http://youtu.be/oSSD8uEmlI0
Want to own Brian O’Driscoll’s soiled cast-off boots?
Solas Project are holding a prize draw to raffle off the very boots B.O.D wore in Ireland’s Rugby World Cup 2011 victory over Australia in an effort to raise €10k to fund its mentoring and social development activities.
Clodagh writes:
The competition runs from today until Thursday 22nd October. Entries can be made by texting “Boots” to 50300 and all texts will cost €6
Name that voiceover artist.
Anyone?
http://youtu.be/oZ86PiVp8rg
For the weekend that will be in it.
Wednesday, October 20th, 1999.
The Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens.
A much fancied Irish team just had to show up and beat Los Pumas to secure a World Cup quarter-final place at Lansdowne Road. Guided by Warren Gatland and Donal Lenihan, they had, in fairness, steadied Irish rugby’s on-field fortunes.
Plucky tyke Brian O’Driscoll becoming evergreen in an Irish shirt even before he had broken through at Leinster.
Times were bon..
Donal Spring writing for the Irish Times said:
For this Irish squad, the 1999 World Cup is over before it really begins. We all knew that we were going to get to Lens and that we would meet our first genuine test there as we were always unlikely to beat Australia.
We have failed that test. In these days of public relations the message from the Irish camp was to go “where no Irish team had gone before in the World Cup”. They have achieved that distinction, but it is not quite what they had in mind..
We’ve been here before it would seem.
RUCK!
Leona Maguire
Duke nukes ’em.
Brian Keogh writes:
It didn’t take long for [Cavan’s] Leona Maguire to pick up where she left off for Duke University after the summer break. The world amateur No 1, who was fourth on her seasonal debut in the Annika Intercollegiate last week, claimed her fourth career win for Duke in the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational in North Carolina…
Four!
Cathal Furey of Fan Footage writes:
We want to document last night’s amazing win over Germany through the eyes of the fans and would appreciate the help of the good folk who read Broadsheet. Best fan video uploaded by midnight this Saturday will win €500 cash, a nice sweetener. Any fan video to do with the match is eligible by the way. Could be one filmed at home, in a pub or at work anywhere around the world, not just the Aviva.
Upload here
Shane Long the hero as Ireland beat world champions Germany (RTE Sport)
(Pix: Simon O’Doherty, RTE Sport)
My dog went missing yesterday. Last seen Griffith Avenue, D9 area. If anyone sees him could they please contact me. pic.twitter.com/BKC8urVf3i
— Cathal Pendred (@Pendred) October 8, 2015
Two weeks to a big fight and this.
Anyone?
Thanks Mark O’Toole
It’s worse than an all boys boarding school.
Ahead of Ireland’s le crunch game against France this weekend, Paul O’Connell, Johnny Sexton and Robbie Henshaw talk about life in camp and the importance of bagman Patrick ‘Rala’ O’Reilly.
Paul O’Connell gushes:
..he’s the most positive man on the planet, he’s the go to man, if you’re feeling low, you can always get a Dairy Milk or some wine gums..
Roll, away.
*flicks towel*
Following yesterday’s Balls.ie Guide to Life competition GIVEAWAY where we asked YOU who should have made the sports website book’s cover (above) – the five winners are:
Slimer – “W.W.E’s Sheamus”; Seany_Delight – “Mick McCarthy”; Gooch – “John Aldridge” and Mark and Jim G – “Kevin O’Brien”
Thanks all.
Yesterday: Having It Unfeasibly Large
Just published.
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)
For the weekend that’s nearly in it.
Saturday, October 18, 1980.
Romania gripped by Ceausescu’s austerity policy sent her rugby team to Dublin… to make a good impression.
Kevin Myers wrote in the following Monday’s Irish Times:
“They’re playing very dangerously,” said a woman in the grandstand amid the tinted glasses, fur coats and the havanas, as the Rumanians passed the ball within their own goal area, each looking at it like it was a wrongly addressed letter..
..The crowd applauded the visitors warmly, perhaps an indication of a wish for them to enter the International Championship. If they do, it must be RTÉ commentators’ devoutest hope that the Rumanian winger Fuicu, changes his name or is dropped.
Ho, dear me, rugger rout not to hand.
Final score: Ireland 13 Romania 13
