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Fed up of hearing about Shane Lowry

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  • #32
    Hal3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    Yeah less of Lowry and more Gangland, or how about Brexit or some other miserable sh*te... Get a grip. What a win... Suck it up.


  • #33
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭touts


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Endless stuff. Theresa Mannion did a bad job on the tv last night from his clubhouse. But have had enough at this stage. Who shares this fedupness? How do you escape it? Start a thread on boards?

    He won a major international sporting event playing against the best in the world. I say let him have all the coverage coming his way. He deserves it and sadly it'll be gone in a couple of days as the rest of the summer will be full of wall to wall Dublin media coverage of the Dubs winning an Irish only competition for the who cares any more time in a row. In two months we'll be hanging for a genuine sporting achievement like Shane's.


  • #34
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Endless stuff. Theresa Mannion did a bad job on the tv last night from his clubhouse. But have had enough at this stage. Who shares this fedupness? How do you escape it? Start a thread on boards?

    Jesus it's not even twenty four hours. Ffs


  • #35
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    Well my view on golf courses is lay concrete over the lot of em and build bloody houses not grown men using sticks and little balls.


  • #36
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,009 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I tell ya what. He is far more worthy of airwaves than those Irish saps on Love Island.


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  • #37
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    Well my view on golf courses is lay concrete over the lot of em and build bloody houses not grown men using sticks and little balls.

    So edgy


  • #38
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    You've obviously never played a round of 18 holes. You need to be physically fit and strong.

    Or you can rent a golf cart...

    In fairness, it's not like he landed on the moon.
    Although that would be one hell of shot.


  • #39
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Where do you actually get bombarded by this stuff? These threads always give me the impression there's 50 for billboards on every corner, and people shouting about it on the streets.
    My only experience, and the only reason I know who he is, was my dad taking about it for an hour yesterday.
    If I hadn't seen him, I'd still be oblivious.
    That said, in quit Facebook a whole back, and don't use Instagram or Twitter.
    Only place I see this stuff is on board, and would usually just ignore as another "sports guy did sports stuff" thread


  • #40
    marketty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭marketty


    As the man himself would say "ah ya fxckin idiot"


  • #41
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Cop on rory, you were crap,if it was you we'd never hear the end of it.


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  • #42
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Not nearly as annoying as the Women's Hockey Team.

    Completely forgotten about now of course.


  • #43
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Pineapple1 wrote: »
    Have the English claimed his as theirs yet since the win?

    Not yet, but we're still going on about a Ray Houghton goal from 31 years ago.


  • #44
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • #45
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Endless stuff. Theresa Mannion did a bad job on the tv last night from his clubhouse. But have had enough at this stage. Who shares this fedupness? How do you escape it? Start a thread on boards?

    Ahh you can’t beat the Irish

    Begrudge everyone of everything

    It’s not even 24 hours, I said your mother was boasting about you doing a number 2 in pottie longer than the Lowry hype has gone on


  • #46
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    w/s/p/c/ wrote:
    Golf is a hobby, not a sport............

    Possibly so, but at Shane's level it is quite lucrative and tough. Not a fan myself but I don't begrudge him the win or his time in the limelight.


  • #47
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    He's likeable unlike that cabbage patch kid from county down who can't decide what his nationality is.


  • #48
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Endless stuff. Theresa Mannion did a bad job on the tv last night from his clubhouse. But have had enough at this stage. Who shares this fedupness? How do you escape it? Start a thread on boards?
    If it's that head-wrecking for you, why were you posting in the Golf forum yesterday? Let Shane have his glory. There will be more footage of him returning to Esker Hills (his own golf club) today or tomorrow, and then it'll be a fading memory.

    As for that netball on BBC for the past week...!!! :mad: :pac: ;)


  • #49
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    This was the biggest sporting event ever held on the island (no Monty, the Ryder Cup is not really bigger). Abroad technically, but still. And great majority of the fans there were Irish.
    An Irish man wins one of the most coveted sporting titles there is. Only the second Irish man to win a major golf title. And an genuine nice guy, who has been up and down and fought his way back to form to beat a very tough field of competition, in all manner of testing conditions, on a truly outstanding world class golf course, shooting a round on Saturday that ranks with the best any of the past golfing greats have done. Bloody impressive.
    He deserves the spotlight and recognition thoroughly.


  • #50
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    c.p.w.g.w wrote:
    You've obviously never played a round of 18 holes. You need to be physically fit and strong.

    It was a magnificent achievement no doubt about that. And fair play to him. I wouldn't take anything away from him and he has done the country proud.

    As regards a golfer needing to be physically fit I agree with you. Phil Nicholson acknowledged being overweight (and presumably feeling unfit) and I read somewhere in an effort to lose weight he lost eight pounds, was it, in one week.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    This was the biggest sporting event ever held on the island (no Monty, the Ryder Cup is not really bigger). Abroad technically, but still. And great majority of the fans there were Irish.
    An Irish man wins one of the most coveted sporting titles there is. Only the second Irish man to win a major golf title. And an genuine nice guy, who has been up and down and fought his way back to form to beat a very tough field of competition, in all manner of testing conditions, on a truly outstanding world class golf course, shooting a round on Saturday that ranks with the best any of the past golfing greats have done. Bloody impressive.
    He deserves the spotlight and recognition thoroughly.

    By jove, this one's sincere.


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  • #52
    risteard7
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    And we give out about the English when they do it! We are far worse


  • #53
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users Posts: 3,193 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    Golf is not a sport.
    When a fat overweight "athlete" can win Wimbledon or a world cup medal, then yeah sure it's a sport, untill then it's the same ****e as Darts


  • #54
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Golf is not a sport.
    When a fat overweight "athlete" can win Wimbledon or a world cup medal, then yeah sure it's a sport, untill then it's the same ****e as Darts

    So boxing isn’t a sport either then ?


  • #55
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    Deleted User wrote: »
    By jove, this one's sincere.

    Well more than two Irishmen have won majors


  • #56
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,726 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Not yet, but we're still going on about a Ray Houghton goal from 31 years ago.

    Who is a Scotsman


  • #57
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Golf is not a sport.
    When a fat overweight "athlete" can win Wimbledon or a world cup medal, then yeah sure it's a sport, untill then it's the same ****e as Darts

    Ask me bollox.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #58
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users Posts: 11,199 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Golf is not a sport.
    When a fat overweight "athlete" can win Wimbledon or a world cup medal, then yeah sure it's a sport, untill then it's the same ****e as Darts

    Golf is a sport whether you like it or not.

    Irish begrudgery is alive and well anyway.

    Super achievement for the Irish, loving the coverage, delighted for an Irish sportsman who seems like an all round sound guy.


  • #59
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I hate Golf with a passion but fair play to him.


  • #60
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,726 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I don't know why people always go on about this "Irish begrudgery" thing though. Any small success in anything is all over the media and everyone talks about it. I think it's quite the opposite of begrudgery for success in Ireland.


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  • #61
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Well, I think it's rather refreshing to be hearing about an Irish person enjoying success in a major international-class sporting event who isn't technically from the United Kingdom. :D


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