Tag: Dr Tony Holohan
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Jab lift has hope in sight if we don’t self-destruct
Occasionally in life we encounter people, places or things which impact upon us far more than any of us realise. Or at least it takes a long time for the full effect thereof to fully dawn. What’s coming to mind in this instance – and not for the first time in this space – is…
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It’s GAA Larry but not as we know it
“We come in peace, shoot to kill/only going forward ’cause we can’t find reverse” went the whimsical yet strangely apt ditty pertaining to the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk et al aboard the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Presuming newly-installed GAA Larry McCarthy has at least one PA he could do far worse than…
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A leader’s most important job is to provide hope – Act II
If not exactly word-for-ford, that was the gist of the most important line in Colm O’Rourke’s Sunday Independent column on St Valentine’s Day. The Simonstown Gaels manager’s piece was not only enjoyed by yours truly, but needed. Desperately. I am under no illusions that there will be those, cognisant of my fondness for and the…
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Doubles for Meade and Elliott as Mullins has four tops
In a world less ordinary, any semblance of what once passed for normality has to be clung to and cherished. So to that end, racing going ahead in Leopardstown and Limerick going ahead was absolutely treasured. Once that was saved, though, things went very much along usual lines. In that, between both meetings Willie Mullins…