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Only Our Rivers Run Free!Charles Patrick Tully - Celtic........the darling of Belfast and Glasgow, Charlie Tully was a football genius with both Belfast Celtic and Glasgow Celtic! In barren times for Celtic in the 50’s Tully lit up the field with his play and became a Celtic icon!!2021-04-2818 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Walking Through A Story of Life.......during his imprisonment after Nuremberg Albert Speer to keep sane planned a route around Europe, in his mind! During COVID I planned something similar around Ireland, it was some journey!2020-04-301h 00Only Our Rivers Run Free!Coronavirus claims the life of an old Comrade!.......on 28th Aug ‘72 Johnny Burns and I were linked for life by an incident during the conflict, it led to years in Long Kesh & memories, we hadn’t met for many yrs but last week word came he had the virus and a few days later he died! Goodbye old friend!🌹2020-04-2720 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Memories are made at late nights at the Salmon Leap!........back in 1977, 20 of us headed to the Salmon Leap to party, drink Mundies and sing, it was 3 weeks of hedonistic mayhem Termon style, great memories, 43 years ago!2020-04-2715 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!We’ve been brought back to earth with a bang!........2020 will never be forgotten, Corona or COVID-19 has brought reality to our world, what is important now, it’s not wealth but life! Old people dying in their thousands, isolation, social distancing, no football, no golf, it’s a different world!2020-04-2615 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Maybe I didn’t fit the bill as a Bogman!.........it’s been there millions of years but in the 1970’s I started making shapes in it, the Bog! The turf had to be worked for the winter fuel, a hard slog but great when you bring it home! ‘Would you know a good turf??2020-04-2522 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!After Easter 1970 the north changed forever!.........Easter 1970, ‘honeymoon is over! British troops clash with republican youths and things will never be the same again.2020-04-2417 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Now everyone is wearing a mask!.......2020 and Coronavirus-COVID-19! The world is facing the biggest Pandemic since 1918 and the Spanish Flu! I relate the story of old Ned Billy who lived through 1918 and survive until his 90’s!2020-04-2414 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Speculators, Developers, Carpetbaggers: Plus the lives of Jimmy Greaves & Harry Gregg.........a two part article, the first half about the political stalemate and the politico’s who rake it in? Secondly the lives of Harry Gregg & Jimmy Greaves!2020-04-2414 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!A Study on the football support base in Ireland for UK clubs........soccer in the UK is big business, Irish supporters flood across the channel to follow their teams, ManU, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City but none moreso than Celtic, the Irish club in Britain!2020-04-2220 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Where are the Army Council when you need them most?........the 2020 election is over and FF & FG Scramble to hold on to power at the expense of the Shinners? When everyone else fails there’s always the Army Council to fall back on for Loe & Mi-Hole???2020-04-2217 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Historic day in Irish politics-Tiocfaidh ar Lou!.........the 2020 election changed Irish Politics for good, SF became the leading Party and although FF & FG won’t share power it’s only a matter of time until a new alignment brings the old show down!2020-04-2131 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Election 2020: On a Cactus the pricks are all on the outside!..........the build up to Election 2020, FF & FG won’t sleep with Mary Lou metaphorically of course but Eamonn Ryan might? TV debates, Social Media, Google Analytics, a very modern election!2020-04-2113 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Not a normal political party a bit disingenuous?.......FF & FG refuse to jump into bed with Mary Lou casting the Shinners as outcasts yet their historical lineage dates back to the Civil War, their modern words stink of hypocrisy?2020-04-2114 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Fifty yrs on and a Bridge over Troubled Water........1970, 50 yrs ago, the Beatles, Joe Cocker, Army in Belfast, Vietnam, Apollo13, Nell McCafferty, Brazil & Pele, and I was 16 at a party and Little Ole Wine Drinker Me was in vogue!!2020-04-2112 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The RIC - Nothing to Commemorate.......in Jan 2019 Charlie Flanagan announced the Govt wanted to commemorate the RIC, ‘the eyes & ears of the British Govt’, he got his answer from the