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  • Ongoing legacy only part of a changing landscape

    Life is an ongoing collection of fine margins. A few inches in a different direction at any time can alter circumstance beyond recognition. For the purpose of what’s about to roll out here, consider Munster’s eventual scaling of the European rugby mountain top.  

  • A fondness for collating information bordering on hoarding

    A fondness for collating information bordering on hoarding

    Becoming more directly involved in farming was the best decision I ever made. Equally the most frustrating however. Now, it would be easy to pin the aforementioned reservations on price volatility and changing markets. These are ongoing concerns. Greatest angst, though, is generated out of not being able to do more. Part of life’s menu…

  • Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    #GAA Whittling away the time prior to a dreaded hospital appointment may seem a curious time to be ruminating on matters GAA. Then again, said organisation is one of the mainstays which makes some of life’s more trying travails more negotiable. A while back, a video was encountered on YouTube of the potato harvest in…

  • From Moynalvey to Ballinacree to Pungaheru this was big business

    From Moynalvey to Ballinacree to Pungaheru this was big business

    Even from the time of my school days, which is not all that long ago, how we ingest the daily news has altered seismically. Where once the day commenced with David Hanley on Morning Ireland and Gay Byrne followed, now a tap of a phone – even a dinosaur model of same – or comparable…

  • Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    #RACING The abundance of land that goes for sale these days often causes a sentimental sadness. Partly out of farming instinct, more so, however, on seeing a chapter in a locality’s history ending. Traditions and country customs have to count for something and must be maintained. November 1st is always a big day in these…

  • Part of me knew it’d be the loneliest place on earth

    #GAA For a multiplicity of reasons, it seems scarcely believable that it’s November. The cattle are still out grazing and National Hunt racing is getting better every week.Those morsels presently represent the only beacons of positivity on the horizon. Desperately needed they are, as well.

  • Who writes their scripts?

    #Rugby #Racing Last March sent a sporting curve ball which life can often summon spinning this way. Parochial, tribal tendencies are the fabric of what stitches the GAA together. For those of us exposed to the association at a young age, its influence can be all consuming. Some might say to the point of addiction.…

  • There’s only limited merit in assessing greatness

    #Dublin #GAA How many of you remember the 1988 film Coming To America? Most specifically, the barber shop scene therein where Akeem – the Prince of Zamunda – happens upon a debate between the proprietor of the premises and several patrons as to who was the better boxer, Joe Lewis or Rocky Marciano.

  • Red is the rose in yonder sporting garden above

    “My father he gave me the love of it all, when he guided my arms to strike that first ball. A hurley, a football it’s the same thing to me. It’s playing the game that matters, you see”. Those couple of lines are from the GAA incarnation of The Beautiful Game. They surely could be…

  • Skill needed to negotiate different species

    The idea of bucket lists doesn’t sit well here. Whatever about having lists of ambitions one wishes to accomplish, in the aforementioned form they smack of too much finality. One can entirely see what some people might think of such a viewpoint, however, even though there have been numerous times when such a stance on…