LEINSTER… 21 MUNSTER… 16 It wouldn’t be a meeting of the two old foes if it wasn’t an epic. Score for score, massive hits given and taken on both sides. The pendulum swinging one way and then the other. As is often the case in these situations, it came down to who managed error limitation… Read More Error-prone holders pay the price
There was something strangely apt about Ireland putting in another abomination of a performance against The Netherlands just hours after Meath’s Rathkenny exited the Leinster Club IFC at the penultimate hurdle via penalty shootout as Scoill Ui Chonaill of Dublin advanced. Now read on… During his 1994 show ‘Live At The Olympia’ the late, great… Read More Brave Rathkenny undone by cruelty of the modern world
Rep. Of Ireland…3 Latvia…2 Anyone of an agricultural persuasion is no doubt retorting to the above headline that Harry Ferguson’s ground breaking invention of the most famous piece of agricultural machinery ever made was in fact powered by the equally iconic Perkins engine. On the football landscape at the moment, both in the Premier League… Read More Fergusons were always a good engine for getting things done
Ireland… 29 England… 16 The phrase ‘Impressionable kids’ is one you often hear in use. Then there’s the fact that it’s said first impressions are lasting ones. Now read on… Andy Farrell’s grandkids obviously copped on fairly quick that his team was better than that of their dad – England fly half Owen. Hence their… Read More World’s best show just why they are
Ireland…19 South Africa…16 How much store do you place on the Autumn Internationals? A passive observer would probably deem them no more than puffed up friendlies. The aficionado, though, sees them as the laying foundations and building something as the nuts and bolts of the day job kicks off for International players. My own view… Read More Impressive variety but staple diet needs freshening up
Rep. Of Ireland… 1 Lithuania… 0 Sometimes things happen in life which, with the fullness of time, emerge as a clear sign of what was to come in its wake. For example, having spent two hours on a soccer pitch in Wales practising it the week before, it was as if Sean Boylan and Meath… Read More Parrott chimes into Kenny’s uplifting chorus
Rep. Of Ireland… 2 Belgium… 2 It’s probably a fairly safe wager that when Jack Charlton was appointed manager of the Irish soccer team, his was a selection very much from the left of field. Firstly because the big Geordie hadn’t much of a managerial profile at the time. Moreover, the Irish job wasn’t exactly… Read More In Kenny I am beginning to trust
Ireland…29 Wales…7 A very short time into his Championship debut against Dublin, Ollie Murphy palmed the ball into an empty net in front a packed Canal End. For any Meath player it can’t get much better than that. Well, at the Aviva Stadium this afternoon, shy of scoring a try, if there is such a… Read More Mack puts the knife into Wales on impressive debut
Ireland…29 New Zealand…20 Don’t let anyone tell you it was ‘only’ an Autumn International. Representation always mean something. Whether it’s a Division 8 football match or this. Taking on the greatest Rugby Union team on the planet. There was a time, not all that long ago, when Ireland – and many more like them –… Read More Ireland issue bench warrant for All Blacks demise