Grammar point: should there not be a double apostrophe around ‘our’ considering it is a quote within a quote? Or does the double go outside the entire quote? You seemed to begin with one above…
Grammar points:
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There’s no such thing as a “double apostrophe” - I believe you may be referring to inverted commas Farmer.
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Neither single (’) or double (") quotation marks are more correct than the other and when having a quotation within another quote it’s customary to switch from one to the other to aid clarity. So Bandage’s " ‘our’ " is correct but he should have had a double mark after BBC.
Apologies for the oversight, I meant to have a ‘double’ one at the ‘’‘end’’’.
Padraig Harrington.
Read today that he’s received dispensation from The European Tour to putt with one shoe off.
What a fooking idiot. This is the type of stuff that goes on in his mind that will prevent him from winning a major.
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Thanks - I would have lost sleep over that
Bandage is that true about Harrington or is that a wind up…thats unbelievable
I want to take back the Keith Wood one. I didn’t mean it.
Re Harrington, it was in The Guardian today. I’ll see if it’s anywhere else though I have no reason to disbelieve it.
You can’t take it back. You were dead right to have him in there if it’s any consolation.
Wood is a hero. Whats the big deal about him wearing a poppy?
Harrington will look like some dope. Thats completely in his head, just stand up and fooking putt the ball.
Brian Dooher.
O’Gara. (Have typed this in & deleted it half a dozen times, but will leave it here, despite his try against France. If he makes his tackles I’ll dislike him less. Wilkinson has a crocked shoulder & still sacrifices himself for the team.)
O’Gara’s defence was excellent in the two games so far. He did have a problem with his defence in the past but I’d argue it was more execution of tackles than a lack of courage.
At the age of 29 and having played rugby for about 20 years it’s nice it appears he’s learned how to tackle in the last 2 months.
It’s all about opinions.
For me he’s the definition of a courageous loser that has blighted Irish sport over the years. Regarding the poppy it’s a symbol I find offensive. I don’t think he cares much either way but I find it distasteful.
If we’re including past sportsmen,
Eamonn Coghlan
Graham Nolan, UCD hurling goalkeeper.
Good thread. Here’s mine in no particular order…
Donal Og Cusack
The Rock
The O’Connor robots
Pat Mulcahy
Eddie Brennan
James ‘fraud’ McGarry
Eoin Kelly - utter tosser
Babs Keating
Tom Regan
Roy Keane
Eugene Cloonan
Liam Dunne
Brian Ahearn…oh wait now he’s not a sportsman, unless sitting on your couch in your y-fronts watching home and away is now considered a sport?!
OOOOHHHH!!!
Do you mean the Tipperary or Waterford Eoin Kelly? The Tipp lad always struck me as a modest chap. Don’t know as much about the other lad other than he quit his job last year to go on the dole so he’d have more time to practice his hurling.
Who is this Ahearn guy stevie G speaks of? Sounds like my kind of man.
No the Tipp Eoin Kelly. I’ve met him on a few occasions, what a tosser.
The other Eoin Kelly did indeed quit his job last year to concentrate on his hurling. He also then fell out with his club (MOunt Sion I think?) and transferred to another club. I also heard that after he had the row with them he went into the club house and smashed all the underage photos of teams that he was in that were hanging up!!
I’d also like to include Davy Fitzgerald in my original list.
I’d like to hear your grounds for calling Tipp Kelly a tosser. What? Does he score too much? Brag about it?