Tag: The Oak Leaf County
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Na bfhaca tu mo Sheamasin?
The above line, delivered ruefully by Micheal O’Muircheartagh lamenting the unavailability of Jimmy Keaveney after the 1979 Leinster Final due to suspension, at the beginning of the Decade Of The Dubs video, translates as “Has anyone seen my Jimmy”? You suspect it’s a phrase Irish soccer fans will have to get used to uttering. Now…
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The good and the shaky of Derry
These are strange times in the sporting world. We have GAA Championships being played at a ludicrous time of the year, new fangled pundits giving it a No Country For Old Men feel, telling us the most basic and best way of playing Gaelic football is wrong, and old men taking on jobs when they…