He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, By WB YeatsHad I the heavens embroidered clothsEnwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and…
Category: Sport
What’ll happen if the pope comes to Liverpool?’
There was a minute of respect for Liverpool legend Ian stJohn before tonight’s game against Chelsea. But the mourning at the club is not confined to the death of the…
Another kind of revolution for Cork GAA
The sound of death in the throat of Thomas Macswiney is the end of your adventure in Ireland’. This was the opinion of a guild of New York Irish as…
Hurling’s perennial loser model
The ref had barely blown the whistle last Sunday when some of the more excitable scribes were saying that this Limerick teams achievement put them among the greats. Indeed, wrote…
Comeback for the ages at Croke Park
Admittedly, I saw little enough of last weekends hurling matches. Even so it was impossible not to see the massive black banner about ‘bloody Sunday’. To be honest, it distracted…
El Diego
El Diego slipped the surly bonds of earth today. In truth he never belonged in the first place, his gifts more suited to a stage where the gods play the…
The Republic
They buried ‘Big Jack’ today. Back when he was a player in my schooldays he was never referred to as either Jack or Big Jack. Though I needed no reminding…
Big Jack
The grim reaper came for another of England’s famous 1966 World Cup winning side On Friday as Jack Charlton bowed out at the age of 85. In Ireland the focus…
A gulf between the best and the rest
The gulf between the best and the rest was given another airing as man. city played Newcastle in the f.a cup. Adopting a defensive strategy was always the play for…
Ice in your knickers ( 04 March 2020)
As the future king of England does his thing above in Dublin and looks forward to his trip along the wild Atlantic way his thoughts, no less than the rest…