Yep, the Luas stop is called The Point and the shopping centre is Point Square.
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Thatâs not the point.
You
A. Live in Dublin
B. Have an obsession with trains
And have only learned this now?
Dont live in dublin
Solid advice
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Ted Turner won the 1979 Fastnet Race.
Life on the road as an Irish tradition/ballad singer can be a lot more eventful than one would imagine
Kookabura vs men at work
It all started in 2008 when the Australian TV show Spicks & Specks asked contestants what childrenâs song was hidden in the flute riff of âDown Under.â The answer? âKookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.â A music publisher called Larrikin, who owned the rights to Kookaburra, was watching â and immediately filed suit against Men at Work.
The bandâs defence was pretty sympathetic. Flautist Greg Ham said he may have subconsciously absorbed the tune as a kid but had no idea heâd referenced it. Colin Hay pointed out that Marion Sinclair â the woman who actually wrote Kookaburra back in 1934 â was still alive when âDown Underâ was a massive hit and never once complained. Didnât matter. The court ruled against them in 2010, finding two bars had been copied, and awarded Larrikin 5% of royalties going back to 2002. A final appeal was rejected in 2011.
The real tragedy is what it did to the people involved. Greg Ham was devastated, saying he didnât want to be remembered as someone who copied. He died of a heart attack in 2012, aged 58. Colin Hay has since said he believes the stress of the case contributed to both Gregâs death and his own fatherâs.
All over two bars of music. From a song every Australian kid sang in school. Claimed by a publisher who didnât even write it.
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Australians mate. Was always going to happen
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Pissy beds turn into dandelions.
El ClĂĄsico is this Sunday. If Barca win, then they win La Liga. Apparently this would be the first time in 94 years (1932) that a la Liga title has been won in a ClĂĄsico.
Surprised that it hadnât happened more often.
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This years Champions League final will be the first CL/ European Cup final since 1971 between teams from two different capital cities. There have been three such finals to date.
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Ajax vs Panatinaikos
Benfica vs Real Madrid
Cant for the life of me get the other one
Were Roma in it maybe?
No Iâd imagine it involves an eastern euopean capital, someone that lost to either Madrid or Benfica as I think they were the only two teams from capitals that won it pre 1971
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It was capital of a country that no longer exists.
One of the Belgrade clubs then
Yes. Partisan in 1966.
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One of my many completely useless talents is the ability to name every single Champions
league winner from memory. The finalists best me though
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Thatâs quite the talent