One of the nice things about being in Galway was being able to watch a Galway game in Galway…Of course apart from the Tipp fella on the barstool beside me, noone else cared, it being a hurling match and me being in North Galway (where football is religion and hurling an irrelevance). Still I enjoy [...]
Billy Rackard, Rathnure and Wexford inter-county hurler, 4 all-Ireland final appearances, 3 all-Ireland medals (1955, 1956, 1960), a proud son of a proud county.
“At Vinegar hill the hilside blushed
terraced thousands died,
shaking sycthes at cannon…
And in the Autumn the barley grew up from their graves..”
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilis.
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Liverpool won the footie. Ireland won the rugby. It’s a long weekend. How bad?!
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Only two but the train driver in Heuston swore by them.. and I kinda like them too..
2.40 Cooldine
5.15 Dunguib
EDIT: I gave these tips yesterday and they both won!
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Long time followers of this blog will be aware my human frailties, chief amongst them a love for the ’sport of kings’, from the vantage of a tv screen this year at least (maybe maybe next year for real!) and this year whilst I’ve been extremely busy it wouldn’t be Patrick’s weekend if I hadn’t [...]
OK take below with a reasonable degree of salt (atlantic cake dried marine variety of course) as I’ve yet to sit down and do any serious study of today’s form guide, but off the top of my head I’ll be looking at:
Exotic Dancer in the Gold Cup; whenever there’s so much hype about two [...]
It’s that time of year again and, like most racing fans, my heart will be in mouth and maybe skip a beat when the roar goes up at 2pm today to mark the start of the festival… There is nothing in the world quite like national hunt racing, especially on opening day, scent of rain [...]