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Jerry Flannery

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You are my sunshine – Redux

By Fence ⋅ February 24, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

My only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey!
What a match. What a result. Role on Scotland and Italy.
Super Saturday or what? The fun started before I went to bed on Friday[1] when B#5 texted me to say he’d gotten his hands on a ticket for the big match. Bad news was that [...]

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You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it

By Fence ⋅ June 17, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

So I got out of bed with surprising ease this morning. Dressed in my Irish top I almost poisoned myself with sour milk, but spotted that there was something wrong with the tea and poured it down the sink. And headed off round the corner to The Woolshed Baa and Grill[1]
Within 30 minutes we [...]

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It’s not our destiny. We’ve got to go out and bloody work for it.

By Fence ⋅ May 20, 2006 ⋅ 5 comments

There are moments in sport that will live forever. As a small country we don’t get too many of them, so they are so much more important. Ronnie Delany’s gold medal in the 1956 Olympics. The 1978 defeat of the All Blacks. Sonia O’Sullivan. Ray Houghton, whether against England or Italy. Paul McGrath’s almost one-man [...]

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Olé, olé, olé, olé. Olé, olé!

By Fence ⋅ March 19, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

Was Sat ever a day of rugby or what? I missed the first match cause was taking the sister shopping for her birthday, but bloody hell. The two matches I caught were entertainment enough.
Weirdly, I’m starting to feel some sympathy for Gavin Henson. Thought all the criticism he got during and after the Wales/Ireland match [...]

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