Tag: Tom Parsons
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Advantage forwards after weekend of Retro Ball
You can bring the horses to water but you can’t make them drink. For more than a decade now, Gaeldom, myself included, have been articulating ad nauseum how pedantic, restrictive, and frankly boring snooze fest Gaelic football has become. You can blame Mickey Harte or Jim McGuinness or Eamon Ryan or Elon Musk or whoever…
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The Railway rides again in attempt to marry the old and the new
We were presumably all that kid who relentlessly badgered a parent or sibling to buy us thrash food until they gave in and did it, at some stage. Well, in my case, that would probably translate as coercion to transport me to wherever there was a tractor or combine or hay turner could be seen…
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No winners in latest GPA stunt
When Rachael Blackmore crossed the line claiming Gold Cup glory aboard A Plus Tard, within seconds, some of the ITV Racing crew had sidled up alongside the terrific Tipperary lady to get immediate reaction to the win. Brilliant journalism from their point of view and wonderful insight for viewers tuned in. However, the couple of…
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Pat playing to the gallery as per usual
Many a GAA Congress ago, it became apparent that to instigate change, one needed the ice-veined patience of Paul Carberry and the staying power of Tiger Roll. Think of all the alterations which have been applied eventually but had to negotiate several swings and roundabouts before they took effect. From kicking frees and sideline balls…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…