Rarely can this competition have witnessed a turnaround like it; rarely can sport. It was total rugby in the second half, total annihilation. Seventeen points in 13 minutes, from the 44th to the 56th, had cleared up the little matter of that scoreboard.
Northampton’s Recovery Overturned As Leinster Herald Age Of The Irish (Michael Aylwin, Guardian)
Leinster Crowned Kings Of Europe After Sensational Comeback (Mail)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO1GsAhKbTU
Was amazed to find it exists and is not just a blankie thrown over us every night by god.
PS Spacefro Lady rules.
Pope Blesses Astronauts In First Phone Call To Space (AFP)
Commenting on the death of the former taoiseach, Dr Paisley told UTV: “I thought, in his own way, he was a decent man . . . But I didn’t like what he did on the majority unionist population. Going behind our backs and entering into an agreement with the British government.”
He denied the agreement between Dublin and London was a landmark improvement in relations between Ireland and Britain and that it fostered the subsequent peace process.
“I don’t think it was a milestone on the road to peace,” he said. “I think it was a milestone on the road to put their boot on the necks of the unionist people of Northern Ireland.”
Strange.
Where’s all the chuckle gone?
Bono Recalls Integrity Of Former Taoiseach (Harry McGee, Dan Keenan, Irish Times)
Taken within the last hour.
Thousands broke away from what they were doing to sign the book of condolences for Garret FitzGerald.
Wait’ll they hear Westlife are playing the funeral.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2qZddbDfw&feature=channel_video_title
In fact, it’s hen-believable.
Is This What The Irish Really Think About The Queen (BuzzFeed)
Are you called Ronan? Do you have a situation? You are? You do? Then contact Niamh Horan’s news team at the Sunday Independent now!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kzsE9HTepk&feature=player_embedded
The girls’ 6th year prank: Spacehopper squee.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qttee3m7lr4&feature=player_embedded#at=18
The boys’ 6th year prank: Head Boy smeared with fake tan.
Colour photos by American photographer Charles Cushman via Retronaut (Donal Scannell).
The young boy in the first pic is using one of the first mobile phones ever seen in the capital. He’s on to his ma about her coddle.
MORE PIX: Dublin, 1961 In Colour (Retronaut)
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