Tag: Love The Darts
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Rockstar drowned out in Machine-driven crescendo
When one’s life has revolved around sport as much as it has in this seat, tying down a single favourite sporting moment – or indeed a compilation thereof – would be akin to asking Elvis Presley which one of his Number One records were his favourite. Were pressure put on the occupant of this seat…
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Lack of a gallop leaves Anderson searching for fluidity and answers
March 2005, Cheltenham. Day one of the Festival. The race that’s not only the highlight of the day, but of that entire year for us that are hopelessly devoted to jump racing. Or maybe many years. Hardy Eustace, the venerable old Massey Ferguson 390T, the old dog for the hard road, turns for home with…
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Death, taxes and seeds falling in December
Anybody that knows me or has been following my output for long enough will know the indescribably important part Brady’s Pub in Dunboyne has and will forever play in my life. Thus, just when I was rebuilding some semblance of normality into my life after it was destroyed when my mother fell ill nearly six…
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Cross comes crashing down at first hurdle
One of the hazards of being in this line of work is being wrong. In terms of predicting the outcome of events, in this instance. Then again, punditry is mostly guess work with a bit of background information for optics. Doing so for GAA matches or horse racing is one thing, venturing into other sporting…
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Danny bags the Jackpot as Lewis’s struggles continue
Stop the presses. The Americans are good to go. Nobody does ‘Big’ like the US. They’re annoyingly obsessed with big. Whoever wins the NBA are World Champions in basketball, even though the 30-team league comprises only teams from the stars and stripes and one from their neighbouring clover leaf. It has been admitted here umpteen…
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Feisty Huybrechts returns to form
There has been so much sporting activity ongoing across various codes in the last few days that there are a few days worth of action at the World Darts Championship to be caught up with. Now read on… First out of the traps on Saturday was Carlow’s Steve Lennon. The man from Barrowside recorded a…
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The oldest swinger in town steals the show
February 3rd, 2016. The day my world as it was up to the point fell apart. One of my best friends, Aidan Ward, died. Hours later, my mother went into hospital for surgery which turned life as we knew it upside down for our entire family. Little was it realised, though, that Aidan’s passing was…
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Two guys called Jose, two winning machines
Jose Mourinho must be having a right laugh to himself. As only he could. While his Tottenham team at the very least keep pace with immensely endowed Liverpool, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer lurches from one disaster to the next. After it initially looked like things had fallen into place as predicted – Mourinho out of touch…
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Timing is everything as Gurney wins Irish derby
At this time every year, those of us who succumbed to the lure of the darts a long time ago face the usual barrage of scepticism from the unconverted that affairs of the arrows aren’t actually sporting matters. Aside from pointing out the intricacies of the skill set required to prosper on the oche, the…