I watched the rugby on Saturday. I cried like a little boy. I was with my Dad. We have that Irish son and Father kind of ‘howya’ - ‘grand’ kind of relationship. The normal kind. We cried like little boys. My Mom was with us. While the entire pub screamed at the television my Mam came out with all the great one liners like…
that man just hurt the other man…. that’s not fair
as grown men fell to their knees...
...whilst a nation cried
After the rugby. A momentous occasion for so many reasons and after 61 years since we last won the grand slam…. I was going out to celebrate and that was that… NO!! but it wasn’t because the greatest thing since Barry McGuigan and Steve Collins was fighting. I went to Killians in the Naul to watch it. Yet more growing men crying at the television… some still in their rugby Jerseys… some like me had spent a day with their folks watching history only my Grandfather would have seen…
The twitter tag cloud explains it well as the ref blew the whistle…
I called my Dad the next day. It was Mothers Day…
Did you… yeah… I know… Did ye see the bit where… me too… ye what… it’s probably on RTE later… It would have to be after a day like that for the little nation of IRELAND!!!!!!!!
I watched the 9 o’clock news… a little special came on after in the sports section. It showed ‘OUR BOYS’ coming home. It showed Dawson Street to capacity. It showed Bernard Dunne blessing himself in the corner… his Mam in tears… a nation and entire nation had been brought to tears…
What did RTE do… you guessed it - they put George Lee and his depressing documentary on. A nation brought to tears again…. Get it right RTE we pay your wages…. are ye listening to logic. Ye better…?!!
UPDATE: i don’t like depressing stuff. I don’t therefore like George Lee. RTE could have left him off until another year. However… that DID NOT take away from an amazing weekend/ day/ night that I had spent with my parents, my Father and Mother and later my friends. It DID NOT take away from something that will be noted as historic. I was so proud. I am so proud. I did shed a tear[s]… But like anyone else I also wished Georgie & the brains behind the series was the ring with Bernard… I dont take it that seriously. Like twitter I can turn off the television… I did
UPDATE #2: I am not George Lee…. [rick]
and a nation goes to tears again...
I know.
It was one of the few programmes that had worldwide clearance, but I chose not to watch it as I just didn’t want to get all depressed right then.
Oh well. Still it was a great weekend!
Elf
Cheers for the twoud link! What a day alright for Irish sport!!!
Will we ever see the likes of that again!
@elfinamsterdam
them eegits wont steal my thunder… c’mon Ireland - get lost RTE
@patrick phelan
no problemo dude
not in my lifetime - in one day - and lets not forget Katie Taylor who was genius as well
Why did you not just leave the post as a post about the great sporting weekend and forget about the George Lee programme. Yes, it’s a dire idea for a programme but it’s done now - on air - nothing we can do about it - lets not give it any more headspace. I didn’t watch it, don’t intend to watch it or any other doom laden programme. I choose to ignore them which you should do too.
Peter, RTE re-played the whole Dunne fight last night at about 10. They also covered the rugby homecoming in-depth yesterday afternoon with analysis of the whole Six Nations. There were highlights and more comment than you could shake a stick at. What more is there to say?
I think Peter is secretly George Lee and is just doing this to promote his new show.
All publicity is good…
This is also post number 100 btw…
@lecraic
fair point mate - and i did
https://twitter.com/doneganland/status/1372250138
@nanaroc
so very true - and i watched it all
@rickster
george lee hugging trees…. hmmm
All this anti-George Lee stuff is so pointless. If you don’t like it, don’t want it.
RTE were just doing their bit for the mental stability of the Country. We just weren’t prepared for such elation and sheer joy that RTE thought they would balance it out with a bit of George.
@voodoo
read the entire post mate… dont get caught up in what never existed….
that sounds quite rude when i type it and read it back but its said with a real andrew maxwell way of speak
as i have said already… this tweet explains all mate - and believe me the only thing i lose sleep over is a tree… [really]
click here: http://twitter.com/doneganland/status/1372250138
Lordy.
I can’t believe I almost got tricked into clicking on a link to twitter.
Shame on me.
oooh sorry try this… http://url.ie/1ctd
Why did they dump ER?
Always a pleasure.
@suzy,
d’ye know i spent the entire day trying to figure that one out… that George Clooney fella must be hiding under the stairs or something - ain’t seen him in that in ages
Only a matter of time before he (Swoon…long story..) shows up in one of the final episodes - thats if we can keep Mr. Lee and his swanky glasses off the screens!