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TheBallsGuidetoLife
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From the people behind Irish sports website Balls.ie

The The Balls.ie Guide to Life (O’Brien Press)

Donny (Balls.ie co-founder) writes:

Since 2010, Balls.ie have been trawling the Internet, listening to the beating heart of the Irish sports fan.. Along the way, there’s been a lot of eejitry and a few genuinely life-changing moments. Think back to the desolation when Ryan Crotty scored that try for the All-Blacks in the corner of Lansdowne Road in 2013. Or the ecstasy when Nigel Owens blew the final whistle on the 2015 Six Nations with England encamped on the French try line.

It’s our belief that many of the silliest and most important moments in irish life have happened on the sports pitch. This is our attempt to document them. To celebrate, we have FIVE copies of the Balls.ie Guide to Life  to give away.

To enter, just tell us who should have made the cover (above)?

Lines MUST close at 7:30pm MIDNIGHT

A short preview of the first chapter is available here

The Balls.ie Guide to Life (The O’Brien Press)

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44 thoughts on “Having It Unfeasibly Large”

  1. Mani

    just tell us who should have made the cover (above)?
    I dunno, it’s hard to think of an Irish sports star I despise that much I’d want their face on that vomit coloured primary school collage.

  2. ahjayzis

    This dross is a black hole of fun for me. Charisma-free zones all ’round. Bantz lads, duz b mentle.

    Sports tossers.

    2. rotide

      Reading your constant only gay in the village is a black hole of fun to me but you know, each to their own

  9. Mark

    Kevin O’Brien blazed the fastest century in Cricket World Cup history as Ireland pulled off an astonishing victory over England in Bangalore

  12. ReproBertie

    Sure, Westmeath is only a small county and most of the country won’t give a toss about the 2004 Leinster football final replay but Paidí O’Sé should have made the cover for his role in that glorious day. I was away for my anniversary the day of the final against Laois. Being that it was my anniversary I had left my phone back in the hotel rather than have our day and dinner be interrupted with constant texts and updates. I put the game completely out of my head for the day and it was only when we got back to the hotel that I picked up my phone to live the entire 70 minutes in 30 seconds. There was just a single text, from my brother. “Draw. Replay.” Happy fking days!

    The replay was the only GAA match I’ve been to with my entire family and, other than an All ireland final in the late 70’s, the only one I can ever remember my father going to. The final whistle led to bedlam. Pitch invasion, race back to Mullingar, work cancelled, the shop repainted in maroon and white and all down to Paidí. HIs passing was as mourned in Westmeath as it was in Kerry and his pub in Ventry is a mecca for Westmeath fans on holidays in Kerry.

      2. ReproBertie

        Well you cared enough to post but at the time loads of people. The fly on the wall documentary Marooned made even more care. Ah, heady days in the Lake county.

      2. ReproBertie

        That it was scottser. Of course I fully expect it to make about 30 seconds of the Sam 2015 DVD since neither side went on to do anything.

      1. Ginner Winner Frilly Keane

        Nope. I stand corrected.
        1995. All Ireland Minor Football Champions.
        Happy to put that right.

        1. ReproBertie

          Won the 1999 U21 as well with a victory over Kerry in the final.

          The 04 Leinster title was the first senior title in either code and finally moved us on to the roll of honour leaving just Fermanagh and Wicklow absent.

  14. MoyestWithExcitement

    Gordon D’Arcy’s beard should probably on it. Just his beard. I mean, enough gobsheens were waffling on about it like……

  15. Ginner Winner Frilly Keane

    Jimmy Cooney and the Biffo sitter- inners
    Eddie Moroney
    JBM on the 21
    Da’ Double Man Teddy McCarthy
    And the Kings of the 32 Breege and Rhona

  16. MoyestWithExcitement

    I saw Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell wearing Ireland jerseys once…..on a serious note though, if it’s a book of stories as opposed to a list of sports names, Michelle DeBruyn and Stephen Ireland could genuinely be on that cover……just gimme the fkn book!

  18. Murtles

    Peter Stringer should be there. Great speedy ferret of a lad that could squeeze between the hairs on a gnats balls. Stringer was the bane of many a team playing Ireland during Rugby World Cups and Heineken Cups etc., you’d think he was twins he was in so many places.

  19. JimG

    Kevin O’Brien, for scoring the then-fastest century in ODI history, against England in the 2011 Cricket World Cup!

  20. Caroline

    “It’s our belief that many of the silliest and most important moments in irish life have happened on the sports pitch.”

    Fair enough. I suppose you have to believe that. Otherwise it’s largely been a pointless waste of time, a diversion from the true self you cannot bear to be, a steady but irreversible draining away of the sap of your youth. Best of luck with it now.

    1. Bingo

      Sport, aside from obvious health benefits (to those participating, even if it’s 7-a-side footie with mates) is also the source of the greatest drama on the planet.
      Most recent example being England V Wales on Saturday evening.

      Each to his/her own I guess.

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