We’ve seen a few difficult games against Hamilton Accies in recent years, including what proved to be a costly draw after being denied a late winner at New Douglas Park, but we’ve never met them in this form.
Hamilton have the longest unbeaten run in Scotland. They lost their opening league game of the season, at home to Inverness, but have won seven and drawn two of their subsequent nine games. Their 0-4 win away to Motherwell last week was a display of sharp, organised football – and remember, Motherwell took at point at Celtic Park the previous weekend.
Alex Neil will have no intentions of leaving pointless tomorrow. This is the game he and his players will have been waiting for since the fixtures were announced four months ago. Their four SPLF away games: wins at St Mirren, Partick and Motherwell, and a draw at Tannadice, has been preparation for Celtic Park.
If Celtic have a Europa League hangover, Accies will boss them. Forget the lowly status of the club, respect is needed if we are the get the desired result and performance required.
I’m running the Great Scottish Run in aid of Celtic Foundation tomorrow morning, which presents a, erm, personal hygiene challenge for the game. It’ll be a full can of deodorant day. If you have a £1 or two for the fundraising, you can help here.
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Victory to the Ballymurphy 11.
Like Derry justice will prevail.
The green glens of Antrim saved the Celtic of Glasgow.
And yous can take that to the bank.
IfYouKnowYerHistoryCSC.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUK1o592pk
Lovely…
16,
Derry City? Nah?
Two good young friends playing today in the semi-final v Shamrock Rovs.
Ryan McBride and Patrick McEleney..
Worked wae Ryan.
The Present, not so..
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=tv+the+television+the+drug+of+the+nation&fr=iphone&.tsrc=apple&pcarrier=AT%26T&pmcc=310&pmnc=410
16 roads – celtic über alles…
04:59 on 5 October, 2014
The green glens of Antrim saved the Celtic of Glasgow.
And yous can take that to the bank.
IfYouKnowYerHistoryCSC.
……….
Ulster?
What would Celtic have done without it?
Scratcher.
http://youtu.be/8Z2jBxPP1hk
Bridie.
16,
Take care me oul buddy and watch yersel next week.
Slan comrade..
TCR – WE ARE CELTIC.
I’ll show you around the area.
The Gallowgate/Calton/Gorbals are without a doubt, incredible.
There’s a great wee pub, an institution… and I don’t like up the road people – the Glenowen, Glen Road/Andytown whatever.
Ya wanna see the Celtic corner in that pub,powerful it is
The so-called rough areas?
Sliabh Dubh (Sloanes),top of the rock, it’s like a shrine to Celtic.
Rock bar, Felons, obvious ones.
What about the Red Devil?- don’t let the name fool ye. Stokesy’s favourite watering place.
Probably, Glasgow included – the highest concentration of Celtic supporters on the planet.
That’s just the way it is.
HH.
tricoloured ribbon
05:05 on 5 October, 2014
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TCR – I know that it sounds difficult to believe, but there is truth in what I said about the Glens.
My girl’s brother told me that, and he isn’t even a Celtic supporter,just a know-it-all.
There’s something true about it though TCR, families in Cushendall, Ballycastle… whatever.
Can’t find anything on that Google about it.
There’s bhoys like yerself, Jimbo67, Dallas Dallas etc. Celtic encyclopedias.
One for the historians.
HH.
The Glens of Antrim,Toomebridge..
Then swing West to Donegal..
Goodnight..
Dallas,Dallas,,
Blessed wae a great memory..younger than me too ..
Good Drum man..:-)
tricoloured ribbon
05:09 on 5 October, 2014
16,
Take care me oul buddy and watch yersel next week.
Slan comrade..
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Thank you very much TCR.
I can look after myself, in sobriety.
My main minders won’t be there next week though, ACGR & Morrissey fs.
Ah well, such is life.
Put yer money on me, regardless.
Oiche mhaith mo chara.
HH.
Sorry for speaking about Ireland all the time.
This one is for Scotland the brave, and all the CQN crew, and I mean all of yous.. .
Scotland’s finest, never mind the accent :
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_uv0uIY-g
Poweful voice.
HH.
Good Morning Timland.
