Tag: New York
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Hate to say we told you so!
“We asked you not to hold onto the hand rail; We told you not to spit over the side”. Just then, the stairway to Heaven was retracted and Bart Simpson slips down the greasy pole to the warm place. Hardly surprising. Now read on… After the first day’s action at the most recent incarnation of…
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Do Not Poke The Bear
There’s episode of what I think was the Tom & Jerry Kids spin off of the beloved cat and mouse cartoon in which the two feature characters were on an outing to the zoo. Wherein Tyke the lovable but disaster prone dog was on security duty. For which his simple mantra was DO NOT FEED…
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Even Noah couldn’t fight the tide without his ark
Sometimes you witness, either in person or on a screen, happenings in sport which nobody has to underline the importance of. Often the significance of which stretches well beyond the bounds of the sport concerned. For example, the penalty shootout in Genoa in 1990, Katie Taylor’s Olympic gold in London or Dawn Run winning the…
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Dour Donald gambles with Garcia gaffe
The Ryder Cup is a curious concept. Golf, the most individual of sports. Morphed into a team event. Most likely out of a sense of tribalism. Americans think they’re the greatest in the world at everything. Naturally, when someone adopts that stance, instinct is to challenge it. Hence the inception of the biennial team-based event…
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Selections for Curragh – Aug. 26th 2023
4.05: RAPID MISSION – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.40: SHELAKA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 5.10: LETSBEFRANKABOUTIT (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.40: SNOWCAPPED – EW – (COLIN KEANE/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.10: FACETHEPUCKOUT – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTLEDGE (3)/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 6.40: NOT TOO REAL BAD – EW – (JAMES RYAN (4*)/TOM MULLINS) 7.10: CARNEGIE HALL (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN)
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New York leave Leitrim on the wrong side of history
Start spreading the news, they’ve finally done it. After scaring the living daylights out of several teams over the years, the New York footballers recorded their first ever Connacht SFC victory in the early hours of Sunday morning. Nobody can say it hasn’t been coming. Diaspora from this part of the world can be very…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 14