Tonights Six One News contained the usual sports report with Colm Murray. Steven Staunton has announced his squad for the forthcoming internationals. Not a lot of interest probably as qualificiation is virtually impossible probably involving 5 Bulgarians scoring 20 goals against Lithuania. But what was very interesting was the Staunton philosophy on Irish leadership and [...]
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Sky News reports that Mourinho has left Stamford Bridge. BBC News 24 report that senior players received text messages this evening confirming Jose Mourinho’s departure So no more special one on Today FM? What will Mario Rosenstock do? I predict a No. 1 Record with a new version of ‘I think I better leave right [...]
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Or how I got through the Liverpool/Chelsea match tonight! The night before the election I think is when the final is due! Now will it be against Manchester United? Anyway whilst I bit my way through the match I researched and wrote this for Irish Election – more of this throughout the campaign.
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A few weeks ago I’m sure that some of the Irish sports journalists who were sent to Jamaica to cover the ICC World Cup were happy enough to be packing their sun block and t-shirts for a brief holiday and sending home a few quirky reports on our team of part timers and amateurs. Well [...]
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17.26 John Inverdale apologises to BBC viewers on the ‘Mainland’ for overuse of term historic This is after a video package attempting to explain why England playing at Croker is so historic, complete with newspaper clippings and son’s of players who played in that match 87 years ago. So John when will you be apologising [...]
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One week into independent living in Dublin City Centre Maman Poulet gets a chance at some citizen journalism It’s all kicking off outside the apartments this afternoon as England on tour visit the alien land of the northside on their way to Croker. I’m not brave enough to venture up to the Hill 16 establishment [...]
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Minnows 1 Muppets 2 The first of many headlines today that say it all…from the Sun. Oh and Stan says that we’re normally stronger in March – and all we wanted was the 6 points. So Ireland don’t play football in February – well he got one thing right. San Marino were robbed.
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I wonder if the lads at infactah have their videos/DVD recorders at the ready for the first 30 minutes of tonights broadcast of the match on RTE2. Since TV3 had the coverage of last Saturday’s match we were denied the Giles/Dunphy treatment of what happened in Cyprus. There’s a lot of catching up to do and [...]
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I sat at the 16th Green today for most of the afternoon and especially for the important bits when Darren Clarke won his match and joined his team mates in their celebrations. It seemed that most of the crowd and his team cried with him. This weekend’s events have been momentous, the atmosphere throughout the [...]
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So some dispute whether this is the third biggest professional sporting event in the world and many despise the hype and the glamour. But today the play at the Ryder Cup finally got underway and it was a great day to be at the K Club. The atmosphere was electric and the crowds well behaved, [...]
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