Happy birthday big man.
herosliveforeverCSC.
Home truths from Livingston programme spark Sevco storm
Date: 4th October 2014 at 7:53 pm
Written by: Joe McHugh | Comments (12)
A programme article from Livingston that refers to ‘the club then known as Rangers’ has provoked an online storm from furious Sevco fans.
With the Scottish football authorities ducking away from the issue various versions of the history of the club at Ibrox have emerged using phrases such as ‘emerging from liquidation’ and ‘being relegated to the bottom tier’ have been banded around.
The reality of administration and liquidation are sidestepped despite the finality of liquidation and the secretive Five Way agreement produced by the football authorities in the summer of 2012 including the rushed introduction of temporary membership of both the SFA and SFL to allow Sevco to play a Challenge Cup tie at Brechin.
Setting the record straight, and sparking anger online, today’s match programme from Livingston stated: “This weekend three years ago, the club then known as Rangers beat Hibernian 1-0 to go nine points clear of Motherwell at the top of the Scottish Premier League, a further point ahead of third-placed Celtic.”
The article added: “Despite the best efforts of administrators Duff & Phelps to secure a buyer for the club, even awarding preferred bidder status to Bill Miller before the American tycoon withdrew his bid in May 2012, but in the end their efforts were in vain with 140 years of success, both domestically and in Europe, was consigned to history when, four months to the day after entering administration, the club was liquidated on 14 June 2012.”
Some straight talking from the SFA in 2012 would have helped Scottish football to plan ahead and allow fans of the Rangers club to regroup and start afresh without the moonbeams of Charles Green to feed their delusions of adequacy.
As a club Livingston know more than most about insolvency having twice survived administration hanks to producing a CVA that at least saw some sort of payment made to creditors.
Rather than suffer the soft ten or fifteen point punishment that Rangers and Hearts received for administration Livingston found themselves relegated two divisions in 2009 and forced to pay a bond of £720,000 to the SFL in case they failed to fulfill their fixtures.
With another administration expected soon at Ibrox fans across the country will be watching closely at how the SFA apply their own rules. After granting Sevco membership in 2012 the SFA attempted to give the new club a place in the SPL which was voted down by clubs with the SFL doing likewise with a proposal to put Sevco in the First Division.
Announcing the decision to relegate Livingson two divisions in 2009 the SFL stated: “At a meeting today of the Scottish Football League Management Committee, Livingston Football Club were found to be in breach of Rule 76.2, relating to insolvency.
“The sanction imposed was to place Livingston FC in the Third Division for season 2009-2010. We believe a Third Division placement offers Livingston FC the chance of continuing their membership of the Scottish Football League.”
During the summer Dundee United signed Charlie Telfer from Ibrox paying a development fee for just two years, equal to the time that Sevco have had SFA membership.
Sevco won the match 1-0 but remain six points behind pace-setters Hearts who play Alloa next Saturday while Sevco opt out of a visit to bottom of the table Cowdenbeath due to international commitments with only Marius Zaluska named in his international squad.
Stewart Fisher
Sports Writer
Sunday 5 October 2014
THERE is an irony in prime athletes being quizzed on their dietary habits by tubby journalists, but even in the throes of victory – such as the midweek Europa League triumph against Dinamo Zagreb – Celtic press conferences are starting to resemble episodes of TV weight loss show ‘The Biggest Loser’.
Anthony Stokes has lost five kilos after buying into Ronny Deila’s new, hardline fitness edict which has seen an overhaul of eating habits within the Celtic squad Photograph: SNS
Anthony Stokes has lost five kilos after buying into Ronny Deila’s new, hardline fitness edict which has seen an overhaul of eating habits within the Celtic squad Photograph: SNS
Regardless of this week’s controversy about salmonella being discovered in the Celtic Park catering, enquiries about the new diet and fitness testing regime at the club are often on the menu. There was certainly food for thought this week in the post-match offerings of Anthony Stokes and Kris Commons.
