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After the game, Kerry’s centre back Jack Murphy put his clothes back on without taking off his playing gear, and died of pneumonia before the replay on 17th October (a Sunday) which Kerry won 1-04 to 0-04

Is This The Oldest Video Clip Of GAA (Video Gaga)

“See the dog create the waste”.

Thanks Niall O’M

69 Droim Chaoin, Rahoon, Co Galway (Daft)

Thanks DD

The olden days.

If the church didn’t get you, the Department of Education would:

“Augustine Martin seems to have less to do with choosing these stories then he did the poems [in ‘Soundings‘]. He provided the notes and exercises, but the stories were chosen by a syllabus committee of the Department of Education. They had an agenda – committees always do – which was less disinterested than Martin’s agenda for Soundings, or at least less based on the innate and tested excellence of the work.

Two-thirds of the stories are Irish (the reverse proportion to Soundings). The Irish are famous for short stories, but still, that doesn’t leave much space for the rest of the world. And there’s no Joyce, Chekhov, or Maupassant , so Exploring is less a canon than Soundings.

It says a lot about the preoccupations of the Department of Education: five stories by Liam O’Flaherty about the Aran Islands? Brilliant stories but the number of them suggests Gaelic League preoccupations, the old nostalgie de la boue.”

Bridget Hourican, reviewing Exploring English 1, Short Stories We Did For Our Inter Cert (Gill & Macmillan) in the Dubliner, with tomorrow’s Evening Herald.

The Ray Darcy show on Today FM sez:

We got sent in this photo from Paddy in Dundalk. Just after Ireland’s win over Australia last Saturday, his dog Sofie did a pee on the kitchen floor – the shape of Australia! How mad is that?