14 September 1976: Kieran Nugent started the blanket protest. When handed a convicts uniform he answered ”you will need to nail that to my back, I am an Irish Republican and I’ll not be criminalised“.
On this day 30 years ago, Down won the All Ireland.
They’d some lovely footballers.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/0914/1246794-downs-dam-busters-of-1991/
I was at that game
This is a lovely little programme about the atmosphere of that weekend in Dublin.
Happy Stephen Cluxton day
Happy Birthday to the Boss
RIP Vol Diarmuid O Neill shot dead, unarmed by British police in London on this day in 1996
Happy Birthday Jim
On this day 42 days years ago Pope John Paul II started his three day visit to Ireland.
We were there
Happy birthday to the thousands of 42 year old John Pauls in Ireland.
Children aren’t born the day their parents have sex mate
Of course not. They arrive when the storks arrive.
the top ten boy names in Ireland 1979:
- John
- David
- Paul
- Michael
- Patrick
- James
- Brian
- Mark
- Thomas
- Alan
I was there in a buggy. Can remember it like it was yesterday
Was date of one of the all Ireland finals moved?