Only Our Rivers Run Free!

.......Celtic v Man U in the Champions League at Parkhead, a little Japanese guy with an exquisite left foot sends Utd home deflated and leaves Paradise bouncing!

......Sept ‘06, the Ryder Cup comes to Ireland, Tiger, Phil Michelson, Paul McGinley, Darren Clarke + Michael Jordan, Ray Houghton, George Bush, Bill Clinton, it was the world stage and it was at the K Club!⛳️🏌🏻‍♂️

.......Jinky Johnstone, voted the greatest Celtic player of all time, a wee red haired wizard, a Lisbon Lion, the equal of Best, sadly passed at 60 with Motor Neurone!

.........a review of the film ‘Hunger’ about the life of Bobby Sands!

.......Finola Meredith of the Irish Times interviewed Mature Students at various Universities including NUI Galway where Martin Sheen & Paddy McMenamin were among the Undergrads!!

......in 2010 our Mature Student Society organised a trip to the little Mediterranean island of Malta, all NUI Galway Graduates plus one ‘Professor’ it was a great week exploring the history of the island & bars of St Julians!

......40th anniversary of Lurgy/Kilmac Celtic FC, dinner dance in the Lagoon and launch of Paddy McMenamin’s booklet on the history of the Club, and the stories from those who played over the years!

.........just a little tribute to my great friend Pat who passed so quickly in May ‘05, aged 49! A great Celtic man from Patrick in Glasgow, he worked in the shipyards and then a painter & decorator all around Termon in the 80’s & 90’s, a good guy!💚⚽️

........100 yrs after the greatest Pandemic to hit the world, the Spanish Flu’, 2020 again sees the world facing a horrendous Pandemic!

........6 months after the Battle of the Bogside and the burning of Bombay St & the onslaught on the Lower Falls, the British Army had settled in but major decisions were needed, what the British Govt did next would have repercussions for the next 40 yrs! Easter 1970 heralded the first major battles between nationalists and the British Army, Ballymurphy was the battle ground, it was the point of no return!