O'Connor jumps to glorious gold for Ireland

Ireland on line ^ | 27 August 2004 | not stated

[Solamente]

Sláinte!

[Argh]

HAH! Thanks. I hope you can afford one sooner than I.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Believe it or not, the computer I'm using right now was given to me as a graduation present by my slightly daft grandmother.

I don't know what brand is hot among the pirates this season.

Gateway, perhaps?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

OUR ONLY MEDAL; matter not, Ireland is the 'horsey' capital of the world; Istabrak, Shergar, Beef or Salmon,...

Irish horses and jockeys ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

And the winner is an O'Connor too!!! :-)

I only just realized a couple of days ago, that, that was your surname;- I visited your links page, for a look, and I came across a brilliant article by a certain female, for a certain Wexford newspaper.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

This is a good day for Ireland.

We win Olympic gold, and the Clinton's leave the country! :-)

Brilliant on both fronts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Happygal]

Hey Mister Landru!!!! :-)
I owe you one VERY LONG catch up Freepmail - which I will attend to this weekend, friend.

Thanks for the good wishes on the win, and hope all is well and sunny in your part of the world.

Regards to Kate, too. :-)

[Happygal]

Hey Canuck! Looks like you 'puter and mine are doing swansongs.

I need reinvest in some new hardware myself.

BTW, you say Mazeltov, I say slainte :-)

[Happygal]

I'm not sure I've penned anything 'brilliant' recently, but they keep paying me, so I keep turning up for work! *LOL*

[Happygal]

Do NOT ever buy a Gateway, dude!

The hunk of junk that's currently masquerading as a piece of technology here in my house came in a piece of cow-hide.

:-)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

MadIvan, sorry to here about Paula Radcliff, something similar happened to our Sonia O'Sullivan in Atlanta, not a good thing to happen to an athlete, but unlike Sonia, Paula won GOLD in the past - so don't be to hard, she is a good athlete, and a good sport, like our Sonia - and it is so obvious that neither have taken drugs, unlike our own traitor Michelle Smith-DeBruin, Paula and Sonia deserve medals, just for being sportswomen - in the truest sense.

BTW, that Chinawoman who won the 10,000m; she was so full of steroids, she robbed the Ethiopians of gold.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I can just see the pair of ye married yet!!!!!!!!!

[Happygal]

Paula Radcliffe is a great sportswoman.
She just should never have dreamed of running the 10,000m after running 22k's only this week. WHAT was she thinking? Or what pressure was she under?

And the UK media need to back off her, and let her be, ffs.

Better they focus their attentions in that young wee boxer (the 17 year old) who has qualified to fight for a medal.

Did you see him this evening I.T.? Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh (who is a friend of mine) was helping out in the UK corner, which I thought was quite nice. The BBC mentioned Billy after the fight, and mentioned his seven Irish titles.

[Happygal]

Oh, that's three potential marital partners Freepers have tried to pawn me off on TODAY!

Um, I'm 32.
I'm not wearing the flashing 'I'm DESPERATE' sign on my forehead, just yet! ;-)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Do NOT ever buy a Gateway, dude!

The hunk of junk that's currently masquerading as a piece of technology here in my house came in a piece of cow-hide.

:-)

Well, Dell is not what it is cracked up to be either - my computer is supposed to be 2GHz; it has basically (after replacing the hard drive), slowed down to 2Hz.

[Dan from Michigan]

I hope people will forgive me posting this here on Freerepublic, but this is Ireland's ONLY medal win in the Olympics - and I'm just delighted about it! :-)

I'd be proud too. I'll root for the Irish if a non "Dream Team"(Basketball) American isn't going to win.

I'll raise a pint to that.

[Dan from Michigan]

Gateway sucks royal.

I went through 3 hard drives and 2 motherboards in about a year because of that piece of trash.(Or was it 2 hard drives and 3 motherboards)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Paula Radcliffe is a great sportswoman. She just should never have dreamed of running the 10,000m after running 22k's only this week. WHAT was she thinking? Or what pressure was she under?

And the UK media need to back off her, and let her be, ffs.

Better they focus their attentions in that young wee boxer (the 17 year old) who has qualified to fight for a medal.

Did you see him this evening I.T.? Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh (who is a friend of mine) was helping out in the UK corner, which I thought was quite nice. The BBC mentioned Billy after the fight, and mentioned his seven Irish titles.

The British national lottery, Camelot, or whatever they are called now (wouldn't you know, coercive state monopoly like our National Lottery), put pressure on, I believe over future funding over future British athletics, but in fairness, I think Paula in the end just decided to run regardless of consequences - to face her demons from earlier on - good for her.

As for the UK media - they are full of themselves - fullstop.

As for that boxer, I was watching him fight a buck from Kazakhstan - I was shouting; beat that Muslim so-and-so

[Dan from Michigan]

Re: Your Tagline
(John Kerry only told three lies; 'I'm a war hero', 'I'm Irish', and 'I'm American'.)

I was go glad to find out that Kerry wasn't of Irish blood. One of the names in my family is "Carey" and I really did not want to be possibly related to that joker.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Oh, that's three potential marital partners Freepers have tried to pawn me off on TODAY!

Um, I'm 32. I'm not wearing the flashing 'I'm DESPERATE' sign on my forehead, just yet! ;-)

I was desparate myself (25) up to a couple of weeks ago, but I met a sexy young lass (and I think conservative) in the pub I mentioned on that recent thread that I posted about the smoking ban, I hope it works out.

HG, I won't worry about you, seen that your not, I don't know what you look like, but you seem to be saucy (Irishwomen for you), but now apart from that you and BobS DO seem to be getting very close!!!