The 19th
![]() The 19th August 24th 2010“Hindsight is 20/20 vision of course, but at the same time a blind man could have seen back in 2006 that letting Donie Buckley slip through Clare’s net was a hammer blow to football in the county. And... |
![]() The 19th August 17th 2010“Crossing the River Lee to Páirc Uí Chaoimh for that famous semi-final in ’83, One geographically challenged Dub uttered the immortal and comical words: ‘Jaysus, I never though Paric Eeee Keeev was on... |
![]() The 19th August 10th 2010“‘Such was the savagery of the combatants that had it not been for the intervention of the Gardaí under Garda John Lavin the game might never have been finished,” wrote Sean King in The Clare Champion... |
![]() The 19th August 3rd 2010“My new hero Alex Higgins had Scott Joplin’s, The Entertainer, blaring out as his backing track. He wore a trilby and spats, threw away his tie, smoked cigarettes, drank beer and potted balls for fun ... |
![]() The 19th July 27th 2010“What makes a legend? What they did when they were alive? What they’re remembered for when they’re gone?” It’s probably both, for Brian O’Reilly was something of a legend. MENTION Mayo football as it... |
![]() The 19th July 20th 2010“Ballyea’s 2009 minor management team had every right to air their grievances with officialdom. The management team were those who put the work in with the players, week in, week out, not only in 2009... |
![]() The 19th July 13th 2010“What happened with the ref shouldn’t have happened, but it was hardly Stalingrad, or specifically from the GAA point of view, it wasn’t Bloody Sunday either, when the might of John Bull swaggered up ... |
![]() The 19th July 6th 2010“‘Simple football is the most beautiful, but playing simple football is the hardest thing,’ was how Johan Cruyff described Total Football. We wonder what Mr Total Football will say on Sunday if the cu... |
![]() The 19th June 22th 2010BACK in 1990 the matadors of doom and gloom predicted with unfettered confidence that those in Gaelicville had a very rough ride ahead of them as the body sporting public and non-sporting public for t... |
![]() The 19th June 29th 2010“Maybe in the summer of ’66 there was more than a sneaking regard and support for the Three Lions on this side of the water – only right too because at a remove of 44 years anyone can see that there w... |



