people swiftly, ‘no way’ and had to cancel!2020-04-2115 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The demise of Belfast Celtic - 50 yrs on!.........the greatest football club ever in Ireland only existed for 58 yrs, Belfast Celtic left football in 1948 after their players were attacked at Windsor by sectarian thugs and would never play again! Their history lives on!2020-04-2115 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!2010-2019 A Decade of Memories..........the Celtic Tiger imploded, so did Rangers, Donegal won Sam, Spain the World Cup, wee Eddie & Harry passed on as did my beloved Oisin, Trump & Boris elected & Mary Lou takes over from big Gerry!2020-04-2115 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Brexit Day - To Be or Not to Be?..........Brexit, Boris leads Britain to collapse, Scotland will leave & Irish Unity on the agenda, meanwhile politicians fill their greedy hands with filthy lucre!!2020-04-2113 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Like the Phoenix arising out of the ashes........events in Aug ‘69 led to the formation of the Provisional IRA and onward to 30 yrs of armed struggle, History was written for a new generation!2020-04-2113 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!What’s in a Book?......in 2019 we formed a Book Club in Renville Village, it’s quite a collection of ‘Wordsworth’s’, this is a look at the Books we’ve read during the year from Wounded Knee to Eleanor Oliphant & many more!2020-04-2014 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!‘Ourselves Alone’.......In 1918 the last British general election held in Ireland SF won 73 Seats and declared an Irish Republic & set up the 1st Dail, 100 yrs later the British are in disarray over Brexit and the election could pave the way for Scottish independence & Irish Unity??2020-04-2016 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Malta, Sun, Golf & Murder!........November 2019 ten Bogies & Fogey’s went to Malta for a golf break, it was a great few days in the winter sun, at the same time the richest guy on the island was trying to leave in his yacht with millions, a suspect in the murder of a journalist who exposed corruption??2020-04-1909 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Dunfanaghy’s James Brogan - A Golfing Maestro!🏌🏼♂️.......winner of ten Captains Prizes, James Brogan is a Golfing Legend! Now in his 80’s he uses a golf club like a great violinist plays or a ballet dancer glides across the floor, wee James he was some golfer & friend!🏌🏼♂️2020-04-1918 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!I first visited Paradise 50 yrs ago!💚.......Lazio visited Paradise, they brought a form of fascism with their Ultras, it’s not a pretty sight in 2020, but Celtic supporters let them know what they thought, Lazio, Vaffancuco - Fcuk off Lazio!2020-04-1914 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The Battle of Long Kesh - October 1974!......on the 15 Th October 1974, 2000 IRA prisoners burned Long Kesh to the ground then fought the British Army for 6 hrs the next day, helicopters dropped CR gas, an illegal substance, today 120 men who were there have died of cancer related illness???2020-04-1815 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Ireland’s calling but there’s nobody home?.........the Irish rugby team play the All Blacks, they have the iconic Haka, we have ‘ Ireland’s Call’ instead of Amhran na bhfainn, it’s ridiculous, the only country not to play the anthem???2020-04-1814 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!An Gorta Mor - The Great Famine.......1845-1850 and the greatest catastrophe to hit our shores, the so called famine created by an ineptitude by the British Govt who took food out of the country while 1 million starved & 1 million migrated, a human disaster!2020-04-1815 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The Night Georgie Best came to town!........one night in the summer of ‘88 the legend that was Georgie Best arrived at the Mountain Bar, in a pub of legendary characters Georgie fitted right in! A special guy, the greatest footballer of a generation!2020-04-1814 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!What do you think of that Joe Brolly?......one of the iconic sports commentators Joe Brolly, All Ireland winner, Barrister, TV pundit, & grumpy old man, with Pat Spillane & Colm O’Rourke he brought the Sunday Game alive!2020-04-1713 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Please be upstanding for Her Majesty?Phil Coulter on the LLS talked about being offered a gong from the Queen which he refused, an archaic system which Irish people should reject but many don’t, Martin O’Neill for one??2020-04-1713 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!An Tearmann, More than a Club!........Termon GAA club are a major part of the community, they cater for the youth of the area and bring them through