Do you remember the ads for Golden Maverick calf nuts in the 80s and 90s
GGA players used to do a lot of agricultural ads them days .
Triple A
A for ???
A for ???
A for accelerated growth
Three aces that keep your cattle healthy etc
That was a cowboy playing cards
Was it Caprovin that had the gah players, John Fenton did one
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A for anti scourâŚ
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Fenton did one that had a clip of that ground pull he scored a goal from from about 50 or 60 yards out.
A sensational start to tonightâs edition of âThe Championshipâ (failte is cheid) on RTE Radio 1, as the first 15 seconds of the 10:30pm-scheduled âSeascapesâ with Fergal Keane was mistakenly played instead.
Thankfully the mistake was rectified and we returned to the scheduled programme as Brian Carthy was telling us what delights await on tonightâs programme over the familiar, reassuring tones of the former Sunday Sport theme music.
Tonightâs all-star cast is made up of GAA correspondent for the Irish Sun, Gordon Manning, Humphrey Kelleher and Paddy Christie.
The appointment of Paul Galvin as Wexford football manager and the resignation of Podrick Fanning as Waterford hurling manager are first up for discussion.
Humphrey is touting John Meyler for the Waterford job. âI would describe him as a passionate hurling manâ.
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Your evocative posts about this programme are tempting me to listen to it for the first time ever in the coming weeks.
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The beauty of âThe Championshipâ is that itâs like a good conversation with a taxi driver when youâre travelling from Dorset Street to Camden Street on a match night with seven pints down you.
Or alternatively, a conversation abut GAA with your first cousin once removed at the afters of a funeral.
Gordon makes a good point about Cork football: âI expect them to push on and give a really good account of themselvesâ.
This applies equally to the Cork senior team and the under 20s in tomorrowâs All-Ireland final.
Paddy Christie says âTyrone are not too far awayâ.
Humphrey says Sundayâs clash in Omagh âwill be a game of pokerâ. He picks out Cathal McShane for special praise, but believes Peter Harte is the biggest influence on the Tyrone team.
Gordon says that Dublin have a sense of invincibility which is similar to the All Blacks in rugby.
âI think you have to give him a runâ, says Paddy of Diarmuid Connolly.
Kilkennyâs Adrian Mullen tells us heâs expecting âa good testâ from Cork in the under 20 hurling semi-final in an exclusive 18 second interview clip.
Corkâs Brian Turnbull says âthereâs no point felling sorry for ourselvesâ after their agonising Munster final loss to Tipperary. âThe ultimate goal for us this year was the All-Irelandâ.
âAlways huge interest in those under age games, Humphreyâ, says Brian.
Humphrey then explains how he was about to go out and get some fresh air last week, but then saw Tipp were playing Cork on TG4, âand I had to stay in to watch it.â âItâs pure hurling, thereâs no cynicism.â
Great praise now from Brian and Humphrey for the Renault World Games, and especially organiser Pat Daly.
âItâs doing wonderful work in spreading the games worldwideâ, says Humphrey.
âItâs what the GAA is all aboutâ, says Gordon.
And with that final wordscape, we escape The Championship for another week and take in some Seascapes, this week focussing on classic racing yachts.
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The plane home from oz was full pasty muldoons attending the world games
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A guy from New Zealand on now talking about restoring classic racing yachts.
He came to Ireland in 2001 when he followed an Irish girl from New Zealand to Kilrush - seemingly successfully.
Iâd get onto him for some tips only Iâm totally woke now and am no longer into that sort of thing.
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That must have been some sight
They were no doubt dreaming of having some rashers back at Mammyâs, but if they saw any air at Dubai or Abu Dhabi they probably turrned into one
When I was having a smoke in one of those horrible little glass booths at Abu Dhabi airport in July 2014 a pasty looking woman in a Donegal jersey sidled up beside me
She was not a Donegal Catch, more of a trout
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Thatâs the âwhite powerâ symbol, you fascist cunt
Sorry about that, bucko
Apology graciously accepted
Humphrey Kelleher is a media whore, spectacularly lacking in talent.
A for acidified?
The cowboy was Harry Doyle of Fair City fame
ok - saturdayâs sindo and Vincent Hoganâs âinterviewâ with Eoin Larkin is a point of reference here but serious allegations of plagiarism must exist tony leen style post its publication
the key feature in the writing is the intro statement followed by the obvious quote describing it - sid can pull this off very well with Canice/Larkin and the Larkin/Hogan piece uses this feature very well also to hone in on the stereotype
"Reading it its almost impossible to imagine Anneâs ( no doubt some respectfully private woman who has known our hero since third class and tows the line) turmoil at this moment ,was she prepared for the exchange?
"No i dont think she was prepared for it "
âshe never even realised?â
" no one night we were in bed and she was reading thru the book and just said to me - i never even realised"
the usual consistencies appear " the voice of authority" aka Brian Cody who has been the insert whatever figure in his life since 6th class at some de la salle school where there was only hurling, the obsession with club gaa, the lads, and this utterly bizarre tale of how he and the wife would go out on valentines night with tommy walsh and his mrs and Canice would leave after the first course to go club training - shur he didnt know anything elseâŚ
the relationship with the wife is a different matter
found out her husband was depressed from a book, abandons her at a dinner to go club training - only confides in Brian CodyâŚ
id be suing lads
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