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Archive for January, 2009

The foul play that has corrupted sport

Monday, January 19th, 2009

For all that’s good about something we enjoy there’s always someone who can find fault.
Some find fault with a few things – the club chairman perhaps who has been given the role because he is the compromise between the cheerleader and the cynic – and others find fault with everything.
And if you judged this author [...]

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Leaving on a jet plane

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

The radio this morning announced that stations were being inundated with requests for the John Denver song ever since the miraculous plane crash in the Hudson River, where the pilot managed to safely land and safely secure the lives of everyone on board.
Fortunately for those that were saved they won’t have been distracted by the [...]

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How to get rich quick…

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Paul McKenna has made a living out of this type of thing and while it won’t be everybody’s cup of tea there is something in there for everyone so long as you can stop your cynical glands from working for  a short while.
The problem for most people is that your instincts tell you to beware [...]

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Sport enriches even when we’re made to feel poor

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Did you ever pull your hair out looking for something?
You’re sure you had the thing, positive you left in a drawer but then you go and root around for it, all the while dreaming up all the other places you might have thought to put it just in case you were foolish enough to lose [...]

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The death of a kind of eternity

Friday, January 9th, 2009

The latest news from the Irish economy might just convince you to pack the bags and head for England if only our neighbours weren’t in a similar position. And even if emigrating to the United States were an option for Irish people anymore the prospects are hardly any better in the land of the free.
We [...]

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