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Pope Francis is getting sledged? It's your comments of the week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘God is returning to the King Power Stadium’
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