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Galway City Tribune Feb 27

Job applicants and people who have been offered a post at the university have also been asked: “Do you suffer any breast problems? Have you ever been treated for gynaecological problems? Have you ever suffered prostate problems?”

NUIG, according to the questionnaire, says that the questions are necessary to establish if the appointee is “fit for the job”.

If he or she can, “carry out the job without any undue risk to the health and safety of themselves or others at work”.

And that NUIG “will have reasonable expectation that the appointee will provide regular attendance at work until retirement”.

NUIG staff up in arms over ‘invasive’ health quiz (Connacht Tribune)
Irish Examiner: NUI Galway form asks job applicants about their menstrual cycles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egm29xbgr44

Youth Nation write:

A Munster fan, a Leinster fan, an Ulster fan, and a Connacht fan gather to watch Ireland play in The Six Nations. They don’t necessarily agree on everything, but this is what makes Irish rugby fans the best rugby fans in the world.

YOU decide

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More as we get it.

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A call card sponsored by the then single Time Out bar.

It later split into two separate bars promising and, in fairness, failing to deliver twice the pleasure.

RTÉ 2FM’s Off The Ball Second Captains Game On is back in the Aviva Lansdowne Road Nua Fan Studio tonight ahead of Sunday’s rugby international with England.

Broadcasting loive from 7pm in front of 50 Ireland fans, host, Hugh Cahill oversees a panel comprising Shane “Munch” Byrne, Alan Quinlan, Kevin McLaughlin, Gary Murphy and Bryan Cullen.

All fanboy no girl?

FIGHT

RTÉ Aviva Fan Studio

Earlier: Rose & Crown

Meanwhile…

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Ah here.

Thanks Rory Fitzgerald

Anyone?

Previously: Stop That

UPDATE:

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Guillote writes:

It’s landed…in Ballymun

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For the weekend that’s nearly in it.

Saturday, 19 January 30 March 1985.

Wee’ Barry McGuigan, Live Aid, and Optimus Prime dominated our thoughts.

When many young people were forced to roll up their sleeves. And go sockless. Such was the pernickety fashion of the time.

And Ireland’s second ‘Tripler’ of the ’80s was within kicking distance.

The earlier fixture, postponed by a flurry of snow, led to this Ireland team famously decamping to O’Donoghue’s of Merrion Row, Dublin for a session  St George-busting strategical think tank and wedgies.

It worked.

Irish coach Mick Doyle (top sitting far right) said:

“The lads were plucky, they wanted to win and it showed in the last 15 minutes, particularly in the way they tried to avoid doing the the expected things…”

Meanwhile, in the following Monday’s irish Times.

Rugby sage Edmund Van Esbeck was beside himself.

The strife is done now and the battle won: the tumult and the shouting have died away, the carnival is over but the memories will linger on.
Illustrious players and memorable matches have graced Lansdowne Road turf for well over a century now, but the happenings at this aristocratic among rugby grounds last Saturday will be indelibly etched into the history of the game and the minds of all 50,000 people who saw Ireland beat England by 13 points to 10. The prize for that victory is the Triple Crown and International Championship…

He’s no McGurk in fairness.

RUCK!

Previously: Cabbage Patch Kids 

Comin’ For To Carry Me Home

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February 3

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February 9

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February 25

Three weeks of snow in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Documented by realPoliticks.

He writes:

I thought I’d give yiz a little update on the snow situation here in Brookline, MA. With a couple of inches of snow overnight we officially passed the 100 inch mark. Another 5 or 6 more inches and we will break the previous record winter snowfall. I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Previously: How Many Inches?

Still Sticking

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Christina McMahon, Ireland’s only professional woman boxer

Christina McMahon of Carrickmorris, Co Monaghan.

Training out of Peter ‘Katie’s da’ Taylor’s gym in Bray, Co Wicklow.

A future world boxing champ?

Maura Fay writes:

A friend of mine is fighting for the WBC [World Boxing Council]  Women’s International Bantamweight Title on March 6th in Berlin [Germany]. Christina McMahon is taking on Aniya Seka

Christina has a pretty good chance, she’s ranked no. 2 in Europe and no. 9 worldwide. She’s Ireland’s only professional female boxer so given the interest in Katie Taylor in the amateur end of things, I’m sure people would like to know we’ve also a female boxer on the professional scene. Here’s a great interview charting her career…

Christina McMahon (Facebook)