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Hill Street Views: Dundalk debacle a sad sign of the time
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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Football, eh? It’s a funny old game. Sometimes they think it’s all over… then it’s not, then it might be and eventually no one knows anything anymore.
Last week was a bonkers week for all football fans who were crazily scrolling through social media feeds on their phones to get the latest breaking – sometimes actually ‘breaking’ - news.
It seemed, at every level of the professional game last week, that things were coming apart at the seams. The Barbarians were here, and someone had left the door on the latch.
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Derry City s rise from the ashes recalled in new documentary Fan, Deirdre Dunne has followed Derry City since she was a girl. Picture by Stephen Latimer Seamus McKinney 19 April, 2021 01:00
The gang of four , from left, Tony Doherty, Terry Harkin, Eamonn McLaughlin and Eddie Mahon, brought senior football back to Derry. Picture by Stephen Latimer
The day Martin McGuinness dismantled an IRA bomb so the biggest game in the history of Derry City FC could go ahead is recalled in a new documentary charting the club s Phoenix-like rise from the Troubles. Different League: The Derry City Story charts City s entry to the Republic s League of Ireland to the day that European football royalty in the form of the great Benfica graced the Brandywell stadium.
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Tonight s top TV tips include a profile of writer Colm Tóibín, Kate Winslet stars in new drama Mare of Easttown, there s a documentary about Derry City, and Mark Kermode takes a look at the Oscars . . .
Pick of the Day
Colm Tóibín - On Memory’s Shore, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Here s a profile of the author Colm Tóibín in which he reflects on his childhood in county Wexford and reveals his path to becoming a writer after his time at UCD and time spent abroad in Barcelona.
He also discusses his latest novel