Happy Larry Finnerty day.
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I was listening to my 2011 MP3 music player while sort of half asleep on the 5:45am bus coming up that morning. I think I listened to a bit of the latest Mayo News Football Podcast which I used to listen to a lot at that time. I’d downloaded at least two episodes to MP3 format on a computer and transferred them to the music player via USB cable. This MP3 music player is still my preferred method of listening to music or audio while ON THE GO.
I then listened to three songs on a loop:
1 Carrying The Fire by The Walls - this song is used as the intro to the Mayo News Football Podcast. It’s a lovely song and a great choice for an intro for a podcast about Mayo football. However the version the Mayo podcast uses is better than the actual studio version that you’ll find on the YouTubes. I don’t know where they got it but I’d like to hear the full version of it again.
2 The Green And Red Of Mayo - because.
3 Big Sky by Kate Bush - I listened to this about five times in a row. I fucking love this song. It’s a tremendous anticipation builder. It features the words “rahoo, rahoo, rahoo”. This is where the Hector “rahoo rahoo rahoo” catchphrase made famous by David McSavage (Andrews) comes from. That day there was a sketch done by some Meath fella for the evil clickbait website Joe.ie where the fella in a 1996 Kepak Meath jersey mingles with the crowds before the Dublin v Mayo final and only wants to talk about Meath. He asks some Dublin supporters what time it is. “Five past Cluxton”. Rahoo rahoo rahoo. He shouts “rahoo rahoo rahoo” as he lifts the Sam Maguire Cup in his which was on parade outside Gills’s and available to lift for a small charity donation.
This was a funny sketch and it made me chuckle and it’s the only funny thing Joe.ie has ever done. I don’t hear much about Joe.ie these days.
Anyway, all this reminded me again that the great sporting days are always inextricably linked in your mind with the music you were listening to at the time.
I never really got around to this properly. On the morning of September 17th, 1995 (probably 9am-11am ish) I was watching the MTV Eurochart Top 50 (or was it Top 20, or Top 30 or Top 40) countdown.
This programme featured songs such as:
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me by U2
Kiss From A Rose by Seal
A Girl Like You by Edwyn Colliins
Hideaway by De’Lacy
Waterfalls by TLC
And obviously the Battle Of Britpop singles of Roll With It and Country House.
It also had some horrific shite like some ballad by Bon Jovi, You Are Not Alone by Michael Jackson, Never Forget by Take That and some German metal bands.
The song I associate most with this day is Keep Their Heads Ringin’ by Dr. Dre and this was featured on this programme and that is a banger.
1995 was more modern than 2025.
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50 years ago today, Friday 19 September 1975, the first episode of Fawlty Towers was aired. Just looking at a clip there from the most famous episode of all ‘The Germans’. Not sure if it would make it past the censorship police in this day and age.
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I always enjoyed the Major’s musings. He’d have found himself in deep shit were this wee clip aired today. And there wasn’t a word about it !! Bernard Manning-esque.
The Major was great.
Should have posted this yesterday but……
John Bonham, Led Zeppelin’s drummer / force of nature left us 45 years ago today on Sept. 25, 1980.
On Sept. 24, 1980, Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend rehearsals at Bray Studios for a tour of North America, to begin Oct. 17th in Montreal, Canada – the band’s first since 1977. During the journey, Bonham asked to stop for breakfast, where he drank four quadruple vodkas (16 shots, between 400–560 ml). He then drank after arriving at rehearsals. The band stopped rehearsing late in the evening and then retired to Page’s house, the Old Mill House in Clewer, Windsor. After midnight on Thursday, Sept. 25th, Bonham fell asleep; someone took him to bed and placed him on his side. Benji LeFevre, Led Zeppelin’s tour manager, and John Paul Jones found him dead the next afternoon. Bonham was 32.
The inquest on Oct. 27, 1980 showed that in 24 hours Bonham had drunk around 40 shots (1–1.4 litres) of 40% ABV vodka, after which he vomited and choked. The finding was accidental death. An autopsy found no other drugs in Bonham’s body.
He was one of the great Rock and Roll drummers. Every time we hear thunder, we know it’s just John warming up in Rock and Roll Heaven.
RIP John. What a ride.
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There was a huge John Bonham RIP written in paint on the wall opposite O’Donovans supermarket (now Scally SuperValu) on the Skehard Road in Blackrock which survived well into the 90s
I had no idea who he was but I knew he was dead anyway 
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Shane Long v Neuer was only 10 years ago. Given the way that bastard Delaney fucked us, it may as well be Euro 88 distance.
Dunney, 25 years ago today he signed for City 
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Check out moby dick from Albert hall 1970 on YouTube for seriously great Tour de France
That was a great read. Id forgotten how well he did at City.
It was. It was said Stevie Ireland was seething about at least 2 of those POTY awards. He was a great bit of stuff. Underrated footballer.
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14 years ago. FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS!
And the days go by so fast…
Mario was the best of us.
David Silva might very well be my favourite City player this side of Kinkladze. That ball for the last goal, good lord.
30 years
30 years ago today Jo Jo Dullard (Dollard) vanished off the face of the earth having made a phone call from a public phone box in Moone, Co.Kildare. A life sentence for her family.
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50 years ago today………the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the storm of the century in Lake Superior, with the loss of all 29 souls on board. The classic Gordon Lightfoot ballad about the sinking was released the following year.
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