to adulthood in a positive manner, CLG Sn Tearmann - More than a football Club!2020-04-1717 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!All Ireland is more than just football!.......the All Ireland final, 82,300, it’s a special day, the Dubs going for 5 in a row, the Kerry revival, Ulster takes a back seat after great success since 2000, Mayo perennial bridesmaids, Galway returning, its part of what we are !2020-04-1713 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Stormont made West Belfast an Indian Reservation..........Partition created two states within one country and a partitionist mentality? But 100 yrs later we are moving towards a referendum for Irish unity and now is the time to prepare!2020-04-1617 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Boris the Bollix - A PM in Neverland!.........what can we do with a problem like Boris? Brexit, Backstop, he’s landed in the middle of the most important times in a century, Boris the Bollix, he’s no Walter Raleigh??2020-04-1515 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Noreen Bawn resonates across Ireland’s landscape!.....Noreen Bawn, Mary From Dungloe and the Rose of Tralee, sad songs about 3 women who migrated and lost in love through small mindedness, they personify the story or emigration & Lost love!2020-04-1513 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!August 1969 - Part 2........August ‘69, the north imploded, the Battle of the Bogside and the attack on the Lower Falls, 8 Dead in Belfast and Free Derry created, our lives were never the same again!2020-04-1517 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!August 1969 Part 1........50 yrs of Partition all of a sudden blew up in the faces of Unionism, we were 15, unprepared but willing participants, the Battle of the Bogside & Burning of Bombay St, things would never be the same again!2020-04-1515 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Shane Lowry - Irish Sporting Legend.......2019. Portrush and Shane Lowry lifts the ‘Open’, a magnificent achievement from the Offaly man, pure genius on the Dunluce Links to an audience of 250,000 and millions on TV, Golfer supreme!⛳️🏌🏻♂️2020-04-1513 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Bonfires, Flegs & the Sash my Father wore!.........sectarianism raises its ugly head every 12th July in Belfast & Glasgow, it’s pathetic, disgusting & medieval in the 21st century!2020-04-1514 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Billy McKee & Ivan Cooper, Iconic figures!.........two men who personify the conflict, Billy McKee IRA Commander and Ivan Cooper SDLP, physical force Republicanism & constitutional nationalism!2020-04-1415 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!In the Summer of 69!.........it was a momentus year and the summer of ‘69! Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon, the Beatles & Let it Be, the VC strike for victory, and the British Army Land in Belfast & Derry, it was the summer of ‘69!2020-04-1411 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Bogies & Fogey’s in Donegal.........May 2019 and 32 golfers from Galway Bay headed to Donegal to play Rosapenna, Portsalon & Ballyliffen, it was a great 4 days, the Golf, Glen Bar, Harbour Bar, we’ll be back!!🏌🏻♂️⛳️🍷🎻2020-04-1314 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!‘To Be or Not to Be’ - it’s a Cert for Leaving!.......the Leaving Cert, that dreaded final exam of teenage yrs, the path to University with 400,500 or 600 pts, the most demanding time of a young person’s life, is the system right in the 21st century??2020-04-1313 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The British Army in Ireland - Part 2........35 yrs of conflict and the British Army a major protagonist killed hundreds yet not one soldier charged with murder???2020-04-1310 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The British Army - here for 800 yrs!.......in the recent conflict the British Army killed 500 people, no British Soldier was ever charged with murder, British justice how are ye??2020-04-1315 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!In Sadness and in Sorrow!.......time waits for no man, Lurgy reach the 40th anniversary but we are losing some stalwarts each year, Dicey, Tony Kelly, Eamonn Doherty, Paul Annie, Raymond Ban, Andy Quigley, Hugh Strain & now Donny McGinley, R.I.P.2020-04-1315 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Oh Leo it’s hard to be humble!Maria Bailey, TD, took to a swing in Ballsbridge and became an overnight sensation with her sense of entitlement and an embarrassment to Leo and the Govt, what do you do with a problem like Maria?2020-04-1307 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!It’s silent, it’s sad, dawn looms, life is forlorn!........Darkness into Light, every year hundreds of thousands make the walk at 4am from darkness to light in memory of someone close who has been lost to suicide, we walk the walk with Oisin!