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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

Kildare Sport

Bands of brothers who have made their mark on Kildare rugby

Wales have done their damnedest to ruin this column. They played Ireland in rugby on Saturday and some time back, it seemed likely they would do so with two brothers in their starting line-up — Jonathan and James Davies. Neither played in the ...

04 Mar 2018 at 16:13

Naas

Remembering the glory days of Italia ‘90 in Naas

There was a highlights reel of goals on The Late Late Show and the Late Late never showed football so you knew this World Cup thing was going to be big. The local landscape was awash with the kind of gaudy clothing and never-to-be used-again ...

14 Jun 2018 at 19:20

Life

Bonfires, bangers and bragging rights were soul of a Naas Hallowe'en

Ordinarily, you’d never link a supermarket trolley to Halloween. But in Naas in the ‘80s these steely, wheely vehicles were the ultimate bonfire tool. Pallets stained with creosote. Others painted blue and designed to slip neatly into the ...

30 Oct 2017 at 08:30

Home

Frank Stagg's three funerals and the Kildare connections

Forty years ago, six men met on a dark, wet night in a quiet cemetery in County Mayo. Standing among the party was a Kildare man who was about to take part in one of the most controversial exhumations in recent memory. The men were ...

19 Nov 2017 at 06:00

Features

When Kildare men were kings of English rugby

I used to see the former Irish international rugby player Bob Casey on the plane to London. At 6ft 8in and nearly 19 stones, the seat of a commercial airliner always looked a tighter fit than the scrum in London Irish and he was ...

07 Oct 2017 at 11:00

Life

Remembering Kildare in 1983: From the Irish RM to the bypass

IN the latest of his series of nostalgic looks back at growing up in Kildare during the 1980s, Robert Mulhern casts his eye back 24 years... 1983 — it was the year that the course of Naas was changed forever by eight kilometres ...

25 Oct 2017 at 12:25

Features

New Row shows there's life yet in the old town of Naas

I read some weeks ago that Clint Eastwood was dead. He’s wasn’t. But reports of his passing did a decent tour of the world before Clint came back from the dead to dispel the rumours. It’s like the writer Mark Twain who ...

09 Sept 2017 at 17:00

Life

Is the battle for the future of Naas town centre lost?

If this were an election, Naas would now be drawing close to the point of concession over its vision to restore the town centre to its perceived former glory. It is with some regret that I write that sentence and this ...

07 Jun 2018 at 13:40

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 ...

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 ...

05 Mar 2019 at 17:29

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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 ...

28 Oct 2018 at 05:30

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