Tag: Cora Staunton
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Eating cake and having it do not compute
“You can’t stop young people having the opportunity to have a career in sport because there’s not many as sports here in Ireland where there’s that chance as there are in Australia”. Cora Staunton And there you have it. Somebody finally puts it in black and white. Even if the person in question loves talking out…
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Those crying ‘Woke’ at latest historic Ladies First need a good poke
Just because you may be braced for an incoming negative occurrence doesn’t make the impact thereof any easier to absorb when it does hit. Trust me, as somebody who fell with walking aids and out of wheelchairs more times than I care to painfully remember, you can think you are as ready as you like,…
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Forget Milwall, we need that chant for ourselves
It’s an unfortunate back handed compliment that, when you’re the best at what you do, there’s always somebody waiting to knock you off your perch. When you don’t disappear fast enough, they get ratty and try to dislodge you by nefarious means. As my late father correctly observed about a certain political party, if they…