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The curious case of the Stradbally Postman

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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    The most disturbing thing about the case is someone in the public sector working Christmas Day.


  • #3
    Arsemageddon
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    Pocoyo wrote: »
    A dark chapter in Stradbally’s history...

    Surely that should read 'the only chapter in Stradbally's history...'


  • #4
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The most disturbing thing about the case is someone in the public sector working Christmas Day.

    It was 1929.


  • #5
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    Surely that should read 'the only chapter in Stradbally's history...'

    http://www.stradbally.com/


  • #6
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The most disturbing thing about the case is someone in the public sector working Christmas Day.

    You do realise that a higher percentage of public sector workers will more likely work that day than the private sector?


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  • #7
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Pocoyo wrote: »
    https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Firish-news%2Fthe-missing-postman-26713401.html&ei=mYZbVb7cLsinsAHvtICwCw&usg=AFQjCNEzJrf0VuhW1hhbx1yDWnRZesIB5Q&bvm=bv.93564037,d.bGg


    A dark chapter in Stradbally’s history re-entered public discourse this week following the release of secret Garda files which formed part of the investigation into the disappearance of postman Laurence Griffin.

    Mr Griffin, who had served as the area’s postman for a decade” set off on his round from Kilmacthomas Post Office on Christmas Day

    Little did he know, as he set off on that raw Christmas morning, that he was never to see his home” wife and three children again.

    Its all very wickerman and would in its own right make a great movie,A murder that involved Garda collusion,the silence of a whole village and a body that was never found. The idea that this happened in Ireland even back then shocks and intrigues me.

    Excellent link. A real live murder on the orient express. Fairly impressed by the higher up gardai, they went after their own.


  • #8
    Yellowblackbird
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    I think that the pugilist did it.
    The liverpool divers might have been at the back of it all though.


  • #9
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The most disturbing thing about the case is someone in the public sector working Christmas Day.

    The postman traditionally worked on both Christmas and Stephen's Day. This was before there was the telephone.

    Boxing Day in the UK is so called because it was the day when households would leave a box outside the door for the postman. It would contain a present or some money for his service all year.

    There you go now.


  • #10
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    Yellowblackbird wrote: »
    I think that the pugilist did it.
    The liverpool divers might have been at the back of it all though.

    'The even more curious case of the Liverpool divers'

    Lousy freeloaders!!
    http://www.ringofgullion.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Irish-men-in-Forkill.jpg


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Excellent link. A real live murder on the orient express. Fairly impressed by the higher up gardai, they went after their own.

    They had a dubious success around the same time here in Kerry, catching murderer/necrophile David O'Shea after a Garda hid under his bed and heard him allegedly discussing the crime with his sister...

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/when-the-state-regularly-made-a-killing-248470.html


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  • #12
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They had a dubious success around the same time here in Kerry, catching murderer/necrophile David O'Shea after a Garda hid under his bed and heard him allegedly discussing the crime with his sister...

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/when-the-state-regularly-made-a-killing-248470.html

    'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' I know it well.


  • #13
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    What a weird story. Stradbally in the 1920's = Royston Vasey.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pocoyo wrote: »
    'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' I know it well.

    Afaik even the trial judge was sceptical about that evidence.


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Who would play the part of the postman?


  • #16
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    My family own a second home in stradbally, it has one of the most tragically beautiful ghost estates in Ireland.

    A small estate of (roughly) a dozen houses, each with Thatched roofs, every house unique in its own way, marble floors, stunning oak staircases etc, and all lying vacant.

    It might be viewable from google maps, but it's really, really sad to look at.


    Edit, Stradbally More

    http://goo.gl/maps/gEqvo try that link.


  • #17
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    The postman traditionally worked on both Christmas and Stephen's Day. This was before there was the telephone.

    Boxing Day in the UK is so called because it was the day when households would leave a box outside the door for the postman. It would contain a present or some money for his service all year.

    There you go now.

    There are so many stories about Boxing Day. I go with the servants getting the day off day.


  • #18
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Ruu wrote: »
    Who would play the part of the postman?

    Wesley Snipes.


