Tag: USA
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Hate to say we told you so!
“We asked you not to hold onto the hand rail; We told you not to spit over the side”. Just then, the stairway to Heaven was retracted and Bart Simpson slips down the greasy pole to the warm place. Hardly surprising. Now read on… After the first day’s action at the most recent incarnation of…
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Do Not Poke The Bear
There’s episode of what I think was the Tom & Jerry Kids spin off of the beloved cat and mouse cartoon in which the two feature characters were on an outing to the zoo. Wherein Tyke the lovable but disaster prone dog was on security duty. For which his simple mantra was DO NOT FEED…
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Search for missing Dunboyne man reaches tragic conclusion
Daire Lynch, who, at 39-years-old, disappeared in Houston Texas in December of 2021,will be laid to rest in his hometown of Dunboyne, Co Meath, next weekend. The deceased, who was a year behind this writer in school, had been living in the Lone Star state for some time having moved to the land of stars…
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Why would you do it?
More than a quarter century ago, I tentatively rolled my wheels into organised politics for the first time. Primarily because the Local and European elections of 1999 were literally one month after my 18th birthday and thus my first opportunity to vote. Four years before that, the late John Bruton took over as Taoiseach –…
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Last of the sporting bastions falls to common greed
The year cannot be recalled, but the image will be forever etched in the memory bank. Wild-eyed, manic looking Ian Poulter in that zone that only the Ryder Cup could put the colourful Englishman. From memory, Europe were well adrift of their American adversaries in the biennial team golfing event when ‘Poults’ almost single-handedly set…
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Good news stories and tough home truths
There are some occasions in sport – and other facets of life – when the form book can go out the window. Or at least that’s the way it used to be. With Irish sport anyway. Tonight at the World Cup though, the form book didn’t so much go out the window as into a…
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MONEY TALKS BUT SOMETIMES IS BEST IGNORED
The above statement could apply to most facets of life. Indeed, it is currently a fairly hot topic close to home but disappointment felt at such being the case is in no way directed at the protagonists from these parts. Rather, it encapsulates frustration felt that if people in places of influence had been a…
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Selections for Thurles – Feb. 24th 2022
1.55: DOLCITA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: THAT’S LIFEBOUY – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 3.05: FOUR COUNTRY ROADS – EW – (HARRY SWAN (7)/BRIAN MCMAHON) 3.40: THE LITTLE YANK (LIAM QUINLAN/JOHN RYAN) 4.15: RAJSALAD – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 4.50: SEFTON WARRIOR – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (5)/JOHN HANLON) 5.20: BROOKLINE (PATRICK…
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Danny bags the Jackpot as Lewis’s struggles continue
Stop the presses. The Americans are good to go. Nobody does ‘Big’ like the US. They’re annoyingly obsessed with big. Whoever wins the NBA are World Champions in basketball, even though the 30-team league comprises only teams from the stars and stripes and one from their neighbouring clover leaf. It has been admitted here umpteen…