Posts Tagged ‘rugby’
You’d imagine that they, and we, would have learned after Lehman… Business types in Ireland love to lecture us about ‘commercial realities’, and seem to think that simple devotion to money-grubbing somehow gives them a wisdom not shared by the non-pinstriped hordes.
The announcement of the Ireland-Australia friendly at rugby’s Thomond Park occasions a spot of FAI-bashing from the Herald, centred on the association’s seeming myopia to the league’s problems.
Do GAA people use the expression ‘Face the ball’? Would have thought it a football term, usually used at kickout, but it could also have crossed over to the more recent code.
Malachy Clerkin’s 2008 round-up in the Tribune succeeds in almost totally ignoring football in Ireland. But there’s a telling passage that gives an insight into why that is the case in his review, as in others.
Here’s a glimpse of the Irish attitude to football, revealed in the raw. This blogger purports to offer his readers a review of the sporting year. Now, one might expect such a review to include at least a passing mention of a record-breaking national league. Instead, this…
As Drogheda Utd enter examinership, defender Graham Gartland has branded Ireland ‘a backward country‘, over the frustration of the club’s efforts to establish a new stadium. And Drogheda manager Paul Doolin has questioned whether Irish people want football.
