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KICKING THE HABIT OCTOBER 2008 The year was 2008 and change was everywhere. Ireland was suffering its worst economic crisis in decades and the shadow of austerity loomed large as the excesses of the Celtic Tiger slowly retreated from…

THE OXEGEN FIASCO JULY, 2007 It was the first weekend in July of 2007. The weather was great for a change and we were all eagerly awaiting our first Oxegen, a music festival, which took place annually in the grounds of Punchestown race…

OUR FINEST HOUR MAY, 2007 It was about one year into Pascal’s reign that we began to see visible improvement. Despite his many detractors, it was difficult to argue that his controversial training methods weren’t getting results. We were…

INITIATION – THE ANNUAL GRANARD U-10’S TOURNAMENT APRIL, 1998 They got me when I was nine. We were in Ms Kilduff’s class, when she announced that the training for the U-10’s would be starting that Tuesday evening up in the Old Park with…