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Bomber is a fairly normal and understandable nickname in sport, certainly when  compared to the others!
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Used to play football with a bloke nicknamed Fred because he was Fat and had Red hair.
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Originally posted by Lenny82 Lenny82 wrote:

Used to play football with a bloke nicknamed Fred because he was Fat and had Red hair.
That is completely different though. There are some brilliant nicknames in Ireland, even if they are often rather cruel. I know of people called 'Soupy', 'Lampshade' and 'Bungalow' for their perceived lack of intelligence. In school they were often even crueller and were sadistic looking back on it. I knew girls known as 'Pizza-Face'(bad acne) and 'Permanent Marker' (prominent birth-mark), not to mention my friend's sister being called 'BBT' (Breda Big Tits) to her face. I have also noticed since moving to England that it isn't normal to give your teachers nicknames! My partner still refers to hers by their proper names! I still think of mine as 'Jag', 'Paddy Flash', 'Kicker', 'Bouncer', 'Snail', 'Moustache'(the poor woman' and 'hairy tits'(even poorer woman, but she should have dressed better!)

What is odd about the GAA nicknames is that they become used by commentators and journalists, for no apparent reason! In a land where nearly everyone has a nickname and the best you can hope for is a corruption of your actual name(having an unusual surname can be a blessing!) it is more odd that everyone knows them! As much as I despise the GAA, I do find this parochialism rather charming and at least they are more inventive than those given to our footballers. 
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Lenny82 Lenny82 wrote:

Used to play football with a bloke nicknamed Fred because he was Fat and had Red hair.
That is completely different though. There are some brilliant nicknames in Ireland, even if they are often rather cruel. I know of people called 'Soupy', 'Lampshade' and 'Bungalow' for their perceived lack of intelligence. In school they were often even crueller and were sadistic looking back on it. I knew girls known as 'Pizza-Face'(bad acne) and 'Permanent Marker' (prominent birth-mark), not to mention my friend's sister being called 'BBT' (Breda Big Tits) to her face. I have also noticed since moving to England that it isn't normal to give your teachers nicknames! My partner still refers to hers by their proper names! I still think of mine as 'Jag', 'Paddy Flash', 'Kicker', 'Bouncer', 'Snail', 'Moustache'(the poor woman' and 'hairy tits'(even poorer woman, but she should have dressed better!)

What is odd about the GAA nicknames is that they become used by commentators and journalists, for no apparent reason! In a land where nearly everyone has a nickname and the best you can hope for is a corruption of your actual name(having an unusual surname can be a blessing!) it is more odd that everyone knows them! As much as I despise the GAA, I do find this parochialism rather charming and at least they are more inventive than those given to our footballers. 

Seems to be a common things nowadays. Had some crackers in the school I went to in Lucan; The Block (Metalwork teacher who was as wide as he was tall), The Gonk (surname was McGonagle and looked like a character from the Muppets), Batman (no idea), and then God (religion teacher) to name a few.

Best nickname I ever heard was "Crime" for a fella who was notoriously stingy. Because Crime doesn't pay.
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Lenny82 Lenny82 wrote:

Used to play football with a bloke nicknamed Fred because he was Fat and had Red hair.
That is completely different though. There are some brilliant nicknames in Ireland, even if they are often rather cruel. I know of people called 'Soupy', 'Lampshade' and 'Bungalow' for their perceived lack of intelligence. In school they were often even crueller and were sadistic looking back on it. I knew girls known as 'Pizza-Face'(bad acne) and 'Permanent Marker' (prominent birth-mark), not to mention my friend's sister being called 'BBT' (Breda Big Tits) to her face. I have also noticed since moving to England that it isn't normal to give your teachers nicknames! My partner still refers to hers by their proper names! I still think of mine as 'Jag', 'Paddy Flash', 'Kicker', 'Bouncer', 'Snail', 'Moustache'(the poor woman' and 'hairy tits'(even poorer woman, but she should have dressed better!)

What is odd about the GAA nicknames is that they become used by commentators and journalists, for no apparent reason! In a land where nearly everyone has a nickname and the best you can hope for is a corruption of your actual name(having an unusual surname can be a blessing!) it is more odd that everyone knows them! As much as I despise the GAA, I do find this parochialism rather charming and at least they are more inventive than those given to our footballers. 

Any pictures of Breda?
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During his time at Real Sociedad, Aldo scored 8 goals against Barcelona in 6 games.

In the same period, he played 13 competitive games for Ireland, including starting every game at Italia 90, but he only scored 5 goals.

And those 5 goals came against Malta, a brace, in the game that qualified us for the World Cup, and a hat-trick against Turkey in Euro 92 qualifying.

We've struggled to score goals for years, but it is amazing that we had a player who could score more goals against Barcelona, than against all the teams Ireland faced in those few years.


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Man. U got it wrong. U ve got to check....the Toshack strategy and the Jacko's strategy at the time as well. It is not maths. In Donostia he was a fox in a box. Had other fwrd who did the dirty work. He was a poacher. in the Eire he had to do the dirty work to create space for his partners.....Stapleton , Quinn , Cascarino, Tommy Coyne, Davy Kelly, Johnnie Byrne
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Seem to spend his time on twitter offering fans of rival football clubs a scrap
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Seem to spend his time on twitter offering fans of rival football clubs a scrap
Complete heads gone

What is his Twitter account? 

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Originally posted by Mr. Snrub Mr. Snrub wrote:

Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Seem to spend his time on twitter offering fans of rival football clubs a scrap
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Turning into a pathetic aul lad on the payroll of CBD oil firms. His latest shows him making very spurious claims about how CBD extended his cancer suffering brother in law’s life. 
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The way they go on, you’d swear they were the first to bring CBD to the UK. It’s been around ages and I had thought the buzz around it had died down until these lads started peddling it on Twitter.
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This CBD peddling craic is like the football auld lad version of the NFT pyramid scheme con trick .....these lads will do anything / say anything for money. Its all pretty undignified.  
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His keys to my life episode was only ok.  Steve Walls last week was far better.  He didn’t mention cbd though 😂😂
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Originally posted by Baldrick Baldrick wrote:

His keys to my life episode was only ok.  Steve Walls last week was far better.  He didn’t mention cbd though 😂😂

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