Category: RUGBY
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Two Triple Crowns and the conveyor belt for the hat trick
If the events referred to in the next few lines are not all from the same season, apologies in advance. At best, they were from a time when I wasn’t properly attuned to rugby. Or at worse it refers to a period when my ar*e was the size of a shirt button! So here goes.…
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Beware the pride of wounded lions
IRELAND…42 ENGLAND…21 If the forthcoming production was in relation to association football, one would automatically assume it was an England team to whom reference was being made. Given that they have three of the members of the feline family as the crest on their jersey. Now read on… But no, the wounded Lions in this…
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Come on Ireland – must do better
If you were to stick to the rudiments of teams and individuals representing the nation in major sporting events, with the exceptions of Katie Taylor, Kellie Harrington, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry and the horse racing set, the above headline remains wholly applicable. Admittedly, the idea of sports persons being ‘role models’ has always been hogwash…
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Richard Rennicks Kilbride GFC – RIP
It was a complete shock and source of immense sadness to learn of the passing of Richie Rennicks at the age of just 47 following a short illness. For as long as wheels have been required to convey yours truly around this big old ball of a world, the importance of the Rennicks family to…
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Turning of the page of history missed in deflating defeat
MUNSTER… 22 GLASGOW WARRIORS… 31 My brother moving to Limerick for work 33 years ago was the point at which this corner became equipped with a proper understanding of and gra for rugby. One has no problem admitting that, prior to that, my impression of the egg chasing was that part of it was what…
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Digging in to stop the rot
MUNSTER… 22 SCARLETS… 20 It wouldn’t take Hawking-esque grey matter to figure that confidence wouldn’t be all that high where they stand up and fight. Between somehow contriving to lose in Toulon, news of Jean Klyne leaving at the end of the season and Jack Crowley falling woefully out of form at precisely the worst…
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Striving to avoid becoming paranoid
At my own expense it will be admitted that if worrying was an Olympic sport, yours truly would be a gold medallist multiple times over. And yes, in complete contradiction of the beautiful Serenity Prayer, a lot of said anxiety tends to stem from matters over which one has no control. Do I like the…
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Byrne keeps it in the genes as old menu tastes best for Leinster
LEINSTER… 25 LA ROCHELLE… 24 For the Byrne brothers, it must have felt two vessels passing in the night. Ross, who departed the home paddock looking for greener pastures but found himself outside the grazing platform on the day in question. Meanwhile, brother Harry was summoned from the bench after both Ciaran Frawley and his…
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O’Brien shines brightest as dull Ireland stumble to win
IRELAND… 41 JAPAN… 10 It might be something to do with the lunchtime kick off. Because it certainly tends to be the case in souccer that, the lunchtime kick off in the Premier League tends to have faded from memory by the time Match Of The Day comes on a Saturday night. I’m not sure…
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Its nothing drastic – Munster have just improved
Gaels, and particularly Co Board delegates, of certain vintage in Meath might recall an annual convention nearly 30 years ago when the Chairman of the day was so perplexed by one of elections for officers that he was calling for recounts and/or run offs until it was pointed out to him that another individual had…