2006 Parade Photos

BOB THE BUILDER

2006  PARADE

MC -  CIARAN  McCARTHY

THEME: MUSIC

JUDGES  FOR  2006

KEITH  SHANLEY  (KFM  RADIO)

DR.  ANDREW  RYNNE

SUZANNE  WALSHE (PURE  BEAUTY  AND  RTE  AFTERNOON  SHOW)

BERNA  LEE (A NATIVE  OF  CLANE)  RECITED  THE  FOLLOWING  POEM WHICH  SHE  WROTE  HERSELF ABOUT  CLANE.

THE  ROWAN  TREE

They call it now the Rowan Tree

A toy shop where our parlour used to be.

It’s neighours are no longer those

Who shared the village and the life we knew.

 

Coming home from school in winter’s gloom

To tea in a warm-fired kitchen,

Or lunchtimes, listening to “Mrs. Dale’s Diary”

On the wireless on the press in the corner.

 

Sitting round the fire at night,

Women knitting and chatting;

The clicking of the needles ceased

When it was time for tea and sandwiches.

Children old enough to stay up late

Waited for the grownups to finish

Before diving for leftover treats.

 

Waking up some nights

To the sound of bogmen’s turf carts,

Their wheels cluck-cluck, cluck-clucking

Through the village on their way to Dublin.

When they were gone,

There was the reassuring, slow tick-tock

Of the old clock in the kitchen below.

 

Nothing since has matched that for comfort and security.

Mam was there at the heart of it.

Eight of us lived in that small village house

For a few brief years, but when I was a child

It seemed it would last forever.

 

The family is scattered now,

We’ve gone our separate ways.

But last time I was in Clane

I bought a trinket in the Rowan Tree -

An excuse to be once more

In the place where once our parlour used to be.

BERNA  LEE