POPE FRANCIS WAS the lucky recipient of an Eglish GAC jersey this week, with the Tyrone parish’s priest Fr Michael Toner presenting his holiness with the lovely number 14 shirt at the Vatican.
However, by pledging his allegiances to the team, Pope Francis may not want to tog out for a county championship match any time in the near future, with Phil O’Meara preparing us for what’s in store.
I hope His Holiness is ready for some vicious sledging if he lines out in a Tyrone club game. Transubstantiation is bound to be brought up by his marker….
Dublin, it seems, are unbackable to win their 10th Leinster title 11 this Sunday, and one 42.ie commenter knows why.
Football, it seems is an easy game. Catch the ball, kick it, win. It seems Jim McGuinness has been reading our work, under the alias of Frank Garrett.
Dublin will always have talent to pick from because it has the largest population, this make the sport very mundane because the smaller counties rarely stand a chance. All you have to do in GAA is control the midfield and outscore your opposition by kicking points over the bar, which is very easy to do when you have a wider pool of talent to pick from (and I’m using the word talent loosely).
For those of you that have been living under a rock for the past week or so, Rory McIlroy won’t be defending his Open Championship title at St Andrews next week, after damaging ligaments in his ankle while playing football.
But the real victim, as Ciaran Ó Fallúin brilliantly put it, is the 5-a-side hacker who mistimed one lunge too many.
Somewhere this morning, there’s a fella who tackled him, whether it’s his fault or not, who’s getting some serious abuse from the lads over Whatsapp.
Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin is one of the six athletes to appear on this year’s cover of ESPN Magazine’s body issue, but as is usual with an Irish surname, some people just can’t help piecing together the degrees of separation. John, for example, is some people.
Natalie Coughlan? She anything to the Coughlans down in twomileborris? Shur me uncle joe played the GAA with her auld lad.
It’s been a bad week for Micronesia. after they conceded 114 goals in just three games of football. The biggest of those defeats came against Vanuatu, as they fell to a demoralising 46-0 defeat.
Irishoversea, however, wasn’t impressed.
Gutted I had them at -47 on the handicap.
Steven Gerrard and Robbie Keane’s became teammates once again this week, as Gerrard completed his move to LA Galaxy. The soon-to-be bromance is bound to be the inspiration for MTV’s latest reality TV show, according to Eoghan.
The Kardashians haven’t a patch on them.
I like to think Keane and Gerrard will become best friends and even have their own reality TV show of them living together.
We also celebrated/mourned (depending on your taste) the anniversary of Germany’s 7-1 demolition of Brazil in last year’s World Cup semi-final.
Lochlainn McKenna has no real allegiance to either side, but fondly recalled taking advantage of a distraught Brazilian couple while on holidays. No, not like that.
I was in Cannes and there was a Brazilian couple watching the match. They left at half time and my girlfriend and I happily took their seats complete with two full pints and a plate of untouched nachos #vivaBrazil
Dwellers in the clubhouse of Stackstown Golf Club in South Dublin got a surprise last weekend, when their most famous member stopped by with a friend.
Padraig Harrington brought Phil Mickelson and his wife into the club he perfected his game at, and they no doubt enjoyed some red lemonade and a basket of chicken and chips.
Golf clubs are strict places though, as Augustus hoop explanis.
Jeans in the clubhouse….. I’m sure some ole wan had a go at him majors or not.
And finally, Thomas Barr ‘s success continued yesterday, as he picked up a 400m gold medal at the World University Games in South Korea.
Barr may be the man of the moment, but at times like this it’s nice to remember the great athletes that never were, like Kieran Campbell.
Memories flooding back to winning a gold medal (dubious gold) at my local Community games in 1994 aged 13. The podium, the fireworks, the photos, the post race interview, the sponsorship deals on offer. Alas, nothing materialised….Still well done to Thomas. Gold for his country outshines mine
