I was down in the harriers for the feile a few weeks back. Larry O was an exceptional host. A proper club man getting stuck in, helping out wherever needed, while entertaining all the guests with great stories of days gone by.
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Did he ever get on again after the night he said Eyeball Quinn should be put up agin a wall and shot for what he did to Henry Shefflin?
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Do you get those Uncle Tom tendencies in Waterford as well? Or is it just a Wexford/Offaly thing?
What did the young lads think of his second mickey story?
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That Wicklow Meath game was refereed by Noel Whelan. His first and only inter county game. His friend and umpire Tom Power enthusiastically pointed for a point as it sailed over. His brother Joe stood passively by the post shaking his hands. Everyone wondering what he was at. Noel goes into him to see what the problem was. Noel blew the whistle as the ball went through the posts. But Joe took it to the letter of the game and said the full time whistle went. The kerfuffle at the posts meant Noel couldn’t give the point and win to Meath as intended, so he had a draw and was escorted off the pitch to a baying Meath mob. And never got a county game again. The following week Joe was umpiring down in Bannow Ballymittys pitch. The roars any time a ball went over or wide. A point, a wide, the games over. And poor aul Joe just kept on doing his sterling umpire duties.
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Didn’t they play an all stars game in Toronto iirc?
It was camogie, I imagine he deemed it inappropriate
Shane Dowling, Limerick sub
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A couple of years I think
Ger Cunningham beat the Blue Jays slugger Kelly Gruber in a home run derby
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What was that about 
Who is this Nick Coffee guy @Cheasty?
https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1825837833908568158?t=HO64ISTyMKbZQVFnvW75-w&s=19
Nick Coffee is Rodney Rice.
We used to be a proper country.
I was in Spain there a few months back, special offer in the shop, buy a carton of cigerettes and get a nagin of vodka free.
Still a proper country
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https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1825831884657426768?t=lYPuYnissta0KHlNjDdxSw&s=19
Pat Kinevane was a great actor. He would remind you of a few lads around here in this too.
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No doubt many remember these events in China in 1989. It came up on something I was going thru today.
What is bugging me is, I remember watching this live at home on Sky News, despite the fact we were only in 2 channel land, no dish or wheezy. Can anyone shed light on this?
There’s a name for that phenomenon, the same way a lot of people convince themselves that they saw the second plane hit the south tower live. The vast vast vast majority did not.
Can you spell it?
Sky News started pilot broadcasting around 1989 and it was broadcast through RTE for some time during the day. Scott Chisholm, Bob Frend and Vivien Cregah used to be on.
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Cheers bud
yeah, think its called old age