🙏2020-04-1209 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!‘Our revenge will be the laughter of our children’!......1981, the year of the Hunger Strikes, Bobby Sands and 9 others die a slow sad death in Long Kesh, my sister Bernadette was the girl piper at each funeral and suffered greatly afterwards, not all victims of violence are physical!2020-04-1215 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Augusta - The Tiger is back!.......2019, the Masters at Augusta and the Tiger roars again! After a decade struggling with injuries, marriage break up, his golf game gone, we witnessed the return of this genius of golf, it was a special evening!⛳️🏌🏻♂️2020-04-1213 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Lyra McKee, her death must not be in vain?........A 29 year old journalist shot dead in Derry, we thought those days were gone? Why are there people in 2019 who think armed Struggle is needed, Society has changed, it’s not worth one more death?2020-04-1112 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!My Bucket List must include Termon!.......My Bucket List, 20 destinations around the world that I consider worth a visit, from Camp Nou to Malta, Prague to Gozo, Glasgow to Croke Park, life’s too short just do it!2020-04-1117 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Day out for reworking of the Battle of the Boyne.......Celtic v Rangers, there’s nothing like it, 61,000, The Irish Diaspora & the establishment team, also a German Yank, Scottish cousins, Letterkenny Celts, Dublin, Belfast, Cork & Donegal, they’re all there to see the football and Celtic win!!☘️⚽️💚2020-04-1117 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Oisin Lee - A Tribute.........Oisin Lee was my first Grandson, he was 20 and had a lot of life to live but on a fateful Sept night in 2015 he decided life wasn’t for him! It’s beyond comprehension, we’ll never understand!2020-04-1013 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!John Delaney!........the John Delaney reign as supremo in the FAI came to an unseemly end just as Euro 2020 was almost upon us! The controversial flamboyant Delaney was nothing if charismatic, but his end was swift and a defining moment for FAI2020-04-1013 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!England get out of Ireland, no other banner on 5th Ave!.......New York Paddy’s Day Parade and banner ‘England get out of Ireland’, Alan Partridge and ‘Come out ye Black & Tans’, Declan Rice and ‘Ooh aah up the RA’, Gibraltar, Brady’s Ham, it was a strange week!2020-04-1012 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Will the real St Patrick please stand up?........we all know the story but is it true? Daithi O’Cronain disputes the accepted theory and has found 3 possible Paddy bhoys???2020-04-0914 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Celebrating International Women’s Day..........throughout history women have been to the forefront in every major historical event but until recently almost written out of history, but times have changed!2020-04-0913 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!66 days: Bobby Sands, an ordinary guy who did something extraordinary!.......66 Days, the film about the Hunger Strikes and the death of Bobby Sands MP’2020-04-0815 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Sectarian chanting is disgusting and illegal!.........500 hundred years after the Reformation and sectarian bigotry is alive and well in Glasgow! Rangers fans abuse Steve Clark, ‘fenian bastard’, in 2019 it’s ridiculous to think this still prevails in modern society!2020-04-0814 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!‘Ar gClub’, the heartbeat of the GAA..........the greatest amateur sporting organization in the world, the GAA is nothing without the local club which is based in every community on the island, ‘Ar gClub’!2020-04-0815 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Where have all the Nurses gone?.......Nurses on strike, the backbone of the HSE but the Govt don’t see it? Florence Nightingale the iconic image who personified Nursing would be dismayed, the Nurses need our support now!!2020-04-0811 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Big Mal and a Square Sausage!.......Big Mal is a football man, from Coventry but lived in San Francisco for a lifetime, played professional football in the US, but he’d never been in Glasgow until a night last December to see Celtic!2020-04-0714 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Sunday Bloody Sunday......30th January 1972, the British Army murdered 14 innocent Civil Rights marchers in Derry, 40 yrs later an apology from David Cameron and the British Government!2020-04-0714 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!The 1st Dail and Soloheadbeg.......21st Jan 1919 and the meeting of the 1st Dail, 150k away the IRA kill 2 RIC men , it’s the beginning of the War of Independence!2020-04-0716 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Golf is Life’s puzzle without an answer?.......Golf, the little white ball game, a trip around the great Courses of Ireland, what’s your favourite?