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Dear Ard Stiúraitheoir,
First off let me congratulate you on your accession to the administrative throne of the Gah. I know it’s a belated chomghairdeashas and mo bhrón on that,...
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LAST week’s Open Letter to the Ard Stiuraitheoir provoked some feedback, much of it positive, albeit that one irate reader screamed down the phone the other day that yours truly wa...
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THERE was a small step forward taken for Clare hurling this week, but it’s safe to say that the move in the rich direction may have slipped under the radar of many aficionados of t...
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THE Munster GAA convention came to the Clare county capital last Friday for the first time in a long number of years. Hardly worthy of a rare outing for the Ennis Brass Band at a G...
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AS Nemo Rangers were galloping away from Ballina Stephenites in the All-Ireland Club semi-final in Cusack Park on Sunday, news came through that St Vincent’s were in a canter of th...
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THERE’S a story told about the great Dublin team of the 1970s that changed the course of Gaelic football history. It’s a story told in the good times about the way things were in t...
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GROWING up with the GAA, kicking football badly and watching both codes avidly, it’s true to say that the dual star always held fascination. There was always something about a play...
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THE SUPER BOWL scarcely caused a ripple of excitement on this side of the Gulf Stream over the past weekend. The Giants and the Patriots on an indoor Arizona carpet just doesn’t do...
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FRIDAY was surely Kieren Fallon’s darkest hour, even if he could see it coming down the home straight for the last six months.
Henri Pouret, France Galop’s head of the rulebook an...
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LORENZO BRUNO Nero Dallaglio, or just plain old Lawrence to his friends and foes too, gave a very interesting interview to Marian Finucane last Saturday morning on the national bro...
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THE CHOREOGRAPHY would have done justice to a Broadway or West End stage. But, staying local and bringing it all back home, given that it happened on Clare FM on Friday, there’s no...
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ONLY when casting an eye back over the pages that made up the sporting year that was 2007, does one fully realise and appreciate the fine mess that Clare GAA found itself in over t...
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