Football

Listowel Garda Station

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Football

While soccer fans were busy with The Euros, our little soccer player and her Gaelscoil Uí Riordáin team mates were given a moment of honour at half time in the Bohs versus Cork match on Saturday. They were all delighted to be in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Tuesday to see Ireland beat France..

If you can see it, you can be it……

Meanwhile

in another stadium

The GAA was showcasing its up and coming talent at half time in the Kerry Armagh game.

Another admirable group was honoured.

We won’t mention the game.

Croke Park photos from Bridget O’Connor.

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Gatherings

Since time immemorial Irish people have gathered on summer Sundays on hilltops to eat, drink, dance and celebrate.

I never hard of a barbecue when I was young and when we ate outdoors it wasn’t ever referred to as a picnic. It was merely having your tea in the field so that there was minimum disruption to the work.

Originally, according to Kevin Danaher, people went to hills to pick berries. These outings were popular with young people and many marriages were made between people who first met on “Gooseberry Hill” or on “Heatherberry Sunday”

In Knockfeerina in Co. Limerick there is a tradition of gathering on the level top of the ridge where they ” played games., flirted, danced and sang, ate and drank the dainties they had brought with them, picked fraocháin and flowers, some of which they laid on the small cairn called the strickeen. In the 1930s, when this custom was at its height, a bonfire was lit on the strickeen in the evening time.

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A Definition

from The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

bore, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen

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A Fact

Mongolia’s largest airport is called after Genghis Khan. He had more than 500 wives. and too many children to count. One in ten people in Central Asia today are his descendants.

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