These are two men who often appear to display an almost telepathic understanding on the park – not least when they combined to produce the early goal which moved the Parkhead club joint top of their Europa League group – but on this subject there were differences of interpretation which said it all about the collective buy-in required under Ronny Deila’s calorie crackdown. While the ferocity and efficiency of the pressing game the Parkhead side displayed in the opening half hour against Zagreb hinted at how formidable this team could yet become, the manner in which they tired left some thinking they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
Stokes is perhaps the case study par excellence when it comes to this Celtic squad. The Irishman, speaking more candidly than any player has yet on the subject, says he has lost five kilos since pre-season under the rigorous fortnightly testing regime implemented by the Norwegian. Moreover, with only one lone striker’s role seemingly predestined for either John Guidetti or Stefan Scepovic when fit and available, he has uncomplainingly been shifted to the left side, using it as a base to put in a fine shift recently against St Mirren. Yet while Deila praised the Irish striker’s attitude, last night the Norwegian said he was still only “70 per cent” of what he could be.
To what extent Deila is re-inventing the wheel is a moot point, but thanks to his fortnightly testing regime, Stokes certainly has more statistics at his disposal to back up his manager’s decisions. “I think he just wants to eke five or ten per cent more from every player.
“Everyone is trying to cut down. He is very rigid on body fat and body weight. He wants everyone at their prime. I definitely have changed, I’m probably down five kilos since I came back for pre-season. I still probably have another couple of kilos to get to the weight that he wants, but I don’t mind that. If I can get to my prime body weight that’s only going to help me. It’s one of the things I’m focusing on more than I have at any stage in my career.”
Deila is nothing if not a hard task master. “Stokes has a very good attitude,” said Deila. “But he’s only 70% of what he can be fitness wise in my opinion. His skills are unbelievable – what he produced on Thursday night with Kris is high level. But there’s a lot more to come.”
The root of the difference of opinion, perhaps, is that Deila is more idealistic than the players themselves. He might not be able to buy the best players on the continent, but having spent time with Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund side, he sees no reason why they can’t be as fit as any team in Europe.
“It’s all about being true to ourselves,” said Deila, who admits Celtic have been fortunate in their two Europa League matches to date. “You don’t create that in a couple of months because it happens over time, but I think we are adapting more and more. If you look at the teams we have played in Europe – Legia, Maribor, Salzburg and Zagreb – they are all of a similar level and you can see that we are getting better results all the time.”
Commons, of course, was another who made a telling contribution to his team on Thursday night, particularly as he continues to manage an injury to his gluteal muscle. His manager may talk a good game, but Commons, always more of a Neil Lennon supporter, isn’t so sure that – at least when it comes to the pressing game utilised on Thursday night – things are so different after all.
“To be honest with you, it is no different than when Neil was in charge,” said Commons. “His tactics were always to put teams under pressure, make them kick long, let them make mistakes – unless you are playing the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, in which case it doesn’t matter how much pressure you put them under because they are so good they will probably pick you off. Then you park the bus. In my time with Neil it was always that sort of intensity.”
While it may be different in away matches right now, the long-term aim is to press high up the pitch home and away, the same way Barcelona and Bayern Munich do. Thursday night gave the 30,000 or so Celtic fans who turned up at least a half-hour glimpse of Deila’s high ideals. Today an eager Hamilton Academical side will turn up, hoping like Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Dundee and Motherwell before them this season, that it has all taken it a bit too much out of them.
Herald Scotland
Best of friends, best of enemies
Stewart Fisher
Sports Writer
Sunday 5 October 2014
TONY Andreu owes John Collins a debt of gratitude.
Not only was it the then Livingston director of football’s French connection which first brought the talented Hamilton Accies playmaker to Scottish football when he arrived at Almondvale back in the summer of 2012 from Swiss club Stade Nyonnais, he also happens to be dating the Celtic assistant manager’s daughter, Julia.
While the 26-year-old Frenchman will offer his potential future father-in-law a cheery welcome before kick-off at Celtic Park today, such pleasantries will be forgotten when the action starts in earnest.
“John brought me here,” said Andreu. “I think he improved myself and the other players.
“Him and John Hughes were a great management team for Livi and to come from Switzerland to Scotland was a really good step for me. I am grateful, because it is always good when someone gives you confidence, although after that it was down to myself to keep playing the way I did.
