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RELEGATING RACISM

Attention should be brought to this post by hxci over on ‘Come Here To Me’ regarding a march tomorrow in memory of Toyoshi Shitta-bey murdered in West Dublin on Good Friday. hxci makes a particular appeal to L of I fans to turn out - but I’m sure the more diverse the turn-out the better.
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This may be more the territory of our observant friends at dangerhere.com as, I warn you in advance, it contains a raw unedited Hamiltonism. It’s a video posted on YouTube by BohsTV which is also available on the Bohs official site, where I spotted it first. It documents the first, and possibly only, […]

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The miracles of modern technology - I don’t get a meaningful communication from a living being from one end of the week to the other (despite the 4 or 5 means of communication available) but here I am tonight in the SW of France watching Shamrock Rovers return to a home of their own after […]

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I must have watched this a hundred times back in 2002-03, as RTE used it to close the night’s broadcast, in lieu of the national anthem. It´d be on about 3am, but was always worth the wait.
Enjoy.

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ARTHOUSE BEST

Around this time of year, if you’re like me, you’re waiting eagerly for a wee bearded man dressed in red trimmed with white, hailing from the grim North - who weaves his special wee bit of magic - George Best, no less..
I have to thank my Derry namesake over here in the arse-end of France, […]

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I’m almost a month behind the crew over at Danger Here on this one ( How Andy Lost Friends ) but then I never was one for deadlines, was I ? We have learned recently, via the gossiping aul wans of Irish soccer journalism, that the ‘rumoured bust-up’ between Giovanni Trappatoni and a […]

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DOWN CYPRUS AVENUE…

At all turns - the world’s bankers can be seen re-emerging almost unscathed from their own rectums. I could, I suppose, delight or despair at this spectacle were I not the flippant shagger I am. Instead, my attention is drawn to the ‘bread and circuses’ option of the boys in green in action tonight at […]

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I noticed this by accident while looking over a Guardian article on the biggest surprise in Saturday’s round of World Cup qualifying matches - Lithuania’s 3 nil away victory over Romania in the lovely sounding Cluj ( Jonathan Wilson on Romanian defeat ) I thought that the name of the scorer of the third […]

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[ Photo pinched from bbc.co.uk / AP ]
Very likely due to the fact I’m just sitting in front of the PC in a town Nostradamus used to live in to listen to the Republic-Georgia match on the radio , I’ve got that doom-laden feeling in my guts again. Perhaps it’s also due to us being […]

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