Tag: Bloody Sunday

  • Na bfhaca tu mo Sheamasin?

    Na bfhaca tu mo Sheamasin?

    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…

  • Duff opens with derby defeat but will lift League

    Duff opens with derby defeat but will lift League

    Hasn’t this scenario played out many times before? The big star returns home to take over the local team. The crowds flock for the first game, the ground is full, the atmosphere buzzing and the entire competition lifted by the local boy done good. If anything is going to go off script, it will be…