..........the greatest amateur sporting organization in the world, the GAA is nothing without the local club which is based in every community on the island, ‘Ar gClub’!

.......Nurses on strike, the backbone of the HSE but the Govt don’t see it? Florence Nightingale the iconic image who personified Nursing would be dismayed, the Nurses need our support now!!

.......Big Mal is a football man, from Coventry but lived in San Francisco for a lifetime, played professional football in the US, but he’d never been in Glasgow until a night last December to see Celtic!

......30th January 1972, the British Army murdered 14 innocent Civil Rights marchers in Derry, 40 yrs later an apology from David Cameron and the British Government!

.......21st Jan 1919 and the meeting of the 1st Dail, 150k away the IRA kill 2 RIC men , it’s the beginning of the War of Independence!

.......Golf, the little white ball game, a trip around the great Courses of Ireland, what’s your favourite?⛳️🏌🏻‍♂️

.......on 1st Jan 1969 the People’s Democracy student marchers left Belfast for a 4 day protest march to Derry, at Burntollet Bridge they were attacked by Loyalists & B Specials and severely beaten, an Irish Selma!

.......Shane McGowan penned the greatest xmas song of all time, ‘I could have been someone’! But the modern PC era had some RTE guy saying it was politically incorrect, what a prick!

.......100 yrs since the 1918 election when SF won 75 Seats and declared an Irish Republic, the issue of entering Westminster is in vogue again, like 1918 any Self Respecting Irishman or woman won’t do it!

........Martin O’Neill & Keane sacked and who takes over, Mick McCarthy, and Saipan memories all over again! One great night v Germany will live long in the memory and not just for Robbie Keane’s 94th minute equaliser!!