{"id":4601,"date":"2020-01-15T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:26:17","slug":"wexford-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wexford-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Verona Murphys comments about terrorists on Wexford Bridge got her shot off the FG ticket. Her faux patriotism was blind to the Irish who live beneath the bridge. But Jim Codd cared, and was shocked to find even some of his own ex students there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wexfordpeople.ie\/news\/codd-shocked-by-conditions-faced-by-rough-sleepers-38084965.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How soon will Wexford Bridge be London Bridge?<br \/>\nVerona Murphy wanted to know:<br \/>\nWhen stirring up hatred to win votes<br \/>\nIn a by election not too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>What she did not know is what she aught know:<br \/>\nWhile ranting about immigrants at Rosslare<br \/>\nIs that if it did blow up it was fall on and kill<br \/>\nThe homeless Irish sleeping there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But they cant vote, so to her do not matter&#8230;<br \/>\nBut to Jim Codd they did:<br \/>\nHis own students fallen through the cracks of life,<br \/>\nIn tents they there now live.<\/p>\n<p>Your character shows in who you condemn,<br \/>\nCodd tries to help not condemn!<br \/>\nThe least of those, no votes to be won:<br \/>\nHe still wants to help all like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verona Murphys comments about terrorists on Wexford Bridge got her shot off the FG ticket. Her faux patriotism was blind to the Irish who live beneath the bridge. But Jim Codd cared, and was shocked to find even some of his own ex students there&#8230; https:\/\/www.wexfordpeople.ie\/news\/codd-shocked-by-conditions-faced-by-rough-sleepers-38084965.html How soon will Wexford &#8230;<\/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":[1],"tags":[4251,4241,4250,4249,4252],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aontu","tag-homelessness","tag-jim-codd","tag-verona-murphy","tag-wexford-bridge","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1cd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3238,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/worshiping-god-among-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":4601,"position":0},"title":"Worshiping God Among Nature","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We know of the mass rocks where Irish Catholics met to worship in Cromwellian and Penal times to avoid arrest or murder of the preist, but so it was in Holland for Protestants too under Spanish rule, where they met in the open in secret places to aviud been killed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"carraig an afrainn\"","block_context":{"text":"carraig an afrainn","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tag\/carraig-an-afrainn\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Priestless Church - where illegal Protestant services held in Holland under Spanish rule akin to the Catholic Mass rocks of Ireland","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1714,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/toddling-along-to-the-polling-booth\/","url_meta":{"origin":4601,"position":1},"title":"Toddling Along to the Polling Booth","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, Enda Kenny told Paul Murphy to \"toddle along\" to Irish water to find answers to his questions, showing utter contempt for the opposition and the people of this island. 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