Life And Sport From An Armchair View
The above line, delivered ruefully by Micheal O'Muircheartagh lamenting the unavailability of Jimmy Keaveney after the 1979 Leinster Final due to suspension, at the beginning of the Decade Of The Dubs video, translates as "Has anyone seen my Jimmy"? You suspect it's a phrase Irish soccer fans will have to get used to uttering. Now... Continue Reading →
Mention has often been made in this space previously of the fact that when this writer was growing up, we only had RTE 1 and 2 on the television at home. Now read on... Thus, it was only when going with Anna and her now husband Kieran to the home of his parents, Denis and... Continue Reading →
You've often heard mention of Maurice Healy's wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan... Continue Reading →
During my time in secondary education, there was very little mention of politics. For a political nerd and/or history junkie like myself, that was a major disappointment. Notwithstanding the fact that I detested the history teacher for deeply personal reasons, we were weighed down with talk of the Stone Age and the Romans and Pompeii.... Continue Reading →