Tag: Aidan Dwyer

  • Tipp to Perth – The Rugby Experience

    Tipp to Perth – The Rugby Experience

    When I first decided to write this piece, I wanted to portray my rugby experience in Perth but what I ended up doing was writing a 3 or 4 page article about my time playing for Perth Bayswater RFC and some of the differences between Irish club rugby and that of the style played in…

  • Tipperary Rugby in Full Flow

    Tipperary Rugby in Full Flow

    Senior Rugby – Ulster Bank Division 2A With all our Rugby teams in Tipperary now back in full flow, our two senior teams, Nenagh Ormond RFC and Cashel RFC, take centre stage this weekend. Nenagh make the daunting 5 hour trip up North to face a Dungannon team steeped in tradition at senior level, with…

  • How Garth Brooks Concert ordeal resembles Saipan

    How Garth Brooks Concert ordeal resembles Saipan

    While sitting here in the comfort of my sitting room, laptop on my knees, cup of green tea on the coffee table, I am watching the World Cup 3rd and 4th place play-off between Brazil and Holland, 25 minutes gone, its game set and match, the bronze medals belong to the Dutch. This lack of…

  • Huge Boost for Tipperary Sport

    Huge Boost for Tipperary Sport

    Personally, I am never one to pay much attention to politics or let the goings on in the Dáil or local councils affect me too much.  I don’t have a favorite political party that I go out of my way to support or get riled up when other spectators or followers start preaching.  I read and watch…

  • Back to their Roots Rugby in Tipperary

    Back to their Roots Rugby in Tipperary

    In a week that has started with former Munster and Ireland prop Tony Buckley ending his professional career and returning to his boyhood club and debutants to the Ulster Bank League, Kanturk, we take a look at some of Tipperary’s retired rugby stars that have given back to their childhood clubs and rugby in Tipperary.…