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All the way from Arie Haan to Hugh Grant
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
IT might have been 32 years previously but as I drove home from Adare last Tuesday night I couldn’t help slipping back to a June evening in 1978 when Holland qualified for a World Cup final.
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Reporters are not the enemy
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
THE comparisons between the World Cup and Ireland’s GAA scene continue to stack up.
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Bonfires blaze over Islandeady
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
BONFIRES over Bohola signalled Mayo’s glorious All-Ireland win in 1951.
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Another legend for the Heaven 15
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
AS the pages turn and the story of life is revealed one adventure after another, a bulging cast of characters flit in and out of focus.
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Mitchels is a home from home
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
I ALWAYS knew it would come to this. It always lurked in the back of my mind that one day my football heart would be dragged in two opposite directions, but I had tried to block it out.
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The welcome is always warm in Erris
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
MEMORIES sneak up on one just when you least expect.
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Untapped talent lurking in the junior ranks
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
THE County Cup final may have slipped under the radar of many footballer followers on Saturday last, but those who keep watch on the fortunes of Burrishoole and Ballinrobe had their eyes firmly on the prize when their teams took to the pitch in sparkling sunshine in Charlestown.
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Losing toenails in Castlebar’s marathon
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
CHARLIE Haughey was flitting between confidence votes and general elections, Garrett Fitzgerald was getting his footwear mixed up and a distinctly French-looking Mike Murphy made Gay Byrne’s blood boil with a memorable candid camera spoof.
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‘Lucky’ Lindsay rekindles fond memories
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
SPORTING minds were easily pleased in the seventies and eighties.
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Masters throw ‘one hell of a party’
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
THE early morning sun was glinting off Clew Bay as some of the stragglers moved from the warmth and camaraderie of Knockranny House into the cool reality of a spring Sunday morning high over Westport.
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Triple Crown is far from a booby prize
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
THE Celtic Tiger may have long since starved and decomposed; indeed it never really visited Mayo at all, but the events of last week reminded me of those heady, hedonistic days.
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Smoke signals, drums and pigeons replace texts
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
THE GAA have handed out some unusual edicts over the years but they’ve really outdone themselves this week.
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Four famous seconds in shadow of the flats
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
THE young ladies from Davitt College hadn’t a single supporter in the stands at the All-Ireland Futsal finals last Tuesday, but as the dying seconds of their last match ticked away the whole stadium rocked to the chant of ‘Davitt, Davitt.’
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Shedding tears for a world champion
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
LIFE never fails to surprise. Almost every day some unexpected happening changes the way one views the great merry-go-round of existence.
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When football was always this good
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
IT WAS a throw back to the old days, United versus City.
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