Last night.
Golfer Graeme McDowell welcoming Irish families to Orlando, Florida, as part of his GMAC Foundation initiative aimed at providing some relief to families of poorly chizlers.
Mmf.
Thanks Stephen Watson
Category Archives: Sports
Frasier v Ali, Madison Square Garden, March 8, 1971
Oh, my. Ali-Frazier, which even then was more a cultural touchstone than a boxing match, would probably paralyze us if it were held today, leveraging its various themes of race and politics on our social networking fulcrums. America would have to close for business to properly attend to this frenzy. Ashton Kutcher has 6.3 million Twitter followers? Ali would crash the Internet with his feeds (@smokinJoe is so ugly he should donate his face to @BureauofWildlife. #gonnawhupya).
Richard Hoffer, SI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egm29xbgr44
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
Off The Game
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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
Earlier: Rose & Crown
Meanwhile…
Ah here.
Thanks Rory Fitzgerald
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
Aren’t we all, buddy. Aren’t we all. pic.twitter.com/tylwKiPJ8N
— Malachy Clerkin (@MalachyClerkin) February 25, 2015
Ireland v U.A.E Live Blog (Guardian)
Update:
Ireland beat the UAE. Prince something, the staff of that Waterpark, that island shaped like a map, your boys took a hell of a beating
— Dara Ó Briain (@daraobriain) February 25, 2015
..But not too much.
A recent Ulster Bank Rugby survey revealed:
Some of you think England are the next best side in the 6 Nations Championship after Ireland.
Some of you would even like to see England’s Mike Brown in green.
Alan Quinlan, commenting on the Ulster Bank rugby survey said:
Once again the Ulster Bank Rugby Survey has thrown up some very interesting results from fans across the country. Most interestingly for me is our backing of England in this year’s World Cup but no doubt that will be forgotten during this weekend’s contest
Maul!
Full Survey: Ulster Bank Rugby
Ryder Me
atCaptain Clarke: It's official. Darren Clarke named 2016 European #RyderCup Captain pic.twitter.com/WitF8iNhdW
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) February 18, 2015
Darren Clarke named 2016 European Ryder Cup captain.
Go Aztex!
at@broadsheet_ie “@SteveDavis90: I mean,seriously,this HAS to be the best trophy in history of trophies! @AustinAztex pic.twitter.com/ETmcx66qZo”
— Barry Higgins (@barryh47) February 15, 2015
For the weekend that’s in it.
Saturday, 1st March, 1975.
In the centenary year of the Irish Rugby Football Union, once again, the Irish rugby team with its combination of a blatant shove in the back and a dribble up field spirit, skill and enterprise helped lift the island’s morale.
Amateur individuals subservient to the nation.
A double was on.
An almost giddy Edmund Van Esbeck wrote:
Exhilirating back movements, the deftness of the hands and the agility of the limbs of those who do their work in the tight, the ruck, the maul and the line-out. The essential ingredients were forthcoming this time that were so sadly lacking against Scotland
Meanwhile, in the crowd..
Allez what now?
Anyone??
Previously: Frogger, 1983