Concrete Jungle

Lifted from Maser’s Facebook, where I see someone said it looks like a giant Refresher bar wrapper. Word.

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Robbery and jubilation.

A great selection of images from last night are to be found here, at Photopat3′s Flickr account. Some reflections on a one-a-piece clash. Did we deserve a point? Far from it. Bohs dominated the game for large chunks last night, and our goal at the end was as scraptastic as it comes. Still, what a [...]

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D. Mac Craith: Personal Collection

My uncle Donal, based in London since 1972, is over in Dublin at the moment. Today, he dropped a shopping bag full of political pamphlets into me at work. Spanning from 1963 till 1989, the collection is quite stunning. I hope to scan most of them up over the next few months. If anyone wants [...]

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Only Fools And Horses- Bohemian FC Fanzine (Issue 1,1993)

Introduction:As a youngster, it was the fanzines I wanted at Richmond Park quicker than the match programme. If you have Dublin League of Ireland fanzines, please get in touch and I’d love to include them on the site. I hope in time we can establish a small online section with examples from each Dublin club, [...]

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“You’ll never play for Rovers….”

This city is carved up nicely in terms of the domestic game. There’s no love-in between us all either, we might share a passion for a sport but our teams are unique and history dictates these things, doesn’t it? A Bohs/Rovers derby can match the best of them for passion, a bit of the old [...]

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A very untraditional truck.

Walking up by the newly refurbished Workmens Club, next to that lovely hotel Bono owns, a friend notices an unusual truck pass by. “Have a look at that!? Is that…..” It is. It’s Ronnie Drew. For once, Come Here To Me had a camera at the right time. Wouldn’t get that on Pimp My Ride. [...]

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Even the Grauniad have a go…

As a Bohs fan, the “Quote of the day” in the Guardian gave me a laugh last Friday, the day after Rovers ahem… “historic” victory over in Tel Aviv in the Europa League Qualifiers. While I won’t begrudge them their glamour tie / day in the sun / whatever you call it tonight, I’ll watch it, and  the [...]

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Some pages from the ‘Aiséirghe’ newspaper (July 16, 1948)

My parents ventured to Newmarket for the monthly Flea Market there, and returned home with this much appreciated gem of a present. The newspaper comes from anti-partitionist grouping Aiséirghe, and pushes “Vocational Democracy”. It is essentially a right-wing nationalist publication. “Vocational democray derives from the idea of the brotherhood of man in the fatherhood of [...]

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”Abair dia dhuit do St. Pauli”

Drop down to Murrays this Friday for a cheap pint, some great music and to support a very good cause. We’ve heard it through the grapevine that the FC St. Pauli Dublin Supporters Club will have their newly designed t-shirts ready for this. (Click on the poster for more details)

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Prime Max

It’s rare I rave about a particular beer. I think the last time I felt the need to draw attention to one was my first experience with Moosehead, a beautiful Canadian Lager I was handed a bottle of in the Bernard Shaw not too long ago. Earlier on, I tried out Prime Max in the [...]

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Glory Glory Man United?

On the fourth of August, a League of Ireland selection will take on Manchester United Football Club in the new stadium at Lansdowne Road. Before we go further, that’s what we call it around here. Lansdowne Road. The day after this, Shamrock Rovers will take on Juventus on Italian soil, in a crucial competitive match. [...]

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A Hidden Gem; The Tivoli Carpark.

Last week, I got a mysterious text from a good friend who said they had something to show me. The instructions were to meet on Grattan Bridge at 16:45, and that it should only take an hour or so. Intrigued, I showed up at the alotted time, and after a ten minute walk, we ended [...]

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