Pop-quiz: can you name the two fallen giants of European [tag]rugby[/tag] The most consistent two teams in the Northern Hemisphere since the dawn of [tag]professional rugby[/tag]? The two teams with the highest number of [tag]Six Nations victories[/tag]? [tag]England[/tag] and [tag]France[/tag] have thrown the future of the [tag]Heineken Cup[/tag], Europe’s premier club rugby competition, into serious [...]
As mentioned previously, the [tag]Dublin Cycling Campaign[/tag] Christmas party took place in Crawdaddy on Harcourt Street last night and I headed along around 7.30 for a look and a non-alcoholic beverage or two… it turned out to be a fantastic night, especially for a Monday, and great to see so many (around a hundred I’d [...]
Over a week ago England’s [tag]Rugby Football Union[/tag] finally sacked poor [tag]Andy Robinson[/tag]. Or rather, they didn’t sack him, but he’s “standing down” more than a little reluctantly and with a lot of confusion about the exact nature of his leaving the job. I’m sure 300,000 pounds sterling helped the kick in the teeth a [...]
Dublin “Port Tunnel Opening” Bicycle Christmas Party: 6.30pm til later, Monday 11th December, “The Pod”, Harcourt Street Station. The Dublin Cycling Campaign, the voluntary lobbying organisation “Working to Make Dublin A Bicycle-Friendly City” (http://home.connect.ie/dcc), is organising a Christmas Party for Dublin’s cyclists to co-incide with the opening of the Dublin Port Tunnel (in late December). [...]
As I left work this evening I thought it wasn’t raining, but when I got outside I realised that the warm, calm evening I thought I had seen from my window was far from reality.. “away with the fairies” is how we describe fools like me here in Ireland. It was blowing a [tag]storm[/tag] out! [...]