⛳️🏌🏻♂️2020-04-0715 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!January 2969 - Burntollet Bridge.......on 1st Jan 1969 the People’s Democracy student marchers left Belfast for a 4 day protest march to Derry, at Burntollet Bridge they were attacked by Loyalists & B Specials and severely beaten, an Irish Selma!2020-04-0711 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!A true Fairytale in New York.......Shane McGowan penned the greatest xmas song of all time, ‘I could have been someone’! But the modern PC era had some RTE guy saying it was politically incorrect, what a prick!2020-04-0513 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!No Self Respecting Irishman should take a Seat at Westminster!.......100 yrs since the 1918 election when SF won 75 Seats and declared an Irish Republic, the issue of entering Westminster is in vogue again, like 1918 any Self Respecting Irishman or woman won’t do it!2020-04-0514 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Roy, Mick & Robbie have a lot to answer for?........Martin O’Neill & Keane sacked and who takes over, Mick McCarthy, and Saipan memories all over again! One great night v Germany will live long in the memory and not just for Robbie Keane’s 94th minute equaliser!!2020-04-0513 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Martin O’Neill, thanks for the memories!.......Martin ‘ONeill, European Cup winner with Forest, World Cup Captain For NI in Spain, Manager at Leicester, Celtic, Villa & Sunderland and then lead the Republic to the Euros, but best of all led Celtic to Seville!2020-04-0515 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Unfortunately Guy Fawkes was Betrayed!.........Guy Fawkes, Peter Casey, James McClean, Brexit, President Michael D, a busy time for politics!2020-04-0512 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,,,,,the guns finally went silent!........100 yrs since the end of WW1, industrial slaughter unimaginable! In 2005 30 of us from Donegal & Derry visited the Somme & Ypres, an eclectic group, many ex combatants from our recent conflict, a fascinating week!2020-04-0421 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Where have all the golf balls gone? Part 2........I celebrated surviving 65 yrs recently, life’s been good but the last few yrs difficult, cancer for Mary and I needed 3 open heart surgeries, infected Aortic valve & brain hemorrhage and then lost my eldest grandson Oisin, tough times!2020-04-0405 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Where have all the golf balls gone?.......turning 65, a little reminiscing on life, Belfast, Donegal, Galway, it’s been a good life as James Connolly said to the wife before execution!!2020-04-0412 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!What’s in a Book?........a lifetime love affair with the written word, visiting a Mobile library at 10 to reading manuscripts in University at 60, reading is the most important thing to give to your children!2020-04-0414 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!British presence the root cause of the Brexit problem...........Brexit the most pressing political problem of recent times, so ironic that Partition, the Treaty and the Border became the stumbling block for the UK?2020-04-0415 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Derry, October 5th 1968.......Civil Rights marchers walking through their own city attacked by the RUC, it was the start of 30 yrs of conflict, the 6 counties would never be the same again!2020-04-0415 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Strangers to the Donegal shore........in October 2018 the Bogey’s & Fogey’s Galway Bay Senior Society made an inaugural trip to Donegal to play Dunfanaghy, Rosapenna & Portsalon, it was a great few days, great golf courses, & craic in the Harbour Bar, they’ll be back!2020-04-0316 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Maybe I didn’t fit the bill as a ‘Bogman’.........as a city boy I was familiar with the Bog and turf but definitely not a real Bogman but I spent the 80’s cutting turf , it was an experience, back to nature, just me & Glen and the Curlew, tae & eggs & Lough Lily!2020-04-0321 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!General Mike Jackson & the Ballymurphy Massacre.......General Mike Jackson future Commander of Land forces was in Ballymurphy in August ‘71 when a Paras murdered 11 innocent civilians, one a Priest, Jackson spread lies about it to the world’s press, he was the liar!2020-04-0214 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Plenty of News at Throat Lake......., Guardian Golf journalist, guitarist with Lloyd Cole & Commotions, Tribune columnist & St Michael’s super sub, just a year in the life of Lawrence Donegan!2020-04-0217 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!A beautiful day in Paradise.......Paradise just nowhere like it, the spiritual home of the Irish Diaspora in the East End of Glasgow! It’s derby day, Celtic v the tax dodgers, atmospheric, consummate rivalry, tension a victory once again for the Hoops!