Mike Aughey

It’s important to remember that many middle class women of a certain age grew up as working class girls who were, and are, fierce as fuck. With long memories.

www.facebook.com/share/p/14hD... 6 years ago, the Longhorns (originally based in the town of Athboy) entered the Challenge Cup, the oldest Rugby League competition. Tonight they are once more in the 1st Round Draw

Charlie Haden - Wayfaring Stranger YouTube video by César Carvel

music for Sunday evening - the late Charlie Haden youtu.be/oJtdV39vFus?...

We need a free press It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled

“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation…

The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media”

We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.

watching St Esteve Catalan v A S Carcassonne online, decent crowd at the match most wearing big winter coats so I had to look up the weather in Perpignan - 18 deg C, that's sweltering in Lancs/Yorks

will admit it was a great night, OK Fiji won but we had a great night and both teams did the town a great service. As an aside I was asked by the Irish ream manager where I had parked and I replied ' outside my Granny's' now she had dead 25 years

Fijian rugby league World Cup team at Rochdale town hall YouTube video by nicholas garnett

youtu.be/NQvp4dCmfS8?... a great moment in Rochdale, I was there to see the Rugby League World Cup Match between Ireland and Fiji. Hard to explain how much it meant to me, a rugby league coach based in Ireland who grew up with Fijian legends playing for MY club

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this began my interest in rugby, these guys were legends in my town. I got to know Mike Ratu Snr later in his life and I sponsored his grandson in his career with Hornets. I've been a Hornets fan since 1961

I've grown up watching both codes of rugby, I went to a rugby union school in a rugby league area and I love both codes. Regarding rugby union, my inspirations have been Carwyn James, Wayne Smith and especially Pierre Villepreux. I've coached both codes

when I started in NIHE Dublin (now DCU) 44 years ago, there was a room called the WANG room occupied by it's operator Nollette Crosse