Tag: 1989
-
Working away in the shade
What is probably close to thirty years ago now, a word manufacturing machine being propelled by yours truly produced a piece headlined exactly as above. Back then, it mostly centred on how the All Ireland successes carved out by Down (twice), Derry and Donegal could be – and as it happened, was – ground breaking…
-
The Davy Fitz roadshow rides again
All too well is the concept of not being a prophet among your own people recognisable here. Whatever working limbs there are here would gladly be sacrificed to be part of a managemnt team at either club or county level. Even outside of my own in the case of the former. Yet all willing overtures…
-
Mrs Eimear Gilligan – R. I. P.
Was there ever a teacher in your school that you wished taught you but it never actually happened? Before answering that from my own perspective, it will be admitted that it’s considered an absolute privilege to have been taught by the greatest teacher Dunboyne has ever known – Mr Willie Lyons. However, there are two…
-
Rare occasions when being in a wheelchair works to your advantage!
No, you did not misread the headline. Whatever about being advantageous from a parking point of view or skipping queues or such like, over the most weekend there was an advantage that had to be seen to be believed! Well, that would’ve been the case were it not an instance of being forewarned and forearmed.…