Glastonbury 2011- highlights

This was the song of the Glastonbury weekend for me.
Excellent set from The Horrors, this is the first single from their new album to be called Skying, the choon is Still Life.



The stand out performance has to be Janelle Monae, so much energy, twould give you the heart to go on.



And of course I couldn't let the weekend go by without his masters voice.

Weather Diversity

Cup Diversity

Gorgeous Friday night in June

Balmy evening, most opportune

Knockgriffin Park the scene is set

East Cork pining for Cup upset

Perfect football watching weather

The games fraternity drawn together

Jumper brought still waist entwined

Sixteen degrees at half past nine

Three days later more of the same

Another cup another game

Premier Dubs were coming down

A test to show how much we’d grown

The summer sun a distant friend

Showers, dark clouds, rain descends

Big coats and hats, umbrellas too

Fridays sun all gone, Atchoo!

We played Midleton FC below in Midleton last Friday night in the FAI Cup 3rd Round.
A glorious occassion for our East Cork neighbours and a glorious evening to boot.

We played St Patricks Athletic yesterday at Turners Cross in the League Cup Quarter Final, a mere 3 days later on what was a miserable day. Through the wind and rain.

We won both matches and progressed in both cups

Let there be light

Let there be light

FAI bulb went on

Coffers thin like chiffon

Stadium loan to pay

Tournament we’ll play

A frenzied build up

Carling Nations Cup

Decree from the powers

Back twenty four hours

Gates badly affected

Natives disaffected

MFA bulb went out

Can they make do without?

Floodlight replacement

Old bulb displacement

Long finger it stayed

Til last weeks charade

Gale force winds began

Contingency plan?

Now six thirty start

You’re breaking my heart

So the FAI make us move our home match with Mervue United from our regular Friday night slot back to Thursday because a couple of hundred miles away Northern Ireland are playing Wales.

On top of this the Munster Football Associations floodlight maintenance, the day before our match, hits a wall as gale force winds suspend work on safety grounds, meaning our 7.45pm Thursday evening kick off becomes a 6.30pm start.

Despite all these obstacles put in our way we still manage a crowd of over 1200 people but its still down on our season average of over 2000. Northern Ireland v Wales on the other hand had an attendance of 529.