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Just wondering is Ouzo sold in Ireland??

I was watching the Setanta Sports coverage of the Ireland match last night. Did anyone notice Pat Dolans hair was weird, it looked like a gig or something???

A mate of mine reckons Ronaldo wouldnt even make the Top 10 divers in the P\Ship. Guess who he supports....

Lads has anyone here done the H\Dip in teaching with an IT degree. Just wondering what subjects you taught as well as computers??

Over the winter i did a bit of rowing in the gym, just wondering what people think of it. I play gaa and i found it a good work out, i had to row 2km on the max strength and managed to do it in 6.58 a few times? Would that be a good time? Any rowers here be able to help me

I am looking for a safe code for an Opel Vectra 00 Philips CCR600 radio.

Can anyone help?

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Jack O Connor was on Saturday night chat show with Miriam O Callaghan promoting his new book and he came across as a whinger. He def has a chip on his shoulder.

Here is the article that appeared in the Sunday Indo

'Outsider' O'Connor grinds axe over snubbing by Kerry greats

Sunday June 24 2007

DAMIAN LAWLOR

JACK O'CONNOR has admitted that even after he was appointed Kerry senior football manager in 2004, he felt out of the loop because he never played senior football for the county during the golden age of the 1970s and early '80s and also because he came from a small isolated pocket of south Kerry.

In a frank new autobiography, O'Connor reveals what it felt like to be an 'outsider' who delivered two All-Ireland titles in three years.

He recalls being a selector under Páidí Ó Sé in 1997 when the team travelled to Newbridge to play Mick O'Dwyer's Kildare in a challenge game and describes how Micko offered a warm greeting to Páidí and the other selectors, but ignored him.

"I don't really care what Micko's reasons were for snubbing me," he writes. "He was a neighbour and it shouldn't have happened. A few years later, when I got the Kerry job, I thought that Mick O'Dwyer, after all he'd won, could have given an old phone call, politely offered some advice over a cup of coffee. There was nothing. No goodwill. No word. Not one of the '70s team or the four-in-a-row men called up. There was just a silence for the poor rustic from Dromid as they waited for him to screw up."

O'Connor also recalls the embarrassment he felt while at the Kerry Sports Star of the Year awards in 2006 when former player Jimmy Deenihan publicly expressed his wish that O'Dwyer would finish his coaching career as manager of the Kerry team. At that time the Dromid Pearses man saw that as a serious slight on his own position.

The book, Keys to the Kingdom, is an honest and witty account of life in modern day management.

In the 200-page memoir O'Connor also documents some disagreements he had with current Kerry manager Pat O'Shea.

"I've a good relationship with the Dr Crokes players on the team but had the odd run-in with Pat O'Shea. After we'd announced the (Kerry senior) team for the league final, Pat rang me and asked was it OK for Eoin Brosnan to go with Crokes to play an old Kerry league game down in Cahirciveen on the Saturday, the day before the league final. 'Be good for his confidence', said O'Shea pointedly. I asked if this was some sort of wind-up. It wasn't. Well, wouldn't it be great for Eoin's 'confidence', I said, if he came on in the league final and just cut loose.

"I was stunned. Asking a county player to play a Kerry league game in Cahirciveen against a weak side when the county team is playing for a national title the following day."

O'Connor also criticised O'Shea's contribution to an article in this newspaper last year amid rumours of unrest in the camp. "The Sunday Indo ran a piece that was a compilation of some of the rumours which have been going around. I don't know where most of the stuff came from but I was disappointed to see Pat O'Shea quoted in there. He should have stayed out of it, but he was quoted as saying we were playing a style alien to Kerry. A football man should know the story better than anyone about having a go."

Another incident which upset the former Kerry manager was a text message he received shortly after the 2006 All-Ireland final when he included clubmate Declan O'Sullivan in the final selection at Eoin Brosnan's expense, which indirectly took the captaincy off Colm Cooper and handed it back to O'Sullivan.

"No matter how gently you tread, you've walked on a few dreams in picking an All-Ireland team," he remembers. "Word of the team travelled fast. At five past nine, when I was driving home, I heard the beeping of the mobile. Here we go. 'You should be ashamed of yourself by upsetting a winning team. Hope it backfires on you and I mean it.'

"I don't recognise the number but the text has come so quickly after the end of training that I know it can't be coming from anyone too far away from the heart of the team. It hurts. I get home. Shaken. Wounded. Everyone is up but eventually Bean an Tí drifts up to bed. I fetch one of the boys' mobile phones and ring the number on loudspeaker. 'Hello?' The hair stands up on the back of my neck when I hear the voice. I expected some flack from up Killarney way, but this is from inside the camp. The voice belongs to a close relative of one of the team.

"I realise straight away too when I hear the voice that the text wasn't meant to be sent anonymously. The sender would have assumed that I would have the number. I was better off not knowing. I've made a mistake in wanting to find out. It's just a bad, bad thing, knowing where the text came from. A knife through me."

Lads & Lassies

I am intersted in going to a game in the Emirates Stadium this season and was wondering how to go about getting tickets. Are some tickets on general sale or do you have to be a club member?

Anyone have any tips.