Santry Avenue Post Office - Ultra Catholic postmistress

1968

Anyone have any good stories about that mad auld bag who's been running the Santry Avenue Post Office for a million years?

She was the one who told newspapers in 1970 that she would withhold any contraceptives that came through her post office!!

Mena Cribben (aka Mena Bean Ui Chribin), aged 84 and mother of six, has been the postmistress of Santry Avenue Post Office for over fifty years. During this time, she has also been one of the most vocal spokespersons for the Ultra-Conservative Catholic strand of Irish politics having been active not least with the Irish Family League, Family Rights Group, Mna na hEireann, Irish Housewives Union and Ograchas Naoimh Papain.


Perhaps most infamously known for her role in the 2009 Roscommon family incest case, namely that she provided advice and (more than likely) funding for a legal action to stop the State from taking six neglected children into care, Cribben has been active in reactionary politics since the 1960s.

Link to article: http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/mena-cribben-of-santry/

jack presley

I haven't been in there in years but my memories from childhood were there was always a smell of cabbage in there.

emzolita

there's still a statue of something holy in the window, Dunno the name of the statue. Yanno the one ,a priesty looking man with a bishop hat, and a cane and beads. :L

Dyr

Least she stuck to her completely wacky belief system..unlike the stickies

She would have been fairly active in various community efforts in the 'mun back in the 70's

Hannibal

i was in there about 3 years ago for something and an old woman came out from the back demanding to know who i was, she was ushered back inside by one of the younger people working there, she struck me as being a bit loopy

Karen23

That post office always smells of cabbage

carlmango11

Didn't realise she was that crazy. Holy handlebars

admiralofthefleet

anyone have one of them catholic dolls with the head missing (child of prague)? i want to go into her with the doll in one hand and the head in the other and ask her if she sells glue

arybvtcw0eolkf

Anyone have any good stories about that mad auld bag

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