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Mrs O'Mockney always called it Santana.

Irish gaelic, being absolutely a pronunciation mystery to me, I always deferred to her greater knowledge.

I did feel a bit better about it when an Irish chap in Madrid corrected her though, so the language isn't THAT insane.


And the Castle does, I'm guessing any pub with a sky box will too.

Brendan Wrote:

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> Isn?t the name Setanta out of the Tain somewhere?


setanta was the nephew of king conor macnessa leader of the red branch knights of ulster. he changed his name to cuchullain as a young lad after killing a fearsome hound belonging to culain which guarded to gateway to ulster.

on the subject of setanta,stuff the football get youself in front of a screen from 1315 hrs on saturday to see my boys armagh take on roscommon in the nicky rackard hurling final followed by dublin-derry in the all ireland gaelic football quarter final and dont forget limerick-waterford in the all ireland hurling semi final on sunday.satisfaction guaranteed

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I was at Croke Park last saturday watching the

> missus' Wexford get trounced and the very exciting

> Cork v Waterford.

> Of course sitting in the p!ssing rain while London

> was enjoying its brief flirtation with summer was

> a bit of a downer.


what do you expect you,re in ireland

I ended up at the Forest Hill Tavern, as the CPT hadn't paid the Setana subscription and the Magdala were showing the rugby.


Bloody rugby and a meaningless friendly at that. Guess that's the downside of antipodean bar staff.


Have to say that the FHT refurb is fab. It's a much nicer place these days.

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