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• 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 [...]

• Paul O’Connell kneeing Brian O’Driscoll in the head told through the medium of quotes from the Sopranos

  March 4, 2010 in Rugby

  “He Marvin Gayed his own nephew. The boss of the family.”
  - Vito, (referring to Uncle Junior shooting Tony)
  Melfi: “How’d that make you feel?”
  Tony: “I wished it was me in there.”
  Melfi: “Giving the beating or taking it?”
  “There’s an old Italian saying: you fuck up once, you lose two teeth.”
  - Tony
  “You’re not gonna believe this. The guy [...]

• Big D on Tiger

  March 1, 2010 in Sport, comedy

  I went to see comedy’s own David O’Doherty in the Pavilion, here in Cork, on Saturday night.
  Despite the former Perrier winner not remembering meeting my friends and I in 2004 in a field in Laois, it was a ridiculously enjoyable evening of laughter/muzak. Here’s his ode to the world’s greatest golfer/love-maker.

• Paulie’s ‘Fear of God’ Speech vs ‘Life is a Rollercoaster’?

  February 26, 2010 in Columns, Rugby, Sport

  To paraphrase one of Ronald Reagan’s White House advisors, speaking during a particularly stressful political stand-off, Eli Manning is an NFL quarter back so chilled out he sometimes endures sleepless afternoons.
  Thanks to this calm demeanour, a chronscopic arm and a thimble of good fortune, he managed to drive the unfashionable New York Giants to [...]