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Old heroes still worship the boot and the ball
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
THE hour of eight was slowly creeping over the horizon last Saturday evening as maroon and emerald danced across the Charlestown sky.
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Ballycroy’s greatest heroes to meet again
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
MOST children grow up listening to fairy tales and daring rescues by princes on white chargers or Fionn MacCumhail and The Fianna. I made the transition from toddler to steady vertical listening to the verses of football and boxing.
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Katie delivers the greatest dream of all
Thursday, March 13, 2008
LAST Saturday as most of the country’s population sat glued to the television sets showing a dismal rugby match, the wood and the tyres were being gathered.
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Magical memories as boxing’s big night comes to Breaffy
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
THE book had a big colourful cover and shiny pages that hosted magnificent pictures from Muhamad Ali’s boxing career.
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St Anne’s stunning celebrations and the sad ladies saga
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
THE Castlecourt Hotel in Westport was always special to me when I was growing up.
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Belles, banter and brilliance in Achill
Thursday, February 14, 2008
ANY NEWSPAPER editor who contemplated sending a reporter to Achill for last Saturday night’s Belle of the Ball should have thought long and hard about what particular scribe would best suit the assignment.
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The press ... we’re an unwanted bunch sometimes
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
PERHAPS it was the aftershave I was wearing, maybe my casual attire wasn’t quite suitable or was my exclusion from last Wednesday’s extraordinary general meeting of Team Merry Monk Basketball Club simply because I’m not tall enough?
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Leathering a handball, new words and street art
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
HOW far would you walk for a game of handball? In this busy world of ours where every moment is catalogued and there aren’t enough hours in the day, I’m sure the answer would number in metres rather than miles, but I’ll leave that question with you for a few moments and get back to it further down the page.
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Spread the PLOP and save Mother Ireland
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
BRIAN Cowan needs our help. It’s obvious that the great man from Offaly needs a little inspiration when it comes to revenue gathering, after all, when a governemnt starts to tax the water our children use while in school it’s obvious that things are in a very sad state.
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Joyous Joes captured the heart in 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
AS you may be aware, Christmas is here. The shops have experienced uncontrolled mayhem as tills thrill to the tone of tumbling coin and note, but one of these days when the craziness subsides for a few moments, minds will wander back through the hills and dales of 2007 to dredge up memories of the year passed.
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Lee has the style to live with legends
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
THE names still echo through my cranium; Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Liston, Robinson, Johnson, Marciano, Graziano, Patterson, Dempsey, Tunney and Monaghan to name but a few.
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The muck and the mire will soon be no more
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
I CAN still smell the clay in my nostrils. The clawing, clinging gutter of the Our Lady’s football pitch, that ate into one’s senses.
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Painting gates, setting trees and eating biscuits
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
HERE in the Western People sports department we don’t have a conference room in which to develop ideas but we do sometimes up sticks and move next door to the Dock Bar for lunch and there we put the world to rights.
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The goal that never was and our house of pain
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
ON that autum afternoon in 1989 as the ball arrived in Anthony Finnerty's grasp we held our breath.
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Remembering an Irish hero in New York
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
GAELIC football and An Garda Siochana have been inextricably linked since the foundation of our state.
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