💚2020-04-0213 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Sport, the Opium of the People.........Sport gives us an escape from the mundane, football, golf, athletics, it’s escapism, the magical moments, but there is a downside, the cheats, they devalue their sport, despite everything sport is the ilium of the people!2020-04-0214 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!A Love Story from the Hills to Titanic City........Annie & Patsy met in Portrush and then made Belfast their home for 50 yrs. country people from Donegal & Tyrone they adapted to city life, but Donegal was always home for Annie and they returned for their final days!2020-04-0210 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Easter Week & the Somme - 100 yrs in the making........In 2005 I spent a week on the French/Belgium border with 30 others, many ex combatants from our recent conflict, it was an amazing week visiting Ypres & the Somme war graves!2020-04-0212 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Fr Paddy Coyle.......as the conflict developed in 1969-70 a young Curate was sent to the streets of Turf Lodge. Fr Paddy Coyle could clear a riot situation in 5 mins but he was a friend of the rioters not the Army!2020-04-0211 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Talking History is not a thing of the past!.........a country like Ireland with a fascinating history and yet the Govt are considering dropping History from the LC? Why we need to know our history!2020-04-0112 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Gaelic Sunday...... in August 1918 the GAA staged a massive protest against the British Govt, 50,000 players took part and played games in defiance of a British ban, it became known as ‘Gaelic Sunday!2020-04-0111 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Liam Miller - GAA rules must not stand in way of Charity........Liam Miller died aged 36, former Celtic & ManU player and a Republic star but his life was cut short. An unseemly row broke out when the GAA banned the use of Pairc I Chaoimh but thankfully it was resolved!2020-03-3110 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.......the story of the destruction of the Native American nation by Europeans, personified by the final ‘battle’ at Wounded Knee!2020-03-3114 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Ballyliffen - Golfing Heaven.......a wonderful few days in Ballyliffen as the European Tour comes to Donegal! It was a magnificent few days, great golf and a great winner in a Russell Know with a 40’ putt on the 18th play off!🏌🏻♂️2020-03-3112 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!World Cup 2018 - It’s not over yet, it is now! Part 2........World Cup 2018, It’s Russia like we never seen it before, dancing singing fans from all over the world and a party like no other, the beautiful game wins again!2020-03-3112 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!World Cup 2018 - It’s not over yet, it is now!.......World Cup 2018 in Russia, the greatest tournament on the planet, a 4 year extravaganza of the genius of the ‘beautiful game’, Pele, Maradona, Messi!2020-03-3113 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Golf, a Good Walk Spoiled Part 3!........what makes us join a golf club, walking 5 miles after a little white projectile to put in a small Hole? Is it a walk spoiled or a wonderful walk?2020-03-3009 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Golf, A Good Walk Spoiled? Part 2.........Golf, Dunfanaghy, the Muckish Ramblers, Kirchhoff GS, Cregmore, Galway Bay, Mark Twain was wrong , it’s a beautiful walk!2020-03-3017 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Golf, a Good Walk Spoiled Part 1.........Golf has become the game of the masses but it wasn’t always like that, I look at the origins of the little white ball game and it’s success in Ireland.2020-03-3010 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Those were the days my friend!.......1970, Hampden, EC semi final, Celtic v Leeds, 136,500, a European record, and Celtic wipe the floor with the English champions, those were the days!2020-03-3010 minOnly Our Rivers Run Free!Are You Watching the Game. - A tribute to Pat McGrattan.........just a little tribute to my great friend Pat who passed so quickly in May ‘05, aged 49! A great Celtic man from Patrick in Glasgow, he worked in the shipyards and then a painter & decorator all around Termon in the 80’s & 90’s, a good guy!💚⚽️2020-03-2409 min