Yearly Archives: 2013

jimmyDublin sliothar-stopping legend Jimmy Grey.

He was in the wrong sport in the wrong town.

John Gallen writes

Dublin hurler, Jimmy Grey, was goalkeeper the last time they won the Leinster Hurling Final’s Bob O’Keefe Cup in 1961. He had these words to say cheerfully on [RTE’s] Six One News this evening.

“The attitude in Dublin would have been largely, be football, whether soccer, rugby or gaelic football and hurling was seen as kind of a, a culchie game. To some extent, way back. And as a consequence only one Dublin born player*, as you probably know, ever won an all Ireland medal.”

Lovely man. Being a culchie myself and from Galway, living in Dublin, I look forward to extending those 52 years a little further on Sunday.

* I have no idea who that player I should probably know was :/

 

Anyone?

(RTE)

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“Wake up. Peek-a-boo.”

Max Keiser’s advice to the Irish as Paul Sommervile (top left) discusses the Anglo Tapes and the Irish public’s inertia on RT yesterday.

The item starts at 12.55 and described thusly:

Max talks to Paul Sommerville about the story of Anglo Irish bank, the toxic hedge fund masquerading as a bank which was run by charlatans lending to just twenty or thirty toxic individuals.

The Anglo Irish story is one of crony capitalism and collusion with government and regulators, one where the Chairman’s loans were bed and breakfasted and over which the burnt speculators are outing each other’s role in the crimes.

 

Stay for 19.20

 

 

 

We’re making our own popcorn.

 

Dukes says he was briefed on Anglo tapes by lawyers (RTE)