I suggest Blaa Blaa Blaa with Fagan & Powery.
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There used to be a couple of Waterford oulâ lads that would follow the Eire association football team abroad (maybe they still do because I donât, it was just a mad phase I went through). I donât think I ever talked to them but I saw them and heard them in several places like France, Poland, Sweden and Estonia. It was always on trains or buses or at airports youâd see them. Youâd hear them first of all. They had the broadest, flahhest Waaafud cih-y accents. One of the lads had a great nickname, Shapo (pronounced âShayyyhhpoâ). I think Chewy was the other lad. Actually Iâve just made Chewyâs name up because I think of all Waaafud people as Chewy, as in âthe rest of this stage of the Tower uf Frwaaance will take abeuh chew owwehsâ like Sean Kelly would say. But Shapo was real.
Youâd be on a communist era late night suburban train from Gdansk out to some godforsaken kip called Wejherowo, and youâd hear a few seats down ânow Shapo, weâll get back to the hotel, get some kip, then tomorrow back into town, get euh, see the suights, thaâs the jobâ. Or youâd be at an ATM machine at Stockholm airport, and thereâd be a queue but youâd not be paying attention as to why there was a queue, and then youâd realise there was a queue because Chewy and Shapo had been fumbling at the till for ten minutes not having a clue what to do. âNo, youâre puttinâ in the card the wrong way. With this machine you have to put it in upside down.â
Chewy and Shapo went everywhere together and they were like Statler and Waldorf, but happy out, as they say. This is what I imagine Fagan and Powery as.
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Having carried out further research I have come to the conclusion that this fact is incorrect and that the person buried in the cemetery and reinterred was in fact John Moore the first (and to date only) president of Connacht. Moore was installed by General Humbert during the French invasion of Ireland.
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This discovery has caused me to doubt the accuracy of the claim that the Knights Templarâs gold is buried in the bog behind Creaden Head.
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Anything to the referee who didnât see the gash on Ger Cunninghamâs nose when he saved from Martin Naughton?
No. John Moore the President of Connacht was from Mayo while John Moore the referee was from Dungarvan. However they were both incarcerated for a period so they have that in common.
Visited another Templar graveyard in the town today. This one is in Kilbarry near the benighted Ballybeg Estate.
Itâs well kept. In great nick.
Here is a classic Templar gravestone.
The readable headstones date from the 1750s to the 1850s.
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Youâll have to call into Askeaton. We have a Templar tower in the protestant church. Along with a castle and an abbey and the only other hellfire club in Ireland
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One of the founding members of the Hellfire Club was Edward Croker, he of âI doubt it says Crokerâ fame.
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I doubt it
A bastard of a road for a bus driverâŚ
Talking Blaaâs with the fedora man.
Wasnât his big house the ruined one at Grange?
He was out that direction alright.
Hereâs one for the flat earthers; Dublin is closer to Anchorage than it is to Las Vegas
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Nah. Las Vegas is closer to anchorage than Dublin
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Calgary is an 8hrs and change flight from Dublin.
Toronto is a 7hrs and change flight from Dublin.
Yet a flight from Toronto to Calgary is over 4 hours.