There is no reason, other than the weather, why Ireland couldn’t do this. The problem is that if you long-finger it, as Byrne would, it will never happen because it’s too daunting.
Their illness prevented them from taking part in subsequent events—keeping Olympic use of the Seine in the news for all the wrong reasons.
We clearly have forgotten what mankind knew as a fact until about three minutes ago.
Also: Olympic scandal, the courts create a new right, and John alienates the readers, again.
In the olden days, we’d all have rolled our eyes and moved on. The olden times, once again, were all the better for it.
Christianity gets the cold shoulder once again
Fascinating. The decline in traditional television has been going on for years, but one of the reasons that sport commands such huge royalty payments, in general, is that it has largely been the exception to the trend. The Olympic Games this year, though, suffered a massive collapse in viewers. Why? These are US figures, not […]
“Replace the wokesters with patriots”.
Minority woman of colour loses out to trans athlete…
Imagine a situation where some country – let us say China, since they’re not historically averse to training Olympic athletes from childhood – was found to have provided masses of testosterone to its female weightlifters from the ages of 12 to 25 while training them to enter the Olympic weightlifting competition later in life. In […]
A group of six independent Senators has said that the 2022 Winter Olympics should not take place in Beijing and that, if the International Olympic Committee doesn’t change the venue, the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) should boycott the event. Led by Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen, the Oireachtas group criticized the “deteriorating human rights […]
It’s been five years since the last Olympic games, in Rio de Janeiro. That’s already a year too long, because they were due to be held in Tokyo last summer, before Covid intervened. The plan at the time was to push them back a year, and hold them this summer instead. Alas, nope, says the […]