“I will say hello to him, but I will focus on my game,” he added. “Even if it is Celtic Park in such a big game we want to go there and win.”
As a teenager Andreu graced the youth ranks of Monaco, the same club that Collins helped take to the latter stages of European competition during the mid 1990s.
He remembers watching as an impressionable youngster when the same player swept in that nerveless penalty during the opening game of the World Cup in 1998.
Collins’ sudden ascension to one of the bigger jobs in Scottish football may have come as a surprise to some, but not to Andreu.
“I knew him as a player,” said Andreu. “My first World Cup was 98, when he scored against Brazil, which I remember really well.
“It is a good thing to have a manager with these kind of experiences, because he was able to pass these experiences to the players.
“I knew when I joined that he had already been a coach at Hibernian and done well so it isn’t a surprise to me that he is doing well.
“He is very professional, a good coach or manager who gets close to players and young players as well. I think it is important when you have good people behind you like him.”
Andreu’s time in Scottish football has more than borne out the faith Collins once showed in him.
Of the 15 goals he steered in during Hamilton’s promotion push last season, none were more crucial than the 90th-minute strike against Hibs in the play-off final second leg, which condemned the Edinburgh club to a spell in the Championship.
A further four goals in all competitions have arrived this season, not a bad return for a will-o’-the-wisp type who might have been expected to crumble amid the rough-and-tumble of the Scottish game.
“I thought before I came here that Scottish football – and British football in general – was kick and rush and you’re going to compete for the ball in the air,” he said. “So I was surprised when I went to Livingston and we played football and it’s the same at Hamilton. It suits me as a player.”
Perhaps the biggest surprise of all, though, about this afternoon’s match is that Hamilton travel to the east end of Glasgow with a three-point advantage in the Premiership table. The teams may be in false positions, but Andreu can only be emboldened by the point eked out here by Lanarkshire rivals Motherwell immediately after Celtic’s last Europa League adventure.
“If someone had said that before the start of the season we would not have believed them,” Andreu said. “But this is a good game for them as well because we are ahead of them and they will want to win. Celtic have a lot of international players but I think we can cope. We go without fear.”
This is Andreu’s first chance to play at Celtic Park, but he was in attendance for the 1-0 Champions League defeat to Barcelona last October.
“When you see that you just want to be on the pitch,” he said. “Sunday is going to be our turn.”
Aidan Smith: ‘Deila unimpressed by player’s diets’
Top nosh: The pre-match meal of yesteryear, as enjoyed by Leeds Uniteds Billy Bremner and Jackie Charlton ahead of the 1971 Fairs Cup final with Juventus. Picture:
by AIDAN SMITH
Published on the
05 October
2014
WHENEVER the issue of the Scottish football diet comes up – as it often does and has again – I think of that old telly commercial where an ice-cream vendor is teased by toerags on the make.
“Three Coke bottles, two blackjacks, a chocolate skull, two sherbet dabs and a 99,” demands the first scamp from the scheme, from some distance beneath the van window. “Eight flumps, 11 bubblys, four fruit salads, six flying saucers, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps, a shrimp and a bottle of ginger,” requests his wee pal.
In our seemingly eternal drama of what footballers eat, the players assume the roles of the boys while the part of the irritated van man is taken by whichever coach, usually foreign, has entered the club canteen for the first time and been dismayed by the menu, like a few were before him.
None of the above, it’s safe to say, would be among Ronny Deila’s preferred options for refuelling. The fruit salads would give him encouragement but then he would learn the cruel truth about the chewy sweetie with the telltale message on the wrapper: “Don’t worry – does not contain actual fruit.”
Now, I have no hard evidence that Lennoxtown offers Scotland’s champions flumps or even chocolate skulls, but Deila doesn’t approve of the Celtic diet generally. First he banned ketchup from the training complex and last week he questioned those under his charge and also his detractors outwith the club who think it’s OK for professional athletes to consume what usually comes with the tomato-based sauce.
“Do you think Andy Murray eats chips?” the Norwegian scoffed.
It’s not just true you can watch a football match every night – TV also screens wall-to-wall cooking. Sometimes it seems we’re all participants in The Great British Bake Off and that real life happens elsewhere. Deila must feel he’s walked into our version of that show, The Great Scottish Fry Off, just like Paul Le Guen back in 2006.
