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History has been made….

  By NaRocRoc | December 14, 2009 - 12:51 pm | The Culch
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He’s taken more bangs than Tiger Woods and Silvio Berlusconi combined. With more fight than Paul Gogarty. And more personality than Ryan Giggs (wouldn’t be hard in fairness). Forget about the Apprentice and the X Factor. The real story of today ladies and gentlemen, the only story, is this…. An Irishman is the new WWE champion!!! Recently I wrote about Cabra born Sheamus O’Shaunessy on these very pages. And now the man known as both the Celtic Warrior and the Irish Superstar has turned the tables (literally) and reached the peaks of the mega sports entertainment industry that is the WWE. In a match of “bone-crushing blows” that has stunned the WWE Universe SOS overcame the former champion John Cena in a tables and ladders matchup. He has now become one of the fastest rising Superstars to earn the WWE Title in WWE history. Cena and Sheamus delivered a battle … There’s more →

S.O.S

  By NaRocRoc | December 2, 2009 - 1:47 pm | Events, Random Whimsy, Sports, TV
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Forget about Thierry Henry, forget about Sepp Blatter. Floods, Bishops and Biffo have left us with more than our fair share of doom and gloom. So we, as a nation, need something to get behind. We need something to cheer. So how about this? An Irish man has a shot at the WWE Title! Yes folks you read it right. A Dublin born, fluent Gaeilgóir, with a shock of red hair. Skin as pale as the driven snow, 6 ft 6, 280 lbs, his name is Sheamus O’ Shaunessy, The Celtic Warrior. He is the living embodiment of Ireland. He sang in the Palestrina Choir until the age of thirteen, as part of which he appeared on the Late Late Toy Show. He also played GAA for Erins Isle in Finglas and in later years was a personal security guard for Bono don’t ya know. He has been a two-time … There’s more →