lol at Girvan Dempsey's Wiki entry!

Ulstermell0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girvan_Dempsey#Away_from_rugby

'His pastimes away from the game include golf, making jam, picking mushrooms and spending quality time on his Shetland pony "Tiny".' lol

GreenHell

Thats brilliant

Sherifu

Haha

On July 8, 2006 Dempsey wed his fiancee Anne-Marie Craig in Kilquade, County Wicklow. His pastimes away from the game include golf, making jam, picking mushrooms and spending quality time on his Shetland pony "Tiny". He has also found time to publish several academic works on the flora and fauna of some of the world's most remote islands. His groundbreaking discovery of the South Atlantic Guillemot (Uria Girvanae), unique to the islands of Tristan de Cunha, in particular brought him much credit within the Royal Society. He is currently working on his autobiography, tentatively entitled Solid As A House, due for publication in February 2008. Once he has retired from his days as rugby player, the "Swerve" plans on furthering his interest in horses by pursuing a career as a showjumper; his favourite breed for showjumping being the Conamara Pony.

git_ireland

LMFAO. Thats quality. Legend whoever put it up.

donmeister

no!!i wanted to see that wiki article,looks like its taken down already!sounds excellent,lol

Amazotheamazing

the irish Times hinted it might have Donnacha O'Callaghan who did some of it, he is known for being a prankster (or was, in his younger days)

DONK!

legend.theres a few of those have been edited but they have been taken down now!

Lux23

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Horgan

The very last comment.

Sherifu

hahaha Girvan's revenge?

Lux23

rkm wrote: »

hahaha Girvan's revenge?

He doesn't look like he has the guile to do something like that.

monaghanbiffo

Jerry Flannery

Trivia

In his schools days, Jerry was an enthusiastic soccer player, and lined out as a midfield enforcer for his local side, Caherdavin Celtic, in the Limerick District Leagues.

Blisterman

I can't believe noones changed it at this point. That's been there for months.
Every time I've vandelised wikipedia, it's been changed in a day.

Sherifu

They removed it alright but it gets put back.

-TK^Creator

lol thats so funny yeah wonder who did it lol

Blisterman

There used to be a bit about how his parents, with remarkable foresight, named him Girvan, so that were he to become a Rugby player, he could be nicknamed Girve the Swerve.

Ha there's some great stuff there,it's a shame they fix them so quickly.Someone messed with Mark Melbourne's page(Munster player) before.It said he is known to be a prominent member of the Limerick gay scene and has a lifesize tatoo of Tinkerbell on his back Don't know how true it is

Laslo

You can't beat the Bloc Party entry... someone changed the first line to Cock Party and it was up there for about 3 months.

Zzippy

From Peter Stringer's biog:

Stringer's playing for Ireland initally caused problems for RTE, due to Stringer's diminutive height, as the cameras used for filming the players singing the national anthem, could only move from side to side, and not up and down, resulting in Stringer being completely missed by the camera, for his first few international matches. RTE commisioned Sony, to develop a new type of camera, which would solve this problem. The end result was the Sony TK-410, a camera which is now the de facto standard for the televised sports industry

And Marcus Horan:

Prior to taking up rugby, Marcus was an accomplished child actor. His credits include small roles in Scarface, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Child's Play. He is perhaps best known for his role in Big as Tom Hanks, before he became big. Being no longer cute after hitting puberty. He quit acting, moved back to Ireland, and took up rugby.

uberwolf

Gordon D'Arcy has a note in todays Irish Times valentines section...

Amz

Oh?

Blisterman

What did it say?

uberwolf

rugger bugger hugger - C, thanks for your card. They say it was a stress fracture, and I'll be back in action in no time! The good news is I'll have plenty of time for you. Let's hook up. G D'A

Jackz

hmmmm

Blisterman

Digging up an old thread here, but I was reading the book 'Ireland's Rugby Giants' by Ivan Martin today, and the Girvan Dempsey Entry says
"Off the pitch, not many rugby fans will be aware that Girvan Dempsey has publish academic papers on the unusual flora and fauna of far flung islands. He has also discovered a type of bird belonging to the species Guillemot which originates in the South Atlantic. This bird now bears the name Uria Girvanae. How many rugby internationals can make that claim?"

It then goes on to state

"When he has time, the Ireland Fullback finds making jam a wonderful way to unwind."

So either it's true or Ivan Martin based his research for that book on Wikipedia, and never thought to check if it's true.