The Frenchman was equally unimpressed by the scoffing habits at Rangers where his tenure was short and sour. Consumption of takeaways angered Le Guen although he’ll go down in history among Ibrox’s many authoritarian figures as the man who stood up to the dark threat posed by a wheat-based snack. Other Rangers managers banned beards and walking on beaches, insisting they were only good for running with a large dune involved, but it was Le Guen who finally outlawed Monster Munch.
This seemed to most affect the Scots in the team, notably Barry Ferguson, the captain, Kris Boyd and Charlie Adam. It was the latter who came up with one of the all-time great slow-on-the-uptake quotes from the mouth of a professional sportsman. Said Charlie: “I’d never really thought of eating salads before.”
Regarding Boydy, that was a time when the striker rarely spoke and never smiled. Truly, he was riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma hidden in an empty Monster Munch packet, blowing in a snell Govan breeze.
Over the years doubt was cast on the involvement in the saga of the crisp alternative, a headline-writer’s dream, but I was pleased earlier this year when Bazza confirmed in his newspaper column: “Yes OK I might have eaten the occasional packet of Monster Munch which might have been against Le Guen’s nutritional rules but come on! I’m all for players looking after themselves and eating well but no one is going to tell me a packet of pickled onion-flavour now and again is going to take years off your career. It’s nonsense.”
Interestingly, Ferguson was recalling Le Guen’s brief reign in a defence of David Moyes, just sacked by Manchester United. Despite appearances, their situations were not similar, he said. Moyes was the right man at possibly the wrong time; Le Guen was simply the wrong man. Little did Bazza know back then, though, that the Moyes saga had a similar fatty-foods element, sparking identical dressing-room discontent.
It emerged last week, through the serialisation of Rio Ferdinand’s memoirs, that the Manchester United players were unhappy when Moyes stopped their traditional eve-of-match chip feasts. “It’s not something to go the barricades over,” wrote Ferdinand, “but all the lads were pissed off. And guess what happened after Moyes left? He’s been gone 20 minutes, we were on the bikes warming up, and someone said: ‘We’ve got to get on to Giggsy [Ryan Giggs was in temporary charge]. We’ve got to get him to get us our f*****g chips back.’”
Out of the frying pan into the deep-fat frier? If, after Deila’s rant, you’re feeling self-conscious about the Scottish diet being knocked (again) then this prominent English’s footballer’s confession that his team, then reigning champs, liked to pig out before games will be cheering – and the same goes for criticism of the England’s team fitness levels at the World Cup, which prompted the suggestion, from an Englishman, that they should switch to a vegan regime.
Obviously Moyes hails from the high-cholesterol capital of Europe, proving that not all Scots eat junk. Remember Gordon Strachan’s achievement in captaining Leeds United to the league title at the age of 35, an example to footballers everywhere which he attributed to bananas and seaweed?
And don’t be fooled into thinking that every foreign player’s body is his temple, that he only eats what’s extremely good for him. A few years ago Bayer Leverkusen’s dressing-room went mental when Robin Dutt, admittedly a coach described as being David Brentesque, banned Nutella.
But Ronny Deila has a point if his players are eating too much of the wrong stuff. Football-wise, Germany are top of the food-chain right now. Stars like Thomas Müller, Andre Schürrle and Marco Reus have the gaunt look of super-athletes for whom every morsel, each chewing movement, is strictly monitored. Scots might not be able to beat these guys, but if they’re to at least sit at football’s top table, they need more dietary discipline. “If you tell me a footballer can be three or four kilos too heavy and play against Cristiano Ronaldo then good luck,” warned Deila last week. “To succeed in Europe you have to adapt to Europe.”
What does John Collins say? I think we can guess. A fitness fanatic as a player, an upper body strength pioneer, Celtic’s No.2 is surely part of a bad chef/bad chef arrangement determined to drive the club forward, banishing all thoughts of being able to coast in Rangers’ enforced absence.
