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The GAA Guide to Parenting

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Culchie Bitch in It's Satire, Stupid, Rule 42 And All That Shite

So it appears that the big freeze has ended. While this means that we in the culchie world are no longer snowed in fantasising about the movie Alive, it also means that underage teams are about to commence a level of training that would rival the intensity of Kilkenny senior hurling training sessions.
However, this temporary [...]

We’ll take his wife, but not his waffle

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Culchie Bitch in Soccer Is Played With A Ball

I settled down Tuesday night to watch Manchester United complete the formalities of European qualification with a sense of trepidation at the impending triumvirate of thickness that is O’Herlihy, Giles and Dunphy.
However, there was no sign, and I realised that the match could only be viewed on Sky Sports 2 or TV3 (naturally I went [...]

The glory of the local rivalry

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Culchie Bitch in Rule 42 And All That Shite

So the great Clare hurling saga appears to be rumbling to a close and it brings a glow to my culchie heart to have the end in sight.
Now, this is not to say that I am a fan of amicable solutions, rather, I like to see these things develop into long, festering feuds that the [...]

Why pubs need rickety aul GAA fellas

Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by Culchie Bitch in Rule 42 And All That Shite

I have decided to eschew the current trend of righteously pontificating about a recent handling incident that occurred at high speed involving a prominent sports person/Gillette spokesperson (but seriously Tiger, eyes on the road lad, I don’t care how quick the missus is!) and talk today about the current state of a sport near and [...]