Have you ever visited Mullinbeggar (Mullingar)?Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
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Have you ever visited Mullinbeggar (Mullingar)?Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
650 for a season ticket!! says it all really....
Proud of that, yes?Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
650 quid to watch St. Mirren, St. Johnstone, Kilmarnock, and Inverness twice a year. Lucky you.
Yup, and it's not somewhere I'd like to spend much time without copious amounts of recreational drugs and internet porn! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Don't you just hate it when your heartfelt angst is missed by the page turn. Bennocelt you're dead to me! :P
Just came across this and thought it might be relevant: http://judecollinsjournalist.blogspo...ese-years.html
It's a blog run by former Irish News columnist, Jude Collins. He also happens to be a second cousin of mine, although I can't say I've met him in recent memory.
In light of his epiphany, whether or not he'll be attending Omagh Town games from the beginning of the new Irish League season remains to be seen.Quote:
“So what Irish football club do you support?” The questioner was the guide at Camp Nou, home of FC Barcelona, last summer. Questions like that make you think. Or they do me.
What Irish football club (soccer, that is) do I support? Um, none. I support Arsenal, I told the Camp Nou man, and I could see he was looking at me as if I was a bit unbalanced. After all, I’d just been impressing on him that I was IRISH not ENGLISH, that there was a serious difference.
Did it, does it make sense for an Irishman to support an English soccer team like Arsenal? I suppose you could argue that Pat Rice, an Irishman, has been a prominent figure at Arsenal for years, or that Liam Brady works with the youth team – but so what? Isn’t there something a bit...colonial about my gazing past local clubs and supporting an English team? In my defence you could say that Irish club football north and south is crap, and you’d be right. But it still doesn't let me off the hook.
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My fear is that it’s rooted in cultural cringe. Anything native has to be second-best /primitive, things from the seat of power, the imperial centre, are bound to be better.
If you could untease this cultural cringe without referring to me as “an evil old ****” (the thoughtful estimate of one comment-poster a few blogs back), I’d be in your debt.
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Originally Posted by peadar1987
On the contrary there is a little late bar in Mullingar called 'Bed', which actually has a bed, and a stripper pole strangely enough. I like it for this little act of randomness.
Oh..and the statue of Joe Dolan.
It also has the distinction of being the town in which I saw one girl heel-stomp another in the stomach while wearing 3-inch stilettos! For all its dodgy spots, it's not the worst really though.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...3XUvPPizy0&t=1Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
Another cracker on boards..
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...p?t=2056295453
The nasty league of ireland fans have already ruined that thread by suggesting people actually go to a football match :rolleyes:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
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Originally Posted by Dunny
When the only previous LOI-related remarks were: "League of Ireland all the way through the summer.http://b-static.net/vbulletin/images...es/biggrin.gif", and a passing mention in a post that also talked about the Norwegian league and MNS. There is seriously something wrong with these people!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stumpypeeps
Also this gem:
Your location is listed as Galway, mate. :good:Quote:
Originally Posted by mars bar
There is no League of Ireland club within ten minutes of me so I'll have to just watch the Norwegian league on an expensive PPV channel instead. Likewise, the butchers is a bit of a hike away so I'll just buy the dearer, lesser quality meat from Tesco.
One guy actually has to get a bus if he wants to go to a game:shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I trebled face palmed @ that thread and near broke down,half in tears,half PMSL but didnt read anymore than the first page !!:excruciating::pill:
And a bus back! And he'll miss his dinner.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
Maybe his ma will tape Come Dine With Me for him. Just like making a real meal!Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
That utter rubbish on boards.ie is cringeworthy. The excuses for not even having a remote interest in their local sides is ridiculous.
These people just don't know what it actually means to support your team and are the ultimate barstoolers.
In fairness there's another thread there about foreign teams with Irish roots, with the OP referring to Irish teams in a kind of 'obviously I'm not talking about them, I'm just curious about what foreign teams have Irish roots' kinda way . . . and a bunch of LOI lads stormed the place and started preaching . . .
I'm as mad about LOI as most here, but we hardly cover ourselves in glory if some guys wanna make every thread about LOI.
Back to the main point . . . 'I need my football fix for the summer, when's the Norwegian Ladies U-17 League starting?' = facepalm
Your right.Ramming the LOI down peoples throats is not to the way to go.But i must admit that i have lost my cool at times(on boards and some others) and especialy in threads like the one that was posted above.Quote:
Originally Posted by ped_ped