It’s not football season without the Croke Park Classic in Dublin. This year’s match-up saw the University of Central Florida pitted against Pennsylvania State in both teams’ season opener, drawing a crowd of 53,304 to Ol’ Croker on August 30.
Penn State won with a last-minute field goal 26-24, but the game, at least for Dublin, wasn’t really about the score (UCF might argue … [Read more...] about Croke Park Classic Puts
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The Son of a Monaghan
Footballer Is Now an NFL
Starting Kicker
If the only thing your fantasy roster is missing is a young Irish kicker, we’ve got you covered. Patrick Murray, whose father Aidan played at senior level for Monaghan and uncle Ciarán won an All-Star for the Farney in 1985, is now the starting kicker for the Tampa Bay Buckaneers. Even more remarkable is the fact that he got the job (over the most accurate kicker in Tampa’s … [Read more...] about The Son of a Monaghan
Footballer Is Now an NFL
Starting Kicker
US Potato Consumption Falls
Say it isn’t so! Sales and consumption of the potato have drastically fallen in America. Sales in the U.S. are down more than 25 percent since peaking in the mid 1990s. According to the Department of Agriculture’s statistics from 2012, the consumption of fresh potatoes – baked, chopped, or mashed – fell to 27 pounds per year, down 40 percent from 47 pounds in 1970. A … [Read more...] about US Potato Consumption Falls
Ireland’s Worst Winter
in 140 Years
Continuing within the trajectory of global climate change, it was revealed by NUI Maynooth climatologists that Ireland last winter had the stormiest season on record in over 140 years. They found there was an “unprecedented strength and number of cyclones over the mid- and high-latitude north Atlantic.” They pointed to cyclones that occur over the north Atlantic and eventually … [Read more...] about Ireland’s Worst Winter
in 140 Years
Knock Shrine Turns 135
The story of one of the world’s most famous Marian Shrines began 135 years ago at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening, August 21, 1879, when the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and John the Evangelist appeared on the south gable end of a church in the rural village of Knock, County Mayo. To the left of John there was a plain altar with a cross and a lamb (the Lamb of God) surrounded … [Read more...] about Knock Shrine Turns 135