New British and Irish Lions captain: Paul O’Connell.
This is a well-deserved role for O’Connell.  He has been tremendous for Ireland and Munster and was obviously completely exhausted after the 2007-2008 season.  However, for the 2008/2009 season he has once again come back and been a great driver, a great Munster captain and a great Ireland […]

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So, Usain Bolt smashed the world 100 M sprint record with a run that saw him inexplicably slow down with about 30 metres to go, rather than really smash the world record by half a second - which would be the biggest smashing of any record in the history of record smashing.
It was unbelievable.
Really unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Naturally, […]

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600 points in the leaving cert? 1st class honours degree in immunology from Trinity?
Well, the obvious career path for you is this I guess.
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Chris Andrews of Fianna Fail recently called on the Irish government to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
If we boycotted the opening ceremony of the Olympics, we would be sending a message to China saying that we are not happy with their attitude to Tibet and the supression of democracy.
Would we be hypocritical if […]

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Once again at the end of a GAA match, the referee had to be escorted off the field by the Gardaí.  This happened today at the end of the Dublin-Monaghan football game in Parnell Park.  The referee was subjected to abuse by the Dublin supporters and sustained booing.

In my opinion the referee was coming down […]

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I’m still on my American voyage and last night I went to a sports bar to see the fight between Ricky Hatton and Floyd “pretty boy” Mayweather.
I was really hoping for a Hatton victory. He seems like a nice guy, always in good form, still goes for a game of darts in his local […]

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I sometimes feel that on the blogosphere there is nothing but doom and gloom and rarely do I see a good story, unless it is about sport. I find that whinging gets me down and on balance I don’t think Ireland is a bad place. I like the people and the fact that […]

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Aspen is now less than three weeks away. Going to present some work on how we might detect pandemic strains of influenza virus. Great conference and some time to slide down them thar slopes.
This photo is what I will look like.
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Fernando Alonzo left Maclaren Mercedes. Somehow sorry to see a two-time world champ not able to be magnificent and to have the admiration and support of his team. My feeling is that he brought it on himself. If he wins more F1 championships, the this little blip will be forgotten. Roll […]

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I’m completely over that ad on the radio, the one where Steve sings.
Also, the coca cola ad where the guy and the girl are sitting on the bench and he does the mobile phone sound and then finally pulls a coke bottle out of his bag and says ‘its for you’.
Enough, I says.

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