In all good bookshops now, Glory Nights & Heartache - collections of essays on Irish football edited by Dermot Bolger. I've contributed the Bohs chapter, with others covering various LOI clubs, the men's national team and women's football. www.newisland.ie/shop/p/pwjmb...

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🆕 New on our Patreon!🔴⚪️ One free and one for paid members! For our members, part one of our 1968/69 season review with a look at new player/manager John Colrain. For everyone, we look at 8 meetings of Pat’s and Finn Harps from 1969-1979. Join for a fiver a month! Patreon.com/historystpats 🔴⚪️

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Ironically WWII generation dying off - the people in Europe and America who remembered the horrors of war and spent their lives working to stop that ever happening again - have been replaced not by immigrants but by a postwar generation determined to cling to power and wealth long into their 80s.

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You’d think, given the week we’ve had - more or less a general strike here and riots in France - RTÉ could find one commentator with a proper sociological understanding, rather than a lad who sees Russia in everything. As if France hasn’t a history of insurrection and protest all of its own. Daft.

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I made this years ago

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