Tag: The Leitrim Observer

  • The CCCC and The Hooter

    The CCCC and The Hooter

    It was this morning announced that CCCC of the GAA – formerly the Games Administration Committee – have decided that henceforth once the Hooter sounds in a Gaelic Football match play stops immediately. Bullshit. Had that system been in place during this season’s championship, Ciaran Moore’s magnificent winner for Donegal against Mayo would never have…

  • Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s  greatness lay in his quiet approach

    Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s  greatness lay in his quiet approach

    Joe Brolly tells a story about  the late former Derry manager Eamonn Coleman pulling a newspaper cutting out of his back pocket minutes before the team were due to take the field for a crunch Ulster SFC encounter. The cutting was an ‘article’ in which a player – possibly Tony Scullion but I can’t swear…