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Category: GAA and Others

UFC246: $80 million night for McGregor but maybe a bigger one for John Kavanagh.

Posted on January 16, 2020April 2, 2020 by MMA Insider

The first sign that omens for Conor McGregor 2.0 are good is in the media. All week, he has opened himself up to the broader international media outlets rather than a focus on his own Mac-life media production company and the obligatory Ariel Helwani set piece. In the run up to UFC 246 the bigger…

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Kerry just hate that underdogs tag

Posted on September 14, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

Watching Kerry people over the last 3 weeks has been a fascinating exercise. The modern age has been great for the sports fan. There are now a plethora of different platforms to consume GAA content on. Podcasts, blogs, youtube channels not to mention the more traditional avenues. The main take-away from everything I have watched…

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Dublin will want Mayo team of 2016/17 to show up this weekend

Posted on August 5, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

Around 1987, I remember an old man in our village died. He was over the 80 mark so the wake was more of a carnival atmosphere than a morose affair. A celebration of a life well lived. The woman of the house, his daughter-in-law, recounted to each new visitor that he passed peacefully in his…

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Dublin Beware – Mayo still fight like Evander Holyfield

Posted on August 4, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

” Tyson didn’t bite Holyfield’s ear because he was this savage or hungry animal. Stop the crap. He was looking for a way to get himself out – because he knew he wasn’t that guy, he wasn’t a Warrior – or a Samurai – and when you’re not “That Guy” Guess what you have a…

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250,000 acres of Testosterone ponder the Murphy question at the Galway Races

Posted on August 1, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

This year, Galway celebrates 150 years of horse racing. You might be forgiven for assuming that the Galway Races, like many long running festivals, started from small beginnings.  Eh….not exactly……..on August 17th 1869 there were at least 40,000 lunatics on hand to watch the first day’s proceedings. It’s amazing to reflect that this race meeting is…

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Rochford returns to Castlebar with Donegal but it’s Galway that’s watching.

Posted on July 28, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

I spend a good chunk of my working week on the N84. At this stage, I know the road arteries between Tuam and Westport like the back of my hand. On a good day, it’s about an hour’s commute, there’s little in the way of traffic but there is a trade-off in tarmac quality. It’s…

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Shane Lowry the only Super 8 in town….

Posted on July 20, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

** Update Shane Lowry won the Open Championship by 6 shots. The heftiest and most raucous GAA crowd on the island was in Portrush rather than Croke Park yesterday. What they were treated to was a damn sight more entertaining too. Shane Lowry scythed his way through the field like a scalding hot bread-knife through…

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Mayo searching for refuge at Everest base camp

Posted on July 20, 2019January 11, 2020 by MMA Insider

Many people think that Mayo vs Donegal in two weeks time will be the crunch match in this Super 8’s group. Given the psychology of this Mayo team I think that’s probably wrong. Mayo play their fifth game in 4 weeks tomorrow. After the tonking they got in Fitzgerald Stadium last week it will be…

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Gavin is bringing Diarmuid Connolly back for the day he may need Ja Fallon’s points

Posted on July 16, 2019July 26, 2019 by MMA Insider

I suppose unless you are a Galway GAA fan you won’t remember the specifics of the second half of the 1998 All-Ireland final. Galway started the second half three points down. The short synopsis is that a number of Galway players stood up to the plate in the latter half and in the end Galway…

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6 am Sunday queues for petrol. Yes Mayo are still in the championship

Posted on July 14, 2019December 23, 2019 by MMA Insider

One of the many inconveniences of working at night is the sleep patterns. The nights you work aren’t the problem, it’s the nights you don’t that cause the trouble. Last night was one such night for me. Two attempts to hit the hay failed miserably and so I got up at about 5:30. Non- smokers…

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Copper Face Jacks – Country peoples gift to Dublin

Posted on March 14, 2019December 23, 2019 by G

When you get to a certain vintage only a select number of years in your life jump out in technicolor. For most of us that last year of school is one that is permanently scorched in our brains. A long, slow march to the inevitable examination of our Leaving Cert subjects. In our school there…

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Is Theresa May finally baring her teeth??

Posted on January 21, 2019March 3, 2019 by G

Just a little under a week ago – I wrote that Theresa May had but one option left. The only question I had was a simple one. Was she brazen enough to take it? All signals so far suggest she might well be. In the aftermath of the devastating defeat of her Brexit deal, all…

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Theresa May’s best tactic after Commons Defeat is to do fuck all.

Posted on January 15, 2019March 3, 2019 by G

What a day! – May you live in interesting times as the Chinese would say.  As almost everyone knows by now Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been torpedoed by a House of Commons vote of 432 to 202. Where to now? Regardless of which side of the Brexit debate you are on – we are…

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Irish MMA

Irish MMA needs bigger Arenas

Posted on December 8, 2018March 3, 2019 by G

Castlebar is a regional Irish town of about 15,000 people. A Provincial place, not unlike 10 or 15 more dotted around Ireland. On Friday 7th of December it was home to a big boxing event as Ray Moylette attempted to get his hands on the vacant WBC International belt. Unfortunately Ray lost out narrowly to…

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From Trump to Brexit – All roads pass through Steve Bannon

Posted on October 19, 2018November 19, 2019 by MMA Insider

So I was beavering away like a good worker bee yesterday – when a notification appeared on my phone from WordPress. For once it wasn’t a complaint about one of my cuckoo ideas or my grammatical incompetence. The reference is to a post I’d written in July  2018 which basically outlined some reasons why Brexit…

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