DESSIE Farrell said last week that Dublin are on a good trajectory. Which was as plausible as the Russian ambassador saying they are mounting a humanitarian operation in Ukraine. Maybe Dessie meant a good downward trajectory. If that is so, then against Kildare on Sunday their trajectory got even better. It’s not that the Dubs […]
“Another dull Tyrone performance labouring to yet another dull defeat against a middling Donegal team”.
HOW do you tell the difference between a Protestant and a Catholic? A Protestant’s eyes are closer together. We used to believe that when we were children because that’s what everybody said. I didn’t know any Protestants apart from my piano teacher from the Largey, Stephen Wilson, who we nicknamed “Sahurday man” because like the […]
The GAA in Ulster and nationally needs to redouble the excellent work previously done on reconciliation
MARVIN Hagler died last week and suddenly, I was back on the window sill of the senior common room in St Pat’s Armagh, stunned and elated. It was 1985. Hagler had just knocked out Tommy Hearns in an insane street fight that happened to take place in a boxing ring in Caesar’s Palace. The referee […]
Joe Brolly recalls a day when an old friend of his refereed a friendly between Derry and Antrim.
Deciding that his legs would be too cold in Ballinascreen, Joe came up with a novel idea
