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A sign of the times
Posted Apr 28, 2005
Every wednesday evening I cross the East Link toll bridge in rush hour to go to football training. Traffic is always terrible so I have spend many hours stuck next to the builders supplies firm "Screws, Nuts, Bolts, Fixtures and Fittings" which I always thought was a great name.
Last night a new sigh had been put up in it's place: "Screw this, we're relocating to the M50". 
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Luckless stopper...
Posted Feb 15, 2005
From the irish star 15-02-2005:
Phoenix Ath 2 - 0 Conwell Rovers
"Just two minutes had elapsed when Gareth Pepper whipped in a fine cross from the left and Synott was in the perfect position eight yards out to divert the ball past the outstretched left hand of rovers keeper Duncan Jones"
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"And this hope was dashed further with 20 minutes to go when man of the match Lawlor hit a smashing volley from a half cleared corner past Jones after a long period of dominance. They had tested Jones time and again before lawlor's strike and Byrne had a volley sail over the crossbar before a shot from Pepper hit the luckless stopper full in the face on 70 minutes. The brave keeper needed lengthly attention before play resumed, but it was just a brief respite for the visitors as Lawlor went on to seal the points for Phoenix".
Some slight innacuracy - my patented face-save actually occured at the end of the first half....
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Old bones
Posted Jan 27, 2005
I had my first full training session with "Conwell Rovers FC" last night - a full two hours of curcuit training and sprints and so on - and boy do I ache this morning. It is always a shock to realise how much older these bones have become 
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Photos from Ethiopia
Posted Jan 20, 2005
At http://www.flickr.com/photos/merrion/
Should be useful for the graphic artists if my wife gets the articles she's threatening to write up on H2G2...
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Some you win, some you lose...
Posted Jan 16, 2005
Togged out for a Sunday league team for the first time yesterday (This being Ireland the Sunday League is on a Saturday) and had a good game and we won...on the downside I spiked two fingers on my right had which have blown up like pork sausages 
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