Tag: Brazil
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You don’t need to be a Minister to know Mercosur is dangerous business
To my utmost heartache and no little shame, I haven’t read the Irish Farmers Journal in a ridiculous length of time. In all honesty, the main reasoning for such being the case is out of a feeling and/or realisation that to do so would leave one more upset than is already the case. Yet, as…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 14th 2025
5.30: MY CUBBY BEAR – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.00: SPORTING HERO – EW – (ALAN CASEY (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 6.30: JOHN LA BEAR (SHANE FOLEY/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 7.00: JAWHARY – EW – (SAM COEN (2*)/ADO MCGUINESS) 7.30: SQUARE NECKER (COLIN KEANE/ROBSON DE AGUIAR) 8.00: NO MORE PORTER – EW – (JAMIE POWELL/ADO MCGUINNESS) 8.30:…
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Boys of summer shortening the winter
Manchester United… 3 Reading… 1 One night what is a scarily long time ago, yours truly was making his way home from the one and only house party I’ve ever been at. It was the time of the night/next morning that my main concern was trying not to bump into my brother on his way…
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Selections for Limerick – Dec. 29th 2022
12.20: SIR BOB (MARK WALSH/ROBERT TYNER) 12.55: THE TACK ROOM – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER (5)/JOHN KIELY) 1.30: BRAZIL (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 2.05: BENZ – W/O FAV – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: SENIOR CHIEF (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.05: JEWELINTHESKY – EW – (GARY NOONAN (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.35: DOYEN TO WIN – EW – (KEVIN…
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Fantastic Friday proves nobody’s home and dry
At the outset here, an admission – while a very high percentage of the World Cup action has been consumed in this seat, an equally large quantity thereof has been viewed without sound. Simply as ITV is too damn awkward to find on the Sky box and the RTE commentators – with a few notable…
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Selections for Tramore – Dec. 6th 2022
12.45: IFIWEREARICHMAN – W/O FAV – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 1.15: WALK IN THE BRISE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.45: CLAREMC – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.15: ARCTIC AMBITION (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: WHOS HOUDINI – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/JOHN HANLON) 3.15: WALKING THE WALK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: CARDAMON HILL (AINE O’CONNOR (3)/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Good news stories and tough home truths
There are some occasions in sport – and other facets of life – when the form book can go out the window. Or at least that’s the way it used to be. With Irish sport anyway. Tonight at the World Cup though, the form book didn’t so much go out the window as into a…
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Being around them doesn’t necessarily turn you into them
An opinion poll was recently encountered in one of the myriad Manchester United fan groups on Facebook posing the admittedly interesting question as to who has been the best manager of the Red Devils since Sir Alex Ferguson retired nearly a decade ago. Now read on… Perhaps being a little trigger-happy, this corner immediately plumped…
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Drifting like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft
In the episode of The Simpsons where Homer ends up crash landing into bed with Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger, the world’s favourite safety inspector was after being in a parachute pulled behind a jetski. When the contraption reached its peak height, Homer reckoned he was “Like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft”. Similar…
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Cheltenham 2022 – Day 1 Preview
Please take a while to have a look at my thoughts on Day 1 of the four most wonderful days sport of the year. https://youtu.be/XpOTxb2KSy4