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For a moment, it seemed that the aborted Super League had the potential to spark a surge in anti-Americanism in Britain not seen since the political heyday of George W Bush.
You didn t have to be American to be mad keen on the Super League. Florentino Perez was, and remains, the most vocal evangelist for the project, delivering nightly soliloquies on the matter on Spanish TV.
By all accounts, Real Madrid do not need to establish their own MUTV station as the traditional broadcasters in the Spanish capital are more than happy to do the same job for them. As of Sunday, the Real Madrid President is still in Hiroo Onoda mode, citing ironclad legal documents which supposedly chain the jittery English clubs to the project.
Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021
11:24
2001 recalls the stories and soundtrack of a year dominated by the events of 11 September in America.
Over 3,000 people died when al-Quaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger aircraft: two planes were flown into New York s Twin Towers, a third airliner was targeted at the Pentagon building in Washington, and a fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
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Bertie Ahern says poll on Irish unity should be held on 30th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement
Owen Conlon
Updated: 13 Mar 2021, 18:35
FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said a poll on Irish unity should be held on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
The ex-Fianna Fail leader, who helped negotiate the 1998 deal to end 30 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, said more use should be made of its institutions.
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Former Taoiseach Bertie AhernCredit: Garrett White - The Sun
The agreement established a series of institutions for political cooperation across Ireland. Ahern told Italian newspaper La Repubblica a united Ireland was achievable.
Relations with our cross-channel cousins are not as cordial as they once were. The protracted Brexit negotiations gave us an insight into what the British, or to be more precise, the English, really think of us.
We were cast as the naughty schoolboy, the pesky irritant, a creator of unnecessary complications, a bloody nuisance. Indeed, as they grew ever more exasperated, some of the English populace couldn’t understand why Ireland wasn’t just brought back into the Empire where it belonged.
But credit where it’s due, BoJo offered us a significant olive branch this week, one we should really be accepting with no questions asked. It’s 19 years since Ireland played in a World Cup. We came close to qualifying in 2010, only a Thierry Henry handball barring our path, but, as a footballing nation, we are in steep decline.