As part of Culture Night a crowd of 7,000 thronged Redmond Athletic Grounds on the Jones Road in Dublin for a pageant celebrating our ancient lost sports. A group of about 30 men dressed in long sleeved jerseys laced at the neck, baggy shorts and flat caps recreated the stirring spectacle of the last All Ireland Hurling Final held in 1919 on those very grounds before the sport sadly died out on a tide of apathy. Watching the spectacle one could only wonder how much better the island’s cricketers would fare if this pursuit had survived side by side with the island’s premier sport.
The Irish people are glued to the English soap operas Coronation Street and East Enders every week.
English Premiership football is very popular too with Irish people wearing the colours of their favourite English teams
London is a very popular destination for Irish emigrants seeking work
Oh wait…
Wetherspoons CEO has assured Ireland that the future of the 1000+ Weatherspoons outlets in Ireland are assured, regardless of the vote. Ireland, which has very few independent public houses left operating, is Weatherspoons key market. Ireland of course is synonymous with Smithwicks Ale, which unlike its English Ale counterparts is served from a pint bottle.
It’s a big night in the Vauxhall Irish Premiership, and all roads lead to Dalymount Park for the Old Firm derby meeting of Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers. There will be a heavy police presence to separate supporters, especially given the tensions over today’s referendum. Bohemians supporters have been vocal in their support for a No vote, while Shamrock Rovers supporters, led by the Thomas Davis Ultras (named in honour of the 19th century Irish nationalist agitator) have campaigned strongly for a Yes. BBC2 Ireland have live coverage starting at 7:55pm, with commentary from Jackie Fullerton and Damien Richardson.
A win will take Rovers back to the top of the league table, at least temporarily, as leaders Lnfield don’t play until tomorrow afternoon, when they travel to bottom of the table Maryborough Town.
We really need a “trying too hard” rating.
Families of World War 2 veterans have been thronging British Legion halls up and down the island seeking assurances that whatever way the vote goes their pension entitlements would be secured. It is estimated that the pension entitlements are worth 100 million pounds to the islands economy, annually.
And they all got up for work the following day.
Was the national anthem oh Danny Boy belted out?
McGuinness calls for commemoration of Irish terrorist leaders
Sunday Dependent
September 14th, 2014
Yes campaign leader Martin McGuinness has called for more recognition of historical Irish nationalist leaders. Under McGuinness’s proposal, a statue of Charles Stewart Parnell would be erected at the junction of Sackville Street and Redmond Square. “This is our forgotten war”, said McGuinness. “The sacrifice of the rebels of 1798, and men like Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmett also needs to be recognised.”
First Minister Enda Kenny and Prime Minister David Cameron have poured cold water on the suggestion, however. “I think it’s highly inappropriate to bring something like this up at such a delicate stage in the campaign”, said Kenny. Former Prime Minister Lord Boyneside has dismissed McGuinness as “a crank who ended up on the wrong side of history”.
Fagan mentioned Culture Night’s celebration of those lost Irish sports, and there’s also an interesting feature on the traditional Irish games of cad and hurley on Trans World Sport this week - might be worth watching.
Press release
This week Trans World Sport focusses on the annual celebration of Ireland’s native sporting pursuits, the Irish Country Games. Held annually over one weekend in Lowry’s Field, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, since 1916, local teams compete in the traditional Irish games of cad and hurley. While the sports have been largely dormant for most of the last century, they have enjoyed something of a revival in recent times. Last year 20 teams entered the cad competition, while 8 teams battled it out in the hurley festival. Other traditional Irish rural activities such as dancing and music are also celebrated, and to add a touch of glamour, a beauty pageant entitled “The Queen of the Camán” (pronounced “Cayman”) is contested by young women from the region. The winner gets to sit on a throne with the best player in the cad competition - The “King of Cad”, at the closing ceremony. The Games have been praised in Lonely Planet’s Ireland guidebook as “a unique event - it’s difficult for an outsider to tell what’s going on most of the time, but the sense of fun surrounding the event is palpable.” The games open with a traditional banshee’s cry, and close with a ceremonial burning of a huge paper mache model of the infamous Lough Derg Monster, lit by the man voted the best player in the hurley competition. Nobody knows whether “Dergie”, as he’s more popularly known to tourists, actually exists, but his annual burning is believed by locals to banish unwanted spirits - but the Irish being the Irish, the copious amounts of whiskey consumed all weekend are certainly not included in that category!
This entire thread merits such a rating.
Knock it off you cunts.
[QUOTE=“Piles Hussain, post: 1019147, member: 363”]This entire thread merits such a rating.
Knock it off you cunts.[/QUOTE]
Poster from snivelling, servile, soup taking, powder pissing, forelock tugging, lickspittle county doesn’t like thread. Jog on*.
*I’m already aware Frankie Boyle mentioned this as a snivelling, servile, soup taking, powder pissing, forelock tugging, lickspittle English phrase.
[QUOTE=“Sidney, post: 1019148, member: 183”]Poster from snivelling, servile, soup taking, powder pissing, forelock tugging, lickspittle county doesn’t like thread. Jog on*.
*I’m already aware Frankie Boyle mentioned this as a snivelling, servile, soup taking, powder pissing, forelock tugging, lickspittle English phrase.[/QUOTE]
Stop boring the board Sid. You’re better than this.
[QUOTE=“Piles Hussain, post: 1019147, member: 363”]This entire thread merits such a rating.
Knock it off you cunts.[/QUOTE]
In other news, during the Queens recent visit, a man in KK detached a chunk of his scalp after he tugged on his forelock too vigorously.
Can they do like we do in Ireland and keep voting until they get a “yes” answer?
Fuck off @Piles Hussain - I find this thread mildly amusing
That’s more like it 
Relatives of (the late) record breaking Ashes captain Sir Christopher Ring said to be aghast at the prospect of Ireland leaving the Union.
The Daily Mail has this morning savaged the Irish counting process and the fact the result will not be known until Sunday afternoon at the earliest.
Are they counting a referendum result using the Proportional Representation single transferabke vote system?
That’d be a first.