X Factor John and Edward former Scor Stars

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X Factor John and Edward former Scor Stars

Ireland’s greatest current export and former Scor Stars. Aren’t You So Proud. X Factor contestants John and Edward Grimes have been revealed as former stars in Scor na nOg according to evidence uncovered by the Talking Balls insight team. According to sources in Lucan, Dublan where the annoying duo hail from, they were part of [...]

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TG4 to Broadcast Senior Shinty International

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TG4 to broadcast 2009 Senior Shinty/Hurling International Saturday 31 October GAA Beo  Albain v Éire TG4 has confirmed that the station will broadcast the Senior Shinty/Hurling International between Ireland and Scotland from Bught Park, Inverness on Saturday afternoon 31 October. The match will be shown in full on a deferred basis with broadcast coverage [...]

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Tricky Ricky Walks the Walk by Walshing St Kilda

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Tricky Ricky Walks the Walk by Walshing St Kilda

Set to take Ireland by storm – the hairdo known as a ‘Ricky Nixon’. AROUND THIS TIME last year Talking Balls carried an interview with controversial and colourful Aussie Rules agent Ricky Nixon, he of the magnificently permed hair and uncanny ability to get right up the nose of GAA officialdom. It’s funny how things [...]

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The Ghostwriter Did It!

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Bend over and cop that Tadgh. You deserve to get your arse well kicked for telling tales out of school! SO TADGH KENNELLY deliberately set out to injure Nicholas Murphy? Or maybe he didn’t. And Paul Galvin knew all about it following their pillow talk the night before? Or maybe Paul didn’t. Maybe Paul was [...]

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Round the World in A Pair of Self Cleaning Underpants

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Round the World in A Pair of Self Cleaning Underpants

Now ladies, do these underpants look like they clean themselves. . . or do you care? IT TAKES A LOT to shock Talking Balls, not a lot to make us laugh, and something special to make us cry. It’s really something that makes us cry laughing. . . The other day a load of young [...]

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A Time For Everything and a Time to Hurl

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A Time For Everything and a Time to Hurl

Time to hurl. . . LIKE HIS FIRST steps and his first words, the first time your young fella hurls in a match, it’s something you’ll never forget. Of all the places to be in our club, Under 8 hurling is where it’s at – it beats them all for the innocence, and the beauty [...]

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Camogie Soaring Stars Announced

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All Ireland Camogie champions Offaly have secured six awards in the inaugural year of the Soaring Star Camogie Awards, an awards scheme introduced to recognise players from the All Ireland junior camogie championship grades. The awards will be presented at the All Star award ceremony in association with O’Neills in the CityWest Hotel on November [...]

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Cashel Crush Killeedy

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AS CASHEL cruised into the Munster senior camogie club championship final on Saturday defeating Limerick champions Killeedy by 0-26 to 0-2, Sinead Millea was forced to watch from the sideline. It was exactly five weeks since she broke her ankle while helping the Tipperary side to their first Kilmacud All Ireland 7′s title last month. [...]

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Imagine All The People, and No GAA. . .

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Imagine All The People, and No GAA. . .

Celebrate, the party’s not over til the camogie keeper sings! CROKE PARK did it with fireworks, the GAA mothership did it with a new logo. Clubs up and down the country did it with the La na gClub, the Primary School day and other events, pig racing, greasy Pole dancing, you name it! The Camogie [...]

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Still Pulling After All These Years

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Still Pulling After All These Years

Some older camogs on the comeback trail! NOT TO BE outdone by the menfolk in their club, or the women from ladies football that are getting all the coverage these days, one group of intrepid camogiers of slightly, moderately and possibly severely advancing years in a club far away, have organised social camogie of a [...]

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