If you like your austerity and public hate figures soundtracked with a rockish pop melody
Darragh O’Hanrahan writes:
Big September will donate the proceeds from their latest single Moneyman to help fly home Irishman Robbie Robinson from Thailand. So, put your hand in your pocket please.
The new video of Big September’s new single Moneyman, made by Tom Prentice and Sean Fee. The lads will play a free gig on the bandstand, Bray strand, as part of the Bray Summer Festival 2013 this Saturday night.
The 60th World Trout Fly Championship on Lough Mask, County Mayo.
Finally.
First fished back in 1953, the then Castlebar Trout Anglers Association and An Tostal [early Gathering] competition was considered one of the first international sporting events in Ireland.
And it has survived (casts net for cliche) in spite of economic hardship.
Denis Kelleher says:
From a peak of 820 competitors we are down to numbers in the region of 450. The disposable income isn’t in people’s pockets anymore but this event which has survived a closure due to foot and mouth and the ‘rod war of ‘89’.
It is estimated the four day event is worth in the region of €1million to Ballinrobe and its surrounds. Pubs, hotels and restaurants will all contribute in some way to the event”.
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 :/