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  • Spoilt, full of entitlement and removed from reality

    Spoilt, full of entitlement and removed from reality

    There’s a sickening irony about writing this. Coming as it does, hot on the heels of the GAA post about Meath’s disappointing beginning to their Allianz National Football League campaign. For those overseas or not familiar with GAA, players and mentors are amateurs, in name at least, though hopefully someday soon that might change. Still,…

  • Selections for Punchestown – Jan.  31st 2022

    Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 31st 2022

    1.20: CRATLOE HILL – EW – (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 1.50: DOCTOR CHURCHILL (ROB JAMES (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: TAKE TEA (MARK WALSH/WILIE MULLINS) 2.50: CLASSIC GETAWAY – (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: BOIS DE CLAMART – W/O FAV – (RICHIE DEEGAN (3)/LIZ DOYLE) 3.50: MY NEWBROOK ROSE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ADRIAN MURRAY) 4.20: I DON’T GET…

  • Closing the stable door when the ginnit has long bolted

    You’ve often heard mention of Maurice Healy’s wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan…