In recent weeks hundreds of you have contributed to our Mary’s Meals project to build a school kitchen in Malawi for the 1221 pupils who are enrolled at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinii, and then for the 746 pupils at St Joseph’s Primary in Kasungu.
The £7000 required for the first school reached Mary’s Meals some weeks ago and the building was opened and serving meals yesterday.
Here it is:
We have a lot to do today but there is an excellent chance that the £7000 required for St Joseph’s will be raised and in Mary’s Meals account before 470 of us sit down in the Kerrydale Suite for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day dinner tonight.
Here’s what you’ve done. You have funded two facilities which between them will feed 1967 children, all of whom live below the UN measure of absolute poverty, in the 17th poorest country in the world.
Most days, for almost all children, this will be their main meal, it will often be their only meal. As a result, they will attend school in greater numbers, 30% greater, if they are an average Mary’s Meals, Malawi, school. They will gain a better education and have better opportunities in life. They will build stronger bodies, more able to resist infection. Child mortality will fall.
The spirit of Brother Walfrid, of Celtic, is alive within you. You can get involved here.
See you at the party!
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches tonight.
“CNN reported that on the day before the game 3% of the earth’s flying population were all headed for Seville and were sporting a Celtic scarf – a statistic that no sector of industry could ignore and which would change the policy of many airlines as a result.”
Order yours here:
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Lennybhoy, how did they know where to deliver your prize to ?
Thanks again Paul67and everyone else , another great cqn night.
Right, off out with Mrs Sanna . Might meet some bods in town .
HH
Sanna
Mick
head towards merchant city, my cousin daughter who was dancing last night will be there later on today..
Thanks to everyone at table 12 last night. Fantastic company each and every one.
Time for Change – see my post at 01.12 re your jacket.
Hebcelt – special thanks for your hospitality.
God bless everyone.
Monaghan
how much did we really end up not paying? Less than 20mil I’d guess.”
so funny and there is more and more and more[ain ahead for them because they can’t face financial reality- you have to have more coming in than going out !
Crc
CQTEN dream team.
I demand a recount!
Got 9 of the players and the manager. At least the Holy Goalie and Hunskelper Thommo found a place on the bench!
Does that qualify me for a runner-up to the runners-up place?!
Glad that the night was a resounding success, as I knew it would be.
Take a bow everybody who was involved.
HH!!
CQTen and the sharp footed men
CQTen and the sharp footed men
You Decide CSC
I’d also like to thank billy bhoy for offering to give our very own Charlie Gallagher a run home, Charlie brought his car and billy bhoy was left stranded because his son said no point coming for you if I don’t get
To take a lisbon lion in my car…
What can I say about last night…
To meet once again some old friends, meet new ones and put some names to monikers was what made it special. To meet and see Patrick27 once again particularly summed up the night for me, he has grown physically and in stature as a man a boy, the Bhoy has now become a Mhan.
Our dear friend Stevie Reynolds taught me that you should embrace and respect your friends and family. Never did meet Stevie but would often exchange texts. CQteN was an event that summed up everything what CQN is all about.
I want to simply thank P67 for giving me and you the conduit to bring us all closer in the Celtic Family in order to share our views but most of all to help those who have needed and who will need our help. It would be unfair to mention specific causes that you all have answered the call and took up your Buckets, dug deep into your pockets and given generously.
And finally…
Thank you all for allowing me to be part of the CQN Family.
Here is to the next 131 years when we will have existed longer than the old Govan club that played in blue and white.
God Bless you all!
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
That’s been ten years now some right good Celtic men have been quietly going about the business of raising money for charities and other good causes under the banner of CQN.
Well done to all of them.
Blantyretim
Cheers will probably head down that way.
HH
Mick
PSNI not wanted in New York
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Inc.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Recently, at the request of the Counsel General of Ireland, the NYC Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee extended an invitation to six members… of the PSNI to march in the 2014 NYC Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The contingent planned to march side by side with the An Garda Síochána as a symbol of solidarity. However, many of our loyal supporters and parade participants passionately advocated against the PSNI’s participation.
The people of New York City have supported our parade for many generations. While the decision to invite the PSNI was made in an effort to foster peace, we must stand behind those who help make our parade the greatest in the world. Therefore we have rescinded the invitation and the PSNI will not march in the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.
We thank those who wrote in to express concern and we look forward to seeing all of you on March 17th!
Last week a woman PSNI cop booked a student for using a hurling stick on the street on Belfast
She will be busy over the weekend
Mick
put on your beanie, badges and name tag, then you might meet a few cqners..
