Choose Cavan

Choose pain, heartache, depression....
choose to place your faith in false gods
adorned with tight shorts, false tans and braids....
chose whether or not to wear your county colours
for fear of ridicule should you be at the
wrong end of another hammering...
choose false hope at the start of each McKenna Cup campaign

Choose Monaghan as the enemy, Armagh as an annoyance, Donegal
as soccer heads, Fermanagh as your favourite underdogs....
choose to wish Peter Canavan was born our side of the border....
choose Breffni as mecca, Omagh as a hay shed, Clones as a hell-hole....
choose to park in John Paul Avenue, stand under the score board,
watch the girls go by with fake tan dripping from the night before

Choose whether to travel up to Croker the day before or the
morning of the big match...
choose whether or not to take home that meath girl you met in the imperial choose a big mighty fry before the match in your sisters place....
choose too many pints before the match.....
choose the Big Tree after the match....
choose to go on the piss even though we lost again

Choose to hope that Keogan finally gets it right,
choose to forget McElkennon and his stolen promotion
choose to dream about what it would have been like
if we had won in 1997, choose to forget about 2006 and waterford,


Choose to be a Garda, Civil Servant, plasterer, carpenter,
plumber, electrician, nurse....
choose a flat in Drumcondra, Phibsboro, Rathmines....
choose to buy a house in Ballyhaise, Farnham, The Gallops
choose the Farnham, Noels, McMahons, The Breffni, The Orchard.....
chose Roma, Little Sciliy for eating

Choose to leave your place of birth at the tender age of 17....
choose to go to college in Galway, Sligo, UL, UCD or get the start with
the big brother in Dublin....
chose only to return home for Christmas, Easter,
the local town festival, Ulster Championship fixtures....
choose whether or not to apply for a job in the one local factory
and accept half your current wage in the hope that life will be
better than the rat race in the big smoke

Choose Bud,, Miller, Carlsberg long necks to drink....
Choose Pauwells, Kingspan, Boxmore to work.....
choose the Radisson, Cabra Castle,
Cavan Crystal, Slieve Russell, Kilmore Hotel to get married....
Choose Bundoran for holidays....
choose the Crystal, The Anglo Celt
the Cavan Echo, Northern Sound Radio

Choose long summer days in the bog, driving a tractor at 12, going to
the local mart as a big day out....choose your first car a souped up Jap
import, on your mothers insurance, don’t tax it until you are
caught.... choose the site your father leaves you and to build
an unimaginatively designed mansion on it

Choose the two teacher school for primary education, the big
school in
town for secondary....choose to go down town for lunch, play
pool in the
pub, hope the convent girls notice you....Choose getting a
pint in the
local at 16, seeing your father in the local disco, thinking
you scored
because you kissed a girl....choose to stand outside the
church at
Sunday
mass choose, to always be a mammys boy

Choose Cavan!