Sport over the summer
I read a very funny article in the Independent today about Sport in Ireland over the summer. Check out the link to the article after the little excerpt below on “Culchies on TV”
“If it wasn’t for the GAA, you’d hardly ever see culchies on the TV. You’ll get the odd glimpse on Ear to the Ground and Nationwide, but that’s mainly for sensible culchies who have their own artisan cheese business. Things are different from June to September.
This is where you get to see the true culchie: cute, cranky and up for a fight. And that’s just the football panel on The Sunday Game. Pat Spillane, Joe Brolly and Colm O’Rourke have the classic culchie dynamic: slagging the crap out of each other for laughs until somebody gets the hump over nothing, and suddenly there’s a chance Spillane will break a chair over Brolly’s head while telling him he’s brillunt at d’aul analysis, but it doesn’t happen because Michael Lyster has the look of a Guard.
It’s never like that with the hurling panel. Men who grew up playing a sport that involves hitting and being hit with a lump of ash are very good at keeping their cool. This is why The Sunday Game hurling panel has the polite feel of a staff-room meeting at a minor boarding school.”
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