Tag: Liam Sheedy
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Blow for Tipp as magnificent Maher bows out
Every team has standout performers. Just as individual sports are usually possessed of competitors who assume more elevated status than that of their contemporaries. For Exhibit A of that, look no further than the Dublin football half back line of the mid 1990s, comprising Paul Curran, Keith Barr and Eamon Heery. If you’re looking for…
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A game to define an era?
They say that time nor tide waits for no man or woman or child. However, there are moments in life – and not just sporting ones – that appear to make tlme stand still. The likes of the Moon Landing, 9/11, the Omagh bombing or the election of Barack Obama to the White House, you’ll…
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Sideline Cuts – 13
Back To Basics Approach Works Mention has often been made in this space on numerous occasions of how reading habits are sporadic at best. As if to underscore that fact, a sizable chunk of Davy Fitzgerald’s autobiography was ingested in a fairly quick time, only for the excellent collaboration with Vincent Hogan to be parked…
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Green hills not that far away that i’ll get back to some day soon
‘There is a green hill far away; I’m going back there one fine day’ proclaims the seminal line in Glastonbury Song by The Waterboys who of course saw the whole of the moon in their time too. The quoted lines reverberated virulently in the mind recently. For two reasons in particular. Firstly out of utter…