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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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RTE will broadcast live coverage from Castlelyons, Co. Cork of the State Funeral of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent (pictured) on Friday 18th September 2015 at 1.25pm on RTE One

‘sup?

All the bells, all the whistles, all the solemnity.

Laura Fitzgerald writes:

RTÉ will broadcast live coverage from Castlelyons, Co. Cork of the State Funeral of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent on Friday 18th September 2015 at 1.25pm on RTÉ One

David McCullagh will present special television coverage of the State Funeral, starting at 1.25pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ News Now, with John Bowman and Mary Kennedy providing commentary of the Requiem Mass and reburial in the Kent family grave at St Nicholas’ Church in Castlelyons near Fermoy, Co.Cork. Full military honours will be rendered at the funeral ceremonies.

The Requiem Mass will be attended by the President, Michael D Higgins, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, the Tánaiste Joan Burton TD., the Lord Mayor of Cork, the Cork County Mayor, and other dignitaries.

But little time had they to pray.

FIGHT!

Previously: The Red Skull

 

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This morning.

Merrion Street, Dublin

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and United Left Alliance TD Joan Collins with activists Donal Toolan (left) and Michelle Gaynor among a number of campaigners engaged in a multi-day protest outside government buildings against cuts to disability services in recent budgets.

(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)

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Hello you.

The plane flew over Dublin to Shannon to Cork, and then back to Dublin again in a triangular formation for five hours. …The plane’s transponder – which sends certain information to receivers on the ground – showed it to be a Boeing E6 Mercury, belonging to the US Navy.

It is now believed it may have been a Boeing E3 aircraft [which “provides surveillance, command, control and communications, and is used by the United States Air Force”].

The plane stayed at a constant 28,000 feet throughout its journey over Ireland

Five Hours.

AWACS, dude.

Why Did A US Spy Plane Spend Five Hours Over Ireland (Jack Quann, Newstalk)

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