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We wake up to the sting of Ireland’s World Cup qualification exit and try to name what penalties do to a team, a campaign, and a nation watching. We linger on the RTE sign-off, Dermot Kennedy’s “The Refuge”, and the stubborn reason we still come back.
• the cruelty of penalties as a shortcut to judgement
• staying with the broadcast to the final wrap-up
• why “The Refuge” fits the mood of heartbreak
• belief after Portugal and the brutal end in Prague
• courage, vulnerability, and players showing their scars
• generational loss of World Cup memories in Irish football
• returning again for North Macedonia and the autumn fixtures
• holding sport beside the wider reality of Gaza
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