Martin O’Neill & The Team That Came From Heaven
I’d put it on a par with losing the Championship with Celtic on the final day of the season (in 2005).
Read MoreI’d put it on a par with losing the Championship with Celtic on the final day of the season (in 2005).
Read MoreThe famed Coliseum in Rome didn’t stage contests as epic, as dramatic or, at times, as blood stained as Cork’s Athletic Grounds: Cork v Tipp in Munster combat, Cork v Kerry in mortal combat!
Read MoreAs soon as the scalpel was drawn across the patient’s hip to expose the hip joint, Johnny crumbled in a dead faint on the theatre floor beside me!
Read MoreIn the 1950’s & 60’s every kid in Cork City & suburbs learned to swim in The Baths – or if they didn’t, at least they had a bloody good wash there!
Read MoreIn fact, amazingly, some of the lads were smoking cigarettes as they worked! How they got away without blowing themselves – or the ship – up, is a mystery. I don’t think Health & Safety as a science had caught on yet at that time.
Read MoreI was fascinated by the naomhóg and couldn’t understand how such a flimsy craft could survive on the mighty Atlantic. It consisted simply of lengths of tarred canvas stretched tight over a latticework of light timber rib-frames surmounted by a gunwale.
Read MoreWhat is certain is Mick Barry was the greatest bowler of all time. The sport is littered with his records, like putting a 16 oz. bowl over the Chetwynd Viaduct, lofting Mary Anne’s pub on Dublin Hill, 4 in-a-row Munster titles achieved twice, it goes on and on. He did things that didn’t seem humanly possible.
Read MoreWord came through that Denis was being enticed cross-channel by Leeds United – much to our disappointment and disapproval.
“They’ll be sorry – he’ll be home in 6 months… he’s given up university for this – what a waste of talent”
Read MoreLong before the concept of GAA All Star Awards was first established in 1971 there was a tradition of selecting an ‘Ireland’ team in hurling and football and these teams would play a small number of exhibition games against teams selected from the ‘Combined Universities’ and the armed services i.e. a combined Army/Navy selection…
Read MoreCathy Barry sells crubeens, Fairly burstin’ at the seams.
“Here’s up ‘em all”, says the Boys of Fairhill
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