As of 2pm today, the footballers of Cork City FC, a club that finished third in the League of Ireland last season, will be unemployed. After a disastrous catalogue of spiralling debts and broken promises, the club is being wound up in the High Court.
With it go the contracts of its players – and the [...]

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Old soldiers often visit now-green fields which long ago heard their last gunshot in order to retrace hard-made steps and remember battles fought.
If any gnarled and scarred Irish veterans of the memorable USA ‘94 campaign ever make the pilgrimage stateside, the site of their most famous victory will be utterly unrecognisable.
Earlier [...]

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Anyone who follows NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter is lucky enough to have their mundane, work-a-day lives punctuated by lightening strikes of comic genius – intentional or not – from the Cleveland Cavaliers star.
Now – at last! – someone has made motivational posters for you, reader, to print out and paste [...]

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From the front page of today’s Irish Examiner: Bertie Ahern watches the Arsenal-Man U game in 3D in Fagan’s. Insert your own joke.
Emmet Ryan of Action81 was there for us – you can check out his report there, including the former Toiseach’s opinion.

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Ask a New York cabbie, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and they’ll invariably tell you “practice, practice, practice”.
With my collar pulled above the nape of my neck to shield myself from a sheet of the wettest Kerry rain, as I shuffled along the road between Killarney and Tralee [...]

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Many of my readers – perhaps even both of you – will spend this rainy Sunday night in front of the fire, watching the NFL action on Sky.
American Football has now more than a cult following, I would suggest, on this side of the water. The Cork Admirals compete in the Irish [...]

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God knows it’s lonely out there in computer land.
So, in the first of a new series, which will almost certainly petter out immediately, Hollywood odd-ball Gary Busey takes time out from his busy schedule of not reading scripts and painting with his feet (seriously) to round up the best of the [...]

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I saw this in the latest episode last night and thought of you guys.
And here’s some good dancing from my favourite character in the show.

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From Football quotes, humour and opinions – dangerhere.com » Quotes 2009-2010:

The Merse

HE HAS HAD A TORRID
Slowly but surely, Paul Merson’s innovative, adjective-heavy, noun-free lingo gains new devotees. The latest convert was Steve Bruce following the mauling by Chelsea:
“We haven’t had a settled at all.”
CAPTAIN CAPABLE
Chuffed Phil Neville always does his best to give his utmost:
“Today [...]

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FIFA decided earlier not to punish Thierry Henry for his cheating in Paris in November.
Fortunately, as I sunk into a deeper spiral of frustation and self-pity, America’s greatest living writer Cormac McCarthy texted on a few bits and pieces, in an effort to make sense of this dystopian, achromatic football world.
Nice [...]