BET OF THE WEEK We start with a cracking bet with one local punter taking Paddy Power for £31,590.00 with a £20 winrush bet on Sunday. He is either a expert on Norwegian, international and Spanish football or he just winged it. If it’s for you, it’s for you and that late England goal proved it for this lucky […]
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Local punter scoops £30,000 on winrush bet
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I Believe in Superheroes
Tribute to Mona McConnell, 1942-2016 I can’t remember when I stopped believing in superheroes. Perhaps when I was 13 or 14 when I stopped bringing my Superman and Batman comics to mass and instead started watching the girls going up for Communion. But I never really entirely gave up hope that there were out there […]
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MINDING SET FOR DOUBLE
It’s Irish Guineas weekend at the Curragh and in the hunt for a Guineas double is English 2000 winner Galileo Gold (7/4) who looks the one they all have to beat on Saturday after that Newmarket win. Aidan O’Brien has entered Air Force Blue who will try and redeem his reputation after that flat run […]
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Rossa punter left gutted after one team does him out of a £246,000 windfall
MANCHESTER United killed our quad last Sunday in our quest to end the season on a high, but it wasn’t to be as they were held to 1-1 draw by newly crowned champions Leicester who at 5000-1 captured the title on Monday night. Spare a thought for the poor 50p punter who cashed-out his bet 24 […]
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Squinter: the autumn leaves are falling like flags
SO ANYWAY, there’s Squinter dandering along the Ormeau Road on Monday night, the dog at his side, looking up at him with that please-don’t-tie-me-to-a-lamppost-outside-the- bookies-again expression that dogs do so well (what do you mean, yours doesn’t)? As he approaches the corner of Deramore Avenue there are four herberts gathered behind a small wall underneath […]
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Life got in the way
This week I hit a few snags, it’s very true what they say sometimes ‘life just gets in the way’ Things were going well for the first half of last week, I was sticking to my training, eating well, sleeping well and then on Thursday I felt as sick as a dog. I crawled home […]
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