In Reply to: Re: Physical abuse in Castlebar posted by Tearful on June 11, 2009 at 19:41:19:

a cara......"nicky"....a.k.a bro nicholas..... had a sadistic approach to his savage beatings.....a kind of sick ritual....he would as he got the cane ....begin to sing .....there's a bridle hanging on the wall......then he would flog with fury....he never taught me ....however around 1946...he forced me to participate in an irish play for a feis.....when i forgot my lines ....he whipped me savagely.....then gave me a couple of punches .....as he made some comments about mchale road.....and i will spend my life sitting on a bar stool....another time as i was hoping to become an altar boy.....we had to go to him for a test of the latin responses .....again he unleashed his savagery....
.....i will never forget him.....
....tog go bog e.....