Celtic succeeded in the Europa League on Thursday and surely the management team permitted themselves a smile at headlines like “Low-cal heroes”. I especially liked the man from Currant Bun’s intro describing Kris Commons’ winner: “On another night he might have decided to chip it.” But for as long as Deila hangs around, his players might do well to heed the payoff from that old ad.
After the lads wind up the van-man with their epic order, one of them quips: “Just gie’s a penny chew, mister.”
CELTIC’S longest surviving footballer was laid to rest in Inishowen yesterday, the late Hugh Doherty having played for the Glasgow club in the mid-1940’s. He was 93.
Born in Buncrana on May 5th, 1921, Hugh passed away at 7.20 a.m. on Monday last, September 29th, at his home on St. Oran’s Road and thus ended an era during which the player later had become a highly popular administrator within football circles, not just in Donegal, but within the Football Association of Ireland.
Hugh Doherty’s playing career spans from representing the Buncrana Celtic youth team, before being selected for a trial for Glasgow Celtic back in 1938.
However, the outbreak of the Second World War held up his Celtic career having opted to play for Derry City through the 1939/40 season as an amateur. He also played for Buncrana Hearts and Derry Rangers during the mid-war years and, indeed, with Dundalk, as a senior club in the League of Ireland in 1944/45.
Hugh returned to play for Glasgow Celtic in the 1946/47 season before moving to English League with the then fashionable Blackpool F.C. for the 1947/48 campaign. In fact, he was on the touring Blackpool side which was the first team to go on a European tour to Scandinavia after the War.
Celtic’s Chief Scout was in Portrush on holiday in 1939 and he watched Hugh playing in a pre-season game in Coleraine. The scout never spoke to Hugh on that occasion, but the Buncrana man received a letter from Parkhead inviting him over for a trial a few weeks later.
Hugh then played in an exhibition game on September 1st, 1939, at the Vale of Leven and after that game, the coach asked him to go to Parkhead the following morning to discuss terms if he was interested.
Hugh and his father, Johnny, arrived at Parkhead and spoke to Willie Mailey, the then Celtic boss who informed them that due to the announcement of war, the situation had changed and he couldn’t be responsible for Hugh’s safety. Hugh and his father returned home where Hugh spent the war years working in his father’s business and playing amateur football.
Inovlved with Derry City from November 1939 to the end of the season, he eventually joined Dundalk as an amateur in 1944/1945 and enjoyed a very successful season.
When making his debut for Dundalk at Milltown against Shamrock Rovers, part of a wall collapsed on children standing on the sidelines of the pitch.
As Hugh was nearby he pulled a child out from under the debris and carried him off the pitch. The following week he received a standing ovation from the Dundalk crowd as his picture, with the blood stained shirt, had appeared in the national newspapers unknown to himself.
Some of the Glasgow Celtic players were on holiday in Buncrana after the war and Hugh played in an exhibition game with them. Tommy Bogan (capped for Scotland and later played with Manchester United) was one of the players. Subsequently Hugh was contacted by Jimmy McGroary for a trial and travelled over to play for Celtic after the war in 1946.
The first senior game Hugh played in, between Glasgow Celtic and Queen of the South, he was carried off with a head injury. Hugh remembered that a ball came across from the left and the left full back tried to hook the ball at the same time as Hugh tried to head it home. He had nine titches inserted in his head but played in the next game with a padded rugby helmet!
With a few clubs interested in signing him, Hughie opted to leave Glasgow to take up a good contract at Blackpool in 1947/48. He played outside right ,the same position as the great Stanley Matthews and deputised on the odd game when Matthews was injured or representing England.
He played a full season with Blackpool before damaging the cartilage in his knee, a career threatening injury.
Hugh went under the surgeon’s knife to rectify the situation and the following season, when playing a match between Blackpool and Aston Villa, he damaged ligaments on the same knee.
That injury was more serious than at first thought and Hugh began to break down during a number of attempted comebacks.
Blackpool then made a settlement with him because of the seriousness of his injuries and Hugh returned to digs in Scotland.
He continued training with Clyde and after a friendly, Raith Rovers were impressed and asked him to play for them but he broke down during the game. It was then that he had to concede that the specialist was correct that he couldn’t play senior football again.
