{"id":2744,"date":"2016-05-21T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2016-05-21T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:57:00","slug":"there-are-many-roads-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/there-are-many-roads-to-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Many Roads to Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are many roads to Dublin, the most appropriate is the best road you are comfortable to drive that leads from where you are, not the road another shows you. The motorway may be faster, but you might like the scenery of the winding roads, or just be safer in slower traffic. And you wont drive through Roscrea to go to Dublin if driving from Longford. So it is with religions faith and spirituality. We all believe<\/a><\/strong> what we believe. we are all going the one direction, on the road we are comfortable on, at the desired speed, on the road we choose…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n

There are many roads to Dublin, but some will tell you no
\nThey will tell you the one true road, if to Dublin you want to go
\nThey will insist to you this road is the one to take, the road they show
\nBecause they knew a man who went to Dublin a long long time ago!<\/p>\n

You must go through Kilbeggan, folk from Banagher and Tullamore will tell
\nSo will folk from Galway, and from Athlone as well
\nBut fork from Granard or Ballinalee will laugh at you and say to go to hell
\nYou go through Kells or Mullingar to get to Dublin they will yell!<\/p>\n

Men from Cork and Kerry will say you go through Kildare
\nThe Galway folk and Offaly folk will say they too pass through there
\nBut the men from Belfast and Armagh at you will scoff and stare
\nWhen they go up to Dublin, they come down through Newry fair!<\/p>\n

That all roads lead to Dublin all men will agree
\nThat each prefer their own the truth all men can see
\nWe cannot walk anothers’ road, one that does, foolish is he!
\nAs it is with journeys, so with religions and faiths it does be!<\/p>\n

Our religions show the road from which our folk have came
\nThe route we understand we learn, for it we are not to blame
\nWe must understand we all walk our own roads, there is no pride or shame
\nFor we are on on the same journey, some walk, more by car, the destination is the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many roads to Dublin, but some will tell you no They will tell you the one true road, if to Dublin you want to go They will insist to you this road is the one to take, the road they show Because they knew a man who went …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2847,2844,2843,524,2846,2350,2845,811,2848,2834],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral","tag-apaganism","tag-bhussism","tag-catholcism","tag-faith","tag-fundamentalism","tag-islam","tag-protestantism","tag-religion","tag-spiritualism","tag-syncretism","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Ig","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1264,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tullamore-rhymers-at-mixed-messages\/","url_meta":{"origin":2744,"position":0},"title":"Tullamore Rhymers at Mixed Messages","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Mixed Messages is a unique poetry event, where there are no intros, no MC, and the run of the night is sporadic, and disorganized, officially. 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