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• A mug’s game: Cheltenham, day 2

  March 18, 2010 in Columns, Horses, Sport

  In Papillon, the epic 1973 film about a pair of criminals sent to French Guiana for a life of hard labour, one of the many mistakes Steve McQueen’s captors make is to give him a butterfly net. When Dustin Hoffman’s near-sighted Dega catches a rare and beautiful blue butterfly, McQueen bargains with a visiting insect [...]

• Uke can’t be serious: Christy serenades the rugby team

  March 12, 2010 in Columns, Music, Rugby, Sport

  Okay, let me make a confession.
  I nurse a clandestine habit that has driven me to the coldest and darkest corners of society.
  When the house is finally still at night-time, I surreptitiously boot up the computer and, after checking over both shoulders, click into online forums to communicate with like-minded enthusiasts.
  I visit specialist shops in the [...]

• Nice surprise

  March 11, 2010 in Football, Sport

  Heineken İtaly Activation from Kreatif360 on Vimeo.
  I don’t usually post advertising, but this is an unbelievable effort from Heineken in Italy.
  (Thanks to Stephen O’Leary of O’Leary Analytics)

• Weeshie meets Beyonce

  March 8, 2010 in GAA, Music, Sport

  Weeshie Fogarty is a Radio Kerry DJ and Kingdom legend. Recently, despite the obvious links between Rockafella, Jay-Z and Austin Stacks, Weeshie had some difficulty pronouncing Mrs Jigga’s name after he discovered his sound engineer had gone to Dublin for a gig.
  DJ Mek, a man who once stood idly by as I was man-handled [...]

• There are still reasons to love League of Ireland

  March 5, 2010 in Football, Sport

  The Sports Illustrated writer Joe Posnanski recently recounted a favourite quote he prodded like loose change from an interview subject.
  Louis ‘Red’ Klotz, has the most unenviable jobs in sport; coaching the team that faces the famous Harlem Globetrotters every week.
  The Washington Generals (also often known as the New York Nationals) are the journeymen stooges [...]