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In 2010 the greed machine that is professional rugby showed its true nature when a match between Munster and Leinster was fixed for Thomond ...

Do you remember those old cowboy movies that glorified the massacre of the native red injuns of the USA by the the Blue Coats when scalps we...

We own a few cattle,calves,cows and one only bull.They have a goodish life.And they have a way of letting you know what's on their mind....

After watching TV this evening a chill ran down my spine. The rhetoric of WAR is all over the place and Truth is the first casualty. First...

Here in Dunderry I seldom travel more than five miles,so I am and have been dependent on the papers and electronic media for information. I...

Yesterday myself and two friends attended a funeral in Carrickmacross.We came home through through Kingscourt AND DECIDED TO STOP THERE FOR ...

Today myself and fellow Muskateer Liam Dalton went to Carrickmacross to console Carmel Geraghty and attend the funeral Mass and burial of he...

Ray Darcy,aka the Gnome with the Dome is the perfec fit for RTE ,through which a rancid anti Catholic hate campaign is being promulgated. H...

The Directors of the IABA are unpaid nor do they get expenses. Unlike the other members of the Dail Committe who showboated their way throu...

To my great consternation I read more about the Sports Council's bullying of the IABA and its executives today. Mulville said that he h...

My late father was a  Welshman and proud of it.As a young man his sports of choice were rugby and boxing,He tried his hand at both and I don...

Every Sunday Gerry and Rita Doherty drive Gerry's 92 year old mother down to 11.00 a.m.Mass in Dunderry ,ensconce her in the side isle a...

It's 4.00 a.m.Myself and she who must be obeyed are sitting in a queue of cars in Navan Hospital awaiting a bus that hopefully will brin...

In the run up to the All Ireland Final today I was watching RTE 2 with one of my three year old grand daughters sitting on my knee playing w...

Reports are filtering in from concerned parishioners of the bullying and intimidation of a highly respected community and GAA leader by a me...

In contrast to my earlier life ,when I was in the City almost daily ,I rarely visit Dublin now. Within this last two weeks I had reason to ...

If the first half of the replayed semi final today wasn't the best exhibition of football served  in my lifetime I don't know what w...

As long as I can remember Kilkenny were the bees knees in Hurling.Tipp and Cork run them closest but whatever it is about Kilkenny they are ...

This Sunday was my idea of GAA Heaven.My beloved Club playing at 1.45 p.m and the Dubs V Mayo in the All Ireland semi final at 3.30 p.m.It d...

Dot and Vincie or Vincie and Dot are 47 years together this year.Married for 47 years that is.Never a night apart.Correction.She took bad a...