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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane
AMERICAN psychologist John Bargh once headed an experiment in which students at New York University were asked to assemble four-word sentences from a set of five words. One group of students were given scrambled sentences containing words generally associated with the elderly. Forgetful. Bald. Grey. Wrinkle. (If you’re reading this in print, I’m sorry to tell you that you probably know the sort). When they had completed that experiment, they were sent down the hall to a different office.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane
IF this weekend’s four All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals go to plan, then Armagh will face Kerry in the All-Ireland quarter-finals in two weeks’ time. The reigning champions knocked Jack O’Connor’s side out in a gripping extra-time semi-final last year before going on to claim the second title in the county’s history by beating Galway.
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2 weeks ago |
irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane
All-Ireland SFC Group 4: Galway v Armagh (Saturday, 6.30pm, Kingspan Breffni, live on GAA+)WHEN Niall Devlin lined up to mark Shane Walsh for Tyrone’s league clash with Galway in Tuam, it didn’t seem like the most obvious move from Malachy O’Rourke. That afternoon imbued Devlin with confidence that has seen him subsequently take on a number of big man-marking jobs. It was the first day Galway’s plan wobbled.Despite winning a Connacht title in between, it has been wobbling ever since.
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2 weeks ago |
irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane
YOUR move, Dublin. The Treasury’s commitment of a new £50m “over four years” to Casement Park changes the whole dynamic of the conversation. A plan will be made between the British government and the NI Executive over the drawing down of the funding between now and 2029, but it is there now if the GAA can get themselves to a position to call upon it. That sum does not fill all of the gap, but it covers enough of it that they can realistically ask others to meet them halfway now.
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2 weeks ago |
irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane
CASEMENT Park moved 50 million steps closer to reality on Wednesday – but for every month it’s delayed, it will keep on moving further away again. That was the warning from GAA president Jarlath Burns, who revealed that the cost of the project rises by £140,000 for each month that construction on the redevelopment fails to begin. A UK Treasury spending review yesterday saw £50m pledged over four years to help bridge the funding gap.
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