Peter Jackson
Journalist at The Rugby Paper
Old-school journalist, @TheRugbyPaper, American history student, Johnny Cash nut and failed fly half. Test rugby debut - Ireland v England 1959.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Peter Jackson
In Dublin on Friday night, Jordie Barrett gave Leinster more than simply a performance to match anything from anyone anywhere since the advent of the European Cup 30 years ago. By keeping the perennial contenders on the straight and narrow towards a fourth successive final, he has given them no excuse. No excuse for failing to win it this time irrespective of the opposition, quite something given that they have found different ways of losing the last three.
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2 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Peter Jackson
The self-styled ‘world’s greatest club tournament’ had descended into the realm of basketball when a cry in the wilderness struggled to be heard above the ballyhoo. The cheerleaders were too busy lapping up the floods of tries as evidence of the Champions’ Cup grandeur to listen, their acclamation drowning out any response to those pining for some heart and soul to stir the blood and roll the thunder.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Peter Jackson
This time last year a putative Lions Test team would have amounted to Ireland and a few of The Rest, a prognosis designed to turn the old red jersey into 40 shades of green. If it sounded a bit too good to be true back then when Peter O’Mahony raised the Six Nations trophy towards the heavens, it sounds all the more so now; about as implausible as you-know-who making a public apology to the people of Ukraine.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Peter Jackson
Had he been watching back home in Kingston, Usain Bolt would have winced with pain at the way the sporting gods conspired to destroy another farewell to the global stage. An event designed as a triumphant salute to Irish rugby’s revered trio of centurions to one last Grand Slam had gone belly-up which, by cruel coincidence, was exactly how the world’s fastest man came to grief, flat on his back in London’s Olympic stadium.
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Peter Jackson
Once the deafening acclamation of a mighty match had subsided, a mournful sound could be heard in the emptiness of the game’s mightiest cathedral. It turned out to be a requiem for the red card. How ironic that on a day when the Six Nations rejoiced at Wales rediscovering its soul, the tournament should lose a bit of theirs; hence the wails over the disappearance of the red card as it used to be – a serious deterrent to foul play.
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