Jilm

Blisterman wrote: »

Digging up an old thread here, but I was reading the book 'Ireland's Rugby Giants' by Ivan Martin today, and the Girvan Dempsey Entry says
"Off the pitch, not many rugby fans will be aware that Girvan Dempsey has publish academic papers on the unusual flora and fauna of far flung islands. He has also discovered a type of bird belonging to the species Guillemot which originates in the South Atlantic. This bird now bears the name Uria Girvanae. How many rugby internationals can make that claim?"

It then goes on to state

"When he has time, the Ireland Fullback finds making jam a wonderful way to unwind."

So either it's true or Ivan Martin based his research for that book on Wikipedia, and never thought to check if it's true.

Oh dear, that's sloppy work from Martin. Funny though :pac:

Cool_CM

Blisterman wrote: »

Digging up an old thread here, but I was reading the book 'Ireland's Rugby Giants' by Ivan Martin today, and the Girvan Dempsey Entry says
"Off the pitch, not many rugby fans will be aware that Girvan Dempsey has publish academic papers on the unusual flora and fauna of far flung islands. He has also discovered a type of bird belonging to the species Guillemot which originates in the South Atlantic. This bird now bears the name Uria Girvanae. How many rugby internationals can make that claim?"

It then goes on to state

"When he has time, the Ireland Fullback finds making jam a wonderful way to unwind."

So either it's true or Ivan Martin based his research for that book on Wikipedia, and never thought to check if it's true.

Thats hilarious! Does that mean that nobody proof read it either? As a matter of interest what does it say in the bibliography, or does it have one?

[Jackass]

Blisterman wrote: »

Digging up an old thread here, but I was reading the book 'Ireland's Rugby Giants' by Ivan Martin today, and the Girvan Dempsey Entry says
"Off the pitch, not many rugby fans will be aware that Girvan Dempsey has publish academic papers on the unusual flora and fauna of far flung islands. He has also discovered a type of bird belonging to the species Guillemot which originates in the South Atlantic. This bird now bears the name Uria Girvanae. How many rugby internationals can make that claim?"

It then goes on to state

"When he has time, the Ireland Fullback finds making jam a wonderful way to unwind."

So either it's true or Ivan Martin based his research for that book on Wikipedia, and never thought to check if it's true.

Hahahaha, that is hilarious!!

Denis Hickies used to be bery funny also, but it seems to have been taken out...it had a load of personal things, stuff like; "Denis is also well know for sleeping with Sean O'Riordans sister, Jane."

His nickname on his profile is funny too...

"Nickname The Hickmeister General"

Sherifu

Well done to Ivan Martin. Caught rapid.

Sundy

Somebody find his email address and email him a link to this thread please! Maybe CC the email to the publishers and a few other relevant book reviewers in papers etc.

Anybody who uses wikipedia as a reference is a nob, even college students know that

Amz

Well lads at least if that's the standard required to get a book published in this country, we're laughin'!

Sundy

reception@appletree.ie


Contact for the publishers if anybodies interested

Sundy

Amz wrote: »

Well lads at least if that's the standard required to get a book published in this country, we're laughin'!

I guess we shouldnt be surprised by lazy rugby journalism

zAbbo

Haha, what an idiot.

Can somebody grab a scan or photo of the offending page from Ivan Martin's masterpiece.

EdgarAllenPoo

Sundy wrote: »

I guess we shouldnt be surprised by lazy rugby journalism

Sure the first thing mentioned on the cover of the new BOD book is something about playing in Croke Park, honestly I read that and put the book back on the shelf, just lazy research.

toomevara

As someone who, in a previous life, was a sub-editor I'm not a bit surprised. The amount of factually inaccurate, lazily researched, utterly inadequate 'journalism' which came across my desk was quite literally staggering. I used to take great pleasure in getting out the red marker and chucking it back to the relevant journo-fool...

This however marks a new low....

In terms of good rugby books, anyone recommend any..I really struggle to find anything which engages me, or doesn't infuriate me, beyond page 10....

Eoin

toomevara wrote: »

In terms of good rugby books, anyone recommend any..I really struggle to find anything which engages me, or doesn't infuriate me, beyond page 10....

Not really a rugby book, but I found George Hook's autobiography was surprisingly interesting reading. You can tell he actually did write a lot of it because he invariably says "invariably" whenever he can. Invariably.

toomevara

eoin_s wrote: »

he invariably says "invariably" whenever he can. Invariably.

lol, thanks for the recommendation, will check it out...

Stev_o

"From here to there " or there to here i cant remember by Brendan Fanning is decent read it twice (boring job needed something to kill time so i read it yet again). Its a bit disjointed tbh and plays out like a fairytale eg In the beginning the Irish rugby team where terrible and it steadily got worse as top hats at the IRFU decided to spend more money on 5 star hotels for themselves then came along the big bad monster of Argentina......and then the IRFU got themselves a knight in Eddie O'Sullivain and he slayed all the monster he could expect for France....every year.....but other that its a great success and the IRFU can continue to stay in 5 star hotels.

