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Craig Casey is eager to earn his first Ireland cap. By Murray Kinsella Saturday 30 Jan 2021, 7:00 AM Jan 30th 2021, 7:00 AM 36,625 Views 4 Comments
Anthony Foley with Craig Casey in 2005.
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FROM AS FAR back as he can remember, rugby has been an obsession for Craig Casey.
He started playing with his beloved Shannon RFC at the age of four, his first match coming against Richmond out on the back pitch in Coonagh, Limerick.
“There’s photos of me and I’m very small. Obviously, not a lot has changed,” said 21-year-old Casey with a smile yesterday as he spoke on a Microsoft Teams call from Ireland camp.
Gaillimh and I just bear-hugged, laughed, then went out and killed each other
Having first played with his native Munster, Liam Toland went on to captain Leinster. By Murray Kinsella Saturday 23 Jan 2021, 8:00 AM Jan 23rd 2021, 8:00 AM 43,796 Views 19 Comments
Liam Toland carries against Munster in the Interprovincial Championships in 2000.
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IN BETWEEN HIS time with Munster and his spell with Leinster, Liam Toland remembers the trauma of the injury that led to him retiring, temporarily as it transpired.
His neck had been an issue for years, requiring regular anti-inflammatory injections, but it finally gave way when he was playing for Old Crescent against Shannon in the All-Ireland League in 1997.
); As much as it came to an abrupt end, it was a bit of a blessing in disguise
Ex-Munster fullback Sean Scanlon has retired from professional rugby after seven seasons in the Championship. By Murray Kinsella Thursday 21 Jan 2021, 9:29 PM Jan 21st 2021, 9:29 PM 34,651 Views 8 Comments
Scanlon in action for Munster against Wasps in a pre-season game in 2011.
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Image: Billy Stickland/INPHO
CHRISTMAS DAY 2011 in the Scanlon household in Limerick. Turkey, ham, and a large serving of nerves all round.
23-year-old Sean was set for his senior Munster debut at fullback the following day against Connacht at Thomond Park, where John Hayes would bid farewell to professional rugby in front of more than 20,000 people.
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A conservative revolution
National sovereignty crystalised Gaelicism and late Victorian mores. Marc Mulholland argues, in his second article, that there was no transformation of popular consciousness
If there was an Irish revolution, it probably began with the Irish Land League of 1879-81. This was founded by Michael Davitt, the one-armed son of farmers evicted during the famine (he had lost a limb working as a boy in an English factory), and presided over by Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant landlord. The league campaigned against ‘rackrents’ (anything above what tenant farmers thought reasonable) in the short term, and for the peasant proprietorship of the farms they worked in the longer term. The result was a huge social struggle that coined the term ‘boycotting’ and attracted international attention.