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Entries Tagged as 'football'

Up Geevagh!

October 19th, 2006 · No Comments

We have been flying the Geevagh colors on the front gate for a number of weeks now, supporting the ladies Gaelic football team. The Sligo junior ladies won the all-Ireland Final in Dublin and half the team is from the local parish. This past week, our neighbor, Stephanie O’Reilly put in an incredible performance scoring [...]

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Tailgating Sligo style

September 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Gabe and I came into work on Sunday evening to avail of the broadband connection and watch the Steelers take on the Cincinatti Bengals. We had a great time despite the Steelers blowing the game. Perhaps I should send this pic to the Steelers Nation site at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Yahoo!

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Well, we weren’t without NFL broadcasts for long … Yahoo is offering a Game Pass of all games broadcast live over the Internet for users outside of North America. Games are archived for 24-hours after broadcast and a plug-in lets me easily download the game onto my laptop so I can share them with Gabe [...]

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The NLF kick-off

September 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

We were surprised to see that the first game of the American football season would be televised live on SkyTV. Starting time 1AM on a Thursday evening … yea! I called the satellite TV company to add the Sky Sports service, and not only would the service cost another 30 Euros/mth, we would lose our [...]

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