I’ve spent a lifetime supporting the Dubs up on ‘The Hill’ From Keaveney on to Brogan, admiring their great skill I’ve sung my true blue heart out to the strains of Molly Malone I’ve...
Category: GAA
The Man in the Middle ….. Ode to the Referee

My friends I have a story of the man that’s in the middle His self esteem is shattered, his confidence quite brittle He starts with disadvantages that would make Kojak’s hair turn grey And ends...
The Ballad of the Lone Dub

Hill 16 is ‘Dublin Only’ The Cusack Stand can be quite lonely Squashed among the green and gold Interloper in a Kerry fold Stranger’s voices, foreign tongue Staring eyes of old and young...
Return to the Hill

On sacred ground on September days They stride the hallowed sod Humble men with special skill Yet mighty like a God And when their days are over When the roaring crowd stands still They...
Beanzie and Duffer analyze the benefits of having two ‘aul wans……..

Duffer: Two pints of your best porter please Eamon Beanzie: Is that not one ‘a them Oxymorons……. Eamon and best porter in the same sentence Duffer: Ah good one Eamon,………He says the only Poxy...
Beanzie on coming out……..

BEANZIE: Tell him I want three squirts ‘a the chocolate sauce. There’s no taste if ye don’t get three squirts. DUFFER: Three squirts Paval. Sorry wha? He says he always gives ye three squirts....
Beanzie and Duffer figure out where their local is

DUFFER: No Paval, It’s “get up the yard, ye smell ‘a Benjy’ ……not Beanzie. Ah right BEANZIE: What did he say? DUFFER: He said he knows what it is. BEANZIE: Oh does he now………....
Beanzie laments an All Ireland without the Dubs

DUFFER: Howya Paval can I have one ‘a them Americanos and a hot chocolate made with water only for Beanzie BEANZIE: Tell him I don’t want any marsh mallows. DUFFER: He knows ye don’t...