IRELAND KICK OFF their RBS 6 Nations campaign on Saturday afternoon in Cardiff.
Declan Kidney will name his starting XV tomorrow. Today? The lads hit the gym at Carton House in Co Kildare.
Brian O'Driscoll
Stephen Ferris
Brian O'Driscoll
Rory Best
Mike Sherry and Donnacha Ryan
Paddy Jackson
Sean O'Brien
Gordon D'Arcy
Sean O'Brien
Declan Fitzpatrick
Jonathan Sexton
Rob Kearney
Ronan O'Gara
Pics: NPHO/Lorraine O’Sullivan
Takes some balls
Kevin ,,,, I heard Sepp Blatter was on the phone ,,,, He says ” hey Mister, Can we have our ball back ??”
plus 5 million
Hats off to you Peter, top comment. :D
Sepp Blatter is a ballbag.
Jesus! It’s not stealing!!! Like Stephen said, happens all the time in baseball. To be honest, if you’re at a World Cup game, and you manage to catch a ball, keep it. It’s that simple
Some miserable ball bags here today,it’s a bit like American baseball when spectator catches the ball he keeps it, only a miserable sod would expect him to give the ball back.
Good lesson in this for all kids. If you like something and you want it: just steal it.
Twit
He didn’t steal it……it was just resting in his hands !
Lads, the ball would never have been used again anyway, it has all the details of the match on it i.e. Germany V Brazil, World Cup Semi-Final, date etc. If it was a GAA ball it might be different as the ball would be used for training and other games
I was at the Dublin v Wexford football game a couple of weeks ago and before the match the Dublin team were warming up/practicing their kicking and two balls one after another went over the net and neither came out. No wonder Dublin are spending millions everyone with their supporters nicking their balls…
Sure the Jacks stole the heart of a queen before as well
I highly doubt that this ball was used for “much of the game” considering that the ball is changed almost every few minutes when time it goes off the pitch.
‘Much’ is defined as ‘to a great extent’ or a ‘great deal’ so it depends how you interpret that.
What I was trying to convey was that it was used for a substantial portion of the game i.e. an extended period/more than just a couple of seconds.
Humbug!!
Even if only Bernard, Fred, Joe, Hulk, and Oscar from Brazil 2014 had a kick at that particular ball, it’s still a great souvenir for young Oisin.
Those not-so-Brazilian names could in fact be lifted from of a Monaghan GAA team sheet. Well, all bar Oscar, maybe!
I should add that it was also the same ball with which Schürrle scored the magnificent seventh goal, so for that reason alone, it’s particularly special.
Paul, I’m surprised you feed the pedantic muppets…
Nice story and I hope Oisin is inspired in some small way with what he has in his possession and goes on to play for Ireland some day.
Would he steal a car?
It wouldn’t fit under his coat
Tricolour
A shot from Bernard, i’m amazed its still not travelling!
So a guy robs a ball and everybody celebrates “ah sher I went into Tescos and robbed a bar of chocolate, they can afford it like, when I was going out the staff tried stopping the poor lad, but I told him to hide it down his trousers and run” not that I blame them for doing it
Wise up.
Tesco staff don’t kick their products into crowds of 60000+, if they did they wouldn’t expect it back.
Good lad
Great example for a Father to show his child.
Stealing is ok
Get a life.
Shut up
It’s like the one…..
A gang of children are seen chasing Quasimodo through the streets of Paris. Quasi’ turns round and shouts “Get lost ……I’ve told you, I ain’t got your football”.
For an orginisation thats got 1 billion USD in a Swiss bank they can afford the cost if a vall for the lad …. Ye think
I wonder would he take 50 quid for it ?
Interpol is going to grab you by the balls!!!!!
On behalf of the people of Ireland I beseech you to hand the ball back.
A bloody tricolour at a game — grow up. What’s to be proud of ?? We are up to our necks in debt to the Germans, we are putting one family a day out on to the streets, the suicide rate is averaging at 1 per day, we are still borrowing Billion to stand still, our people are queuing up for food parcels, the banks are starting to foreclose, Garth Brooks broke everyone’s hearts.
Be worse if we were controlled by Brazil hey and Gareth didn’t break our hearts did you not read the article his ma said he wasn’t allowed play with us