He was a member of the Buncrana Cup Committee from the 1940’s to 1995/96 and was heavily involved in the purchase and development of Maginn Park, the headquarters of the Inishowen League.
He was a founder member of Buncrana Hearts in 1944, a club which remains in existence today, indeed, that club’s Under-12 Foyle Cup team provided a Guard of Honour at his Requiem Mass yesterday in St. Mary’s Oratory, Buncrana.
He was buried with his late wife, Eithne, in Cockhill Cemetery with a huge attendance at his funeral.
Hugh is survived by his daughter Deirdre; sons Denis and Eamon and the profound sympathy of the Donegal and Derry communities is extended to the Doherty family circle.
May he rest in peace.
The last article was by Arthur Duffy of the Derry Journal.
Morning all!
twists n turns
07:19 on 5 October, 2014
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Great read.
Can’t ever understand this Donegal hing though.
Where was Charles Patrick Tully from, sure?
Only joking! :p
Slan.
HH.
twists n turns
Cheers for the reads,went with Taghrooda @ 13/2 e/w in the Arc,
the beast does not owe me anything backed her in the Oaks.bit of
a coffin draw mind you.
16 roads
Morning bud.
Yes, I enjoyed that article myself.
I wonder who survives Hugh as our longest surviving footballer?
One for the historians……
twists n turns
07:31 on 5 October, 2014
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Now yer talkin’ TnT.
Thanks for taking the time to post the latest club news. It saves a lot of time for me anyway.
Slainte.
Appreciate it.
HH.
Nye
Good luck with that . Yes, draw looks challenging. You’d think over the distance it wouldn’t matter too much but not the case in that race. Your jockey knows the score though and I’m sure he will get himself into the race.
On tomorrow’s race, ( which I referred to yesterday), the horse I’ve been waiting for is Cloonacool, who was bought by Mrs robeson from Fran Flood. A look at his bare irish form does not inspire, however, if you want to delve into it, it’s actually been franked several times over.
More importantly, he has been thriving at his new home and will definitely be winning races. We wanted the rain, and it’s came, in plentiful supply.
I need to speak with someone in the morning as to whether he can go in first time in England, bearing in mind he’s been off a while, and I shall update tomorrow, however, win or lose tomorrow, get him in your ” one to watch” book.
twists n turns
Will check cqn the morra for yer info,heading down to the
hangover Mass,have a lucky day.
Check out the form of a nag called “Hash Brown”. He only just finished ahead of cloonacool, in receipt of 5 lbs, and was subsequently bought by JP McManus. Won at Listowel in nice style. If Cloonacool is fit tomorrow ( I mean race fit) he will run a big race.
As I say, I shall add some comment tomorrow.
Good morning troops,
Much border activity planned pre-match..
Any curious stoatirs during the wee sma’ hours?
HH.
See the Celts today.
:-))
Run well Paul!
ForestGumpCSC
HH jamesgang
hamiltontim
01:24 on 5 October, 2014
Pedro67
Nick Cave’s version is brilliant but not as good as Shane’s.
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Yer a biddy philistine!!!!
It’s no Nick Cave’s “version”….it’s NIck Cave’s song.
Good luck with the petition and enjoy the match,
The good ghuys @ (-2) @ 2/1
HH PC67
The Live updates article will be up at 12:30, could someone leave a note here?
Thanks.
The Tricoloured Ribbon my Grannies favourite song , I miss you Katie Fisher God Bless.
Good luck to all the runners today.
I shall be doing the 10k in traditional green and white attire :-)
In ither news………
Will summit
be done about the latest ranjurs outrage?
Surely polis scoddland will not be bested by the wee
arra peepil?
GetTheKettleOn CSC
Good morning friends. Currently dry and bright in ole EK and pretty perfect condition for running and/or footballing. Good luck to all of those doing either or both today.
Morning all.
Wild, wet and very windy down here. Hope it is better at Celtic Park for the match.
Still feel very annoyed that I can’t be there and it looks like I might not be able to attend quite a few more home matches in the next few months.
NotahappybunnyCSC.
And before I go out for the day I was wondering if they will cover the riot at Livi yesterday the way they covered the ” riot ” in Dundee .
No I didnae think so .
HH