Republic of Ireland National Football Team

Unfastening the restraints on a new form of humour going by the name of ‘satire,’ came four off cuts from the crème of the public school boy crop. Unwittingly grabbing serious theorists, Jonathan Miller and bespectacled Alan Bennett (Miller from Cambridge and Bennett from Oxford), they were thrown together by the artistic director, at the time, from the Edinburgh Festival; Robert Ponsonby, with short, London born Dudley Moore and chain smoking, professional writer, Peter Cook. The idea was to create a show that gave an insight to the Festival delights. By acquiring the services of four jolly good chaps fresh out of the wooden panelled dormitories, seemed to be the ...  Read the complete review

Oh my god you look fabulous, what are you wearing? Who is this gorgeous man? What did you think of this years winners? Every year the stars of Hollywood come out to celebrate their industry with a huge awards ceremony with awards seen as the highest accolade you can get. The Oscars are a big syrupy melting pot of lavish expense, excessive fawning and usually some undeserving films getting acknowledged. Make no mistake, in the past academy awards have been thrown at films that got a mass of publicity and a huge marketing spend regardless of whether they were worthy winners or not. The awards are based on votes cast by members of the academy, made ...  Read the complete review

This should be a jewellery write-up, or - even better - a useful consumer review. However, in my trawl through Hon. Proxam's back catalogue I found this and got tempted... ? Do you believe in life after death? Nah. I don't believe in it, I don't want to believe in it and in fact strongly suspect that such a belief - however understandable in small human animals trembling with fear of the big wide universe - is a course of a lot of misery in both social and individual lives. Yes, when I die, that's it. So what? Maybe I am to young but I am not really ...  Read the complete review

As a rule, I dont support Ireland, in fact, I dont even support England really! as Im not English! But when I watched the Ireland v. Spain game yesterday, I felt REALLY tense and felt very unjustified afterwards! They relly deserved to win, but it just didnt fall for them. David O Leary must be loving it now though, a possible selling of Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United for 30 million, then Robbie Keane will be wanted as well! Ireland deserved to win... Im not too sure yet what the prospects are going to be like for the futre, with Nial Quinn and Steve Staunton retiring, but with the likes of Duff, Keane, Breen and Given, I think they will come into the next World ...  Read the complete review

Just three short weeks ago, virtually no one in their right minds would have given the Republic of Ireland the slightest chance of any success whatsoever in the World Cup finals. Today, in an emotional and exciting match which was as memorable as any staged in this particular tournament, they showed exactly how formidable they are as opponents and came within a hair's breadth of seeing off one of the favourites to win the trophy. The whole giddy three weeks has been a remarkable advertisement for exactly what good old fashioned team spirit, guts and determination can achieve. As the Irish prepared for their appearance in the World Cup finals they were ...  Read the complete review