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Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Frank Carson was in the parachute regiment in the 1940s

I think i posted that in this thread earlier
  Were you in the same regiment as him Big smile
Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Chinese birth rate was nearly 8 around 1960 and it's down to around 1.20 now 😬

Communist, brat, buffoon, chancer, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous speaker & yahoo are all words banned in the Dail. 



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Rangers fans used to call Celtic supporters “Huns” due to the Irelands neutrality in WWII which they perceived as support of the Germans 
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Not today but by having children and see how babies literally take joy and confidence by discovering their feet I learned where the expression finding his feet came from.  
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The oldest living crocodile was born in 1903, caught buy a man named Sir Henry after reports it was eating people. It's around 5M in length and being looked after in a sanctuary.
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John Aldridge was 27 when he made his Ireland debut....WHAT the actual fook?!!! Im astounded to learn this!!! I would have just assumed he was playing for us since he was early 20s or something. Just never realised it was that late in his career.
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He was mid 20s playing at Newport and at USA 94 he was nearly 36. Retired from Ireland duty at 38. Hoovered up the caps during that period.
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Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

He was mid 20s playing at Newport and at USA 94 he was nearly 36. Retired from Ireland duty at 38. Hoovered up the caps during that period.

I never thought about it till i heard it mentioned today. Mad to think given he played such a big part in our glory years.
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McGrath was 25. We have a lot of late bloomers that ended up being great additions (in mcgrath case one of the best)
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Miroslav Klose is 6 feet tall according to Wikipedia. Shocked

I would've thought he was 6'3 or 6'4.
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Pittodrie means “sh*t heap” in Gaelic 
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Kenny Shiels's brother was murdered by the IRA after being mistaken for a member of the security forces.

Shiels, who's from a Protestant background, played GAA in his youth.
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There is a Peruvian professional footballer named Osama Vinladen who has a brother called Sadam Husein and a sister called Georgia Bush.
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The word 'soccer' comes from the word for ''Association Football''. 

Students at Oxford University had slang words for Rugby Football ''rugger'' and Association Football ''assoccer'' which became shortened to 'soccer'.


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Oscar Wilde was jailed for having a homosexual relationship with the son of the Marquis of Queensbury, inventor of the rules of boxing.
Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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Gregory Peck was releated to Thomas Ashe and had a portrait of him in one of his movies
Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn
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Judd Nelson was almost fired from the cast of The Breakfast Club for pissing off director John Hughes.
Nelson decided to be a method actor and act as a bully in between takes and off set as well and would bully Molly Ringwald who was 17 at the time of filming. 

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