I’d been meaning to blog more recently… had plenty to say… plenty going on. It’s been suggested to me, however, that I don’t go talking online (facebook particularly… here too) specifically about the incident a week ago which led to me having a black eye over the time since then – and it’s been suggested for all the right reasons.

I am going to follow that advice to some degree and not go into any real detail about it. Of course, the minute details of the incident itself aren’t for public consumption as they’re quite personal and it’s not in anyone’s interest really that they be divulged publically. All that needs to be said is that I had a disagreement with someone, he expressed himself physically… and I didn’t get the chance to respond in kind.

Oh… and that I’m fine now!

This is where I’m spending my evening tomorrow, after college – I’m taking a break from RealRadio 100.3 and heading to Morton Stadium, home of Sporting Fingal – where I’ll be sitting in as stadium announcer for their match with Limerick.

Good times!

Michael Owen scores his first goal… for Manchester United.

Yeuch.

Ireland went out in Rome today and played quite well. They didn’t play as well as they could have, but they were still quite good – against an Italian team who played really well, by their own standards – and they won by a margin of 29 points… Italy 9 – 38 Ireland. I was following it live on RTE and on Twitter.

Some of the most entertaining stuff of the day, however, was produced by the Irish commentary and analysis teams… such as:

Ryle Nugent (during the match): “it’s made all the harder now that Ireland are now down to ten men…” (after Ronan O’Gara was sent to the sin bin – they were down to 14 men, not 10 – it’s rugby, not soccer).

George Hook (after the match ended): “If [Ireland] say ‘we knew Italy would be hard to beat’, I’ll vomit on my Jaffa Cakes.”

Tom McGuirk (post match analysis): “We could be analysing every scrum since Adam grabbed Eve…”

What are they trying to do… compete with Hamilton, Giles, Dunphy and Billo for comedy value? If so… fair enough! Keep it up, lads, I say

Livepool F.C. slipped up lately – especially over the Christmas period, drawing games they should really have won, not beating teams they should really have trounced, and, as a result, falling back to second place behind Manchester (”The Scum”) United.

All they need is a little… inspiration. Something to put the ummph back, to energise them and give them purpose and meaning again… Yeah!

Enter… the Hoff!… (yes, David Hasselhoff, the man so awesome he has his own social networking site!)… singing their anthem.

That’ll do it.