It is the job of the journalist in this modern age to report the facts dispassionately and as quickly as possible. The blogger operates under a different set of rules, however, being for the most part biased towards his own viewpoint and quite often delivering his output to an audience who share his views. Leaving Croke Park on Sunday I […]
This coming Sunday Kiltane are due to play the most important match in their club’s history. Local boy Roger Milla returns to the guest spot to set the scene on this huge day for the Erris club. Photo: Roger Milla On Sunday Kiltane, a small Parish in Erris in County Mayo, take on Truagh Gaels of Monaghan in the All-Ireland […]
Ahead of Kiltane’s big day out at Croke Park this coming Sunday, this guest piece by Roger Milla, which was first published on the site in September 2011, is worthy of a second airing. Photo: @pbrogan1 via Twitter At the age of four, young lads are taken down to the park in Bangor Erris and taught to solo the ball, to pick […]
A shower of hailstones greeted the Cork and Mayo combatants as they warmed up before their All-Ireland Intermediate semi-final in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Another trip to Croke park was on the line for Tommy Conroy , Mikie Sweeney and Tony Gaughan of Kiltane just as it was for Ray Carey and Paudie Kissane of Clyde Rovers. Two wides were exchanged […]
He was in Ruislip to see the action at first-hand a few weeks back and now, as the date for our Connacht semi-final meeting with Leitrim approaches, I’m delighted to welcome Roger Milla back into the guest slot to provide a few pointers about Sunday’s opposition. The current Leitrim team are a very young outfit and this showed in their […]
Roger Milla was at a wet Ruislip this afternoon and I’m delighted to welcome him into the guest slot where he provides this account of the day’s action. If it was championship football today in Ruislip then it was most certainly league weather. The drizzle of the opening minutes had turned into proper rain by the time the teams left […]
Pride in those who line out for the county is one thing but to see lads from your own locality making the grade is something else entirely. I’m delighted to welcome into the guest slot Roger Milla, a long-standing contributor to the comments section, to provide his thoughts on the footballers from Erris who have cut a dash at county level. […]