Will Navan Man deliver?

[Derek Wheeler]

Cullen gone and another muppet on the self destruct button in place. Being a "local", can he deliver Navan rail? I say no. If it happens by 2015, I'll walk its length naked playing, "Workin on the railroad" on the banjo!!!!!

[James Shields]

Originally Posted by Derek Wheeler

Cullen gone and another muppet on the self destruct button in place. Being a "local", can he deliver Navan rail? I say no. If it happens by 2015, I'll walk its length naked playing, "Workin on the railroad" on the banjo!!!!!

You can play banjo?

[Colm Donoghue]

He'll be able to learn before the railway to Navan is open....

[bigjim]

Is he there to deliver the rail link or the M3?

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Derek Wheeler

Cullen gone and another muppet on the self destruct button in place. Being a "local", can he deliver Navan rail? I say no. If it happens by 2015, I'll walk its length naked playing, "Workin on the railroad" on the banjo!!!!!

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[Thomas J Stamp]

The song is Working on the Railway, Derek......... kids today, eh?

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp

The song is Working on the Railway, Derek......... kids today, eh?

You're wrong senor Stamp. I have a copy of the tune in my library for P11TV.

Copyrighted, 1936, by Calumet Music Co., Chicago, ILL

I've been workin' on the railroad,
All the live long day.
I've been workin' on the railroad,
Just to pass the time away.
Don't you hear the whistle blowing?
Rise up so early in the morn.
Don't you hear the captain shouting
"Dinah, blow your horn?"

Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah.
Someone's in the kitchen, I know.
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Strumming on the old banjo.

Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o-o-o-o.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.
Strumming on the old banjo.

So that will be me strummin on the banjo in Drumree, if Dempsey proves me wrong, because even up to a 2 and a half year cabinet review, he will have to start the project, if its to be completed anywhere near 2015.

[Derek Wheeler]

Just got word from T Stamp that he watched Patsy Watchorn (a HE, not a SHE) sing it every Saturday night in the Lower Deck. So both Stamp and Watchorn are wrong.

[byrneeo]

Originally Posted by Derek Wheeler

Cullen gone and another muppet on the self destruct button in place. Being a "local", can he deliver Navan rail? I say no. If it happens by 2015, I'll walk its length naked playing, "Workin on the railroad" on the banjo!!!!!

which banjo?
you might get tired strumming all the way to navan.
especially if you're blowing your horn.

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by byrneeo

which banjo?
you might get tired strumming all the way to navan.
especially if you're blowing your horn.

Im stoppin off in Drumree to get the Banjo tuned and apparently there's a fine lady up there who's into naked banjo players!!!!

[packetswitch]

Naked banjo players and blowing of horns. I'm shocked at you all. Definite proof of the absence of trainspotters...

[ThomasJ]

In terms of if Navan Man can deliver the Interconnector, I am still a bit sceptical but the first step of action is admitting the problem/situation. This could be a good thing:

Taken from the programme for government 2007. I got this from the Green party website it is contained in the full document.

• Build the interconnector between Docklands and Heuston stations. The interconnector will allow the integration
of all existing and new Dublin suburban rail lines and facilitate interchange between them. Given the
importance of this project to the delivery of a fully-integrated public transport network in our capital city, we
will immediately investigate ways of expediting this project.

giving that during the election campaign the Green party mentioned fast-tracking some elements of the interconnector including the electrification of the Maynooth and Kildare lines. Might they have pushed for this???

[Thomas J Stamp]

Originally Posted by Derek Wheeler

Just got word from T Stamp that he watched Patsy Watchorn (a HE, not a SHE) sing it every Saturday night in the Lower Deck. So both Stamp and Watchorn are wrong.

Actually, it was this song:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pogues/..._20109774.html

Poor Paddy Works on the railway/ working on the railway.

Oh, and Patsy Watchorn is a little known minor musician who led a never heard of it band called The Dublin City Ramblers and this very day leads a group of nobodies called The Dubliners. He also had this song written for him:
http://www.lyricsmagnet.com/song/IRI...cs_clirrz.html

but you wouldn't expect these Kildare heads to know that sort of thing.

I apologise for not knowing such an obscure railway related song (Derek's one) however, the P11TV Greatest Hits of the Railway presented by Derek "Preservation" Wheeler will be in the bargain bin of all bad record shops, and IRN, soon.

[Brian Condron]

Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp

I apologise for not knowing such an obscure railway related song (Derek's one)

Jayze Mr. Stamp, I'd hardly call "I've Been Workin' On The Railroad" obscure, it's a quite famous American folk song! One of the few songs I learned in national school and can still sing 15 years later (obviously they never taught us the last verse in school).

Anyway, I'd advise you to get yourself up to speed with this FAMOUS song, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_...n_the_Railroad. I have been known to reference it in conversation, and it really annoys me when folks don't get my references

[Thomas J Stamp]

I have been known to reference it in conversation, and it really annoys me when folks don't get my references

Oh Jesus this is getting worse..........

Nurse, the Screens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thomas J Stamp]

I would say "Back on Topic" but I cant remember what the topic was.

We some outfit, arent we? Eight posts about a bloody railway song. It's a sad day.

[Brian Condron]

Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp

We some outfit, arent we? Eight posts about a bloody railway song. It's a sad day.

It's Monday.

[Thomas J Stamp]

It's ok Brian. Its nice to know that, despite threads like these we're held in high regard by the public.

Bow

[Thomas J Stamp]

its ok Brian. Its nice to know that despite threads such as this we're held in high regard by the public.

Bow Wow Wow.

Nice Dogie.

[dermo88]

We were talking about whether Noel Dempsey would be capable of delivering on the Navan railway.

I doubt it, and thats judging on past event, although I hold him in higher regard than Martin Cullen or Seamus Brennan.