  • #19
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    Yellowblackbird wrote: »
    I think that the pugilist did it.
    The liverpool divers might have been at the back of it all though.
    Pocoyo wrote: »
    'The even more curious case of the Liverpool divers'

    Lousy freeloaders!!
    http://www.ringofgullion.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Irish-men-in-Forkill.jpg

    Curiouser and curiouser

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00360/116434602_football_360188c.jpg


  • #20
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The most disturbing thing about the case is someone in the public sector working Christmas Day.

    My father has had it off 3 times in ten years....but hey lets not bring fact into ps hate


  • #21
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    There are so many stories about Boxing Day. I go with the servants getting the day off day.

    There are.

    As an aside, this story about the Stradbally postman is often seen as being an influence on Flann O'Brien when he was writing The Third Policeman. I'd suggest it was more to do with porter than it was this story, but the academics tend to disagree.


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  • #22
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    raze_them_all_ wrote: »
    My father has had it off 3 times in ten years....but hey lets not bring fact into ps hate

    No one cares about your father,This thread is about 'The curious case of the Stradbally postman' but 'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' would also be acceptable to discuss. So either talk about the 'The curious case of the Stradbally postman' or 'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' or dont talk at all.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    raze_them_all_ wrote: »
    My father has had it off 3 times in ten years...

    My father never spoke of his sex life.


  • #24
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    Pocoyo wrote: »
    No one cares about your father,This thread is about 'The curious case of the Stradbally postman' but 'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' would also be acceptable to discuss. So either talk about the 'The curious case of the Stradbally postman' or 'The curious case of the garda that hid under the bed' or dont talk at all.

    "The unusual case of the public sector worker who's only had 3 Christmas days off in 10 years but everyone still hates anyway because pensions and job security" is a great tale, you're missing out. Hoor of a title though.


  • #25
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My father never spoke of his sex life.

    That actually was funny.


  • #26
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Banjo String wrote: »
    My family own a second home in stradbally, it has one of the most tragically beautiful ghost estates in Ireland.

    A small estate of (roughly) a dozen houses, each with Thatched roofs, every house unique in its own way, marble floors, stunning oak staircases etc, and all lying vacant.

    It might be viewable from google maps, but it's really, really sad to look at.


    Edit, Stradbally More

    http://goo.gl/maps/gEqvo try that link.
    Not remotely in keeping with the rest of the village, they are like hobbit houses with eye-brow thatch. They are also in a bad location.
    Cove Cottage on Nunnery Lane is what thatched houses local to the area look like.
    http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WA&regno=22811009

    ETA link showing what houses look like (Daily Mail- sorry) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004295/Quaint-700k-thatched-cottages-sit-afford-them.html#ixzz1PSQbdSge


  • #27
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    At one stage, early in the case of Larry Griffin, the entire village was threatened with excommunication (a huge deal at th time)yet no-one ever came forward. The disappearance isn't really talked about still.


  • #28
    Pocoyo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Pocoyo


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Not remotely in keeping with the rest of the village, they are like hobbit houses with eye-brow thatch. They are also in a bad location.
    Cove Cottage on Nunnery Lane is what thatched houses local to the area look like.
    http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WA&regno=22811009

    'The curious case of the hobbit like houses with eye-brow thatch. That were built in a bad location thus destroying their chances of being sold and resulting in the loss of financial reward for the properties developers.'

    This Stradbally is an investigators dream,I think i may move there and write a book.


  • #29
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Pocoyo wrote: »
    'The curious case of the hobbit like houses with eye-brow thatch. That were built in a bad location thus destroying their chances of being sold and resulting in the loss of financial reward for the properties developers.'

    This Stradbally is an investigators dream,I think i may move there and write a book.
    Beaten to it:
    http://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/the_missing_postman/

    Taghg Ó Dubhshláine , lecturer in Maynooth also did a lot if investigation on this topic.


  • #30
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    jungleman wrote: »
    What a weird story. Stradbally in the 1920's = Royston Vasey.

    Are you local?


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  • #31
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    This case has been discussed on boards before.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=84421277


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