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For the 43 days that are going to be in it.

The Rugby World Cup will be on our screens very shortly, with 48 games live! I have to say that I’m not looking forward to it. I love sport. I watch anything from hurling to horse racing but rugby leaves me cold. It takes three minutes from the set-up of a scrum, which invariably falls down a couple of times, to the eventual appearance of the ball, which is then kicked up to Row Z in the stands.
We then have to suffer the television panel, where the words “players”, “lads”, or “men” will never be used. It will be “guys” all the way. But it is listening to every pub expert talking about Ireland’s success or failure “at the breakdown” that will push me over the edge. I wish our nation all the best in the upcoming games but this “guy” will not be looking for a front seat “at the breakdown”.

Pat Burke Walsh,
Ballymoney,
Co. Wexford

Ruck!

The Scrum Of The Earth? (Irish Times Letters)

Meanwhile…

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Angry arb asks:

Worst money back special ever From Paddypower?

They haven’t gone away you know.

Tom McGurk, George Hook, Brent Pope minus Conor O’Shea will do a live panel analysis in DTwo, Harcourt Street, Dublin for the Ireland’s opening Rugby World Cup game versus Canada this Saturday.

Just when we thought they were out, they get dragged back in.

RUCK!

Dtwo 

Previously: Let The Sky Fall In


Former Dublin GAA captain Bryan Cullen at ODEON Cinema, Point Village with Morgan Freeman Savannah Keogh, Summer O Callaghan and Charlie O Reilly from St. Audoens NS, Dublin 8.

Following last week’s Odeon Cinemas 2015 All-Ireland Final competition to find the best fantasy GAA movie.

The winners of TWO family passes to the screening of Sunday’s All-Ireland at Odeon cinemas near them are:

The Mighty One – “The GAA, The Bad and the Ugly”; But Ruffage – “Cúl Hand Luke”

Close calls but later ruled out by hawk-eye:

Brian Melvin – “The Inglorius Bastick”; Watermeters – “Fast and Furiouser”; Scottser – “Black Card Down”; MickyD – “One Flew Over The Canal End”; Streetwise Here – “Hamburger Hill 16”; Stephen – “Hurl Interrupted”; Spaghetti Hoop – “Breaking Bad Ball” and Murtles – “The Bruise Brothers”.

Thanks all.

Previously: Win All ireland Final Tickets

ODEON cinemas

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Last night.

From left: Ireland Rugby head coach Joe Schmidt, Olly Hodges [IRFU Leisure Rugby Manager]  and South African-born Irish international rugby player and Richard Strauss.

All became Oirish citizens at a ceremony in Dublin.

Comin’ up here, takin’ our jobs, makin’ us better at rugby etc.
Citizen Schmidt: Ireland rugby coach now one of our own (Irish Times)

British Open-baiting Greystones-based amateur golfer Paul Dunne has been named alongside Gavin Moynihan, Cormac Sharvin, Gary Hurley and Jack Hune to represent Great Britian and Ireland at this year’s Walker Cup.

Brian Keogh writes:

It’s not easy to outstrip the likes of Joe Carr, Jimmy Bruen, Cecil Ewing or Max McCready but a quintet of Irish amateur stars pulled it off today when they were named by the R&A in the Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA in the 2015 Walker Cup match at Royal Lytham & St Annes from September 12-13.

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Record five Irish players selected for 2015 Walker Cup team (Irish Times)


Free this weekend?

Ireland Women’s Rugby 7s squad host a World Rugby event [August 22 and 23] at the UCD Bowl, Belfield, Dublin 4, involving teams from Brazil, South Africa, Samoa, Hong Kong, Mexico, Wales, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands and China.

With an Olympic repechage spot already secured by Ireland, the top two teams this weekend qualify for the full World Rugby 7s Series.

Ruck!

Full list of fixtures here.

Tickets  €5 (chizzlers free).

World Rugby Women’s 7s Series

Irish Rugby (I.R.F.U.)