeouch—–Commons——Samaras

     

    ————–Hooper————-

     

     

    Subs Zaluska Ambrose Watt Lassad Stokes Gershon Rogic

  23. Paul I may suggest you delete the post made by Chris Torrey –

     

     

    Enough said don’t need his type in the real world.

  24. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    chris torey

     

     

    10:08 on 31 March, 2013

     

     

    Total erse