Thats the jist of it with a story about Connaught to make you feel all sad inside =/

Iv only read that and Trevor Brennans biography (Being a Barnhal man i had to, but it was a good read). Iv tired looking around but most our TOP 100 MOMENTS IN WORLD RUGBY!!!!! etc etc which would bore me to pieces.

Amz

I enjoyed George Hook's book too. I also read Trev's book, I enjoyed it, possibly due to the fact that a lot of his childhood references sparked a lot of nostalgia for me as I grew up in the same area (a good bit younger than him though!) Also because of the Barnhall connection.

Eoin

Girve's bio has been updated again on wikipedia:

On July 8, 2006 Dempsey wed his fiancée Anne-Marie Craig in Kilquade, County Wicklow. In the rugby off-season, the couple live on a tropical island off the coast of Fiji, awash with various species of exotic fish and plant-eating reptiles. Dempsey recently bought the naming rights to the island and renamed it 'Swerve Paradise'. The couple spend roughly 2 and a half months of the year there, when Dempsey is not playing rugby.[1] The island has been described by No Frontiers presenter Kathryn Thomas as a "hedonist paradise".[3]

EdgarAllenPoo

Brennan and Hook's books are good but the best I've read was Austin Healy's.

Stev_o

GDM wrote: »

Brennan and Hook's books are good but the best I've read was Austin Healy's.

Whats the title? Id love to read that book would be hilarious Healy is a legend

toomevara

Stev_o wrote: »

Whats the title? Id love to read that book would be hilarious Healy is a legend

Rather aptly entitled 'Me and My Mouth', and it is a good read..the guy is utterly incapable of censoring himself. Inevitably a little self serving, but it is an excellent insight into what makes rugby tick in Engerland...

Stev_o

toomevara wrote: »

Rather aptly entitled 'Me and My Mouth', and it is a good read..the guy is utterly incapable of censoring himself. Inevitably a little self serving, but it is an excellent insight into what makes rugby tick in Engerland...

Ah yeah but thats what makes Healy such a legend doesnt give a f*ck and speaks his mind the whole time, the whole Justin Harrison incident was brilliant and too true as he is a useless plank :P

zAbbo

I liked Healys myself, it's a good read and makes Will Greenwood out to be the total mincer that he is

I'm also on the lookout for George Hooks

toomevara

While we're on the topic of rugby related books folks, does anyone have, or know of a place where I can get my hands on, a copy of 'The Forbidden Game: The Untold Story of French Rugby League' by Mike Rylance? Trying to track it down for a bit now as has been recommended to me by on a number of occasions, can't find it anywhere for love nor money...

EdgarAllenPoo

zAbbo wrote: »

I liked Healys myself, it's a good read and makes Will Greenwood out to be the total mincer that he is

I'm also on the lookout for George Hooks

The only place that I've seen it for sale recently is Play.com.

[Jackass]

toomevara wrote:

While we're on the topic of rugby related books folks, does anyone have, or know of a place where I can get my hands on, a copy of 'The Forbidden Game: The Untold Story of French Rugby League' by Mike Rylance? Trying to track it down for a bit now as has been recommended to me by on a number of occasions, can't find it anywhere for love nor money...

[edit] Sorry Toomevara, posted a link to it on amazon and had a playful jibe at you calling Journo's lazy, until I noticed it's out of stock. I'm an eejit!

To redeem myself I had a proper look and could only find it here and here, but it appears it's out of print, so new copies aren't being made and there's nothing on ebay either. But from reviews of the book it seemed to be very highly rated so it's strange.

toomevara

[QUOTE='[Jackass];56461612' I'm an eejit!
:[/QUOTE]

Welcome to the club!...thanks for the info Jackass greatly appreciated. I've e-mailed the publishers, I'll let you know if i have any success if you're interested...lots of people (union and league fans alike) recommend this book to me, but no one seems to bloody well have it!

Managed to find it in French....sigh: http://www.totalrl.com/acatalog/TotalRL_com_Shop_Le_Rugby_Interdit_8.html

Ulstermell0

I read a long article about this, before the RWC, about how league was banned over there? good thing too!

Junior

zAbbo wrote: »

I liked Healys myself, it's a good read and makes Will Greenwood out to be the total mincer that he is

I'm also on the lookout for George Hooks

zAbbo I got a copy down in Scribes and Vibes in Cork ... Second hand.. I think my mum is reading it at the minute..