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SHAY HEALY HAS hit out at whoever stole his Eurovision trophy.
In a Facebook post, the songwriter and broadcaster said the trophy was stolen from his bathroom by “some low down, dirty rotten, low life thug, some audacious, irreverent, disrespectful and rude ass***e”.
Healy (74) won the trophy for writing Johnny Logan’s 1980 winning entry What’s Another Year.
Healy wrote: “Who would steal such a thing? It’s not like it was any great shakes as a piece of art. It was a clear plastic multi layered ornament that had a gold coin floating in the interior of it.
Is there some young fellow in his bedroom standing in front a mirror with a hairbrush in his hand pretending he’s Johnny Logan, while my precious award sits on his mantelpiece forlorn and bereft of its proper home?
He continued: “When the trophy was here it was on the glass shelf in the bathroom. I’m not that fussed about awards and trophies but I resent somebody screwing with my musical history.”
Healy gave the whoever took the trophy a chance to bring it back, adding: “If you find yourself passing by you can drop back my trophy no questions asked.”
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If Balour was Lú’s grandfather, who was his father?
Love my Sunday morning Irish lesson with my weekly cup of cuppachino.
An Lu Abu
Suimiúil, mar is gnáth. Buíochas, Darach.
Thought Baylor was killed by his son in law Cian
@Deirdre Frances: I thought that he succumbed to an unstoppable dose of diarrhoea which he acquired from listening to too much bullshite
@Deirdre Frances: You might have it a little backwards. Cian was killed by Balor because he got a little frisky with Balor’s young wan, Eithnu. The child of that coupling was Lú, who Balor then pegged into the sea only for Manandán the sea-God to raise him. He became king and lead an army against Balor where to hoofed a slingstone (or spear in other versions) through his head. When Balor fell dead his laser-eye opened and carved a hole through the earth which filled with water and became Loch na Súl in Sligo.
@John Mc Donagh: do you only get your above demonstrated type of verbal diarrhoea by thinking people still believe in this mythology as fact?
@Hawm Quinzy: thanks for the article and sound response …
The All Irelands go on all summer..but the finals are in September ..sorry if I doybd pedantic.
It may be Mythology… but isnt it fascinating reading even for the PBP, who are not really fior Gaels,….but Ton le Gaoithe…
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