Afternoon hoops. On the train back north with a sore head but a smile on my face after a brilliant night at Cq10. Great fun at table 41 with laughs, stories an even a few tears shed. Met some fantastic people and the generosity in spirit of the cqn is just mind blowing. Thanks to everyone involved.
HH
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
12:06 on 15 March, 2014
Text you about 2, see where you are.
Sannabhoy:
Aye, I was posted missing a few times, I think my friends were taken by surprise by the mingling I did. Thank you, leftclick, Pogmathonyahun, his wife and my mates for your great company at my table.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Stornoway Prize
deservedly won by EuroChamps67
Don’t know whit happened but I’ve still not got my beanie.
http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/09/02/undictated-the-dogged-mr-chipps-who-brought-dave-king-to-book
Goodbye Mr.Chipps . R.I.P.
Big up to Jim, David, Paul and the team who put on last night’s wonderful event.
With quite so many splendid CQNers it was quite impossible to get round more than a handful. To those I caught up with, cheers. To the many I missed, next time!
The award for best Costume of course goes to the magnificent HebCelt, who managed to make it to the do just in time after a day’s filming on Outlander.
OK…the SPFL Premiership has already posted official highlights from last night but where are the CQN10 official highlights???
Pretty lazy journalism if you ask me!!!
Home now recovering from being hospitalised earlier this week and still in recuperation (nothing serious but tender lol) I couldn’t have attended either the footie or the party but so glad all went well at both venues.
I’m a bit shy and don’t think I know anyone on here so probably would have chickened out of the party anyway and unemployment tends to drain confidence levels as well as wallet levels.
Great event by the sounds of things and such a great cause too.
I wonder if any ‘antagonists’ managed to meet face to face? Would be special to hear of the outcomes from those involved ;-)
Good to see LH not being shy on his first full debut. Head up, looking for options but being content to play it simple when there was nothing ‘on’. A good mature performance from a boy IMO. Doesn’t seem to cover the ground as speedily as Nir but then again he’s 5 years (?) younger. I never noticed last night, does he favour his right or left?
Anyway I remain a tad jealous of the party goers.
Maybe Paul…a CQN biannual charity evening???
Timabhouy
“Mr Chipps built a case that resonated with Mr Justice Willie Hartzenberg, who opened his September 2002 judgment as follows : “Scotsmen are known to be thrifty. (King) is a Scot. He cannot be accused of squandering his money on the unnecessary payment of income tax.”
I like that.
a big thanks to the lads at table 30
good night had by all
HT and MINX big hugs for the lift
see you in town to-day
HAIL HAIL
Would just like to add to what most posters have said about last night, a thoroughly enjoyable evening at the Captains table No 15 .Have just seen off pur Polish friend to the airport to catch his flight home. Ps just walked out of hotel in George Square and got my PIC took with the World Cup
EDB
Hope they behaved. Haha.
Keevins on radio Clyde said this just now about the glib and shameless liar
“Dave King is a wonderful tactician”
Keevins sets the bar for the rest of smsm in regards to their love in with King
Of course Keevins is well aware of the people who buy his rag and of course this has no influence on his judgement
Unashamed bump from the night shift…..,
This is hilarious…….
Please don’t slag off Sandy’s nice hair now…..just Gonny no dae that!!
MEETING SANDY EASDALE AND THE DATA PROTECTION ISSUE
Many have asked why I approached Sandy Easdale after the match on Wednesday and due to even further threats of court action, I believe its time to share with the Rangers family exactly what drove me to do this.
Weeks ago when we first received correspondence from layers on the instruction or Mr Easdale, it was via email and arrived one Monday afternoon. The letter was in regard to posts by third parties on this page and we done as requested by the lawyers. Two days later my mother phoned to say a letter had arrived at her home for me.
Like lots of other season ticket holders with multiple family season tickets, all our tickets go to one address and in our case it’s my parents home as its easier to manage the renewals and continuous card requests etc.
The letter that had been sent to my parents address was surprisingly a copy of the letter I had received via email two days earlier. Mr Easdales (not Rangers) lawyer had somehow sent a letter to an address that to the best of my knowledge only Rangers have for me. How bizarre.
I asked the lawyers on several occasions to explain how they came by my address and was instructed that due to “client confidentiality” they could not disclose how they came by it. If they unable to give me this information as to protect their client, then it’s fair to assume this information must have been passed to them by their client. If their client gave them my parents address, where did he obtain it from? There is only one possible source I can think of.
Jack Irvine called me in the middle of all this and I advised him of my issue, he refused me the opportunity to speak directly to Mr Easdale regarding this and informed me Graham Wallace would be my best point of contact. I emailed Mr Wallace with my concerns and he set up a meeting. I met Mr Wallace two weeks ago and he advised me that an investigation had taken place and he found no evidence that the address was leaked from Ibrox. When I informed him that the address was in fact not mine but my parents and I was aware of no other organisation that had it as my address, his body language changed somewhat.
