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Horses to Follow 2017 / ’18
RED JACK (NOEL MEADE) – Below STONEFORD (NOEL MEADE) KIRWANS LANE (NOEL MEADE) NEXT DESTINATION (WILLIE MULLINS)
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‘Silly season’ invading several sports
It can be attested to all too easily, having an occupied mind can be essential. An idle mind can cause problems. It’s the type of thing that usually leads to the phenomenon known as the ‘silly season’. Now, obviously, in sporting terms, it besieges different disciplines at various times. For example, during the two and…
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The mother and father of good weekends!
Debate and rancour surrounding GAA fixtures has a lifespan as flexible as time itself. No matter what new systems are trialled – and no matter how convoluted they seem to be – the business end of club competitions in most counties seems to boil down to this time of year. Which leads to the type…
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The Memory Man and me
One summer’s evening over a quarter century ago, whilst out for an evening stroll – my wonderful mother doing the walking, me observing from the cockpit – Brendan Reilly was encountered close to his family home. The Reilly homestead being close to St Peter’s GAA Club, enquiries were made as to why there was a…
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An emotional mix of recollections
Recently, in the midst of another bout of insomnia, an airing of the All Ireland SFC semi final of 2006 between Dublin and Mayo was encountered at about 2am. At the time, what resonated greatest was hearing the dulcet tones of Kevin Mallon, formerly of LMFM, conveying the action. To my mind, anyway, undoubtedly Kevin’s…
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Novel final a no-win situation
For a time in the early to mid ‘90s, Noel C Duggan ensured Millstreet, and the arena therein, was the epicentre of the world. Think of the Eurovision Song Contest (remember when that was relevant?), the bouts of pugilism between Steve Collins and Chris Eubank Snr and show jumping. The same period heralded a glorious…
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Hoping Super Saturday can act as a signpost
“The hay is saved and Cork are bet, the crowds do wildly roar…You speak too soon, my sweet gasun, for here comes Christy Ring, yes, Ring of the eight All Ireland medals”. The preceding parable was delivered by Micheal O’Muircheartaigh as his introduction to The Banks Of My Own Lovely Lee on the GAA album…
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Reminiscing and hoping for a premonition
Sometimes, mindsets have to change. And that is not only meant regarding matters close to home. What was once unimportant may now be pivotal. The opposite, of course, is also true. As was glaringly illustrated in various different ways lately.
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Often left thinking of Les Miserables
“I dreamed a dream of times gone by, when hope was high and life worth living” – so go the opening lines of the beautiful song, so beautifully sung by Neil Diamond, from the famed musical. They often tend to be at the forefront of thoughts here. In the last year or so, they have…
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Thinking of Oliver Goldsmith – and not for good reasons
Dealing with the hand which life has bestowed, negotiation of things which to the masses are routine can be anything but. At the forefront of thoughts presently is going on holiday. No, I’m not about to, rather, thinking of one of the last occasions a trip away was taken.