49 years ago today, a man surfed over a shark in a leather jacket and cut off jeans
@MogwaiC86 10 years ago since the most cinematic climax ever to an All Ireland Final.
A hungry feelin’
It was still bright but it felt pitch dark
The gloom was Kafkaesque
It was Gaelic football’s answer to Film Noir or a spy thriller set in Eastern Europe
Some of those crowd close ups from Cillian O’Connor’s last pointed free to the end are ICONIC.
You’d go to war with that Mayo girl bellowing after that last pointed free.
Then the two fellas with absolute laser focus just before the wide as a gate free. Definitely neutrals but serioush, serioush football men credentials there.
Then Stephen The Bullet Bunting looking desolate as he sees it slipping away yet again for his beloved Mayo.
It’s all kicked off between Madrid and Barcelona today ![]()

What kicked off?
A soccer match?

25 years ago today
Three years ago today Hamas perpetrated the third largest terrorist attack in history.
That’s not what RTE say. The first item on the radio news at 5am this morning was the fourth anniversary of the explosion at the petrol pumps at Cresslough and that there will be a commemoration there today. The second item was that there would be commemorations of the attack on Israel in which 1200 were “killed”. They didn’t say by who. They did point out however that Palestine Authority say that the IDF have killed 74000 people in retaliation.