Mick Galway said we have the x-factor
We’re all fans of Ronan O’Gara here[1] but I am left with slightly bemused by his interview in The Guardian. [found via Blogorrah] Not so much for what he said, we...
17 October 2006
The Last Great Tour? by Paul Daly
Sunday 29 May 2005, Schipol Airport, Amsterdam
I hated rugby once, you know. In first year at secondary school, we hauled our bags up to the top of St. Patrick’s Hill every Monday afternoon, to run around in the freezing muck.
I had hoped to enjoy this, but in the end it was a little meh. Maybe because I hadn’t seen any of the rugby from the Tour, Sky Sports keeping it all for their viewers. Or maybe because New Zealand were so dominant. Or maybe because I’m not a Woodward fan. Or maybe because the style of writing was only meh-worthy.
12 October 2006
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
I’m talking sports. And I’m talking losing. Soy un perdedor well, not me personally, but the teams I support. Went to the Munster match. Had a great time. But we lost....
8 October 2006
The only reason the energiser bunny keeps going is because it knows Paul O’Connell is after it
Bhí mé ag caint le mo mháthair inné and remember I told you about the mutt and his busted tail. Well he wasn’t eating on Monday, which for him, food-aholic that...
6 October 2006
you came and you gave without taking
I’m watching Leinster being beaten by Edinburgh[1] Tis quite annoying, especially cause the commentators on Setanta Sports are Scots, and so obviously enough up for Edinburgh. Can’t blame them, and they...
9 September 2006
Spending 10 seconds chatting to Malcolm O’Kelly about Beck is more fulfilling than hours spent talking to Kenny Cunningham about, er, I can’t really remember
Let me start off with a preamble. I’m not a huge fan of the colour pink. In small doses I can take it, and even like it. And certain shades are...
29 August 2006
Time Added On by George Hook
When you are a child, and you’re poor, and you live next to other people who are poor, you never think of yourself as being poor.
Around a month ago I read an entry on Omaniblog about this book, up until then I hadn’t even known that George Hook had a book out. But that post caught my attention. George Hook is probably best known in Ireland for his rugby punditry. Together with Brent Pope and Tom McGurk, he analyses rugby for RTE in an entertaining, honest, blunt manner. He also has a radio show, but I’m not big on the radio so haven’t heard him enough to comment on that. In many ways I suppose he is the Eamonn Dunphy of the rugby world.
But I know him primarily from his rugby comments, and his constant promises that Munster will lose, and that the likes of Stringer shouldn’t be playing. I disagree with him, but am well aware that he is very knowledgeable about the game. And in an entertaining way.
25 July 2006
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
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...
17 June 2006
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
Rugby Rugby report on how a match in Russia was mistaken for a mass brawl, leading to arrests of the players: The police broke up proceedings and detained some 100 people...
13 June 2006
New Zealand had superior teams to the opposition in the past few World Cups but they faltered because they lacked the essential spirit that Munster demonstrated
Although I continue to be delighra and exi’ra[1] over Munster’s win, it has had a negative impact on my life. Well, a positive and negative. See publicity for Munster means that...
25 May 2006
It’s about who we are, and where we come from, the people you meet on the streets
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22 May 2006
It’s not our destiny. We’ve got to go out and bloody work for it.
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...
20 May 2006
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