So Rangers have my contact address as my parents, Sandy Easdales lawyer receives my parents address from their client thinking its mine and no one can explain how this happened. The fact that they knew that I sat in a specific seat in a stadium of 30,000+ season ticket holder is not lost on me either.
Fast forward to Wednesday night. As I was getting set for the match I received another email on my phone from Mr Easdales lawyer asking for my current address. I replied saying they had no need for it as they can correspond via email and as far as I was concerned had no outstanding issues. During the half time break I checked my emails and found another claiming they would send sherriff officers to obtain my current address. Sheriffs officers could only obtain my current address by visiting my parents address as it the only one they have. You can maybe imagine how I felt at half time knowing a Rangers directors lawyers where sending sheriffs officers to my parents house who are both in their 70’s. Hence the reason I visited the directors box at full time.
When I confronted Mr Easdale with this newly found information and explained that this had crossed a line his response was that I to had also crossed a line and got personal. When I asked him to elaborate he stated that “I took the piss” and even slagged his hair on our facebook page. He confirmed that any libellous comments had indeed been made by others but his problem with me was that even my public apologies “took the piss out of him”. I will leave it to the reader to decide if further future court proceedings are based on him being upset about what others write or indeed the sarcastic manner of my writings.
I asked him to consider getting his lawyer to confirm in writing that no such visit to my parent’s house would take place and he said he would see what he could do. What he did do was to instruct his lawyers to issue further proceedings which I received yesterday and these are the basis of today’s Daily Record article.
To the fellow fans who asked me yesterday to comment on why I approached the directors box, I hope you understand why I didn’t make it public knowledge then, I was giving Mr Easdale the opportunity to do the right thing. The right thing in his eyes was to instruct his lawyers to send even more threatening letters which included arrangements for court proceedings at the court of session.
I have no desire to take Rangers to court or indeed involve innocent employees who may have been forced in to giving out protected data. If I did wish this I could have made this information public weeks ago. I feel I need to state my point now to defend my actions on and since Wednesday’s game.
Aye ready,
Craig.
Great Night
Thanks to Vogue and Gordon and Bryce amongst others for a wonderful time.
Early shift today had me leaving early.
AND
SURREALLY
I shared my taxi home with Archie McPherson…
WOOOFT!!!!
U
Just Gonny No Dae That……
Sandy Easdale has got pure luvvly hair for a man of his age.
So he huz………….
And….more chins than a Chinese phone directory…….hahahaha
Ding ding round 2….
later folks…
PS
I saw Dick Byrne’s wallet.
Empty.
U
Heroes are forever
Thanks for the lift last night mhate hh
my heido is bursto :O(
Uly mcghee
Nice talking to last night ,hh buddy.
ulysses mcghee is praying for oscar
12:35 on 15 March, 2014
You back home or you going to the St. Patrick’s Festival?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lennybhoy
Home to watch Cara playing for Accies – Goalie today but got players’ player award.
Vewy Pwoud.
Might pop across later.
HH
U
A ventriloquist is touring Dead Rangers supporters clubs in Glesga and Inverclyde.With his dummy on his knees, he’s going through his usual dyed hair jokes when Sandy Easdale in the audience stands on her chair and shouts, “I’ve heard enough of your stupid wigs and dyed hair jokes. What does the color of a person’s hair have to do with his worth as a human being? It’s guys like you who keep men like me from being respected in the media and from reaching our full potential!”
The embarrassed ventriloquist starts to apologize, when the Sleazedale fella yells, “You stay out of this, mister! I’m talking to that little bassa sitting on your knee!”
ulysses mcghee is praying for oscar
12:47 on 15 March, 2014
No worries mate, good to see you last night and in the good company you had, VP and Gordon64.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Blantyretim
The wife decided she couldn’t walk about in the shoe she has on so got dragged into a couple of shops there. Made it to Blane valley to start with. I don’t think I need any badges or hats. I’m the one with the eyes hanging oot ma Heid.
Lennybhoy…Supporting the DAM 5, Neil Lennon, Wee Oscar Knox, and CFC until I die
Suprised,not in the slightest ye foret a know ye.
Will get you a photo of your chair jacket and sombrero only thing missing was you :))
Sannabhoy delivered your prizes bud.
justafan,
I hear Neganon was there. Didn’t manage to meet him myself but I heard he smiled and agreed with another poster. Might just be a rumour though ….
Hope the recovery goes well.