Truth is, new royal is one of our own
By Cormac MacConnell
Where else but here would ye get world exclusive truths week after week?
And even by my high standards the following scoop is a real humdinger altogether.
I will waste no time at all in releasing the startling fact that the bouncing new baby who arrived in Buckingham Palace a few days ago is a direct descendant of King Brian Boru through his mother Kate and by God that baby will be worth billions to Brian Boru’s heartland town of Killaloe and indeed all of Clare before he is able to walk unaided.
A pure truth there for certain.
Here’s another element of the story which ye are reading here first. The gingery little baby, in keeping with royal traditions over in Buckingham, will be ornamented with many baptismal names and titles before May is out but ye can be certain that one of those names will be Charles after his grandfather the King in waiting.
He’ll be following in his grandfather’s footsteps
That grandfather, ye may recall, was delighted to visit Clare and relish the unique Burren only three years ago.
Given the revelations of the direct links back through the centuries with the mighty monarch Brian Boru, and the energy of the people of Brian’s proud Kincora region, be certain and sure that there will be another royal visit soon, probably involving both Charlies, and, indeed, that will generate billions of tourism money that will totally cancel out any negative Brexit consequences.
The cynics amongst you are already sneering with disbelief and saying that MacConnell has lost the few remaining marbles in his zany head.
Go to the trouble, then, you unbelievers, of doing a little research on your smartphones and laptops to discover that once again I am totally accurate and exposing another pristine truth in this space.
In synopsis ye will discover that Kate Middleton has direct lineage connections back to Brian Boru through a wealthy textiles family in Yorkshire two centuries ago who intermarried with the noble Fitzmaurice family of Kerry, direct descendants of the Brian Boru who still spiritually and historically rules Killaloe and Kincora.
There is also a link with the O’Brien clan, ye will discover, and indeed the small new Buckingham babby has the gingery locks of a standard O’Brien of this parish.
Don’t take my word for it. Check these details out for yourselves and silently apologise for doubting my story.
The modern reality is that the last and greatest of our High Kings, who defeated the Vikings at Clontarf, is still hugely honoured in his ancient heartland.
It is a fact that his name still appears over many business doors of all kinds, bars and cafes galore, as well as on the flanks of every second service vehicle one meets throughout the town and region.
Given that truth and the energy and business acumen of the local community, and the appreciation which the senior Charles expressed following his trek through the Burren in May of 2015 as far as I can recall, it is a very very strong possibility that the younger Charlie will be toddling through the Killaloe of his noble ancestor long before he has worn out his first pair of shoes.
Remember ye read that scoop first in this space of all the truths.
It is also a golden fact just now, as the fangs of the long winter at last withdraw, and as the landscapes begin to green and glow again, that the Kincora region of Killaloe by the silver Shannon is almost awesomely beautiful to see and savour.
The young Charlie, God bless and keep him safe, has been born into all the trappings of privilege and will be involved in many overseas trips during his life. As he toddles along before the world’s cameras shortly in the footsteps of King Brian Boru, however, it is a fair bet that he will never walk through such a striking scenic background again.
It is a welcome economic bonus after the hard years of recession that his arrival on this earth will, for sure, rapidly convert itself into mountains of hard tourism cash to enrich and energise the modern folk hereabouts who have always been so proud of their last and greatest High King.
They will suitably respond. And this gingery wee baby will be worth a fortune from this day forth in the heartland of Brian Boru who sported and played here too in his time and later planned the downfall of the Vikings.
I’ll leave it there for now — because the unbelievers have hours of checking to do, yet to once again discover that, yes, they have encountered yet another pure truth!
