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Leinster Rugby Comes of Age

How Leinster Found a Voice
And Dublin found a team worth supporting by Daire Whelan

I was born and bred in Dublin. Yet I’m a Munster fan. Even in the Heineken Cup semi-final, I cheered for Munster to beat the team that represents me and everyone else in the province. I just can’t identify with them. Southside gits. Look at Munster. The Limerick tradition. The dogs-of-war attitude. What’s not to like? Leinster, on the other hand, long represented something more exclusive, less accessible.

Land of Saints and Morons

Ireland has not produced a single important philosopher for the last 300 years – and the Irish have no great regard for thinking. Are we just a bit thick? An essay by Max McGuinness.

There was a young man who said “God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there’s no one about in the Quad.”
“Dear Sir, your astonishment’s odd;
I am always about in the Quad
And that’s why this tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by Yours faithfully, God.”

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