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John ‘Foot in Mouth’ Inverdale Strikes again…

February 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Sport

17.26 John Inverdale apologises to BBC viewers on the ‘Mainland’ for overuse of term historic This is after a video package attempting to explain why England playing at Croker is so historic, complete with newspaper clippings and son’s of players who played in that match 87 years ago. So John when will you be apologising […]

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Swing low…

February 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Swing low… · Social Media, Sport

One week into independent living in Dublin City Centre Maman Poulet gets a chance at some citizen journalism It’s all kicking off outside the apartments this afternoon as England on tour visit the alien land of the northside on their way to Croker. I’m not brave enough to venture up to the Hill 16 establishment […]

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Stan Down

February 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Sport

Minnows 1 Muppets 2 The first of many headlines today that say it all…from the Sun. Oh and Stan says that we’re normally stronger in March – and all we wanted was the 6 points. So Ireland don’t play football in February – well he got one thing right.  San Marino were robbed.

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They were not rubbish, they were really rubbish…

October 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on They were not rubbish, they were really rubbish… · Blogging, Irish Media, Sport

I wonder if the lads at infactah have their videos/DVD recorders at the ready for the first 30 minutes of tonights broadcast of the match on RTE2.  Since TV3 had the coverage of last Saturday’s match we were denied the Giles/Dunphy treatment of what happened in Cyprus. There’s a lot of catching up to do and […]

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Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole

September 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Ryder Cup, Sport

I sat at the 16th Green today for most of the afternoon and especially for the important bits when Darren Clarke won his match and joined his team mates in their celebrations. It seemed that most of the crowd and his team cried with him.  This weekend’s events have been momentous, the atmosphere throughout the […]

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