The Irish

iceland norway

Lough Swilly had that one too

st brendan discovered america

mother teresa conquered india

back then you could kick a ball in the widest street in europe

willie joe padden was in new york, taking a well-earned break after the 89 final, when he came across the scene of a fire. a young woman was screaming for help from the top of the building- "my baby" my baby". "throw it down" sez bauld willie joe, "and i'll catch it". she demurred, in as many words. "throw the child down" he sez again, his deep voice booming heroically between the buildings, amidst smoke and screams, "and i'll catch it, god help us". the young mother remained torn but unconvinced.

willie joe pulled himself to his full height, for all the world as if he had been called all-a-sudden to an FCA muster in bundoran, and cried "i'm willie-joe padden from belmullet! i have one minor connacht title, one u-21 connacht title and five connacht senior titles, a county league medal and two gaeltacht medals!"- these he produced with great solemnity as he listed them each in turn. "there's men from here to listowel and back might drop your child from the height from me to you, but willie joe padden is not such a man!".

pressed by these claims (and, possibly, those flames) the mother felt she no longer held discretion in the matter. she flung the child (a mere blob of a crátúr, who would not be eligible even for a junior team for some decade yet) down the storeys towards the great man.

he, that master of newtonian differentiation as best practiced- from the eyes straight to the hands and never mind the computational centre at all- took his mark and leapt as was his wont in those days- like a kingfisher in reverse, diving straight up towards the falling target. his strong hands closed gentle around the child, and he hit the ground with an impact felt a street away in either direction.

as the crowd cheered in delight and disbelief, he proceeded to take three mighty steps and kicked the unfortunate infant a full seventy yards down the street.

booming post

that was told to me by a cousin of the man himself during a break in a fight at the web in belmullet

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5434/272/1600/WillieJoePadden.jpg

ah stop im in bits looking at him

jaysus yerman beside him is awful like a sweeney isnt he, sweeneys lower now not sweeneys upper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWZAGzGtNk0

I bought the Indo today for fuck knows what reason, and ugh. 1an 0 D0h3rty needs to be killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztq5p-h64qc&feature=em-share_video_user

xp never ever the indo ffs i mean the times has gone to shit but jesus things are never that bad

story of my life

xp i am hanging my head in shame

what's the story with marrying a non-Catholic in a church? can you do that?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/11/18/author-kevin-barry-on-writing-short-stories-and-caring-less/

Should I go see this guy do a reading and get his books?

I think he's brilliant. Start with his first short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and go from there.

this is a good taster

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/02/01/100201fi_fiction_barry

marrying a non-Catholic in a church? can you do that?

Oh yes, especially if it's not a catholic church.

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Oh yes, especially if it's not a catholic church.

No, I looked into it in the meantime. Would be a pain in the hole & I don't like that you basically have to promise to raise your children Catholic.

One of my best man gigs was at a mixer, they went with the proddy church cos less hassles.

Cmere if michael d declares bankruptcy in the commons we'd be all clear in 12 months y/n

Yeah but other half isn't even a Proddy like, I think you at least have to be baptised to marry in their church?

you basically have to promise to raise your children Catholic

Hey, you wanna get married or dontcha?

wasnt a huge fan of it or anything but the dealer priest performance/sketch has haunted me ever since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AC520-cK1Q

v gabriel byrne in miller's crossing or something

forward to 1:05, even more haunting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnofM3VYQ-g

wtfffffffffffffffffff

wow.

This has been one of the great Irish union performances. That chorus of The Fields of Athenry was spell-binding. Missed the fucking kick though!

the atmosphere now!

Sexton never fancied that kick for whatever reason

Fuck I can barely stay in my seat

as much as I never want the all blacks to lose I'd love Ireland to win, especially while o'driscoll's still on the team.

ah jesus

Ohhhh fuck THAT! This is unthinkably cruel

fuck fuck fuck

The twenty thosand native southside dub irish and anyone from limerick who went to a private school, away ta fuck

farcical

Ah this is some bullshit, what a way to lose

oh I am sincerely disappointed.

Lol ruling class

Sexton must be feeling like a reet chump.

Dunno what you've got against this sport Deems, Ireland quite good and likeable and enjoyable to watch.

The twenty thosand native southside dub irish and anyone from limerick who went to a private school, away ta fuck

― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, November 24, 2013 3:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i am very far from either

I watched the last ten minutes after seeing a good part of my twitter timeline going nuts, and it was ten of the most tense minutes of sport I've seen in quite some time. Fuck knows how much anyone who actually supports Ireland must have been feeling, I was shitting it on their behalf all the way up to the All Blacks' try and have no loyalties whatsover.

Some ulster man you imo

Celtic tiger overrun, this tolerance of popularity amongst the oiks

deems how would avb have turned out if he had been born in the equivalent class in ireland rather than portugal

for this thought experiment he will also have had an english grandparent as he does irl