By Terry Reilly (c) 2009 Don’t know how the weather has been with you good people in America in recent times, but here in Ireland we have just recorded our wettest July in over fifty years! Some areas of this green isle suffered three times the usual rainfall for the month, and our weather people […]
By Terry Reilly (c) IT’S hard to believe that during my working life with the Western People I worked with three men who were on the payroll of the paper when it hit the streets around lunch time every Friday – all going well of course with the temperamental old Foster press in Arran Street in […]
By Terry Reilly (c) Leo Tolstoy did not have to have to dig too deep into his creative brain to come up with the title War and Peace for his masterpiece spun around life in Russia during the Napoleonic era. For life, since time began, has be a continium of war and peace, blood, savagery, […]
By Terry Reilly (c) FIRST a confession. I did not think Mayo would beat Dublin. It was a view I found widely shared in Mayo, a call based on what the two teams had produced this year. It was mind over heart after many defeats. I feared for Mayo’s chances, not because I thought Dublin […]
By Terry Reilly (c) EVERY team, they say, has one great game in them. Did we see Mayo’s great game of 2006 delivered against the Dubs? So here’s the nub of it: can we do it all over again, and perhaps even better this time, against the kingpins of Gaelic football, to win the All-Ireland […]