Archive for July, 2007

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Meath’s GAA draws and fixtures made

The GAA have drawn Meath’s next upcoming footballing and hurling fixtures and fixed the venues for all of them.
The footballers will be playing Galway next Saturday at 4pm, in Portlaoise, in Round 3 of the Bank of Ireland All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers. Louth’s game against Cork will open the programme at 2pm.
The hurlers, meanwhile, will face [...]

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Saturday, July 14th, 2007

At last, a sensible take on the Tevez saga

The BBC’s sports editor, Mihir Bose, has written a rather excellent blog on his take of the whole saga regarding Carlos Tevez, West Ham United, the Premier League, MSI and Kia Joorabchian.
Particularly on-the-button is an analogy he refers to on West Ham’s claim to Tevez’s ownership. Saying that the Hammers have no cause to claim [...]

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Friday, July 13th, 2007

BBB - Bring Back Blogorrah - Day 004

All of a sudden it looks very ominous that I’m going to run into three digits on the count. Especially when links like this show up, telling us what kingpin Derek O’Connor has been up to since.
Lads, get the finger out. Your absence is, to borrow a gif…

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Thursday, July 12th, 2007

BBB - Bring Back Blogorrah - Day 003

Day three and still no sign. Damien, The Swiss Job, RedMum and Niall O’K are all on your trail now. And we can’t stay looking at Glenda’s ale-drinking brilliance forever…

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

The Spanner: McDowell Defends Decision to Work for John Gilligan

From the rather excellent Spanner Online:
Retiring Minister for Defence, Michael McDowell, this morning defended his decision to take over as Director General of the Gilligan Group. The former minister made the comments in a surprisingly relevant interview on the Breakfast Show on NewsTalk 106.
Speaking from his home in Dublin, Mr. McDowell stood by his decision, insisting [...]

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Six One in 10 - 10th July 2007

A quicker one today, because the news today is basically boring as hell. Watch it all if you like.
Joe O’Reilly’s phone records further exposed as alibi conflict
(watch it)
Joe O’Reilly’s phone records were far removed from his alibi. If he’d been at home, as was his story, it was impossible - in the opinion of an [...]

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

BBB - Bring Back Blogorrah - Day 002

C’mon, lads…
Man, I hope this newfangled peer pressure thing really works.

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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

BBB - Bring Back Blogorrah - Day 001

Like many good ideas in the Irish blogosphere, this was Damien’s - there’s some logos going around for people to put on their sites as a public declaration of their longing for Blogorrah v2 to hit the cybershelves. You’ll see one of them over on the right of this page.
C’mon, lads. We miss ya. Don’t [...]

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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Foot fetish? Today’s your lucky day…

Boards.ie eo980 wants to know how well you can manipulate your toes.
There are pictures.
*gulp*
Clickeh: That’s Some Freaky Feet There Missus (Boards.ie)

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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Six One in 10 - 9th July 2007

“Sometimes I feel like I’m not opinionated enough. If I was, I probably wouldn’t have as much trouble writing a blog.”
“What do you mean? Of course you’re opinionated. Sure when we watch the news, you always have something to say about something.”
Opening thoughts: Good that Dobbo and Shaz are back. It was weird last week [...]

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