Boxing Day

So it came to pass at the Olympics, the Irish boxers started to deliver the goods. On Tuesday of this week there was no stopping them as one by one , Kenneth Eagan, Paddy Barnes and Daren Sutherland won their quater final bouts, thus guarenteeing a bronze medal and earning a place in the simi finals, and en route to possible gold medals.
Great stuff in a small country where medals come once in a blue moon. The gold we won in Athens , Cian O Conners equestarian, was later took from him when his horse tested posative for some banned substance.
In 1996 swimmer Michelle Smith, our golden girl of that year won 4 gold medals, and yes you guesed it, she later tesetd postive for some banned substance . I'm not sure if she had to give back the medals but it took the sheen off the whole thing.
Micahel Carruth, yes a boxer once again saved the games for us in 1992 when he won a gold in 1992. He din't test postaive for anything and thus held on to his tile and reputation.If it weren't for the boxers we'd win feck all .
And speaking of horses and banned substances on Thursday just as we were basking in the sucess of our talented boxers, Denis Lynch a good prospect for a medal in the equestarian, was withdrawn from the games. Some banned substance was detected in the horses system. Can't trust those animals and what they might get up to alone in their stables in the dead of the night.

Friday in the Workers Gymnasium, in Beejing, Barnes lost his simi final bout to a Chinese boxer, as did Sutherland to an English guy,(even worse to lose to to the Brit!!. God they always beat us).

Egan however, made it through his bout progressing to the final, which takes palce on Sunday, and even sweeter still he beat and English opponent, proving my earlier statement wrong, that the English always beat us..

So there is a good chance that we will take 1 gold from the games. He's up against a Chinese opponent, and wouldn't it be great to beat him, what with the Chinese record on human rights, the occoupation of Tibet, air pollution the death penalty, Chines e restraunts etc.

So come on Kenneth Eagen win that gold and help brighten the countries's present dark mood , what with the recesion, rain after rain tempest, floods a faltering econmey. Pass all the drug tests and don't be like that horsey set trying to fool the world. Show the world how the Irish can fight.
Ole ole ole