YOU decide.

From the current issue of Hot Press. Ivan Murray, barman of the Ardilaun Hotel, Galway,

Eight pints three gins.

Before switching to lager.

Eight Pints Three Gins Before His Dinner (Owen Conlon, The Irish Sun)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland) 

“People have been saying to me for a number of years now, because it was perfectly clear to most intelligent people that Armstrong had been doping, and they asked if I felt vindication because I was accusing him for many years. I’ve never felt vindicated [Armstrong sued him for libel] because I’ve never needed vindication in my life. I was never sure of anything more in my life than that this guy and his team were doping and that was from the very first Tour in 1999.

“It’s just wrong that guys who were riding the race clean and never appeared in the top 20 were screwed by a corrupt system and in my view a system that couldn’t not have remained corrupt without the complicity of the people who run the sport, the race organisers, the sponsors, the cycling journalists. Too many people turned a blind eye to something that was obviously wrong and they did it for all the wrong reasons.”

Irish sportswriter David Walsh, of The Sunday Times.

David Walsh On Armstrong (CyclingNews)

The Unsung Hero Of The Lance Armstrong Scandal (TheBrokenElbow, June 2011)

Meanwhile, on BikeRadar:

Paul Kimmage?

BikeRadar.com

Inside the Royal Arch Room, The Grand Lodge and the chapel of Freemason’s Hall in Molesworth Street, Dublin, yesterday.

Ireland’s home of the amusing handshake and rest-stop for visiting Knights Templar, has been opened to the public for Heritage Week.

If those walls could talk.

They’d probably say ‘Yikes’.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpTVEcUhA50&feature=plcp

Róisín O – How Long

Darragh Genockey writes:

Thought you might enjoy Róisín O’s second single ‘How Long’ from their upcoming album ‘The Secret Life of Blue’. They’re playing Whelan’s [Dublin] on Friday September 21. The video was directed by Alan Joseph Tully, and puppetry was all arranged by Aaron Heffernan & the Collapsing Horse Theatre Company.

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