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Remembering the glory days of Jack Charlton and Italia ‘90 in Naas

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In the lead-up to the World Cup in June 2018, Robert Mulhern wrote about experiencing the glory days of Italia 90 as a youngster in Naas There was a highlights reel of goals on The Late Late Show and the Late Late never showed ...

11 Jul 2020 at 19:27

Life

The ghosts of Christmas past growing up in Kildare

Let's take a look back at the Irish Christmases of the 1980s and the 1990s. Here's what made it magic: Enduring fairytale Musically, it’s almost impossible to imagine a time before Dave Fanning started spinning Shane MacGowan’s and Kirsty ...

24 Dec 2018 at 18:08

Home

Kildare man in London: A real-life Morse on the trail of gangster money

The impact of British crime drama has always been telling in Kildare. We’d a neighbour in the 1990s, and everyone knew that it was a really bad idea to call to the house between 8pm and 10pm on a Monday because that’s when Inspector ...

05 Mar 2019 at 17:29

Home

The history of Kildare's Dún Áilinne is just one of the stories we forget to tell

The last time I heard of Strongbow, I’d yet to drink a can of it, and Diarmuid MacMurrough… remember him? Well, I must have been in third class and wrapping 88-page copy books in brown wallpaper when he last figured in any ...

28 Oct 2018 at 05:30

Life

Naas racing great Michael Roe's story told in new RTÉ documentary

Growing up in Naas, I had a vague awareness of the career of Michael Roe the racing car driver. In the late 1970s, Michael won the biggest Formula Championships in Ireland, before winning the Formula Ford Festival in ...

23 Oct 2018 at 15:53

Sport

A lament on Leper's retirement - farewell to Kildare footballer Eamonn Callaghan

Eamonn Callaghan announced his retirement from inter-county football some weeks ago now and really, this column should have been written then. Often, sporting careers that run as long as Callaghan’s did, spawn ...

08 Sept 2018 at 08:00

Life

Sex, violence, booze and Cricklewood Broadway — Irish lives in London

The bar is quiet, save for the spoon clinks of tea and coffee being stirred. The waitress taps a jug of hot milk on the counter, tips high and pours long. She carries the tray through to the front bar of The ...

04 Sept 2018 at 15:28

Life

Allen barman remembers crazy tales of TFI Friday days

It’s nearly 20 years since Robbie Williams, Vinnie Jones and the Manic Street Preachers sat on the couch of Channel 4’s TFI Friday. Fronted by current BBC Radio DJ, Chris Evans, the show became a weekly ...

21 Aug 2018 at 17:21

Home

On the trail of the time Johnny Cash played Athy

I’ve a big affection for Johnny Cash so when a colleague told me he was making a documentary about the musician and a gig he played in The Dreamland ballroom in Athy in 1963, he had my full attention. ...

28 Jul 2018 at 09:01

Life

Robert Mulhern column: The stereotype of England we were raised with doesn't exist any more

Thousands of people took great joy in England being knocked out at the penultimate stage of the competition, and thousands didn’t. That’s fine. This idea that Irish people should have been cheering ...

21 Jul 2018 at 08:30

Life

Lack of local leadership means environmental causes are unfashionable in Kildare

White socks and black slip-on shoes were rightly considered uncool growing up. So, too, was wearing your schoolbag over both shoulders and only the bravest among us would have considered going ...

17 Jan 2018 at 15:07

Kildare Sport

Our debt to the princes of the Kildare turf

People with great wealth living in Kildare featured on a Sunday Times rich list recently, but many of the names were unfamiliar to me. This felt a bit strange. I had expected the list to ...

07 May 2018 at 09:30

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