28th November 2001
I’m convinced that Stadium Ireland (aka the Bertie Bowl) will be a major election topic and that it could be Bertie’s undoing. Continue reading “Stadium Ireland – the game is on”
Tag: sport
18th April 2001
BOGBALL and Stick-Fighting are names applied to Gaelic games by those who hate the GAA. Continue reading “Why so many people hate the GAA”
21st March 2001
A MAN on the radio giving his tuppence-worth on the Statium Ireland proposal said that if the whole place was going to cost £1,000 million, he would prefer if they spent £1 million in a thousand places. Continue reading “Stadium opponents must agree an alternative”
28th February 2001
Dublin has a perpetual space crisis. Most of the main problems facing Dubliners have, in some form or another, to do with the use of space. Continue reading “Golf – the definitive waste of space”
15th September 2000
IT’S a crackin’ match but the boy Bertie’s shown a bit too much of that to the opposition. Continue reading “Croke Park/Eircom Park – a perfect combination”
23rd June 2000
IT”S one of those statistics you read somewhere that is at first unbelievable and then sticks in your mind. Apparently 40% of people in England who support a football team, support Manchester United. Continue reading “The internet may yet topple Man Utd”
10th March 2000
You’ve probably concluded from the headline that I have completely lost my marbles. How could the Tom and Jerry of Irish sport be expected to co-habit? Continue reading “The GAA should consider playing soccer”
4th February 2000
Ireland is suffering serious stadiumitis and it’s making me nervous. The idea that a massive building can exemplify a people is redolent of 1930s fascist ideology when the Nazis built huge roads, statues and monuments and rallied the mob around them. Continue reading “National Stadium is a monument to elitism”
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