Posts Tagged ‘media’
An Irish newspaper based in Britain is anxious that an Irish goalkeeper based in Britain might get injured, perhaps leaving the Irish team in the disastrous situation of having to play France with an Irish keeper up until recently based in Ireland. Geddit? Neither do I.
Every now and again, you get to read a news piece on an event that you saw for yourself, and wonder if its reporter is on the same planet.
Say goodbye to Kildare County, who just about succeeded in fulfilling their last fixture on Saturday. And say hello to more trouble in store down the line, as, insanely, Galway gets a third team in the league.
Class, and not religion, as Kieren Westwood would have it, has won through in the end for Bohs keeper Brian Murphy.
It’s great to see Kevin Doyle, a product of the League of Ireland, get off the fence and urge people to do their bit for their local football club. Especially in the context of one of those ‘glamour’ friendlies where the home support is likely to be out-numbered by the day-trippers cheering on the visitors.
Galway United sneaked into the Irish edition of the Sunday Times at the weekend.
At this stage, there is hardly any point in a non-ManU and non-Liverpool supporter railing against the excesses of the Irish sports media in the run-up to today’s mega game, which surely has re-defined our understanding of hype.
