Tag: Romania
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Phelps says what we all think amid more Chinese whispers
Such was the Irish efficiency on the global athletics stage when I was growing up that seeing the likes of Sonia O’Sullivan or Catherina McKiernan or Rob Heffernan or Derval O’Rourke feature prominently at major televised events was almost nonchalantly taken as a given. That’s not arrogance, just faith and confidence. Until that one occasion…
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Twelve tries but still room for Paulie to give them a bollicking
IRELAND…82 ROMANIA…8 You’d hope Kevin The Carrot isn’t booked in for a session too early in the morning. Ireland’s favourite animated advertiser wouldn’t deserve to incur the wrath of an angry O’Connell. No living being would. You might wonder what Paul O’Connell might have to be put out by having seen those prepared by Andy…
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It’s a fairly safe bet he didn’t watch Italia ’90!
Italia ’90 – even now, mention of the words together conjures so many memories. Pat Bonner’s grimace before that booming kickout against the Dutch, Genoa, Penalties, Bonner again, David O’Leary, the pub scene from The Snapper. Now read on… Another recollection from that glorious summer prompted what you are about to intake. A proclamation by…