An auld lad in Tipp town attacked me (13) the morning of that game. Then I got stung by a wasp. Eventful day
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I think we would all like you to elaborate on that. (The aul lad in Tipp, not the washp)
Ah he was someone I knew of, very obviously suffering severe mental health issues. Thought I was someone else or had done something to him or something I’d imagine. Thought I was a lot older too (I was a huge 13 year old). Just started pushing me and then trying to hit me.
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So just for clarification he gave you a bit of a shove and shook his fist at you……
On 1st reading I had a vision of a slashook or a pickaxe handle…
I’ll allow the wasp 
interaction.
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Yes he shoved me, a child, and tried to punch me.
Killed in Cork. They mourn his passing below in Cork more than Collins.
The “man in black” passed away on this day in 2003. Complications of diabetes was given as the cause.
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They were special days in town, mad really how a puppet could do that 
I was hiking in the Knockmealdowns yesterday. Around the Vee in the morning and made our way up the Monument outside Goatenbridge in the afternoon.
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Jesus, they built an entire round tower for him?
That’s a monument 
Happy Donie Vaughan day @Cheasty
As the sun rose this morning I was thinking of you getting the bus up from Galway that morning.
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30 years today since this.
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0901/1162554-dublin-fans-celebrate/
Small was clever there. He saw Vaughan coming & had commenced the duck & fall backwards manoeuvre marginally before the strike. It was a silly forearm kinda dunt that would have hit Small in the front upper chest area but he converted it into a head strike to ensure he took a Mayo man with him. Still & all, it goes without saying how dumb Vaughan was to come piling in.
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Vaughan will regret that till the day he dies.
God it’s incredible to look back how great a sport Gaelic football was.
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It’s only sport chief
Full fat Gaelic Football was some spectacle. This years All Ireland may as well not have been played.
I’d still go to a few club games out of a sense of duty but find it hard to see myself going to many Inter County games again.
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