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  • Another go at solving the unanswerable question

    Another go at solving the unanswerable question

    With Guest Contributor Paraic Farrelly (@FarrellyParaic1 on Twitter) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Laois defeating Meath in the first round of the 1992 Leinster SFC is as fresh in the mind today as the shock was when it happened. To an impressionable 11-year-old, this wasn’t supposed to happen. For the…

  • We are the only dopes if we swallow this one

    We are the only dopes if we swallow this one

    Lance Armstrong – even mention of the guy’s name makes my skin crawl. For me, it’s the deception. Yes over what he ‘achieved’ on the bike under a cloud of shame. But the deceit goes even further than that. There’s trying to decipher what was real from what wasn’t. I mean, he was obviously a…

  • Green Machine needs a date with the mechanics

    Michael Van Gerwen faces a spell off the oche after the conclusion of the Cazoo Premier League as he will undergo treatment for a long standing ailment in his throwing arm. The ‘Green Machine’ qualified for the league play offs in Germany by coming second in the table after the ‘regulation’ fixtures. Defending champion Jonny…

  • Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 31st 2022

    Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 31st 2022

    1.20: CRATLOE HILL – EW – (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 1.50: DOCTOR CHURCHILL (ROB JAMES (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: TAKE TEA (MARK WALSH/WILIE MULLINS) 2.50: CLASSIC GETAWAY – (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: BOIS DE CLAMART – W/O FAV – (RICHIE DEEGAN (3)/LIZ DOYLE) 3.50: MY NEWBROOK ROSE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ADRIAN MURRAY) 4.20: I DON’T GET…

  • Sowing the seeds on the road to God knows where

    While in the vast majority of ways it could be said that the vast majority of the most recent Christmas/New Year period passed off peacefully in these quarters, there was the not-so-small matter of the senior bossman here having an unwanted meeting with – and kicking the ass of – Covid-19. Having something like that…

  • Closing the stable door when the ginnit has long bolted

    You’ve often heard mention of Maurice Healy’s wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan…

  • Mc’s Minors ensure an exciting build-up to Christmas

    Meath… 3-11 Westmeath…0-07 It was a case of carrying on where they left off for the Meath Minor footballers as they returned to action after a near eight week hiatus looking every bit as efficient and promising as they had prior to Covid-19 stopping play. Their 11-point dispatching of Dublin (1-15 to 0-07) gave a…